Pharmacy, evil, reason
We all hate pharmaceutical corporations. We can all easily agree on that. Including the author of this gloss. But what do we really blame them for? a) Driving the prices…
The golden age of free speech
In 1906, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded jointly to the Italian Camilo Golgi and the Spaniard Ramon Cayal. The ceremony includes a lecture, so in this case there…
Fear of the mighty
“Of course, mobile operators and social network operators could support a non-profit that will claim that hours and hours spent with a smartphone are actually beneficial. Or bribe researchers and…
Syria as a prototype of Europe?
The environment of Muslim countries in North Africa and the Middle East tends to create groups that we might call criminal gangs, but in another era would have been called,…
Bad guys and dark shadows
If someone in your neighborhood sympathizes with the negative character when watching fairy tales, or with the bad guys who destroyed Santa’s presents, they may have something dark inside them.…
On corporations and smartphones
Hardly a day goes by without a new study showing the adverse effect of mobile phones on children’s brains, and all sorts of bans and restrictions are being added. So…