The tobacco industry’s endlessly “new” tactics: find a loophole in the law, and f%$# it until it’s gone

by | 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....

Climate Change (Finally) Enters the Therapy Room (for the Rich, who can afford Therapy)

by | Feb 9, 2022 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Decolonization, deep ecology, duh, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, normalization, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Uncategorized, Verschlimmbessern

(Background NYTimes Article for Reference) As I’ve always said, the NYT is 5-10 years behind the times (their feedback loop doesn’t extend beyond New Yorkers making 5M+). This has been a subject psychologists have been dealing with for at least 20 years in the west,...

International Institute of Social Sciences Development Research Seminar

by | Dec 17, 2021 | agroecology, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Conflicts of Interest, death, Decolonization, deus ex machina, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, glyphosate, Greenwashing, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, pollution, Public Health, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Talks

The Chemical Anthropocene as Devolution

by | Oct 22, 2021 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Conflicts of Interest, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, glyphosate, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, pollution, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry, Verschlimmbessern

My recently published paper in Environment & Society “Surveying the Chemical Anthropocene: Chemical Imaginaries and the Politics of Defining Toxicity,” draws on Sheila Jasanoff’s notion of “sociotechnical imaginaries” to describe how...