U.S. apologies for STD studies, value of anger and DFW

First week of teaching and the first night of Public Health Law. Tonight's lecture is on history of public health and the state with discussion of the Public Health Service. PHS has been in the news lately with its brutal studies of STDs on Guatemalans without their consent. Some Guatemalan officials are referring to it as genocide. Apparently the lead researcher knew he was in trouble and tried to keep research secret.

On other note, an often taboo topic in public health—effective management, responsibility and anger. Wired has a piece on the value of anger in creative thinking. Reporting on study out of the Netherlands by Baas, De Dreu and Nijstad. You can get it here if you have access to scientific journals.

Finally, this story in the Awl causes the removal of David Foster Wallace's self-help books and materials from his archive.