MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'exxon'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:29:54 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4813251&cid=t_214639_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FZt5mv_FnBa4%2F By Jason KuznickiThe media makes it hard for ordinary people to be libertarians. In large part, this is because journalism is in the business of selling panic—panic about terrorism, panic about drugs, panic about food, panic about pornography, panic about our health care system. If it’s not an emergency, it’s not news. To the lazy journalist, everything becomes an emergency—and emergencies always—always—demand state action. The media makes things hard for the would-be libertarian in other ways, too. Consider this story from today’s Washington Post, about… well, it’s hard to say, actually: Senate Democrats unveiled a plan Tuesday to save $21 billion over the next decade by eliminating tax breaks for the nation’s five biggest oil companies, a move desi... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4813251 Wed, 11 May 2011 15:02:07 +0100 4813251 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3743497&cid=t_214639_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F07%2Fexxon-valdez-cleanup-worker-garry-stubblefield-describes-wrecked-health%2F Alaskan Garry Stubblefield has permanent respiratory and brain damage he says he suffered as a result of exposure to the toxic aftereffects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3743497 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:04:51 +0100 3743497 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3718319&cid=t_214639_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F07%2Flong-term-studies-exxon-valdez-cleanup-workers-guide-care-bp-oil-spill%2F In the growing concern about the possible health effects of long term oil exposure for BP cleanup workers, scientists and physicians are looking at the Exxon Valdez cleanup for help. The only trouble is that there were no studies on the cleanup workers in Alaska. Anchorage, Alaska attorney Michael Schneider claims “We don’t know a damn thing.” (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3718319 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:55:26 +0100 3718319 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3687066&cid=t_214639_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Ftodays-to-do-list-apologize-to-bp%2F photo from Reuters Last week, after Rep. Joe Barton apologized to BP for what he called the White House’s “shakedown” of the company, Republicans and Democrats alike couldn’t believe it. But you know what? Maybe there are some things for which we need to apologize to BP. ApologizeToBP.com is up and running for everyone to air the grievances that they’ve committed against BP. You can also use Twitter to show your remorse for the awful things you’ve done to BP with the hashtag #ImSorryBP. Grist did a round-up of the best apologies, and we chose a few of our faves: #ImSorryBP for not giving you your props for the 8 other oil rigs you operate that are hardly leaking at all. #ImSorryBP That people keep referring to the Exxon Valdez spill in reference to your ... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3687066 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:20:06 +0100 3687066 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1991792&cid=t_214639_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F26%2Fthe-situation-of-policy-research-and-policy-outcomes%2F Yesterday, Adam Liptak published a nice article , “From One Footnote, a Debate Over the Tangles of Law, Science and Money,” in the New York Times.  In it he explores the dubious role of Exxon on the legal scholarship regarding punitive damages. * * * Two years after Exxon was hit with a $5 billion punitive damages award for the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prof. William R. Freudenburg’s phone rang. The call propelled him, the professor said the other day, into “an ethical quagmire of the bottomless pit variety.” The caller was an Exxon engineer who wanted to pay the professor to conduct a study taking a dim view of punitive damages. The Exxon Valdez case would eventually reach the Supreme Court, the engineer said, and the study would be useful in convincing the court that puni... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1991792 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:01:39 +0100 1991792