Bruce Aylward’s Taiwan question-dodging stunt is just the latest in a long line of instances of the WHO putting politics ahead of good policy.

Far from cheering on technologies that might save human lives, environmentalists are repeating tactics employed in the 1960s against the desperately needed malaria control efforts of the day.

Food photographer Celeste Noche was most recently annoyed by food blogger Andrew Zimmern for featuring a picture of Filipino short ribs with some chopsticks.

Environmental campaigners in the 1960s and ’70s pushed to halt the use of DDT, effectively shutting down mosquito control programs.