As Boeing has been in the news once again due to stranding astronauts on a space station after a failure of the company’s Starliner capsule, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has presented the aircraft manufacturer with a plea deal for a completely different matter. This deal will allow Boeing to avoid a trial involving the …
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GM’s $10 Billion Stock Buyback Plan
In the US, stock buybacks – where a corporation purchases its own stock to inflate prices – were illegal throughout much of the 20th century. This practice was banned in the US because it was considered an underhanded way to manipulate the stock market. Enter the 1980s. Amidst a wave of privatization and elimination of …
Six Powers of the Plant-Based Diet that Clinicians Should Know
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine PCRM) is a nonprofit organization that is made up of more than 17,000 physicians and another 175,000 members. This group advocates for preventative, evidence-based medicine to treat chronic diseases and promote overall health. One member of the PCRM, Dr. Neal Barnard, has recently published a piece along with two …
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Why Hospitals and Policy-Makers Must Distinguish between Hospitalization/Death FROM and WITH COVID-19
Among certain sectors of the American population, the Omicron variant has caused panic, despite overwhelming evidence that this variant is mild, presenting as symptoms that are indistinguishable from the common cold. See Dr. John Campbell break things down here: As a result of this panic, some schools around the country have chosen to go back …
The Value of Values in Natural Resource Management
People’s values are far more than abstract assignments of worth that rarely make themselves evident in real life. Instead, values can and have been used in myriad situations to explain human behaviour. The concept of environmental values is particularly important to those working in resource management agencies, since such values are crucial to explaining people’s …
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The Long-Term Effects Keto Diet Examined in New Study + Comparison to the Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet
Fad diets come and go. There are certainly strange ones that pop up over the decades, such as the early 1900s “Fletcher” diet where all food had to be chewed to a liquid pulp before swallowing, but certain trends in fad diets continue to rear their heads again and again. One theme of fad diets …
Why Fast Food Became Cheesier
If you go to a fast food restaurant and look at the menu, what do you see? Well, there are probably many answer to that question, but for the purposes of this piece, the answer is cheese, and lots of it. You can get cheese on practically everything these days, and it feels like fast …
What’s the Dam Problem?
18 August 2019 – No, that is not a misspelling in the title. One of the best titles on an academic paper I have ever seen was “Dam Nation,” which was a survey of American dams and their effects on the environment. The second best title I have seen was “How Green is My Value,” …
Let’s Abolish All Collegiate & High School Varsity Sports
11 August 2019 – With a controversial title like that, I’d better have some good arguments to back up my call for action. Fear not, I do. If you live in the United States, then it is possible that college sports are an important part of your life. Perhaps you follow March Madness or have …
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Analyzing Societal Divisions: Double and Triple Movements
4 August 2019 – Democrat-Republican. Left-right. Liberal-conservative. If you listen to the mainstream media, these are the lines which divide our society and are reinforced every day on many news channels. You are also probably sick to death of hearing about the polarizing arguments that dominate the major media stations. Turn on any particular news …
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