The Palm Oil Problem and Other Catch-22s

“A couple of years ago, with the economy tanking and magazine budgets going the way of orangutans, an editor at a women’s magazine called me with an assignment. I’d already sworn off these mags forever after my last debacle but, as I was in no position to turn down $5,000 or whatever it was, I agreed. Anyway, this editor insisted that this was to be a serious science story (albeit written in the publication’s from-one-girlfriend-to-another voice), for which I should conduct many interviews and extensively scan the literature. So I did.”
 — Without naming [publication] names, freelance journalist Hillary Rosner chronicles her frustrations with science writing and women’s magazines. (“Remembering all this has made me need some” palm oil “bourbon.”)

[Thanks, Heather!]