Worth reading: Inaction in the face of mass shootings and fixing a broken mental health system [The Pump Handle]

A few of the recent pieces I’ve liked:

German Lopez at Vox:  Obama is right. Inaction in the face of mass shootings is also a political act.

Helen Branswell at STAT: The world is alarmed by the Zika outbreak. No one is paying to deal with it.

Norm Ornstein in The Atlantic: How to Fix a Broken Mental Health System

Anne Therialut at The Establishment: Men See Themselves in Brock Turner – That’s Why They Don’t Condemn Him (and also follow the link to the full victim statement)

Jon Hamilton at NPR: How A Team Of Elite Doctors Changed The Military’s Stance On Brain Trauma

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A few of the recent pieces I’ve liked:

German Lopez at Vox:  Obama is right. Inaction in the face of mass shootings is also a political act.

Helen Branswell at STAT: The world is alarmed by the Zika outbreak. No one is paying to deal with it.

Norm Ornstein in The Atlantic: How to Fix a Broken Mental Health System

Anne Therialut at The Establishment: Men See Themselves in Brock Turner – That’s Why They Don’t Condemn Him (and also follow the link to the full victim statement)

Jon Hamilton at NPR: How A Team Of Elite Doctors Changed The Military’s Stance On Brain Trauma

from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1PoyqUx