As Rivers Run Black in Peru, Indigenous Tribes Left Cleaning Big Oil's Disaster.

Some members of US Congress have proposed to end the practice of requiring money bail for people accused of crimes.

The system keeps indigent people in jail for months or years, and many plead guilty to crimes they did not commit because the sentence is less jail time than they would spend waiting for a trial.

A French drug trial caused grave brain damage, sometimes fatal. A previous test of the same drug on dogs did similar damage, but it was covered up by trade secrecy.

Drug companies should not be allowed to impose secrecy on any information about drug trials. Any arrangements made by the company that impede publication should land the executives responsible in prison for a long time, and the company should be punished by cancelling the patent on that drug.

However, this alone is not enough, because imposing secrecy is not the only method these companies use to do corrupt medicine. For instance, when drug companies finance or control drug testing, they ruin its results. It is a fundamental conflict of interest. For a test to kill subjects is rare, but lesser forms of harm happen all the time.

Drug companies should have nothing to do with tests on drugs. The government should run them, and drug companies should pay through their taxes.

Drug companies have many ways of corrupting medicine.

Terrible news: to avoid 2C of heating, we can only emit 1,200 bn tons more CO₂ (or equivalent) from now on.

That is only half what scientists estimated before.

"If we don’t start reducing our emissions immediately, we will blow [the carbon budget] in a few decades.”

Post-war Iraq: 'Everybody is corrupt, from top to bottom. Including me'.