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...
Ivermectin and Televised Mainstream News: A Case Study of Propaganda
Abstract
Televised mainstream news (TMN) may be relaying intentionally misleading descriptions and narratives that are effectively synonymous with propaganda. This study proposes that TMN knowingly...
What we don’t know is killing us: The urgency of propaganda study under COVID
For those of us who study propaganda critically, and seek to do this all-important work as public intellectuals, these last two years have been...
Military Operations in Civilian Disguise, Part 3: Bio-Nano Governance and Terms of Use for...
Abstract: Since government must be involved in the accumulation of capital to legitimate its activities, and since humans are, in the eyes of government,...
Engineering Compliance: From Climate to Covid and Back Again
Introduction
From early in the pandemic, commentators were quick to make connections between Covid-19 and climate change. In March 2020, for example, Scientific American explained...
Minimization of Harm
I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has...
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...
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...
Leaked emails: ‘Independent’ SAGE crushed dissent over COVID restrictions
On November 21st 2022, The Grayzone exposed how the Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (iSAGE), which relentlessly sought to influence public perceptions and...
You are Not a Horse: Misinformation, Medicalization, and the Suppression of Dissent in the...
A Tweet Read Around the World
On August 21, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted a now infamous (and retracted) tweet: “You...