Articles for Nathan Geffen
Complementary medicine companies are destroying consumer protection
Series of court actions aimed at Advertising Standards Authority
By Harris Steinman and Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 30 May 2016
Treatment for everyone with HIV: what will it mean?
Patients will benefit and there will be fewer new infections
Explainer | 17 May 2016
Mbeki is wrong about death statistics
AIDS has for many years been by far the largest cause of death
Explainer | 14 March 2016
Clearing up two Mbeki misconceptions
There are two misconceptions by Mbeki and people defending him that I wish to debunk.
Explainer | 13 March 2016
Mbeki confirms he is an AIDS denialist
A virus can't cause a syndrome, he says
Opinion | 7 March 2016
Mbeki’s reputation is not in tatters because he was aloof
It's because his policies caused hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths
Opinion | 1 February 2016
The banal evil of drug pricing
Martin Shkreli was the most hated man on the internet for a brief time this week. His company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, pushed up the price of a medicine, pyrimethamine, used to treat a life-threatening disease from $13.50 (approx R185) to $750 (approx R10,250) a pill.
Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 23 September 2015
Gays and sin: In limited defence of Zizipho Pae
In response to the United States Supreme Court’s decision recognising gay marriage, UCT Student Representative Council (SRC) vice-president Zizipho Pae wrote on her Facebook page on 28 June, “We are institutionalizing and normalizing sin! Sin. May God have mercy on us...”. Pae has subsequently continued to defend her statement.
Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 30 July 2015