A Second Opinion
Bill FristAll about nature, the changing climate, biodiversity, and unstable weather patterns through the lens of human health.
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A Walk Across Tennessee, a Visit to Japan, and the Education of a Senator
As a physician-scientist, I’ve always been committed to following the data. What does the evidence tell us? But I learned in my 12 years of policy and politics, that numbers and statistics don’t stick in people’s minds – what stays, and wha...
Myth Diagnosis: What’s Really Driving Up Your Grocery Bill?
When grocery prices climb, we tend to blame the economy. But a lot of what shows up at checkout starts in the field, with the weather and the pollinators our crops depend on.
That’s this week’s myth: that food shortages and rising grocery...
Myth Diagnosis: Today’s Wild Weather Is “Typical”
Myth: “Climate change is happening slowly, so today’s wild weather is just normal variation.”
It is an understandable belief. Storms, heat waves, and floods have always been part of life, and every generation has its stories about the big...
I’ve Seen What Measles Does to Children. America Should Heed the Warning.
In February 2015, I wrote the piece below for Forbes. At the time, 102 Americans had come down with measles in the first six weeks of the year, and I was alarmed. Only a few years earlier, in a refugee camp on the Kenya–Somalia border, I ha...
Myth Diagnosis: Wetlands Are the Planet's Kidneys
Myth: “Wetlands are wasted land. We can drain them without consequences.”
For generations, that is how many people saw marshes, swamps, and bottomlands: soggy ground standing in the way of a farm field, a road, or a subdivision. Draining t...
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Chair of The Nature Conservancy, heart transplant surgeon, living in Franklin, TN with wife Tracy on a historic farm. And lots of animals. Former Majority Leader, US Senate.
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