Katherine Eban’s recent book, “Bottle of Lies,” reveals that nearly 80 percent of the active ingredients of all brand-name and generic drugs as well as almost all of the antibiotics in the U.S. are made outside of the country, mostly in China and India.
Eban is an investigative journalist who has written award-winning stories that range from pharmaceutical counterfeiting to gun trafficking. “Bottle of Lies” is a New York Times bestseller that came out in 2019.
On June 17, 2020, Katherine Eban gave a talk for TEDMED, a series of TED talks that focus on health and medicine. Their mission is to connect science and the public by sharing stories that inform, inspire, engage and provoke action.
Next up are 12 minutes of excerpts from a one hour interview with Katherine Eban by Ken Ford and Dawn Kernagis. Kernagis is a Research Scientist and Ford is Founder and CEO of the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC). The full interview is posted on the YouTube channel of the IHMC.
They spoke with Katherine Eban on March 12, 2020, about the dangers associated with relying on generic drugs manufactured overseas.
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