by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 18, 2022 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Communication, Conflicts of Interest, Dante Alighieri — 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.', death, Decolonization, deep ecology, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, duh, Energy, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Naturverlassenheit, Normal is Over, normalization, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Systems thinking, University Life
After the 28 November, 2022 occupation of the Sanders Building at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where I work, by OccupyEUR, the students involved in the very nonviolent protest were violently removed by riot police at the Executive Board’s behest. Not the finest...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 6, 2022 | Artificial Everything, cruelty, death, duh, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, parasitism, philosophy of science, Public Health, the real
There are some presentations at our second cohort at the biomedical ethics residency today that made me queasy because of how backwards causation they were. The whole point of having biomedical ethics is to avoid blinding ourselves to the various factors that create...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 19, 2022 | beyond liberalism, Discursive Gap, duh, e-waste, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, object-oriented-ontology, philosophy of science, pollution, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Unpleasant Design
smartphone tombstones Is programming premature product lifespans a form of corporate crime? This the question that Lieselot Bisschop, Jelle Jaspers, and I address in our new publication in the journal of Crime, Law and Social Change. Planned obsolescence is a core...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 18, 2022 | fake loops, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, Podcasts, Public Health, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking
In a 90 minute interview with Ari Whitten, we explore philosophy of science and public health, focusing on how industry can undermine the quality and public trust in sincere science. I reference the @justsaysinmice twitter handle that addresses the harms of...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 15, 2022 | Climate Change, Discursive Gap, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, normalization, Priorities, Public Health, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking
Environmental philosopher and public health scientist Yogi Hale Hendlin will discuss the relationship between climate and viruses during this webinar and argues for a drastic change in behavior instead of treating symptoms. Is our relationship to flora and fauna not...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 3, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest, e-waste, Fake Freedoms, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, parasitism, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Tobacco Industry, Verschlimmbessern, Wolves in sheep's clothing
One of my old colleagues, a lawyer at UCSF once said that the tobacco industry finds loopholes in the law and exploits them until someone closes them. And then moves onto the next one. Our new Open Access paper in Tobacco Control discusses some of these problems....
