Richard Alexander

Our current approach to teaching young people the truths about alcohol and our efforts to instill in young people responsible attitudes toward drinking simply do not work. The body of evidence that reveals our failures is huge. Binge drinking by college students, fraternity hazings that involve poisonous quantities of alcohol, deaths from massive alcohol consumption […]

Air bags and seat belts save lives. But airbags can cause permanent injuries and death from spinal cord and brain injuries, especially in children and anyone of short stature who sits in the front seat close to the steering wheel or dashboard. Massive decelerations in crashes occur in one-tenth of a second. That is faster […]

Contra Costa County was sued on August 1, 2008 for child dumping and breaking California’s law that requires adoption agencies to tell adopting parents everything known about a child’s background. A complete medical, psychological, school and family history must be given to adopting parents before the adoption. That didn’t happen for Mamie and Mark Johnson […]

It is somewhat metaphorical that the industry that promotes rubber tried to screw the American consumer by keeping essential safety information from becoming public knowledge. But thanks to a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the law is very clear; defective automobile tire data must be made public.

Instead of following its mission statement, which directs it to protect the public health, the FDA frequently puts the financial interests of drug companies ahead of the health of American citizens. As a result of that betrayal, reports of drugs that make huge profits even though they cause severe personal injuries and wrongful deaths are […]