In the madness of the UK's Covid response, public health expert Devi Sridhar was a lone voice of reason. Remembering this, I was keen to read her book about the wider application of her thinking to population scale life and death from all causes and found it quite enlightening. Most importantly, she demonstrates how dramatically the political decisions affecting public health differ between countries and how that leads to very different results in avoidable deaths from causes ranging from guns to cars.
How Not to Die (too soon): The Lies We’ve Been Sold and the Policies That Can Save Us
Devi Sridhar
Penguin Viking 2025
My review of the book is now out in the March issue of Chemistry & Industry:
Health accountability
Chemistry & Industry Volume 90, Issue 4, April 2026, Page 34
access via:
Wiley Online Library (paywalled PDF of the whole review section)
SCI (premium content, ie members only)
In the same issue I also have a feature about plant microbiomes. I've covered the field a couple of times in Current Biology (most recently in 2022), but this one is slightly different in emphasis as C&I wanted more about the application side of it than I have previously covered.
Plant probiotics
Chemistry & Industry Volume 90, Issue 4, April 2026, Pages 22-25
access via:
Wiley Online Library (preview of the first page and link to paywalled PDF)
SCI (premium content, ie members only)
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