Denialism (30 page)

Knight, Tom

knowledge:

ebb and flow of

fear vs.

value of

Koop. Everett

Kraft, Peter

Krebs, Ernst T. Sr.

laetrile

Lahn, Bruce

Lancet
:

and vaccines

and Vioxx

Lander, Eric

Larry King Live
(TV)

Lawrence of Arabia

laying on of hands

le Carré, John,
The Constant Gardener

Lederberg, Joshua

Leung, Brent W.

Lewis, Meriwether

life:

control over

creating new forms of

resurrecting extinct forms of

life expectancy

Life Sciences Project

Lipitor

Lipton, Michael

listeria

locavores

Loeb, Jacques

Luddites

Lurie, Peter

macular degeneration

mad cow disease

magic, and technology

ma huang

malaria

Malthus, Thomas

Manhattan Project

Mather, Cotton

Mather, Increase

Mayo Clinic

Mbeki, Thabo

McAuliffe, Christa

McCarthy, Jenny

Healing and Preventing Autism

McCormick, Marie

and committee report

and infectious diseases

and vaccine safety

McWilliams, James E.,
American Pests

measles:

and cancer

and fear

resurgence of cases

vaccination for

virulence of

Melchett, Lord Peter

Melo, John

memory systems, genetically encoded

Mendel, Gregor

Mengele, Josef

Menzies, Gavin
: The Year China Discovered America

Merck & Company, Inc.:

data suppressed by

and FDA

lawsuits against

and loss of public trust

promotions by

and Topol

and Vioxx-

and Vytorin

mercury:

in dental fillings

ethyl vs. methyl

symptoms of poisoning by

and thimerosal

and vaccines

methamphetamine

milk thistle

mind-body connection

Minimal Genome Project

Miracco, Edward

miracles, expectation of

mitochondria

mitochondrial defects

MMR vaccination

molecular biology

Moms Against Mercury

Monsanto

Montgomery, David R.,
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations

Moore, Gordon

Moore’s Law

Morton Thiokol Corporation

Mukherjee, Debabrata

Muller, Hermann J.

Mulloy, Lawrence

mumps, vaccination for-

mutagenesis

Mycoplasma genitalium

myopathy

naproxen (Aleve)

NASA

National Academy of Sciences

on genetic engineering

Immunization Safety Review Committee

Institute of Medicine

public skepticism toward

National Cancer Institute

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)

National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act

National Human Genome Research Institute

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

National Institutes of Health

National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)

Nature

nature:

control over

evolution in

manipulation of

teaching

Navigenics

Nazis, atrocities by

Neanderthals

Nestle, Marion

Neurodiversity

New England Courant

New England Journal of Medicine

Nexium

Nissen, Steven

Le Nouveau Monde
(film)

Novella, Steven

nuclear accidents

nuclear power plants

nutrition,
see
alternative medicines; organic foods

Obama, Barack

and environmental issues

and health care

Offit, Paul A.:

Autism’s False Prophets

and Poling case

on vaccine safety

omega-3 fatty acids

Organic Consumers Association (OCA)

organic foods:

aims of

artificially ripened

and availability of arable land

costs of

distribution of

and environmental issues

and genetic engineering,
see
genetically modified food

and the Green Revolution

locally produced

and “natural” food

and population growth

and poverty-

preparation of

and radiation

research studies on

and small-scale farming

and social class

and starvation

total reliance on

USDA guidelines for

and Whole Foods

wider market for

organic soil, chemicals in

Ornish, Dean

Oz, Mehmet

Paarlberg, Robert,
Starved for Science

pasteurization

Pauling, Linus

Peet, Amanda

Personal Genome Project

pertussis

Pfizer Corporation

pharmaceutical industry:

direct-to-consumer advertising by

greed in

profit motive in

and public trust

regulation of

research and development in

unrealistic expectations for

and vaccine court

see also specific companies

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

pharmacogenetics

placebo effect

Poling, Hannah

Poling, Jon

polio vaccines

polio virus, reconstruction of

polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

population growth

precautionary principle

progress:

and hope

scientific

Prohibition

Promethease

prostacyclin

public health:

and economic effects

and herd immunity

and prevention of disease

and public expectations

and vaccinations

Public Health Service

qi gong

quackery

questioning authority

quinine

Quinlan, Karen Ann

race:

and discrimination

and eugenics

and genetics

and human brain

and medicine

as social construct vs. scientific classification

Rath, Matthias

raw milk

Reagan, Nancy

Reagan, Ronald

recombinant DNA technology

Reiki

religion, and science

research:

accidents occurring during

double-blind studies

funding of

on middle-aged white men

motivation behind

open-source

opposition to

Rettberg, Randy

Reuben, Scott S.

Risch, Neil

Ristow, Michael

Rodewald, Lance

Rogers, Michael,
Biohazard

Rolling Stone

Ronald, Pamela C.

