More CO2 in the Atmosphere Hurts Key Plants and Crops More Than It Helps
A primer on CO2 and crops.
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Intellectual Property Monopolies Block Vaccine Access
Vaccine profiteering is very much with us, even during a pandemic.
Read more...An Internal Medicine Doctor and His Peers Read the Pfizer Vaccine Study and See Red Flags [Updated]
The Pfizer vaccine study, hot off the presses in the New England Journal of Medicine, features troubling omissions and apparent obfuscation.
Read more...Authoritative Consultant Slams Private Equity in Journal Article: Cheap Index Funds and In House Buys Beat PE Funds
Yet another authoritative source slams private equity returns.
Read more...Macroeconomics, Money (MMT Style) and Post-Brexit Recovery, All in One Twitter thread
Money, lending, government spending, QE….all explained in one tidy post!
Read more...Links 12/12/2020
Robert McChesney: The Decline of American Journalism
Why is US journalism in the crapper?
Read more...The Failure of the Public Health Establishment
Questioning whether the public health response to Covid is really about protecting the public.
Read more...Why Paying People To Get the Coronavirus Vaccine Won’t Work
More discussion of how to get the dogs to eat the vaccine dogfood.
Read more...On the Demise of Universities
More on how neoliberalism has been digging a grave for universities.
Read more...Medical System Cracking: New Rochelle Nurses Strike Over Unsafe Staffing Levels; Washington State Warns of Potential for “Catastrophic Loss of Medical Care”
Medical systems are already under strain due to Covid and some nurses have had enough.
Read more...It’s Time to Break Up Britain
The Tories’ shambolic, self-serving rule has stoked interest in Britain breakaways by Scotland and even Wales and the North. But are they viable?
Read more...Polarized Pandemic Response and Covid-19 Connectedness Across US States
US data shows that strict responses reduce Covid outbreaks, and less stringent (Republican) states spread disease to each other.
Read more...Morag Maclean, R.I.P.
Morag was an exceptionally fine person, and I am deeply saddened to learn of her death.
Read more...DoorDash Delivery Workers Would Need to Toil for Two Days to Buy a Single Share of Their $60 Billion Company
A look at how DoorDash exploits its workers, and how they and some legislators are seeking to change that.
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