Sustianble thinking

In recent years, medical science has faced numerous criticisms. Some critics claim " https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/current-affairs-politics/Selling-Sickness-Ray-Moynihan-argue</a>  that fictitious disease categories are being created, and existing ones broadened, for profit. Others https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-epidemic-of-false-claims/ " argue that the benefits of most new drugs are minimal and often exaggerated by clinical research

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Historically the sciences have always progressed faster than our morality. From the churche’s slow adjustment to a Copernican world to...

About the author: Dr Theo D Holtzhausen (BVSc PGDIpIntnlHlth) is a practicing vet and author Spheres of Perception ETHICAL CHALLENGES...

In the essay ‘ The Critic as Artist ’ (1891) the late Oscar Wilde wrote, that ‘to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the...

Contemplating a vegetarian life, the puppy eyes its colorful salad with skepticism. The veterinary field has traditionally held the view...

The human intellect—designed to improve our chances of survival where individual gain is of utmost importance. This rather simplistic...

Don't be a Cynic, be Wise! It has become inarguable that we live in an era of misinformation. Even the diehards now must accept that most...

AND conspiracy theories become more threatening than some of the balderdash coming from prominent political and business leaders, how can...

After almost 2 years in China it is good to be back in New Zealand with this short blog message: To my small circle of readers. Perhaps...

Currently in the scenic Xinjiang province in China. Almost impossible to enter here currently due to the Covid pan-epidemic. Foreigners...

It is important to understand that any attempt to set moral values and ethical rules and then to proceed to enforce them, is as immoral...

We should all  ask ourselves, is our survival and progress not dependent on an interlinked and progressive morality (more so than mere...

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Irrevocably, we have left the era where the main drive of natural science was to break down all lifeforms to their smallest biological...

Never before has the future for our species looked so grim and promising at the same time. Inevitably times have changed and we should...

There is so little consensus about so many issues today, and many appear to be so certain of their own concepts about what now appears to...

Letters from China, Nov 8, 2020 These are indeed unusual and confusing times. Roughly this bafflement has divided people into two groups...

Disparity as a ‘Moral Disease’, the cure must  come from Science:  Presentation Theo D Holtzhausen 26/6/2020 (@Global online conference,...

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