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How Donald Trump Undermined the Health and Safety of American Workers
During his four years as President of the United States, Donald Trump was remarkably active and often successful in sabotaging the health and safety of the nation’s workers. Trump, as the AFL-CIO noted, targeted Medicare and Medicaid for $1 trillion in funding cuts, eroded the Affordable Care Act (thereby increasing the number of Americans lacking […]
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67 Countries Banned This Toxic Product but the EPA Says: “Go for it!”
Sixty-seven (67) countries have banned paraquat, a toxic chemical used to control weeds that was discovered in the 1950s subsequently widely used throughout the world in agriculture. Despite a deadly toxic reputation, it’s still used throughout America. Moreover, it’s a cheap effective product used as a common pesticide by third-world countries that do not proactively […]
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Prevention of Dangers: Mark of a Compassionate Society
If only canes, walkers, railings and banisters were sentient, what would their message be to humans on Earth? “Prevention is the Priority, Dummies,” they would exclaim. “Look at how many trips and falls we prevent for our users compared to the enormous costs in pain, suffering, family disarray and economic expenses that would occur were […]
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Spot the Individual
Extracts from a 2 March 2023 study by Kisielinski, Wagner, Hirsch, Klosterhalfen, and Prescher, “Possible toxicity of chronic carbon dioxide exposure associated with face mask use, particularly in pregnant women, children and adolescents – A scoping review,”: Introduction During the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic, face masks have become one of the most important ubiquitous factors affecting human […]
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Trump Rot at the EPA
A new report by the EPA’s internal watchdog has exposed Trump administration appointees that meddled in the agency’s science to weaken “the toxicity assessment of PFASs.” If not for the Biden administration, which discovered this egregious complicity by political appointees and the chemical industry to weaken standards of toxicity, Americans would be unnecessarily exposed to […]
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The True Test of a Civilisation Is the Absence of Anxiety About Health
Children play in the Rostock housing development, which, like all housing developments in the DDR, was required to include large open spaces for children. Credit: Jürgen Sindermann,Wikimedia Commons / German Federal Archive. A few years ago, a minor medical problem took me to the Hospital Alemán-Nicaragüense in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua. While I was being treated, I […]
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Forever Chemicals, Everywhere
Image credit: Great Lakes Now Forever Chemicals are found everywhere from the depths of the Mariana Trench to the mountaintop of Mt. Everest. Following 80 years of manufacturing various PFAS chemicals, the world is swimming in chemical permanence. And yes, it is a toxic price society pays for modern-day conveniences — made easy! But maybe […]
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