Report: At the peak of Covid Big Pharma dished out $14 billion in bribes to doctors to conceal vaccines efficacy
Corporate crime and fraud involving top 10 drug companies was rampant between 2009 and 2014 of which more than $14 billion was pad to doctors hide data on drug harms and illegally marketing drugs. Dr Peter C. Gotzsche, co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration and the Institute for Scientific Freedom, reveals...
How Big Pharma grip on healthcare has created ‘a pandemic of misinformed doctors’ and patients
Fear inhibits your ability to think critically. This is a central point made by cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra in his London presentation on November 14. Many people were gripped by unprecedented fear during the Covid-19 pandemic, which shaped attitudes about the pharmacological interventions offered. Willful blindness is another phenomenon to...
How Arsene Wenger arrived, cut back on booze culture at Arsenal and began bagging trophies
Iconic midfielder Patrick Vieira once had his car keys taken from him during a legendary Arsenal Christmas party. The Frenchman arrived at the club’s festive bash expecting a quiet one… but it ended up being a boozy celebration. Arsenal were known for their drinking culture before the days of Arsene...
Arizona University scientists find two minerals never before lodged in a meteorite discovered in Somalia
Scientists have identified two minerals never before seen on Earth in a meteorite weighing 15.2 metric tonnes (33,510 pounds). The minerals came from a 70-gram (nearly 2.5-ounce) slice of the meteorite, which was discovered in Somalia in 2020 and is the ninth-largest meteorite ever found, according to a news release...
How call from worried US sleuth led hacker and digital forensics expert to develop an anti-tracking tool
Matt Edmondson, a federal agent with the Department of Homeland Security for the last 21 years, got a call for help last year. A friend working in another part of government – he won’t say which one – was worried that someone might have been tailing them when they were...
Companies constantly install invasive computer codes on your devices and mobile phones to keep an eye on you – Epstein
Robert Epstein, senior research psychologist for the American Institute of Behavioural Research and Technology, recommends taking the following steps to protect your privacy: Use a virtual private network (VPN) such as Nord, which is only about $3 per month and can be used on up to six devices. In my...
Big Tech slavery: Without corporate openness and democratic oversight, epistemic inequality rules
Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft are spearheading the surveillance market transformation, placing themselves at the top tier of the epistemic hierarchy. They know everything about you and you know nothing about them. You don’t even know what they know about you. “They operated in the shadows to amass huge knowledge...
Surveillance capitalism: Even modern cars are equipped with multiple cameras that feed Big Data
Christopher Wylie, now-former director of research at Cambridge Analytica, blew the whistle on the company’s methods of illicitly collecting clients data without their knowledge or consent. According to Wylie, they had so much data on people, they knew exactly how to trigger fear, rage and paranoia in any given individual....
Big Tech: Social media collect data and your photos, which are used to train facial recognition software
The Google Nest security system has a hidden microphone built into it that isn’t featured in any of the schematics for the device. Voice data, and all the information delivered through your daily conversations, is tremendously valuable to Big Data, and add to their ever-expanding predictive modelling capabilities. You cannot...
Covid returns to ravage China where projections show the virus will kill one million before June
In many places, life took on a semblance of pre‑Covid normality in 2022, as countries shed pandemic-control measures. Governments ended lockdowns, reopened schools and scaled back or abandoned mask-wearing mandates. International travel resumed. There were optimistic proclamations, too. In January, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen declared that SARS‑CoV-2 no longer...
