Yikes: The Brave New World of Genetically Modified People

Tessa Lena This story is about the hubris of conquest and genetic modification. Let’s start with the ugly. The richest people of the world, as well as their loyal servants from the World Economic Forum, are on the Genetic Modi cation team. According to the World Economic Forum, “the evolution of gene testing and gene […]

The Manifesto of Biourbanism

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Robin Monotti Graziadei The following manifesto, or more precisely the following principles for an applied biourbanism were agreed on the closing day of the 4th International Society of Biourbanism Summer School which was held in Artena, Italy, between July 13th and July 20th 2019.

Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats

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Results from the 2021 Tabletop Exercise Conducted in Partnership with the Munich Security Conference Jaime M. Yassif, Kevin P. O’Prey, Christopher R. Isaac In March 2021, NTI [Nuclear Threat Initiative] partnered with the Munich Security Conference to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. e exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity […]

The Corruption of the World Health Organization

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David Bell ‘Global Health’ is confusing. A few short years ago community participation, disease burden, resource allocation and human rights dominated its decision-making processes. Causes such as improving childhood nutrition, empowering minorities and protecting girls from enslavement and mutilation were acceptable battles to fight. Here we are in 2022: Coercion, exclusion, impoverishment and big business […]

Mandatory Vaccinations, the Segregation of Citizens and Promotion of Inequality in the Modern Democracy of Greece and Other Democratic Countries. Is It Ethical for the Scientific Community to “Enforce” or Silently Back-up Such Policies?

Charalampos Mavridis, Georgios Aidonidis, Athanasios Kalogeridis During the COVID-19 pandemic, Greek authorities enforced a vaccination mandate for healthcare workers (HCWs), and “social occlusion” of the unvaccinated citizens in general. At the same time, multiple concerns have been raised about the epidemiological profile of Greece, the condition of public health, the ethical status of segregation policies […]

WHO Wants to Censor Infodemic “Misinformation” with Pandemic Treaty

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Keean Bexte A World Health Organization White Paper advocating for expanding WHO powers through the pandemic treaty puts tackling “infodemic” COVID “misinformation” at the top of their list. Under the guise of “Community protection,” the WHO writes, “Infodemic of COVID-19 misinformation – often combined with ineffective and inconsistent risk communication and public health messaging – eroded public trust in […]