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The Two Cultures
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 14 October 2018 “If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Health, Japan, Literature, Netherlands, Science, UK
Tagged haiku, immunology, Sir Peter Medawar, Vincent Van Gogh
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Butchery of the Innocents
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our Mission Statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 22 February 2018 A bill has been tabled in the Icelandic Parliament that would ban circumcision … Continue reading
Posted in COUNTRIES/INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, Europe, Finland, Health, Iceland, Israel, Justice, Politics, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, UK, USA
Tagged Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir, circumcision, Council of Europe, European Court of Human Rights, Hippocrates of Kos, Hippocratic Oath, Icelanic Progressive Party, Islam, Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir, surgery
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Merchants of death
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 November 2014 “A fag is a tube of paper with a fire at one end … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Health, Ireland, Japan, Politics
Tagged Ballymena, EU, gas chambers, hard drugs, Ian Paisley Jr, Japan Tobacco, JTI, JTI Gallagher, Martin McGuinnnes, Northern Ireland, Peter Robinson, smoking, Unite trade union
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Torture and the United States
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 6 November 2013 The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, who was born on the island of Kos … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Health, Japan, Torture, USA
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Camp Bagram, Dr Gerald Thomson of Columbia University, Guantánamo Bay, Hippocrates, Hippocratic Oath, Leonard Rubenstein, Mandy Rice-Davies, renditions, Taskforce on Preserving Medial Professionalism, Third Reich, torture
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Telling it like it is
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 22 October 2013 Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is 100%. R.D.Laing … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Philosophy, Scotland
Tagged death, Human Life, Mortality, R.D. Laing
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