1. Good essay on risk communication during pandemics (though it focuses on flu, not Ebola).
2. Charles A. Beard and the Columbia School of Political Economy.
3. What Saddam Hussein said in public vs. what he said in private (hat tip www.bookforum.com for the last two links).
4. What are academic conferences good for?
5. Have we lost confidence in public health?
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