by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
My new paper co-authored with the excellent scientists at the Union for Concerned Scientists “The disinformation playbook: how industry manipulates the science-policy process—and how to restore scientific integrity” appears in the Journal of Public Health...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 22, 2021 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Conflicts of Interest, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, glyphosate, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, pollution, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry, Verschlimmbessern
My recently published paper in Environment & Society “Surveying the Chemical Anthropocene: Chemical Imaginaries and the Politics of Defining Toxicity,” draws on Sheila Jasanoff’s notion of “sociotechnical imaginaries” to describe how...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 27, 2021 | animals, Bad Advertising, Bees, Climate Change, Discursive Gap, Interspecies Communication, Naturverlassenheit, pollution, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
In an Earth Day issue of Time magazine (April 26/ May3 2021), we have an advertisement from the RJ Reynolds (or Reynolds American) tobacco company “Natural” American Spirits proclaiming “in more ways than one, bees are worthy of our love.” Yes,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 10, 2021 | beyond idealism, Fragmentation, Semiotics, Systems thinking
My kid doesn’t play with Legos the way that Lego wants you to think that people build Legos. Instead of those lush displays with those thousand dollar co-branded sets with odious media corporations that only have pieces that you can use in one way once and then it’s...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 15, 2021 | Biosemiotics, Communication, Publications
My co-edited book with Jonathan Hope, Food and Medicine: A Biosemiotic Perspective, was just published with Springer Nature (2021). This volume explores how the most basic processes in our everyday lives – the material engagement with food and medicine –...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Responding to an article in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/01/wuhan-coronavirus-lab-leak-covid-virus-origins-china the medical ethnobotanist and philosopher Stephen Buhner had the following astute observations (posted in Facebook):...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 18, 2021 | Biosemiotics, Decolonization, Interspecies Communication, philosophy of science, Plants, Publications, Uncategorized
I’m happy that a paper I first drafted in 2015 made it to the light of day in Environmental Values this week: “Plant Philosophy and Interpretation: Making Sense of Contemporary Plant Intelligence Debates.” This paper grew out of an Austrian Science...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
Some entitlements are deserved: added respect and deference for those who have dedicated their lives to the common good; accommodation for the elderly, pregnant women, children, and those who need it; respect for those who have sacrificed their own good and interests...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Cargo vessel stuck in Suez Canal drives up shipping losses estimating $9 billion per day” – CBS’ headline reads Global commodity markets can fail spectacularly. One little tie up like a stuck boat, and $9 billion is lost a day. What people...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
As part of my procrastination today from writing my book, I stumbled upon this video by the YouTube science communicator Veritasium. What’s so lovely about the video is how clearly it explains reams of philosophical debates between liberals and libertarians in...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
I just read the New York Times excerpt of Michael Patrick F. Smith’s (names don’t get more American, or Irish–his middle, middle name is Flanigan) book The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown. What...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
A million tourists or new luxury hotels may sound appealing, he added, “but is that sustainable? Is that going to help us in the long run?” The Washington Post’s expose today 18 Dec 2020 on the few island nations that are still 100% COVID-19-free discusses the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last year an edited volume on speculative vegetation that I contributed a chapter to on Tom Robbins’ Jitterbug Perfume came out with the University of Wales press in the New Dimensions in Science Fiction series (with a beautiful cover, I might add). Since then,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Register here: https://www.eur.nl/en/events/corona-and-climate-lunch-lecture-2020-11-18 Lunch lecture on the relationship between climate and viruses by environmental philosopher and public health scientist Yogi Hale Hendlin. The impact of the Covid-19 crisis on...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 29, 2020 | Bad Advertising, death, Discursive Gap, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, pollution, Public Health, Tobacco Industry
From Erasmus Magazine’s misrepresentative title “Smoke-free campus: responsible decision or counter-productive?” for the very pro smokefree campus comments from students actually interviewed in the article to the irresponsible and juvenile “Free to Smoke Zone”...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
An short article I wrote zooming out on the Black Lives Matter movement – “Decolonization Matters” – has just appeared in the journal Kosmos: Journal for Global Transformation. There I write The “white fragility” fear that the oppressed will...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
It’s a thing. Like greenwashing, whitewashing, or astroturfing. Bee-washing is big business. It’s how companies fool us into consuming more: by appeasing our sense of guilt beforehand. It’s almost like they tried to reverse engineer our resistant...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 5, 2020 | Decolonization, exploitation, Music
I’m a jazz fan and player, and during the corona quarantine I started reaching beyond my normal playlist, and found the amazing work of Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah after stumbling across his stunning NPR Tiny Desk Concert. (If you don’t know this...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
@24:37 Friedman quoting/paraphrasing Lenin. Classic. In a film created by Johnson and Johnson heir Jamie Johnson. Irony doesn’t get sweeter than...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 6, 2020 | Climate Change, Communication, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Normal is Over, philosophy of science, Public Health, Syndemics, Talks
I’ll be giving a webinar lecture Friday May 8th for the International Federation of Medical Students’ Association – the Netherlands as part of their Youth Delegate Programme masterclass series in collaboration with the Dutch ministry of Health, Welfare and...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
We’re sheltering in place. We’re not going out. In some places in the world, like India, Italy, and China, their quarantines were so effective that for the first time in remembrance, one could see the Himalayas from 200 kilometers away, the canals of Venice were...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 21, 2020 | agroecology, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biomimicry, Climate Change, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Justice, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, permaculture, Priorities, Public Health, Syndemics
I have a new blog post over at the Erasmus University Rotterdam initiative I’m a part of, the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity. This interdisciplinary research team from law, business, and philosophy brings together mavericks who work across disciplines, and are...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 11, 2020 | Communication, death, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, parasitism, philosophy of science, Podcasts, Publications, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
Senior author Eleni Linos, as well as CTCRE director Stan Glantz and myself discuss our recent paper in the BMJ and the paper’s...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 8, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest, Discursive Gap, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Publications, Side-effects
Working at the CTCRE at UCSF allowed me to meet all sorts of medical practitioners aware of the influence of industry on the health of their patients. One of those people I happened to meet, was Eleni Linos (now at Stanford), a dermatologist who had noticed throughout...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 22, 2020 | Communication, Conferences, Discursive Gap, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Systems thinking
As co-organizer of the Positive state obligations concerning fundamental rights and ‘changing the hearts and minds’ conference at Erasmus University Rotterdam January 30-31, 2020, I cordially invite my colleagues working on cognate topics to attend. The...
