Rachel Laudan

I don’t know how I missed this link yesterday in the NY Times.  It’s by Julio Frenk, Mexico’s Minister of Health from 2000-2006 and now Dean of the School of Public Health at Harvard.

Here we go again.  The situation seems to have been dragging on for weeks, so it’s hard to remember that a week ago swine flu had barely been heard of.  My friend David Lida’s column in the New York Times suggests something of the psychological ups and downs people living in Mexico have been going [...]

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 [...]