(2024-10-30). "Godfather of vaccines" admits vaccine researchers experimented on orphans, the mentally handicapped and babies of mothers in prison. expose-news.com In the early 1960s, Stanley Plotkin was doing a paediatric residency in London, England, at the Hospital for Sick Children (now the Great Ormond Street Hospital). It was during this time, as …
(2024-10-30). Government non-interest expenditure expected to increase. sanews.gov.za Government non-interest expenditure expected to increase | Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana says government non-interest expenditure is expected to increase in 2024/25. | He was delivering the Medium-Term Budget Policy (MTBPS) statement speech in Parliament on Wednesday. | The increase is mainly attributed to: | Rollovers from the previous financial year, to the value of R2.1 billion. | R2.7 billion expenditure that was announced at the time of the main budget, mainly for the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant. | Unforeseeable and unavoidable expenditure of R2.1 billion, mainly for disaster relief. | A sp…
(2024-10-30). New Formulations of Glyphosate-Round Up: When Complaints Against Highly Hazardous Products Are Made, These Are Replaced with Even More Hazardous Products. globalresearch.ca In recent times a subject of great concern for health has been that powerful multinational companies are introducing several products which are highly hazardous for people, exposing them to several serious ailments and diseases including cancer. | As the incidence of …
(2024-10-30). McDonald's sued by US consumers in proposed class action over E coli outbreak. scmp.com One person was killed at at least 75 sickened by infections linked to onions in the fast-food chain's Quarter Pounder burgers.
(2024-10-30). "I Am the Face of AIDS:" Ryan White and the Politics of Innocence in the History of HIV/AIDS. counterpunch.org 
While Ryan's "innocence" pushed the federal government to act on AIDS, the "guilt" of marginalized groups fueled the urge "to punish sick people for their alleged lack of moral purity," as one Philadelphia Daily News editorial put it. Specifically, the CARE Act contained punitive HIV criminalization and notification statutes and prohibited federal funding for needle-exchange programs.
(2024-10-30). The case for an eco-friendly alternative to GDP. scmp.com We need new metrics that recognise the full value of biodiversity and the ecosystem, and new financial tools that reward conservation.