Simon Chapman honoured as Skeptic of the Year: a good time to look back on …
“Prof Chapman, who is Professor of Public Health, Associate Dean Communications, Public Health, School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, has undertaken extensive research into the media's communication of public health issues and …
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Patrick Kennedy heads up group fighting to stop marijuana legalization in Mass.
Jody Hensley is coordinating SAM in Massachusetts, which will work with the Massachusetts Prevention Alliance, and will plan to disburse research and statistics, while seeking to compare the well-funded legalization effort to “Big Tobacco.” Kennedy …
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Broken in the Badlands
Brothel madams such as Brana Shazker and Rosie Gerbert first arrived as trafficked girls from the poverty-stricken Russian Bessarabia, while countless prostitutes came from broken homes resulting from the White Russian exodus and the life of poverty …
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