From Insulin to mRNA Therapy: 100 Years of Progress and Regress in Medical Science
The 2021-22 period marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto. In October 2021, the University of Toronto...
Misinformation or Public Debate?
Introduction
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of concern about online misinformation and disinformation, with efforts to thwart it. In many cases, claims...
Bringing Transhumanism Down to Earth, Part 1: Military Intelligence Operations Cloaked in the False...
“All of our exalted technological progress, civilization for that matter, is comparable to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal”.
— Albert Einstein,...
Between Administration and Society: Camus, Plagues, and Coronavirus
Abstract: This article examines the relevance of Albert Camus’s novel, The Plague, for understanding the rationales and actions taken by state actors in the CoVid-19 crisis. Because...
Threats to Freedom of Expression: Covid-19, the ‘fact checking counter-disinformation industry’, and online harm...
(Also published by PANDA and at PANDA substack)
We are living through an era in which freedom of expression is evaporating. Numerous scientists have been...
The Covid-19 Concoction: A Recipe for Successful Psychological Operations
Abstract: When viewed as a war story, the COVID-19 narrative framed in corporate media urges citizens to be on a constant “war footing” and...
Symposium: Prospects for Rights in the COVID-19 Times
Editors’ Note: There is no shortage of scholars who have come out publicly to say that the story of COVID-19 is a story about...
‘Never Let a Good Crisis go to Waste’: Understanding Propaganda and COVID
It’s been two years since COVID-19 became a dominant and all-consuming issue . Now there are signs we are witnessing the unravelling of some...
Cockup or Conspiracy: Understanding COVID-19 as a ‘Structural Deep Event’
(Updated July 2023 based upon article originally published by PANDA in March 2022)
It has been three years since COVID-19 emerged as a dominant and,...
Covid Nudging Through Subliminal Messaging
Tragically, the vast majority of New Zealanders received the Pfizer ‘vaccinations’ during the covid era - even though some were NOT mandated by law...