Monthly Archives: August 2002

Ronald Bailey on the Long Island Cancer Cluster

Writing in Reason, Ronald Bailey has a nice look at the so-called Long Island Cancer Cluster and a recent study designed to find out why so many women in and around Long Island have breast cancer. After spending several years … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Breast Cancer | Leave a comment

Study Finds No Increased Risk of Breast Cancer from the Pill

A study of more than 9,000 U.S. women ranging from 35 to 65 has found no evidence that oral contraceptive use increases the risk of developing breast cancer. A 1996 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine had … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Birth Control, Breast Cancer | Leave a comment

Where’s Dowd’s Enron Follow-up?

Back in February, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote a column that was widely discussed due to its analysis of the sexual politics of the Enron fiasco. Dowd offered up a warmed-over version of women as moral arbiter for … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Miscellaneous | Leave a comment

Raising Questions about RAWA

Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, a group called the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) received a lot of media coverage. With its rhetoric about freeing Afghanistan’s women from oppression, its smuggled videotapes of atrocities against women, and … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Elizabeth Morgan Back in the News

Elizabeth Morgan had her 15 minutes of fame in the 1980s when she fled to New Zealand with her daughter rather than allow her husband to have unsupervised visits with the child. Despite her odd behavior, Morgan had numerous supporters … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Miscellaneous | Leave a comment

Navy Reverses Itself on Tailhook Pilot

The U.S. Navy this month righted a longstanding wrong when it admitted that Robert Stumpf had been the victim of a politically-motivated witch hunt during the Tailhook scandal. At the time of the now infamous convention, Stumpf was commander of … Continue reading

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Military | Leave a comment