Prescription drugs cost a fortune. Drug companies insist that that's because of the high costs of research and development, but journalist Merrill Goozner argues that taxpayers are actually getting screwed by footing the bill for government-funded medical research, and then paying again for astronomically expensive prescription drugs. Philosopher/scientist Joshua Greene and science essayist Carl Zimmer discuss the science of right and wrong. Then Alex Matthiessen, executive director of Riverkeeper, City Councilman David Yassky, and Exxon Valdez scientist Dr. Stanley "Jeep" Rice on one of the world's largest underground oil spills - right here in New York, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. And George Minot shares his novel, The Blue Bowl.
Merrill Goozner
Merrill Goozner, author of The $800 Million Pill : The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs, is former Chief Economics Correspondent at the Chicago Tribune, has won six Peter Lisagor Awards, and is a contributing editor for the American Prospect.
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Alex Matthiessen, David Yassky, and Dr. Stanley Rice
The Newtown Creek oil spill (courtesy of ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, and others) has been oozing under Greenpoint for fifty years. It's destroyed the local aquifer, has settled under more than 100 homes on three residential blocks and contaminated Newtown Creek, and threatens aquatic life. And little has been done to clean ...
George Minot
George Minot's novel, The Blue Bowl, is a portrait of a dysfunctional New England family - a common theme in the Minot siblings' novels. (George is the brother of writers Susan Minot and Eliza Minot.)
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