Alexandra Sifferlin
@acsifferlin
Health & Science editor @nytopinion @nytimes. Writing a book called Undiagnosed for @VikingBooks Previously @elemental, @TIME, @TIMEHealth
‘For I was hungry and you gave me no food’ nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opi…
“There 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.” nytimes.com/2025/07/07/opi…
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…
"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 much cruel and clumsy destruction?" nytimes.com/2025/04/11/opi…
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 @nytopinion: nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opi…
What produced the “vibe shift”? We may be thinking too hard about the answer when the obvious one looms. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
My latest NYT essay – a taste of what’s coming in my book “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s” to be published Feb 4. 1/2 nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opi…
“A perpetually anxious society is a vulnerable one,” writes @JInterlandi “There 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.” nytimes.com/2024/11/21/opi…
“Failure 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,” writes @Tuliodna nytimes.com/2024/11/19/opi…
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…
“Being 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.” nytimes.com/2024/11/10/opi…
I might be biased, but I agree with a lot of what's in here nytimes.com/2024/11/10/opi…
I’m sorry, is there really a “certain breed of Wall Streeter” 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 @MattZeitlin
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
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-…
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