The failure to report accurately on the Trump-Russia saga for the four years of the Trump presidency is bad enough. Worse, major media organizations, which produced thousands of stories and reports that were false, refuse to engage in a serious postmortem.

For farmers, few examples of those corporate constraints are more frustrating than repair restrictions and patent rights that prevent them from saving seeds from their own crops for future planting.

Beware overtures to ‘personal responsibility’ for the response to COVID, at either the individual or national level. They may be used to deflect from corruption.

Most people think of ignorance as the absence of knowledge. Proctor and others in the field of agnotology argue the opposite — that ignorance is socially constructed in the same way that knowledge is.

Westerners once endlessly propagandized “freedom” as the ultimate democratic virtue. Now, in fear of revolt, the leaders of these countries are mounting an opposite campaign.

The WHO posted a video on Twitter featuring Hotez, in which he refers to vaccine safety advocates as “anti-science aggressors” and claims “anti-vaccine activism” has become “a major killing force globally.”

Producing loyal and passive citizens is something our schools do pretty well. The uncritical thinking aspect of this goal serves a purpose and puts in doubt the place of critical thinking in any national curriculum. A nation of critical thinkers would be a dangerous thing.

Seeds coated in pesticides led to the town becoming a virtual Superfund site, but it is astoundingly common for these seeds to be used to grow our food.