Tag: health
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Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds?
BBC: Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds? But another major group that tackles food problems around the world, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), now disapproves of this tactic [a child dies every X seconds]. "There's a real temptation to use those kinds of statistics because they really do grab the…
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How Activism Distorts The Assessment Of Health Risks
Forbes: How Activism Distorts The Assessment Of Health Risks The International Agency for Research on Cancer is renowned for producing assessments of carcinogens. But it appears that some of the agency’s evaluations may overstate the risks, for reasons that tell us a great deal about the science and politics of risk assessment. It is a…