as amazing as this woman is, this story highlights how capitalism dictates the direction of research. this and other potentially lifesaving treatments are viewed in terms of their monetary output rather than their scientific merit.
Imagine a world where we said, what’s going on with the children? So many of them are angry and distressed after school. So many of them are shut in their bedrooms. So many of them are anxious and unhappy. So many of them disillusioned at 15. 1;
The absolute number of votes Ford got went down from 2.3 to 1.8 million. He's less popular. But the lowest-ever voter turnount in Ontario shows that it's not enough to tell people to vote against something, they need something to vote FOR. #onpoli#ONelxn#OntarioVotes
We are literally living in a time where we’re being forced to have children, rent going up $600+, people refusing to go to the hospital to seek attention because of the price of medical bills, and gas about to hit $6 a gallon. + food is still trash, pandemic still alive.
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A recent safety report by Pfizer has been seized upon by misinformers. There’s nothing particularly new or scary about it, despite the #Pfizer#VaccineSideEffects hashtags circulating online.
Let’s dig in on how this data has been misrepresented 👇
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#ScienceUpFirst
Today marks the anniversary of one of the bravest episodes in working-class history: the Februaristaking (February Strike)
On this day in 1941, a general strike of hundreds of thousands of workers erupted in Nazi-occupied Netherlands against the deportation of the Jews. (1/9)
The real issues here being the fact that the scientific community, while (fortunately) willing, is having to find loopholes to sharing know-how on life-saving vaccines because … to summarize bluntly … capitalism.
Anyway love to see Afrigen making things happen 🙏🏼
You can be pro-vaccine & pro-pharmaceutical medicines and still be skeptical of pharmaceutical *companies*
If you want to see credible scientists standing up to pharma companies, this article is full of them. Binary rhetoric = distraction from real issues https://t.co/RudJ85czcG
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