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offsite link How Small Wins Could Save the Government Sun Oct 19, 2025 19:00 | Joanna Gray
The Government is floundering like a sulky teen, but tackling small wins ? from tidying high streets to fixing DVLA chaos ? could help rebuild its confidence, suggests Joanna Gray.
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offsite link No Kings, No Thrones, No Crowns? No Problem Sun Oct 19, 2025 17:00 | Dr Roger Watson
The US may be shut down, but in DC the National Guard outnumbers protesters, and as Dr Roger Watson notes, streets once full of tents and beggars prove Trump actually gets things done.
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The Met Police are embroiled in yet another two-tier policing row after a Jewish lawyer was held for nearly 10 hours over alleged Public Order breaches for wearing a Star of David necklace at a Kensington protest.
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Labour has ditched its old Islamophobia definition after concerns it could curb free speech. The party now prefers "anti-Muslim hate".
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Medicine, Big Pharma, Big Science Can We Trust It In Its Current Corporate Driven For Profit Form?

category national | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis author Monday May 16, 2011 06:41author by ws Report this post to the editors

We all rely on large companies to safeguard our health and we allow them to control and direct much of our science. Is this trust really justified?

Recent revelations on this site show us that large pharmaceutical companies and their products are not as trustworthy as we would like. Can we really put our faith in the current model of modern medicine driven by Large greedy corporations ? Can we leave science especially medical science safely in the hands of trans national for profit corporations or is there urgent need to consider alternative approaches such as an open source model or state based science? I am posting this stub article to hopefully stimulate some discussion on this and related matters...

[ Note: Some previous off topic comments have been relocated here to allow that discussion to continue- ws]

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   They are just Arty Luddites.     Innovator.    Sat May 14, 2011 09:30 
   dead right, innovator...     opus diablos    Sat May 14, 2011 12:33 
   Swollow the Medicine.     Scientific Innovator.    Sat May 14, 2011 13:01 
   Huh?     Gerald    Sat May 14, 2011 13:01 
   She is Already Restored.     Scientist    Sat May 14, 2011 13:17 
   for those with Irony Deficiency Syndrome...     opus diablos    Sat May 14, 2011 14:05 
   Keep taking the Pills.     Scientist.    Sat May 14, 2011 14:17 
   when necessary I will     opus diablos    Sat May 14, 2011 14:37 
   Medicine     Gerald    Sat May 14, 2011 14:43 
 10   Science is Self Correcting.     Scientist.    Sat May 14, 2011 14:58 
 11   I detect Metaphor Deficiency Syndrome     opus diablos    Sat May 14, 2011 15:05 
 12   Bad Science     Damien M    Sat May 14, 2011 19:40 
 13   They called it magic.     Scientist.    Sat May 14, 2011 20:33 
 14   Terminology     Damien M    Sat May 14, 2011 21:18 
 15   Terminology     Damien M    Sat May 14, 2011 21:18 
 16   You got me     Gerald    Sat May 14, 2011 21:29 
 17   Evidence     Gerald    Sat May 14, 2011 21:32 
 18   Primates discovered aspirin long ago.     Scientist.    Sat May 14, 2011 21:54 
 19   Entertained     Damien M    Sat May 14, 2011 22:01 
 20   Don't make me debunk them all!     Damien M    Sat May 14, 2011 22:16 
 21   PharmaWatch     Damien M    Sat May 14, 2011 22:28 
 22   Science fail     Gerald    Sun May 15, 2011 11:01 
 23   Cherrypicking     Damien M    Sun May 15, 2011 11:23 
 24   Ok     Gerald    Sun May 15, 2011 11:51 
 25   They're not reliable people     Damien M    Sun May 15, 2011 17:50 
 26   Damien     pat c    Sun May 15, 2011 18:22 
 27   Vigilance     Damien M    Sun May 15, 2011 19:12 
 28   All to GAIN     Damien M    Tue May 17, 2011 02:09 
 29   GlaxoSK handest largest fine in pharmaceutical history.     Damien M    Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:44 


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