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The case for Ivermectin

What is the reason governments, including our own, are slow to act on this potential Covid-19 medicine, and aren’t we past the time where their reluctance could be justified?

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Sir David Attenborough pulls no punches

The iconic environmentalist reprimands humanity for its short-sightedness in his latest film

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Laws outside the law

New developments regarding ‘homo sacer’ and ‘bare life’ under pandemic conditions

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Will that which we called iBhayi by any other name sound as sweet?

The minister of sports, arts and culture and a committee have shown cultural amnesia in choosing Gqeberha and not iBhayi as Port Elizabeth’s new name

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Governments know most people obey — especially in a state of disaster

Is this a global re-run of the Milgram obedience and the Stanford prison experiments?

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The passive nihilism of the present age

Consumerism has turned us into the new proletariat while our devices have switched off our brains

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Good wins in American hospital series

New Amsterdam is a critique of neoliberal health care in the United States

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Science fiction’s warning against vaccine passports

The 1997 film Gattaca reflects the dangers of a surveillance state that discriminates against individuals who resist control

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They call it a pandemic. It isn’t

As Elon Musk says, Covid-19 ‘is something with a very low mortality rate and high contagion’

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Is the push for the vaccine a push too far?

In my opinion, there hasn’t been enough safety testing and I won’t be in the queue for a jab

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Don’t ever be too certain of who you are

Binary and linear thinking impoverishes the complexity of life

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Genesis and Plato’s Aristophanes in the Symposium

There are striking similarities between the two myths that both seek to explain aspects about humanity

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