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...

International Federation of Medical Students Association – Netherlands webinar

by | May 6, 2020 | Climate Change, Communication, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Normal is Over, philosophy of science, Public Health, Syndemics, Talks

I’ll be giving a webinar lecture Friday May 8th for the International Federation of Medical Students’ Association – the Netherlands as part of their Youth Delegate Programme masterclass series in collaboration with the Dutch ministry of Health, Welfare and...

Interspecies Prosperity: What it is and why it matters

by | Feb 21, 2020 | agroecology, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biomimicry, Climate Change, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Justice, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, permaculture, Priorities, Public Health, Syndemics

I have a new blog post over at the Erasmus University Rotterdam initiative I’m a part of, the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity. This interdisciplinary research team from law, business, and philosophy brings together mavericks who work across disciplines, and are...

BMJ article on conflicts of interest in the tanning industry just published

by | Feb 8, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest, Discursive Gap, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Publications, Side-effects

Working at the CTCRE at UCSF allowed me to meet all sorts of medical practitioners aware of the influence of industry on the health of their patients. One of those people I happened to meet, was Eleni Linos (now at Stanford), a dermatologist who had noticed throughout...