A discussion with an interesting group of students at Tulane in New Orleans on Thursday made me think (not just about how they pass of the acronym SPH as standing for School of Public Health, when clearly it really stands for Socialising, Partying and Happening). We were wrestling with that endless question: how do you [...]
The US voted for hope. It (we, I) voted for change. It (we, I) got a president who suggested sensible things like basing health policy on good science. The US even got some senators who followed through with funding for programmes that would teach young people that if you want to have sex and not [...]
If you don’t tell teenagers the facts of life, they’ll make them up. Last year, Florida spent 10.7 million dollars of federal money telling teenagers not to have sex. Nothing else, just “No”. So kids came up with their own stories about how to avoid pregnancy (drink Mountain Dew, smoke dope) and how to prevent [...]
