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Alexandra Sifferlin

@acsifferlin

Health & Science editor @nytopinion @nytimes. Writing a book called Undiagnosed for @VikingBooks Previously @elemental, @TIME, @TIMEHealth

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ā€œBeing into wellness isn’t always about health. These podcasts are often about human performance. But they’re also a performance. As in entertainment. They’re about companionship.ā€ nytimes.com/2024/11/10/opi…

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Trump's Energy Secretary is a fracking executive and something of an all-around "energy advocate," who acknowledges that global warming happens but doesn't think it's a crisis — and his company Liberty Energy has invested in geothermal

Trump's Energy Secretary is a fracking executive and something of an all-around "energy advocate," who acknowledges that global warming happens but doesn't think it's a crisis — and his company Liberty Energy has invested in geothermal
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I am one of 100s of scientists in the the World that is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary! Today, my opinion piece on the NY Times. Let's hope we take more serious epidemics and pandemics and deal with them before they emerge. nytimes.com/2024/11/19/opi…

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ā€œFailure 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/opi…

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ā€œA perpetually anxious society is a vulnerable one,ā€ writes Jeneen Interlandi ā€œThere 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/opi…

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while we're wating for chris wright's confirmation hearing to kick off at the top of the hour, read my piece on chris wright, climate policy skeptic and energy intellectual heatmap.news/climate/chris-…

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My latest NYT essay – a taste of what’s coming in my book ā€œDoctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’sā€ to be published Feb 4. 1/2 nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opi…

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What produced the ā€œvibe shiftā€? We may be thinking too hard about the answer when the obvious one looms. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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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/opi…

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Yes it is true that the shock to the global economy is driving down oil prices and will likely make gas cheaper at the pump. But this might save you a few hundred dollars compared to thousands of dollars worth of reduced purchasing power

Yes it is true that the shock to the global economy is driving down oil prices and will likely make gas cheaper at the pump.

But this might save you a few hundred dollars compared to thousands of dollars worth of reduced purchasing power
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"After a lifetime spent asking big, complicated questions, what the scientists most want to know now is this: Why? What, truly, is the goal of so muchĀ cruel and clumsyĀ destruction?"Ā Ā nytimes.com/2025/04/11/opi…

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For #EarthDay, read Phil Levin's powerful piece on how he saved the National Nature Assessment after Trump canceled it: nytimes.com/2025/04/22/opi…

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I’m sorry, is there really a ā€œcertain 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

I’m sorry, is there really a ā€œcertain breed of Wall Streeterā€ whose favorite movies are Margin Call, Michael Clayton, and Master &amp; Commander, or have a lot of finance guys just outsourced their taste over the years to <a href="/MattZeitlin/">Matthew Zeitlin</a>
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ā€œThere are plenty of compelling arguments that this is bad for our health, national security and global stability — and I wholeheartedly agree. But we cannot abandon the moral argument, because it’s one of the strongest we have and it still resonates.ā€ nytimes.com/2025/07/07/opi…