Lockdowns and hygienic measures around the world are based on numbers of cases and mortality rates created by the so-called SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests used to identify “positive” patients, whereby...
Amory Devereux and Rosemary Frei About 150 years ago, scientists painstakingly constructed a set of principles that can prove whether a particular microbe is the cause of a specific...
Catte Black It probably hasn’t passed anyone by that the covid19 crisis, whether manufactured or exploited, has caused great schisms in the alternative media. Almost from day one there...
Daniel Broudy, Tabe Bergman, and Ed Rankin The latest advances in networked technology hold the promise of lifting millions of people out of poverty. Take 5G. It is hyper-fast...
Colin Todhunter In their rush to readily promote neoliberal dogma and corporate-inspired PR, many government officials, scientists and journalists take as given that profit-driven transnational corporations have a legitimate...
by UNESCO Institute of Statistics, Fact Sheet No. 51, June 2018 This fact sheet presents the latest UIS data on research and experimental development (R&D) available as of June...
Colin Todhunter What people communicate is a matter of choice. But what can be more revealing are the issues they choose to avoid. There are certain prominent pro-GMO activists...
Colin Todhunter Those familiar with the debate around genetically modified organisms (GMOs) may be forgiven for thinking that science alone can solve the world’s food problems. The industry asserts that GMOs are...
By Edward Curtin Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved” Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and...
The recent marches on April 22nd to promote science and to celebrate Earth Day were perhaps well-intentioned, but they were delusional and conducted without any sense of irony. They...