Debate. Work stress and beyond

Moving Beyond the Privatization Debate

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Moving beyond the GM Debate

Once again, there are calls to reopen the debate on genetically modified (GM) crops. I find these calls frustrating and unnecessarily decisive. In my opinion the GM debate, on both sides, continues to hamper the urgent need to address the diverse and pressing challenges of global food security and environmental sustainability. The destructive power of the debate comes from its conflation of unr...

Beyond science: the salt debate.

Beyond science: the salt debate

Man is the only mammal that consumes large amounts of salt. It is also the only species in which hypertension occurs. Obviously there is a relation between these two facts. Indeed, the internist Professor Borst from Amsterdam put forward experimental proof for this notion. By expelling salt with (imperfect) diuretics, patients with even severe hypertension were cured. Later, in an exemplary exp...

The Circumcision Debate: Beyond Benefits and Risks.

In 2007, following a flurry of reports describing a benefit of circumcision in the fight against HIV, the American Academy of Pediatrics reconvened the task force on circumcision to update its policy statement of 1999.1 Rather than simply incorporating this new information, the committee chose to start from scratch and rereview the medical literature. The task force’s work culminated in a polic...