Profiteering From A Panic: The $1,740 Potassium Iodide Supply

March 30th, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

With new reports showing that low trace levels of radioactive iodine-131 have been found in the rain as far away as Massachusetts, the Great Potassium Iodide Panic of 2011 continues to simmer along. But what’s wrong with that, you may ask yourself. If people are just buying a pill (or 14) to have on hand, [...]

Potassium Iodide Panic at Reporting On Health

March 28th, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | One comment

Well, sort of.

Here is an excerpt from a blog post I wrote at the USC Annenberg School’s Reporting On Health website. I will be blogging over there for a couple of months a couple of times a week.

The Great Potassium Iodide Panic of 2011 has peaked and begun to ebb. There were no [...]

What’s It Like In Japan Right Now?

March 24th, 2011 | Category: In the News | 5 comments

I got a chance to interview Jesse Mendoza of Jordan International Aid who is in Japan right now doing relief work. You can listen to the live interview, below. Numbers and reports from the area are changing all the time. Jesse gave me some idea of what it is like there right now in the [...]