Banning the Promotion of Soft Drinks Could be More Effective Than a Sugar Tax
Banning sales promotions of sugary drinks could lead people to cut back on their consumption.
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“Just Scandalous”: CDC Withholding Most of the Covid Data It Gathers. What Is It Trying to Hide?
We predicted the new CDC head, Rochelle Walensky, would do badly. A New York Times story shows how she’s underperforming our low expectations
Read more...Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act: Power Without Responsibility?
After weeks of inaction against truckers, Trudeau invoked the After weeks of looking impotent, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Ac to end the truckers’ protests. Was this a winning move?
Read more...EU Chief Defends Vaccine Patents as ‘Precious’ as South Africa Demands Waiver
Failure to grant patent waivers under the WTO’s TRIPS Agreement has stalled ramping up of production in Africa and other developing countries of coronavirus vaccines.
Read more...Russian Black Box Defence Against American Booby Trap Offence
Debunking the bizarre claims that the Russian side is unwilling to negotiate.
Read more...California Bill Would Allow Citizens to Enforce Assault Weapon Ban
Turnabout is fair play: A proposed California assualt weapon bill uses the private enforcement scheme of a notorious Texas anti-abortion law
Read more...How Corporations Use Public School Workforce ‘Pipelines’ to Harvest Students’ Data and Train Narrowly Skilled, Exploitable Staff
A new corporate scheme: hijack vocational programs to meet narrow, immediate needs, leaving students with short shelf-life skills.
Read more...New Data: Omicron BA.2 More Contagious and Severe than BA.1, Yet Officials Committed to Relaxing Protections
[Jaws theme song] BA.2 is coming….Maybe it won’t be that terrible, but you might get out of the water.
Read more...What Is Going to Happen in Ukraine?
Ukraine tensions are at the boiling point. Where might this go?
Read more...Appeal in Sarah Palin’s Libel Loss Could Set up Supreme Court Test of Decades-Old Media Freedom Rule
How serious a loss to press freedom would it be if the Supreme Court lowered the bar to defamation suits?
Read more...Trudeau’s Money Heist: Emergencies Act Allows Seizure of Bank Accounts, Securities, Crypto of Those Suspected of “Links” to Convoy Members w/o Court Order
Why the implementation of Canada’s Emergencies Act is a terrible precedent.
Read more...An FTI Consulting Presentation Pulls Back the Veil on Fossil Fuel PR and Shale Greenwashing
FTI Consulting 2015 slides tout “discrediting” science, “debunking” documentaries, and hype its fracking industry project Energy In Depth
Read more...SEC Investigating Possible Block Trading Abuses at Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Other Big Players
Mirabile dictu! More seriousness from the SEC!
Read more...More Home Surveillance Coming Your Way, Courtesy Bosch and the Internet of Things
Bosch brings you Stasi at home….and the worst is, too many people will happily pay for more surveillance.
Read more...Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer
Gail Tverberg throws cold water on green energy optimism.
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