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PFAS and pancreatic cancer

mardi 16 juillet 2019 à 02:00

PFAS appears to cause pancreatic cancer even at a very low concentration, about 1/700 of the current maximum level in drinking water.

Heathrow Airport expansion plans

mardi 16 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Heathrow's Expansion Plans Make a Mockery of the Zero Emissions Strategy. We need to cut down on flights, not increase them.

School meals

mardi 16 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Many public schools in the US publicly humiliate children whose families have not paid for school lunch.

No family should have to pay for school meals, unless perhaps one so wealthy that the fee is nothing to it. The cost should be paid out of general tax revenue, funded by a progressive income tax, so that the poor don't have to pay anything.

However, I see a deeper and bigger issue here: how can we teach children from poor families not to feel ashamed of this? Children are not responsible for their families' fortunes, but even the adults should not feel ashamed of getting bad breaks.

Having views on controversial questions

mardi 16 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Academics should not be fired for stating controversial views about gender issues in the abstract.

We must distinguish having views on controversial questions from discrimination.

Trademark extortion

mardi 16 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Yosemite national park paid a ransom to recover the right to use the traditional names for hotels and other activities, which had been seized by a trademark extortionist.

The article spreads confusion between trademark law and several other laws by using the overgeneralization "intellectual property" to refer to trademarks. Please don't ever use that term.