Science in a conflict of interest? Prof. Dr. Amitav Banerjee, Indian epidemiologist, gives a scientist’s insight into the economic struggles researchers face, and how the resulting conflict of interest in science and likewise in politics affect the current crisis.
A society tumbling into a war-like state? Mattias Desmet, Belgian professor of clinical psychology, talks about what happens to the social bonds during mass formation, why paranoia can take hold and why enemies and scapegoats are readily presented. COMMENTARY 47:COMMENTARY 48: Check out this interesting After Skool episode on mass psychosis here:
These aren’t the facts you’re looking for.
Time and time again demonstrations against COVID-mandates were met with police violence. The aggressive, not rarely brutal, handling of the events was a common theme.
This issue gained wider attention when in the course of a demonstration on August 1, 2021 in Berlin, a great number of incidences of police brutality were documented and reported.
The police had been explicitly instructed to proceed against protesters with a “low intervention threshold”.
When Linda discovers that COVID is not the big threat it is portrayed to be in the media, she creates a network of help for people scared by the fear mongering on the internet. But then friends and part of her family distance themselves from her. On Facebook, she meets a mother who has lost…