Two Crises In ancient Ionia, the physician-philosopher Galen of Pergamos and Rome wrote, children would take pig bladders, “fill them with air, and then rub them with ashes near the fire …and sing songs [in] an exhortation to the bladder to increase in size … until the bladder seems to them to have become large enough.” This describes with near perfection the beliefs and behavior of politicians and ‘experts’ who promote the false idea about economic growth prevailing in our nation’s centers of government. Promising new directions in disease prevention are being sidelined and the control of long-known environmental risks to life is obstructed. Their mistake has costs in sickness and death. Professor Antonio Giordano, Director of Temple University’s Sbarro Institute, recently received an email from Dr. Stephen J. Meltzer, a distinguished medical scientist of Johns... read more