Category: Articles
Getting the Bugs Out: Pesticides and Your Child’s School by Barbara Rubin
January 1st, 2010, No Comments
This article appeared in the Winter, 2002 edition of “Sully’s Living Without” magazine. It should be noted that most of the population in the United States was exposed to the same chemical as the child in this article, prior to the banning of many organophosphate pesticides from use in residences and schools in recent [...]
Fragranced Products: Truly a Surprise Package
July 6th, 2008, No Comments
This article was published in the trade journal, ‘Indoor Environment Connections:’
Fragranced Products: Truly a Surprise Package
By Barbara Rubin
Public concern continues as more unwelcome ingredients, such as asbestos and lead in children‘s toys, are discovered in a variety of imported products. A longer-running dispute continues domestically between consumers and vendors of many products boasting undisclosed [...]
The Betrayal of Capitalism
June 22nd, 2004, Comments Off
by Barbara Rubin
Americans are a funny group. Our arrival on these shores, originally rooted in the search for religious freedom, led to concepts of an entrepreneurial culture in which social strata were based upon success rather than birthright. However, our industrial orientation has evolved to the point where it can no longer be correctly [...]
Bill of Rights – On behalf of the chemically poisoned
January 10th, 2004, 1 Comment
The Federalists refused to pass the original Constitution out of fear they would be substituting one tyranny for another. It was not until the Amendments to the Constitution were drafted that the states finally ratified the entire document.
The first ten amendments, below, is the portion of the Constitution referred to as the Bill of Rights. [...]
How to Write Letters and Influence People
August 7th, 2003, No Comments
We are a busy people, we Americans. We put more hours on the job than most cultures. The state of the economy usually results in people working more than one job or having to put in overtime just to keep the one they have! It is hard to become involved in [...]
Paging Dr. Frist!
August 6th, 2003, No Comments
Oh, Dr. Frist! You are wanted on the phone. Another emergency has arisen…
The facts and figures show an economy all askew as the fastest growing industry in America is the one guaranteed to be a drain on the GNP rather than a boost. Over 14% of our economy is now reported to [...]
Homeland Security Act
August 6th, 2003, No Comments
[Also submitted as an OP-ED Piece]
To the Editor,
The Homeland Security Act’s provision protecting the manufacturers of a wide array of vaccines, not just those implicated in biological warfare. Any threat to industry must automatically be assumed a threat to national security in these times. The implications raised by Susan Warner’s article printed on 12/9/02 about [...]
Hello, I am an acceptable risk.
August 6th, 2003, No Comments
When meeting new people, it is customary to shake hands, reveal one’s name and what one “does” for a living. As I am not currently employable due to health conditions, this presents a dilemma in correct manners. Fortunately, I rarely meet new people who are not part of the medical profession so this dilemma does [...]
The Plague We Cannot Escape/Environmental Word Games
March 15th, 2003, No Comments
To the Editor,
Your editorial section (3/15/03) is replete with tales of unconcern for AIDS patients in the third world and environmental principles. I am afraid that it is time to stop looking at the abuse of our ailing citizens and our environment as neglectful. It is time to call it what it is…a policy. [...]
The Manipulation of Memory for Fun and Profit
November 16th, 2002, No Comments
[OpEd submission to the Washington Post:]
In her OP-Ed column of 11/16/02, [Ellen] Goodman raises an extraordinarily crucial point when she asked, “Isn’t human suffering more than a matter of chemistry?” The answer is very complex and intimately tied to the concept of a mind-body division which is financially beneficial to the status quo in most [...]
