Philosophy & Ethics

True Health Initiative: How Epidemiologists Walter Willett And Frank Hu Use Targeted Harassment To Prevent Criticism

The True Health Initiative (THI) describes itself as a nonprofit devoted to “fighting fake facts and combating false doubts to create a world free of preventable diseases, using the time-honored, evidence-based, fundamentals of lifestyle and medicine.”  Th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 17 2020 - 4:22pm

Environmental Lawyers At NRDC Sue To Have Higher CO2 Emissions

Meleah Geertsma, a senior attorney in the midwestern US for Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)- yes, they have so many attorneys they have titles like "Senior" and for geographical regions- says they are suing the federal government...again ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 21 2020 - 1:35pm

What The Coronavirus Government Lockdown Might Mean For The Future Of Employment

Because of concerns about spreading coronavirus, tens of millions of people are working from home that didn't before.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 19 2020 - 6:36pm

Dennis Kucinich Got Big Payday From Center For Food Safety To Promote Their Clients

Center for Food Safety, a controversial litigation group that has been shown on numerous occasions to be conspiring to manipulate the public about American agriculture, is in the news again. This time for paying former Democratic Congressman, former race-b ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 24 2020 - 1:50pm

Do No Harm? Doctors Are Giving Out 9X As Many Hydroxychloroquine Prescriptions, And That Puts People Who Need It At Risk

The antimalarial drug chloroquine (analogue hydroxychloroquine) is also successfully used to treat lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and autoimmune diseases said to have similar biological mechanisms as COVID-19 and, lacking any remedies besides what can be don ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 4 2020 - 5:31am

'Waiting For Godot' Is Not A COVID-19 Strategy, But It May Be A Metaphor- Editorial

The 1948 Samuel Beckett play "Waiting for Godot" is about two people that are, as you can guess, waiting for Godot. They wait at a tree, but they have no idea who he is or if he will arrive. When the person they do not know and had no idea was ev ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 6 2020 - 12:58am

It's Time To Ban Sex Selection In IVF

Australian guidelines for the ethical use of IVF allow selecting a child’s sex for medical reasons. But draft guidelines that are now open for public submissions raise the possibility of extending this and allowing the choice for social reasons. ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 30 2020 - 11:39am

It's Time To Allow Sex Selection In IVF

As part of a periodic review, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is calling for public submissions on its draft guidelines on the use of assisted reproductive technology in clinical practice and research. This, in lay terms, is the p ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 30 2020 - 11:42am

Is God “Bound” By The Laws Of Physics, Or Can Physics Disprove Her?

I still believed in God (I am now an atheist) when I heard the following question at a seminar, first posed by Einstein, and was stunned by its elegance and depth: ‘If there is a God who created the entire universe and ALL of its laws of physics, does God ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 22 2021 - 10:15am

Science Gets Closer To Making Human-Animal Chimeras

The recent announcement that scientists have made human-monkey embryos and cultured them in the lab for two weeks made international headlines. The technology to make animals that contain cells from other species has been available for decades and used ex ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 19 2021 - 10:06am