Link to an article by Luka Kiernan:
“How Capitalism Killed Nutrition”
Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to an article by Marion Nestle:
Bonus links: “A Fresh Look at MSG” and “Marketing to Dietitians: the Benefits of MSG”
Link to an article by Kevin Hall et al.:
Bonus links: “Ultra-Processed Food: The Profitable Filth Capitalism Feeds Us” and “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023” and “Industry-influenced Study of the Week: Ultra-processed Foods are Good for You!” (see also: “Industry-funded Research #4: Why it Matters”) and “Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health: The Main Thesis and the Evidence” (“The totality of the evidence supports the thesis that displacement of long-established dietary patterns by ultra-processed foods is a key driver of the escalating global burden of multiple diet-related chronic diseases.”)
Link to an article by Erica Cirino:
“Nanoplastics Are Entering Our Bodies”
Bonus link: “Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Threats to Human Health — Pesticides, Plastics, Forever Chemicals, and Beyond” and “Twenty Years of Microplastics Pollution Research—What Have We Learned?” and “Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains”
Link to an article by Ben Norton:
“US Post-9/11 Wars Caused 4.5 Million Deaths, Displaced 38-60 Million People, Study Shows”
The referenced report: Stephanie Savell, “How Death Outlives War: The Reverberating Impact of the Post-9/11 Wars on Human Health”
Link to an article by Stephan Gowans:
“Engels’ Anti-Duhring and the COVID-19 Calamity”
Bonus link: “Why the U.S. Failed to Control COVID-19”
Link to an article by Carlos Garrido:
“The Failed Serotonin Theory of Depression: A Marxist Analysis”
Bonus links: “No Peace of Mind in Psychiatry” and “Therapy Wars: The Revenge of Freud” and “Birth of the Cuban Polyclinic”
Link to an article by Jordan Humphreys:
“Will We Learn the Lessons from the Defeat of Roe?”
Bonus link: “Let Roe Go: Winning Abortion Rights”