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Dr. Koop and the True Meaning of Public Service
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2013 CommentOne of America's enduring national treasures, C. Everett Koop, M.D., passed away earlier this week. If you can bear with me for a few moments, I'd like to remember the profoundly meaningful life of a man who once taught me an immensely valuable lesson—the secret to his own, successful life.
I became Dr. Koop's friend later in his life—long after he'd challenged senior White House officials working for President Ronald Reagan over the irrefutable science at the very center of the smoking and AIDS epidemics, while serving as Surgeon General in the U.S. Public Health Service.
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Three Strikes and You're Out
Tweet Share on Facebook February 13, 2013 CommentThree of the GOP's rising stars—House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida—have all recently tried to guide their party in new directions. But each ignored the biggest problem looming over nearly every major issue the GOP is trying to come to grips with: the fact that they've become the anti-science party.
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Conspiracies or Science?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 7, 2013 CommentWhy do some people simply reject science out of hand, and drift instead towards vast, far-flung conspiracy theories to explain political or social events? Social science researchers in Australia believe they've found an answer, and published their results recently on a phenomenon called "conspiracist ideation" to explain it.
