Pfizer is accused of price gouging on its Covid-19 treatment, Paxlovid.

I criticize this articles for using misleading terms, such as "global south" which is a progressive PR campaign whose spirit is laudable but whose specifics are misleading.

"Intellectual property" is a PR campaign for giving various businesses various special privileges. Lumping those privileges together is an obstacle to thinking clearly about the specific harms of each one, and judging against them any supposed benefits are each one. I have taught myself never to use that term in my thinking, my speaking, and my writing.