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Looking back at 2023 through the lens of The Healthiest Goldfish

Passion play

Why I wrote Within Reason

Health at all costs?

The integrity of the mission to promote health

An imperfect health

Having the conversations we should have when we can have them

Again and Again. Mass Shootings Continue Unabated in the United States

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The moral, aesthetic, and intellectual case for health

Radical incrementalism, the case for

Why we should work with people in places we disagree with

We may disagree

The astonishing privilege of living in a high-income country

Who speaks for health?

Centering human rights and autonomy for all

When our values are not shared

The biases we bake into our systems

When our biases get the better of us

Reconciling context, effort, and ability

The problem of bad behavior

What is reasonable?

Revisiting the question of “why health?”

Centering proportionality in public health thinking

The right amount of risk

Leaving behind values disguised as science

The potential, and limits, of science

The ineluctable role of persuasion

The right amount of performance

On a new practical philosophy of health

“Just because we can doesn’t mean we should”

Welcoming (back) complexity and contradiction in 2023

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