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The Ugly Business Of Big Bad Pharma
Being Bad comes naturally to Big Pharma, as evidenced by their history in the marketplace. Over the previous decade or more the pharmaceutical industry has raked up a least 20 billion USD in fines for all kinds of absolutely unconscionable … Continue reading
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Tagged AbbottLaboratories, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Big Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers, Endo Health Solutions Inc., FDA, Flynn Pharma, Forest Laboratories, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Lilly, Merck & Co, Novartis, Pfizer, Sarnoff-Aventis
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The World as Form and Function
Reality is created by observers in the universe – John Archibald Wheeler, Theoretical Physicist (1911-2008) Today I am revisiting the views held by Schopenhauer in The World as Will and Idea (1818), and his rejection of naïve realism, or what has been … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmos, evolution, form, function, Kant, life, matter, Schopenhauer, thing-in-itself, universe, world
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Death on the Amber Shore
Warning: This, sadly, is a true story of incredible cruelty that you will not be able to get easily out of your mind once you have read it. It is one of many similar acts of unimaginable savagery making up the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Grube, death march, East Prussia, Holocaust, Jews, Konigsberg, Maria Blitz, Martin Bergau, Massacre at Palmnicken, Nazi Germany
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The Scourge of Mankind
One continues to wonder why anyone would be willing to kill a fellow human being just because they don’t share your religious beliefs. But for any student of European history it is not too difficult to be reminded of such … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbot of Citeaux, Béziers, Cathars, Charlemagne, Charles the Great, Christianity, Deuteronomy XIII, inquisition, Jihadi, Languedoc, massacre, Middle East, Muslims, religion, Roman Catholic Church, Saxons, Verden
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Mars
On October 12 of 2016 U.S. President Barack Obama vowed to help send people to Mars within the next 15 years, pledging to work with private companies “to build new habitats that can sustain and transport astronauts on long-duration missions … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmic radiation, Dead Planet, Jules Verne, Mars, Mars One, Mission to Mars, One Way Journey to Mars, Ray Bradbury, science fiction
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The Limits of Our World
Given that there are limitations to what we can achieve with our bodies in a physical sense – e.g., how high we can jump, or how fast we can run – it seems reasonable to think there are also limits … Continue reading
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Tagged human cortex, intellect, limits of the world, sentiency, the world
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The Larger Context
Life’s larger context is defined, in the first place, by our ideas about our place in the world provided we see it in in terms of being intrinsically linked to everything else that is going on in it. Consequently, our … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, evolution, technology, the larger context
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Spiritual Beliefs
Existential writers such as Søren Kierkegaard claimed that proof of God cannot be the outcome of a logical argument, such that God’s existence can never be a public or objective truth. Belief in God, consequently, must always be a private … Continue reading
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Tagged God, gullibiliy, manipulation, religion, spiritual beliefs
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