Moore Lowdown
Screening Yourself from Both UV Rays and Bogus Information
July 21, 2014 | You're better off without sunscreen. At least, that's what a few recent articles are telling you. But guess what you're really better off without?
Moore Lowdown
When Government Should Keep Its Hands Off the Wheel
July 05, 2014 | A recent brouhaha over government restrictions on the aging of cheese is a case in point of how the feds sometimes seem not to know where they're needed and where they're not.
Moore Lowdown
Soylent and the False Equivalency of Food and Nutrition
June 10, 2014 | A food-replacement product is getting a lot of buzz. But for all that might be gained by maximizing the efficiency of one's nutritional intake, so much more might be lost.
Moore Lowdown
Fixing Our Priorities; or, Writing Blank Checks to Bureaucracies Is Always a Bad Idea
June 04, 2014 | Los Angeles County voters awarded schools billions of dollars for upgrades and repairs. But half a decade later administrators are supplying students with iPads, even though the backlog for basic repairs runs into the tens of thousands.
Moore Lowdown
Incarceration Nation: America's Unhealthy Obsession with Jailing Its Citizens
May 21, 2014 | Over the last 40 years the United States has sacrificed schools and other means of social betterment so as to incarcerate a greater number of nonviolent offenders than ever before. It's a practice that has damaged the fabric of our nation...
Dr. X
Destiny at Sea
May 14, 2014 | What about Dr X and my Destiny! I was still looking for a big case where I would make a difference
Moore Lowdown
Minimizing the Worker: Why Attacks on Raising the Minimum Wage Come Up Short
May 14, 2014 | Over the course of a generation productivity in the American workplace has doubled and CEO pay has increased exponentially. So with all that success, why has the minimum wage failed to keep pace even with simple cost-of-living increases?
Celebrity Health
Kristin Chenoweth Knows Her Count. Do You?
May 10, 2014 | Realizing how much she, and other asthmatics rely on their inhalers, Chenoweth has partnered with the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America to launch a public service campaign called “Know Your Count”
Moore Lowdown
No Government Oversight of Dietary Supplements? Enter LabDoor
April 30, 2014 | With the government abdicating its responsibility to ensure that dietary supplements are all they're cracked up to be, the door is wide open for LabDoor, a service that promises to bring the facts.
Moore Lowdown
What Our Treatment of Orcas Tells Us About Our Societal Health
April 12, 2014 | Most of us would agree that cruelty is unhealthy. And so a recent failure to act by the California legislature gives us a window into another way in which we are a very unhealthy society.
