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Why is Harm Reduction such a Hard Sell?
How the activist campaign against vaping has stigmatized harm reduction strategies (Part 1 of a Three-Part Series on Harm Reduction)
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David Zaruk
Spoiled Little Brats
What do activists want, and why is it never enough?
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David Zaruk
Why Have Health Leaders Rejected Vaping?
Tobacco Harm Reduction Health Strategies are being Ignored, Costing Lives and Increasing Suffering (Part 2 of a Three-Part Series on Harm Reduction)
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David Zaruk
The WHO's Attack on Reduced Harm
How the World Health Organization's Misinformation on Vaping is Disgraceful (The Conclusion of a Three-Part Series on Harm Reduction)
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David Zaruk
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Inside the PFAS Forever Chemical Campaign War Room
How Activists Decided TFA Would be Their Next Forever Fear Campaign
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David Zaruk
The Tragically Biased Wall Street Journal
Promoting Chemophobia and Anti-Industry Fear Campaigns
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Gray Lady For Hire: NYT Reporters and Their Sources Taking Cash from Billionaire Green Groups
NGOs are now funding, sourcing, and writing stories for the nation’s paper of record
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Zembla and the Never-Ending Glyphysteria Show
How a Dutch News Documentary Broke all of the Rules of Decency
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David Zaruk
Relative Toxicity and Extreme Fear
Introducing the Firebreak Chemical Contextualizer
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David Zaruk
The Agroecology Fund has More Money than God
And why that’s a serious threat to global food security
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David Zaruk
A Pediatrician's Letter to the AAP
American Academy of Pediatrics Refuses to Even Consider the Validity of its Anti-GMO Report
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Nicole Keller
The Guardian: Between Grace and Greed
The Guardian has received over $20 million from interest groups to publish articles in line with their campaigns. How is this journalism?
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