Articles by The Sydney Morning Herald
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‘Cannot Be Trusted … Causing Harm’: Top Medical Journal Takes on Big Pharma
Liam Mannix – The Sydney Morning Herald,
23 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – A leading medical journal is launching a global campaign to separate medicine from big pharma. The BMJ says doctors are being unduly influenced by industry-sponsored education events and industry-funded trials for major drugs. Those trials cannot be trusted, the journal’s editor and a team of global healthcare leaders write in a scathing editorial published today.
→ read full articleDalai Lama Adds Voice to Pope’s in Calling for the Persecution of Rohingya to End
Lindsay Murdoch | People’s Tribunal on Myanmar – The Sydney Morning Herald,
6 Mar 2017
3 Mar 2017 – The Dalai Lama has joined Pope Francis in calling for Myanmar Buddhists to end violence against Rohingya Muslims in what the United Nations says amounts to ethnic cleansing and possibly crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleWorld Wide Fund for Nature Says Nearly Half the World’s Marine Animals Wiped Out in Single Generation
Lucy Cormack – The Sydney Morning Herald,
21 Sep 2015
17 Sep 2015 – Humanity’s mismanagement of the ocean has led to the loss of almost half the world’s marine mammals, birds, reptiles and fish in a single generation, a World Wide Fund for Nature report says.
→ read full articleInternational Court of Justice Upholds Australia’s Bid to Ban Japanese Whaling in Antarctica
Andrew Darby – The Sydney Morning Herald,
31 Mar 2014
31 Mar 2014 – The International Court of Justice president Peter Tomka said the court concluded the scientific permits granted by Japan for its whaling program were not scientific research as defined under International Whaling Commission rules. The ICJ’s judgements are binding and cannot be appealed.
→ read full articleTom Daley Reveals He’s In a Relationship with a Man
The Sydney Morning Herald – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
British diving star Tom Daley said Monday [2 Dec 2013] he was in a relationship with a man but that he still “fancied” girls as he became the latest sports star to make a public declaration regarding their sexuality. The 19-year-old, a bronze medallist at last year’s London Olympics and one of the faces used in the pre-Games publicity, made the announcement in a YouTube clip.
→ read full articleMyanmar: Rohingya Two-Child Policy Talk Draws Outcry
Lindsay Murdoch – The Sydney Morning Herald,
3 Jun 2013
A move to revive a two-child limit on Muslim Rohingya in western Myanmar has provoked widespread outrage including from the country’s opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The ban does not apply to majority Buddhists, officials said, prompting accusations of ethnic cleansing.
→ read full articleWe Have Created a World of ‘Civilised Savages’
Hussein Tahiri – The Sydney Morning Herald,
14 Jan 2013
Civilisation is about collective humanity, caring, forgiveness, respect and love for one’s kind in which advanced culture, industry and technology are employed to achieve this purpose. Alas, a brief look at the way we human beings conduct ourselves entitles us to be seen as no more than ”civilised savages” who have achieved modernity without the underlying moral compass of civilisation itself.
→ read full articleHuman Corpses Harvested in Multimillion-Dollar Trade
Kate Willson, Vlad Lavrov, Martina Keller, Thomas Maier and Gerard Ryle - The Sydney Morning Herald,
23 Jul 2012
A grisly trade in human body parts leaves relatives grieving and some recipients at risk of life-threatening disease. On February 24 [2012], Ukrainian authorities made an alarming discovery: bones and other human tissues crammed into coolers in a grimy white minibus.
→ read full articleFaceBook’s Privacy Lie: Aussie Exposes ‘Tracking’ As New Patent Uncovered
Asher Moses – The Sydney Morning Herald,
10 Oct 2011
Facebook’s assurances that “we have no interest in tracking people” have been laid bare by a new Facebook patent, dated this month, that describes a method “for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain”. Nik Cubrilovic’s blog post, which revealed that tracking cookies monitor Facebook users whenever they surf websites with a Facebook ‘like’ button, has led to political outrage in the US and Europe.
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