Doctors Without Borders has campaigned effectively to influence Canada to stop letting Pharma companies privatize drugs developed with public research funds.

The campaign is very good, but ought to go further. Canada ought to take the control of studies that test the effects of medicines away from the Pharma companies, and run them with public funding under public control — and tax the companies to pay for them.

A blemish in the article is that it uses the propaganda term "intellectual property," which opposes the goal and spreads confusion. Please help end the confusion by refusing to use that term.

Bogus Johnson's scorned ex-favorite, Cummings, said that Johnson opposed measures to reduce spread of Covid-19 a year ago because "the people who are dying are essentially all over 80."

There are situations where you can't save everyone and it is inevitable to prioritize who to save. We have seen some such situations during the pandemic, such as when hospitals did not have capacity to treat everyone who was gravely ill. But Johnson gives nearly everyone's life too little priority.

An NHS hospital doctor reproaches Bogus Johnson and the British government for shirking responsibility now to protect Britons from Covid.

Instagram intensely promotes thinness to teens that bring it up in conversations.

Ben & Jerry's announced plans to stop the sale of its ice cream in Israel's colonies in Palestinian territory.

Most Israelis favor colonization and many will boycott Ben & Jerry's if it continues to sell in Israel but not Israel's occupation colonies. Israel's new prime minister, a right-wing extremist, has threatened retribution for this.

I don't think the direction of Ben & Jerry's will be intimidated. However, it is now owned by Unilever. I hope that conglomerate does not impose a "profit über alles" mindset.

It is not clear to me whether Ben & Jerry's plans to stop sales in colonies immediately, while continuing to sell it in Israel, or rather plans only to end the sale of its ice cream in Israel in 2022.

Biden said that Facebook was killing people with misinformation, but now he says he didn't mean for Facebook to "take it personally."

It's true that Facebook does not originate the disinformation. What Facebook does is tune its algorithms so that many useds see the disinformation after the 12 originators post it.

Facebook can't take anything personally, since it is not a person. A corporation is not a person, whatever the right-wing Supreme Court may say.

But since it is clear that Facebook is controlled personally by Zuckerberg, we could say that Zuckerberg is personally responsible for the decision to boost that disinformation. Zuckerberg ought to take it personally.