
Alexandra Sifferlin
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Health & Science editor @nytopinion @nytimes. Writing a book called Undiagnosed for @VikingBooks Previously @elemental, @TIME, @TIMEHealth
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āFailure to control H5N1 among American livestock could have global consequences, and this demands urgent attention. The United States has done little to reassure the world that it has the outbreak contained,ā writes Tulio de Oliveira nytimes.com/2024/11/19/opiā¦

āA perpetually anxious society is a vulnerable one,ā writes Jeneen Interlandi āThere is no telling who we might surrender our judgment to or what portion of the social contract we might agree to scrap, if only to silence the alarm bells.ā nytimes.com/2024/11/21/opiā¦




Before I became a journalist, I had planned to become a scientist. It has been incredibly disorienting and disheartening to see how a career in research has now become just as uncertain and tumultuous as journalism itself. My latest for New York Times Opinion: nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opiā¦





Iām sorry, is there really a ācertain breed of Wall Streeterā whose favorite movies are Margin Call, Michael Clayton, and Master & Commander, or have a lot of finance guys just outsourced their taste over the years to Matthew Zeitlin


āThere are plenty of compelling arguments that this is bad for our health, national security and global stability ā and I wholeheartedly agree. But we cannot abandon the moral argument, because itās one of the strongest we have and it still resonates.ā nytimes.com/2025/07/07/opiā¦
