Join host Cameron English as he sits down Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and ACSH contributor Barbara Pfeffer Billauer to break down these stories on episode 31 of the Science Dispatch podcast:
The recipe for good public health policy is like a souffle—simple ingredients combined in a complex manner. Done well, it’s a delight. Heavy-handed, using sour (outdated) ingredients, it’s a mess, even toxic.
Everett Koop was a man of morals. A religious man who read the bible. He was also a man of science. He got his job through politics. Yet he knew how to keep these forces separate. Nowhere was this more apparent than in his pushback against political pressures to oppose abortion on health grounds and to educate the populace about AIDS and tobacco use.
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Cameron English
Director of Bioscience
Cameron English is a writer, editor and co-host of the Science Facts and Fallacies Podcast. Before joining ACSH, he was managing editor at the Genetic Literacy Project.
