Pfizer admits 'engineering' Covid mutants to ensure its antiviral drug works on new variants . I am not too critical of this. The more we know about what the virus can do, the better. But they should probably have sought some form of approval for the work
A Tasmanian tribunal has rejected the right of same-sex attracted people to hold social functions that exclude transgender people. This gets crazier and crazier
https://t.co/w9gdSpvGYw
Living in a leafy place makes you healthier (?) How do we know that the causal arrow is not reversed? Could healthier people be better able to move into leafy areas? https://t.co/xk2QTFDYFY
Judge admits a plague of domestic violence towards Indigenous women. Aboriginal men are hard on their women and children. I have seen it myself
https://t.co/TQjpKCOOYQ
The debt horror that will cripple Australian Federal government spending: A big chunk of tax money will go to pay banks and bond-holders
https://t.co/KnqdKPvJhU
Amnesty International UK is ‘colonialist and institutionally racist’, damning inquiry concludes
About 40 years ago I joined Amnesty because of the work they did helping victims of dictatorships. When I saw instances of anti-semitism among them, I resigned, however.
Are Video Games Harmful or Will They Make Your Kids Very Intelligent? There was a big debate about this in 2009. See <a href="https://t.co/xTFt0CEM5U">here</a>. Computer games were generally found to be beneficial
Turnbull backs "teals": They are "independents" who claim to be conservatives while actually being rabid Greenies. Turnbull was himself a fake conservative during his time in office
https://t.co/FSW7Aa4jPM
<b>The Power of One Man over a Slavish People</b>
Jon N. Hall says that Putin has power because of the character of the Russian people. So Napoleon ruled because of the character of the French people? That is clearly too simplistic.
https://t.co/bsYHnPbQf1
If you read the research reports that purport to discredit Ivermectin, you find that NONE of them observed the stipulation that it must be administered as soon as possible after illness onset. A typical interval in the studies concerned is 5 days. https://t.co/7B6KqCUFqh
I used to let to single mothers as I love kids but I eventually had to stop renting to them. They were often "broke" and unable to pay their rent. Very sad but they were no good to me. There is no reason why I should pay for other people's mistakes
https://t.co/19xqxvtjvC