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HANNAH CAMPBELL-PEGG, an Australian luger, calling Vancouver's Olympic course unsafe just a day before Georgia's Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, was killed in a high-speed crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...think your reviews have not filtered down to policymakers?In a separate study we looked at the science that policymakers use, and it's disturbing how large the gap is between policy and evidence. We looked at the World Health Organization, CDC and U.K., Australian and German authorities - they have what it is called a "citation bias." They cite some studies that support vaccines, but other studies that find no effect are left out. Most importantly, there is no critical appraisal of the methods. [Cochrane reviewers examine the methodology of all studies they include in their systematic reviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Flu Vaccines Really Work? A Skeptic's View | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

...Committee (IWC) to ban whaling altogether in 2005. Two years later, a promise to put pressure on Japan to stop culling whales was part of Rudd's own election campaign platform, though last week's announcement was the first major step his administration has taken on the issue. "The Australian government promised to do something two years ago. They have been stalling on the issue," says Wally Franklin of the Southern Cross University Whale Research Centre in Lismore, in New South Wales. "Whales are being killed unnecessarily, and illegally. Australia has a case, but it looks like the missing ingredient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia to Japan: Stop Whaling, or Else | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

...Calling Japan out on its whaling program could put Australia in a sticky position; Japan is, after all, Australia's largest export market. After Rudd's announcement last week, Japan's Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and his Australian counterpart Stephen Smith held a pre-scheduled meeting in Perth. "We were able to confirm that the Australia-Japan relationship has gone beyond that of economic complementarity and is now a strategic partnership," Okada told reporters after the meeting. "Should court action become a reality, then Japan will seek to represent its case to the IWC, supporting the fact that its activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia to Japan: Stop Whaling, or Else | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

...whaling program in November (which history would suggest that it won't) that's still too long to wait for any decisive action. "Australia should seek an injunction to stop current whaling while the International Court of Justice determines the matter," Bob Brown, the leader of the Australian Greens Party, said in a statement. Watson, who was named by The Guardian in 2008 as one of 50 people that could save the planet, agrees. "It's as if the Australian government has told a bunch of bank robbers, 'Look you can continue robbing banks until November, but afterward you will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia to Japan: Stop Whaling, or Else | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

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