Rose, Steven

rotavirus

Roundup (glyphosate)

Roush, Richard

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

rubella, vaccination for

Rudlick, Richard

Sabin, Albert

Safe Drinking Water Act

Safe Minds

Saint-John’s-wort

salmonella

Sampson, Wallace I.

Sanger, Frederick

Sanofi-Aventis

SARS

Satel, Sally

Saver, Jeffrey L.

saw palmetto

Sayre, Richard

Schering-Plough

Schwartz, Robert

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Science

science:

education in

and environmental issues

expectations for

and facts

fears of

and food supply

as “government tyranny,”

and greed

and life expectancy

open-source

politics vs.

and progress

public distrust of

and religion

and uncertainty

Science-Based Medicine

science fiction

scientific method

scientific revolution

Scientism

Scientist

scientists:

abuse of power by

bioterrorists

conspiracies assumed among

contradictory directives from

lying

Scripps Translational Science Institute, La Jolla

Seidel, Kathleen

September 11 attacks

Seroquel

Shapiro, Robert

Shelley, Mary

Shoemaker, Clifford

Sinclair, Upton,
The Jungle

smallpox

Smith, Tara

snake oil

Snow. P., “Two Cultures,”

SNPs (single-nucleotide polymorphisms)

Spence, M. Anne

Star Trek
(TV)

statin drugs

Stefansson, Kari

stem cell research

sterilization, forced

stinging nettle root

Straus, Stephen

streptokinase

Sun Microsystems

Super Bowl (TV)

sustainability

Svendsen, Lars,
A Philosophy of Fear

Syngenta

synthetic biology

creating new life forms in

difficulty of regulation of

and DNA,
see
DNA, synthetic

and ethics

fears of

manipulating genes in

medical application of

new discipline of

open-source

rapid change in

risks of

and uncertainty

unwanted consequences of

Synthia

Talk About Curing Autism (TACA)

Tasmanian tiger

technology:

expectations of

fear of

and food supply

and magic

and Moore’s law

regulation of

taking control of our lives

TED (Technology, Education, Design) Conference

tetanus vaccinations

thalassemia

thalidomide

thimerosal

Thomas, Jim

Three Mile Island

thromboxane

Topol, Eric

career of

and Cleveland Clinic

“Failing the Public Health,”

and genetics

and Merck

and Vioxx-

tPA

transgenic crops,
see
genetically modified food

triphala

trust:

erosion of

lack of

Tshabalala-Msimang, Manto

tuberculosis

Tuskegee Experiment

23andme

ulcers

Unabomber Manifesto

uncertainty

Union Carbide, Bhopal, India

United States, education in

vaccinations

activists whipping up public opinion on

and autism

child’s age for

committee on safety of

declining rates of

economic impact of

effectiveness of

fear of

in history

and homeschooling

and immune system

and lawsuits

numbers of

and old diseases returning

risk-benefit analysis of

risks of

safety of

and thimerosal

universal

Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS)

vaccine court

vaccines, developed on demand

Vagelos, Roy

variolation

Varmus, Harold

Venter, J. Craig-

Viagra

VIGOR (Vioxx Gastrointestinal Outcomes Research) study-

Vilsack, Tom

Vioxx:

benefits of

as blockbuster drug

congressional hearings on

deaths attributed to

and FDA

and heart attacks

introduction of

and Merck-

promotion of

and public trust

studies of

taken off the market

viruses:

bringing the dead back to life

manipulation of

multiplying

research on

synthesis of

as ubiquitous

vitamin A

vitamin C,

vitamin D,

vitamin E

Voltaire

Vowell, Denise

Vytorin

Wakefield, Andrew

Walpole, Robert

warfarin

Washington, George

water, and agriculture

Watson, James

Waxman, Henry

Weeks, John

Weil, Andrew

Weldon, Dave

Wells, H. G.

Whole Foods
Organics and you

Whole Foods Credo

whooping cough

Williams, Wendy M.

Wimmer, Eckard

Windaus, Adolf

Winfrey, Oprah

Wired

Wolpert, Lewis

Women’s Health Initiative

woolly mammoth

World Bank

World Food Program

World Health Organization (WHO), and vaccinations

X Prize Foundation

yellow fever

Zulu, Winstone

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Specter writes about science, technology, and global public health for the
New Yorker
, where he has been a staff writer since 1998. Specter previously worked for the
New York Times
as a roving correspondent based in Rome, and before that as the
Times
’s Moscow bureau chief. He also served as national science reporter for the
Washington Post
as well as the New York bureau chief. He has twice received the Global Health Council’s Excellence in Media Award, first for his 2001 article about AIDS, “India’s Plague,” and secondly for his 2004 article “The Devastation,” about the health crisis in Russia and the country’s drastic demographic decline. In 2002, Specter received the Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for his article “Rethinking the Brain,” about the scientific basis of how we learn. His work has been included in numerous editions of
The Best American Science Writing
.