The Unexamined Calling

Unexamined bodies of evidence.

In his News & Analysis story “Do island sites suggest a coastal route to the Americas?” (4 March, p. 1122), M. Balter discusses the implications of evidence that more than 10,000 years ago, people used marine resources and specialized technology on California's Channel Islands. He mentions that some archaeologists, citing Spanish ethnohistorical observations, argue against interpreting the evid...

Unexamined Endocrine Disruption? Pesticides Inhibit Prostaglandin Activity

that ubiquitous biologically active lipids called prostaglandins play in these developmental processes, although studies have found that prostaglandins help initiate male genital development. In this issue of EHP, researchers show that several structurally different endocrine-active pesticides suppress prostaglandin synthesis and signaling in mouse cells. “The research provides support for a ne...

The calling.

I grew up in Africa, the younger of two sons of Indian parents who taught college physics. Around the time that my brother’s precocious ability with numbers was revealing itself, I discovered that I had no head for math — or for any other subject in the school curriculum. Middle-class Indian parents worshipped the professions, and only three existed for them: medicine, engineering, and law. Whe...

Same-Sex Privacy and the Unexamined Limits of Antidiscrimination Law

Calling the Laboratory

IT is a pleasure to have the opportunity of reviewing a Government Publication which is a report to the Minister of Labour and National Insurance, Northern Ireland, by the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of Queen's University of Belfast. It is the story, clearly and succinctly narrated, of a scientific survey into an important industrial hazard by Professor Pemberton and members of...