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The Business of Science, Part Two

The Business of Science, Part Two

So the business of science is to find out knowledge. But scientific fact can never be just fact, brute fact. It isn’t fact unless it’s true and it isn’t true unless it is both correctly observed and truthfully reported.

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Defunding Gavi: An Important Step?

Defunding Gavi: An Important Step?

All the incentives for this expanding global health workforce push them to support centralized, vertical approaches to public health. To be healthy, people now needed manufactured stuff, and only wealthy, Western-trained people can be trusted to make them have it.

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She’s Back and So Is the Austerity

She’s Back and So Is the Austerity

It’s as if she’s been wheeled out as a kind of ready-made austerity dispenser, a convenient tool to guilt and whip the already battered, overtaxed and overcharged people of New Zealand.

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Bodies on the Altar of Science

Bodies on the Altar of Science

At the very least, based on logic, rationality, and decency, we should be transparent. This should ensure truly informed consent, labeling medicines, for instance, as having been derived or not through procedures or experiments on unconsented humans.

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