[Full PDF of report is available below] Private Interest and the Development of Pandemic Policy Public health messaging should provide accurate information so that the public and their leadership can formulate appropriate responses, weighed against society’s competing priorities. Planning for the future requires scarce resources to be concentrated on areas of greatest need and with […]
Posts Tagged ‘evaluate’
Disease-X and Davos: This is Not the Way to Evaluate and Formulate Public Health Policy
US Lawmakers to Introduce Legislation on Commission to Evaluate Trump’s Mental Capacity
October 9, 2020 US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-CA] and Maryland Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin announced on Thursday they would be introducing legislation to establish a commission charged with evaluating US President Donald Trump’s mental and physical capacity to hold office. Pelosi and Raskin said they would hold a press conference on Friday announcing introduction […]
Warner Bros. Produce’s Danish Children’s TV Show Asking Kids To Evaluate Naked Adult Bodies
A Danish TV show for children is asking young kids aged 7-14 to comment on naked adult bodies, stirring controversy. The program, “Ultra Strips Down,” puts a live audience of children in front of naked adults to “encourage body positivity,” as explained by the show’s producers to the New York Times. The program is seen on DR, […]
‘Inconsistency & cowardice’: German activists decry Merkel’s collaboration with ‘despot Erdogan’
Gathered outside the seat of the Chancellor, demonstrators wielding Kurdish flags and banners were addressed by Bruno Kramm, the head of the Berlin branch of Germany’s Pirate Party. “Human rights, Mrs Merkel, are not up for negotiation. We are angry because you appoint a dictator as an accomplice due to your own lack of ideas, […]
BEST OF THE WEB: Turkey’s war against the Kurds (part 2): Power, terror, and the pretext for war
The Rejection of Peace Turkey’s war against its Kurdish population in its current iteration is as much about Erdogan and the Turkish power structures consolidating and maintaining their power as is their crackdown against journalism. It has not been waged as a war to protect Turkish civilians from Kurdish insurgents but instead as a […]