JANUARY 2011

• Six not-so-simple steps toward protecting us from dangerous drugs
• First greenwashing, then pinkwashing – now SUGARWASHING!
• British surgeon threatened with lawsuit for daring to question ‘Boob Job’ cream
• Researchers: “Osteoarthritis treated with drugs/surgery instead of recommended guidelines”
• Make that a super-giant-jumbo popcorn for 50 cents more!
• The life cycle of the ‘urban tumbleweed’
• “Integrity in Science” – who’s paying the piper?
• What we can learn about medicine by watching Grey’s Anatomy

FEBRUARY 2011

• Willful blindness – why we seem to prefer ignorance
• Rape victims are not victims – at least in the state of Georgia
• How doctors are selling weight loss surgery to teens
• Why there’s no such thing as “clinically proven”
• Can quantum mechanics really explain the “Law of Attraction”?
• How to survive piano practice – the ‘Tiger Mother’ way

MARCH 2011

• Stent-happy docs on notice in Maryland health care fraud debate
• Dr. Dude – world’s first PhD in snowboarding
• A day in the life of a medical ghostwriter
• Amazing (and strange) examples of placebo miracle effects
• Why are gynecologists still prescribing HRT despite known risks?
• What do Justin Bieber and birth control pills have in common?
• Are you being over-diagnosed?
• Coffee reduces your stroke risk – or does it?

APRIL 2011

• Why narcissists love Facebook
• Same old duet: drug companies and psychiatry
• Dr. Ben Goldacre’s rapid-fire story of the ‘nocebo effect’
• Clinical practice guidelines vs. routine screening mammography
• Do-it-yourself psychotherapy for suffering hockey playoff fans
• Overpriced best-sellers: how does Apple do it?
• How Volvo is reclaiming its safety reputation?
• Experts: why so wrong, so often?

MAY 2011

• Can statin drugs really save your life?
• How to turn a condition into a disease by “selling sickness”
• Five questions that will change the way you look at health care
• Top 10 biggest selling prescription drugs
• Is ugliness a disease?
• Why Big Pharma wants your e-mail address
• Four myths about marketing to 50+ women

JUNE 2011

• “Falling In Love in Six Acts” – the best ad campaign ever
• “You can lead a cardiologist to water, but, apparently, you cannot make him drink”
• 10 food/bacteria combinations that can make you very, very sick
• What marketers should know about pitching to Baby Boomers
• Viagra goes generic – and then what?
• I rest my case: Facebook’s appeal to the truly stupid
• The Vancouver Riots: a backlash against the backlash
• Pyramid vs. plate: will this new image make Americans less fat?
• Remedial training for neurosurgeons: “Don’t bill for procedures you didn’t do!”

JULY 2011

• How the “shrink’s bible” can make you sick
• Four reasons we don’t miss Oprah
• Why Big Pharma now outsources its clinical research overseas
• How to deal drugs: Big Pharma’s dirty little tricks
• How did this heart drug get approved in the first place?
• What are you naming your baby?
• Johnson & Johnson recalls Extra-Stinky Tylenol
• Chicago billboards, 1942

AUGUST 2011

• Death By Prescription:  a father takes on his daughter’s killer
• Why is my government paying for drugs that France won’t touch?
• Making driving beautiful: those new Volkswagen ad campaigns
• Why some people should avoid social media completely
• Here’s how you’re spending your time each day
• Thank you, Jack . . .
• Why isn’t California disciplining its dangerous doctors?
• Google forfeits $500 for illegal Canadian pharmacy ads
• How to tell if ads are true – courtesy of Wikipedia
• News flash: smartphone users obsessively check their devices

SEPTEMBER 2011

• Celebrating the second anniversary of The Ethical Nag!
• London’s new post-riot 2012 Olympics logo
• Social media: a fad or a revolution?
• When the little darlings won’t eat fresh fruit . . .
• “I can’t afford to be SKINNY!”
• Heart society gets half of its funding from stent industry
• What makes good advertising work?

OCTOBER 2011

• Social media marketing madness
• Plastic shopping bags are good for you – and for industry!
• Why we eat the breakfast we do
• New heart medication study was “too flawed for publication”, says former NEJM editor
• Take statin drugs “when diet and exercise are not enough”
• Dr. Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science
• Why doctors who pretend to write journal articles should be punished
• When patients demand treatments that won’t work

NOVEMBER 2011

• Why you should put that damned phone away
• Things your doctor may not know
• Is that chain e-mail a hoax? (Yes, probably!)
• Paying celebrities to shill your drugs
• Universal cholesterol screening for little kids?
• Celebrate ‘Buy Nothing Day’ on Friday, November 25th
• Vintage ads you’ll never see again
• How to sell your snowblower in New Brunswick

DECEMBER 2011

• Does taking 22 pills a day make you any healthier?
• Be suspicious of research presented at scientific conferences
• A buyers’ guide to retail shopping tricks
• Foreign intrigue: when drug companies bribe doctors
• When doctors say YES when they mean NO
  If December 25th is your birthday
• Women in film: the morphing movie star face
• Year in review: Top 10 Ethical Nag posts in 2011

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