Rubrica semi-seria di mediazione culturale

I grew up in Rome and with 28 I moved to Bern     Basically, I jumped from a 5 million to a 125’000 … European capital     What could possibly go wrong when you do such a thing?     My columns for tvsvizzera.it – in Italian    

Breast Cancer screening – it seemed to be such a good idea

I investigated for Patti chiari RSI what organized mammography screening can, and can’t do.   Spoiler: this is not good news.   Watch the program (in Italian)   Lessen to oncologist Michael Baum (in English)   Read Catherine Riva investigation (in French – paywall)   Read Peter C. Gøtzsche book: Mammography Screening: Truth, Lies and Controversy Read more about Breast Cancer screening – it seemed to be such a good idea[…]

Human Rights Defender Trapped in Baku

An Azerbaijani dissident has spent ten months living in the Swiss embassy in Baku. The human rights defender Emin Huseynov has long been persecuted by the authoritarian government of president Ilham Aliyev and since August 2014 has been hosted by the Swiss embassy for humanitarian reasons after he went into hiding, fearing his arrest was imminent. Read more about Human Rights Defender Trapped in Baku[…]

Tamiflu. A Pandemic Business

It was supposed to save us all from the pandemics. The Cochrane Collaboration and BMJ have discovered that Tamiflu is far from being effective and bear important side effects. The Tamiflu Saga in a 56 Minutes long investigative documentary shot in Japan, Italy, UK and Switzerland.

Roaccutan / Morire per la pelle

A powerful acne medication, that has at least 150 serious side effects. I came along its story in 2005, by researching for my long feature documentary about drug safety regulation. There we featured for the first time the story of Liam Grant, a courageous father fighting in the name of his son. After the broadcast, we received hundreds Read more about Roaccutan / Morire per la pelle[…]