Great Britain, where I live, once prided itself on eccentricity, irreverence, and the right to say unpopular things. Today, people living in my country have been arrested over social media posts and other digital communications.
Technology was, visibly and audially, a force that was bringing about a metamorphosis on a grand scale. Needless to say, today we are witnessing another technological metamorphosis, arguably even more far-reaching than the one that Heidegger perceived with concern.
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If politicians are going to claim that social media is responsible for a public health crisis and use this as a pretext for requiring everyone to symbolically sacrifice liberty, it would be nice if there was stronger evidence to support the claim.
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When historians look back at this era of medicine, I hope they will be able to say that physicians had the wisdom to preserve the one innovation that never needed improving: the simple act of one human caring for another.
Freedom of speech is an integral aspect of freedom, grounded in the human capacity to adhere to truth through persuasion rather than imposition. While truth is objective and independent of the knowing subject, it can only be received by the subject freely.
This automation of human work poses a real existential crisis. Giving up these wonderful ritualistic habits that translate to being able to eat that day, or being with our loved ones, has lead us nowhere but isolated and dependent.
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Even with the creeping surveillance state, the government can’t fully implement programmable currency without authenticated identity on every transaction. Digital ID is the authentication layer, while CBDC is the currency that runs on top of it.
In public discourse surrounding AI, there often can be a lack of detail regarding what specifically we’re supposed to be afraid of. Sometimes it is not even clear what is meant by the term “AI.”
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Biotech is in the driver’s seat of global health and public health workers and the media know who butters their bread. Each public health worker who goes along with the narrative is part of the problem.
Physicians can define brain death. Legislatures can codify brain death. Courts can adjudicate brain death. None of them can fully explain life. The greatest physicians I have known understood that distinction. They recognized that wisdom begins where certainty ends.
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Maybe the biggest lesson from Leale’s story is that medicine was never just about technical skill. It was meant to include responsibility, sacrifice, judgment, and deep human connection. Those qualities used to define the profession.
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Predictably, Moderna has secured up to $60 million from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to accelerate development of an Ebola “vaccine” amid an ongoing outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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