This revealing documentary from German channel DW looks into the Thalidomide tragedy, the people who survived it and the bad science and greed that enabled it. From the YouTube description: The German pharmaceutical company Grünenthal marketed thalidomide world-wide starting in 1957. Pregnant women used the sleeping pill, which had been deemed so harmless it was …
Joe Biden has a way with words. But Biden’s loquacious, gregarious nature also gets him into trouble at times. In his 36 years in the Senate, Biden has developed a reputation for verbal gaffes, and that characteristic has been on display in recent weeks on the campaign trail. Scroll through this gallery for some of […]
The rhetoric about COVID-19 vaccine reached its highest level of fervor yet on Monday, July 5th, when the Chairman for the Department of External Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church publicly stated this: Those who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 are committing a sin they will have to repent for the rest of their […]
The American news media is now officially polled as the least trustworthy on the entire planet. A Reuters Institute / University of Oxford survey polled 92,000 news consumers in 46 markets around the world, including India, Indonesia, Russia, and many other nations. The Executive Summary Report is damning, and is best expressed concisely in this graph: […]
The subheading may be excessively positive, but let us consider this as though we were in normal times: A great way to show one’s own success is to let the other guy run things and fail so badly that the contrast becomes clear. This happened with America. When Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the […]
