Rachel Laudan

Here’s a link to Junkfood Science’s latest sane piece.  The one thing I would quarrel with–again–is her depiction of Mexico as mired in dire poverty and with a hopelessly deficient medical system. Yes there are desperately poor people in Mexico.  But there is also an enormous middle class and hordes of people whose standard of [...]

Small rural communities in Mexico are getting world attention as the press points to La Gloria in Veracruz as a possible origin for the new strain of swine flu.  The NY Times today had an article and there’s a more informative one in El Universal.   Here’s the translated version. Since I’m getting letters and comments [...]

Thanks for all the comments and good wishes. Is the government over-reacting?  I think this is one of those cases where the government, advised by the CDC and the WHO, had to act.  Following SARS, there are lots of protocols in place.  Rumors aside, I find it hard to imagine any government doing this unless [...]