Today, December 31, 2021, marks the official dissolution of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). Founded in 2011 with support from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Nutrition Science Initiative funded four projects — three in full and one in part — on the relationship between nutrition, obesity and metabolic diseases. Three of these…
Time Capsule 2: 2005, The Re-Interview with Epidemiology Monitor
Here’s the follow-up interview with Epidemiology Monitor. This one wasn’t available online, so what we have here is the version that the editor sent me pre-publication and has been sitting in my files ever since. It’s absence from google suggests the possibility that maybe it never actually made it to publication. When EpiMonitor published a book in…
Time Capsule 1: 1996, Interview with Epidemiology Monitor
I’ve been procrastinating lately, which has led me to re-read two old interviews I did with the Epidemiology Monitor, a newsletter that covers the field of epidemiology. In 1995, I had published an article called “Epidemiology Faces It’s Limits” in the journal Science, which was the first critical assessment of the field since the Yale epidemiologist Alvin Feinstein…