This year’s Ethical Nag posts
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JANUARY 2012
- Painkiller overdose deaths top those from heroin and cocaine
- Short vs long articles online: which are better?
- Why I’d never make it as a Japanese mother
- Should we stop calling it prostate “cancer”?
- “Fotoshop by Adobé” – all you need to look like a supermodel
- “Never Liked It Anyway”: online garage sale meets self-help aisle
- Miss Representation: how women are portrayed in the media
- Waiter’s phony $10 tip includes a religious lesson
FEBRUARY 2012
- Yogurt: what else could a woman possibly need?
- Is medicine “just plumbing with more expensive tools?”
- FDA panel that approved Yaz and Yasmin had ties with industry
- What’s in a (paint chip) name? ‘Romance’ or ‘Duct Tape Light’
- Big Pharma, are you ready for your close-up?
- Men in film: the morphing movie star face
- How marketers target your children with treats
MARCH 2012
- How much sugar is in that can of Coke?
- The New Therapeutics: 10 Commandments
- How many of these 20 advertising slogans can you complete?
- “Substantially Unsafe”: 30 disturbing facts about medical devices
- More vintage ads we’re not likely to ever see again
- The myth of osteoporosis: blowing the whistle on the “epidemic”
- Seven diseases Big Pharma hopes you get in 2012
- Doctors behaving badly online: how stupidity can cause trouble
APRIL 2012
- Why men buy, but women shop
- Warning, doctors: it’s the age of the ‘Super Loss’ malpractice suit
- The Hummer House
- Is your life as awesome as you pretend it is on Facebook?
- The alcohol industry’s “alcopop” strategy hooks underage drinkers
- Why do doctors call it “practice variation” instead of poor care?
- Texting shortcuts for Boomers
MAY 2012
- The cardiac polypill: why are we still talking about this?
- Dr. Sherry Turkle: “I share, therefore I am”
- Who’s running the show in industry-sponsored drug trials?
- The Quantified Self meets The Urban Datasexual
- Handy hints for getting along with your drug company
- Should you take anti-depressants – and if so, which one?
- Anti-gay? Anti-Jew? Anti-Muslim? It’s those atheists we trust least
- The mob mentality revisited
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