by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 30, 2018 | agroecology, Climate Change, Discursive Gap, Industrial Epidemics, parasitism, philosophy of science, pollution, Syndemics, Tobacco Industry, Uncategorized, Wolves in sheep's clothing
Here I will attempt to gather and decode euphemisms (saccharine words covering up the dismal reality, e.g., climate change for global warming) and dysphemisms (derogatory terms for neutral ones, e.g., warmist for people who acknowledge the facts of global warming) of...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 29, 2017 | Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry, Uncategorized
In an ongoing effort to compile the corruption of science and politics by short-sighted, manipulative industries, I am beginning to list the sites that document industrial epidemics. Enjoy! CLIMATE http://climateinvestigations.org http://www.climatefiles.com MONSANTO...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 17, 2017 | beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, normalization, philosophy of science, Priorities, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Uncategorized, Wolves in sheep's clothing
Today, with co-authors Pamela M. Ling and Jesse Elias, our paper “The Pharmaceuticalization of the Tobacco Industry” appears in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Our interview with Reuters is available here. This work contributes to the study of industrial...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 6, 2017 | Biosemiotics, Communication, philosophy of science, Plants, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
In case you missed it, a chapter in Michael Marder’s Minnesota Press book Grafts on plant philosophy contains a short piece we wrote together.
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 6, 2017 | animals, Biosemiotics, Climate Change, Interspecies Communication, philosophy of science, pollution, Systems thinking, Talks, Uncategorized
For those in the San Francisco bay area, I will be giving a 15-minute presentation Thursday April 27th 7:30-9:30pm at the TechShop on “The effects of pollution on organism signaling and human health.” TechShop 926 Howard Street San Francisco California 94103 Taste of...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 14, 2017 | Climate Change, deus ex machina, folly, philosophy of science, Priorities
Today at UCSF, I had the chance to hear Michael Specter deliver the 2017 Chauncey D. Leake Lecture: “Do Facts Still Matter? And What Does It Mean If They Don’t?” It brought out all of San Francisco’s good liberals, concerned about Trump’s...
