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Scientist Rebellion.
Relatively new in the trenches is ‘Scientist Rebellion’, an organisation that kicked off with a few physicists chucking green paint on the doors of the Royal Society. They are a welcome addition to the fight for action. Copied and pasted from their website, and I’m sure they won’t mind, is the ‘who we are’ statement …
Foucault, Tunisian Boys, and the Amazon Forest.
A recent article that caught my attention is a piece published on the al Jazeera website in which a Tunisian academic alleges Michel Foucault (French philosopher) had relations with prepubescent Tunisian children during the time he lived there in the sixties. No argument that North Africa was a popular destination with western sex-tourists, just read …
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Drunk soldiers behaving badly?
Announced as shocking beyond anything Australian audiences would have heard before, Channel Nine yesterday evening ran a story on how a highly decorated veteran of the Afghan conflict is allegedly not a choirboy. The most serious allegation was of the unlawful killing of an Afghan civilian, the rest was footage of soldiers partying like a …