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Tag: George Orwell
Political Thalidomide: The Deliberate Corruption of Science and State
The Bitter Pill In the late 1950s, a German pharmaceutical company, Chemie Grünenthal, executed a masterful market strategy. It launched a new sedative, thalidomide, as a "wonder drug" for anxiety, insomnia, and, most lucratively, morning sickness. The public was assured it was so astonishingly safe it could be sold without…
Orwell’s Ghost in Jerusalem: The Willful Blindness of a Nation at War
In the grim spring of 1942, with the world tearing itself apart, George Orwell made a chilling observation in his diary. He was reacting to a piece of what he called “stupid” Fascist Italian propaganda which claimed that life in England was so dire the country was on the verge…