Archive - August 23rd, 2016

How Congress, the FDA, and Sarah Jessica Parker Helped EpiPen Become a $1 Billion Business

August 23 Comments Off on How Congress, the FDA, and Sarah Jessica Parker Helped EpiPen Become a $1 Billion Business Category: Facebook, Feed

“In 2007, an EpiPen cost about $57. Today that price has skyrocketed to over $600—all for about $1 worth of injectable medicine.” EpiPen, the life-saving allergy product, is now a $1 billion a year business for Mylan, a drug company that’s currently enduring a wave of bad publicity over the extraordinary surge in EpiPen pricing. […]

The alt-right attacks sci-fi: How the Hugo Awards got hijacked by Trumpian-style culture warriors

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“Kritzer’s observation speaks volumes about the incoherence of the reactionary politics that are driving the Puppy campaign — and, in national politics, the Trump campaign. Despite all the claims to make America “great,” the actual behavior looks quite a bit like kneecapping the aspirations of women, people of color, and queer people so that straight […]

The graying lensmen

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“It wasn’t until I began thinking about this book that I sought out authors like Smith or van Vogt, and I’m constantly confronted by areas that I have yet to explore. Part of me wishes that I’d been more deliberate about it much earlier, but that isn’t how fans evolve. And in trying to go […]

The graying lensmen

August 23 Comments Off on The graying lensmen Category: Facebook, Feed

“It wasn’t until I began thinking about this book that I sought out authors like Smith or van Vogt, and I’m constantly confronted by areas that I have yet to explore. Part of me wishes that I’d been more deliberate about it much earlier, but that isn’t how fans evolve. And in trying to go […]