Category Archives: Laura Hercher
Intellectual Climate Change: Can we Survive the Rising Sea of Data in the 21st Century?
Happy New Year! It’s a whole new decade – time for some summing up, and some looking forward. If I had to pick a defining image of the last ten years, it would be a tidal wave – a wave … Continue reading
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It Was Bound To Happen Amway or Another
Remember Edward R. Murrow? No? Me neither. How about Walter Cronkite? I met him once in an elevator in 1980 (if by “met” you mean that I mistook him for the elevator man and ordered the most famous news anchor … Continue reading
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DC Takes on DTC: The “T” Doesn’t Stand For Tomorrow Anymore
On the first day of a two-day workshop on direct-to-consumer genetic testing co-sponsored by the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Science, Muin Khoury of the CDC raised the following question: if we speak out against the current … Continue reading
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Perils of Language: Why Sonia Sotomayor Won’t Call Herself “Pro-Choice”
As Sonia Sotomayor faces the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, two things are certain: 1. Much of the questioning will be about abortion. 2. You will almost never hear the word abortion. When we talk about this subject – in … Continue reading
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About that Paternity Test… (Part 2)
(Find Part 1 here) Okay, so Ms. Washington’s twins have two daddies. It’s just tabloid-fodder, right?. But reading it (hey, it’s my job!) I saw a kind of grandeur in this tale: a window into our evolutionary past. After all, … Continue reading
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About that paternity test…I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news
PART 1 of 2 When Mia Washington and her boyfriend James Harrison ran a paternity test on her eleven-month-old twins, they got a result that made news at home and abroad. Harrison was the father – of only one twin. … Continue reading
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