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Response to Roger Watson’s Article: Terrain Theory Terrorists

BY RACHEL NICOLL Roger Watson’s article ‘Terrain Theory Terrorists’ is disappointingly emotive, labelling terrain theory as nonsense and quoting Wikipedia’s opinion that terrain theory is an ‘obsolete variation’ of ‘germ theory denialism’. Just because one article in Wikipedia says something is a fact, does not make it so. Roger Watson also makes some very sweeping, but unsubstantiated, statements such as ‘But the….doctors who adhere to … Continue reading Response to Roger Watson’s Article: Terrain Theory Terrorists

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International

China’s Consumerist Virus

BY BERNADETTE SPOFFORTH Guest Writer Bernadette Spofforth on the West’s China dependencies China’s exploitation of consumerism is a virus, but we created it. I have many experiences of business in China, over 25 years in fact, from dealing with small family factories to multibillion-dollar factories; good ones, who at least attempt to follow ethical working practices, to ones that hide child workers before inspections. They … Continue reading China’s Consumerist Virus

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Health, Social Commentary

Sneezes & Sinophobia

BY ANASTASIA CHOO I am British-born Chinese. I am the second-generation daughter of Hong Kong immigrants who came over to the UK in the 1960’s and set up a successful business. My sisters and I grew up in leafy Hertfordshire and attended state schools where we were subjected to the occasional joke but didn’t suffer too badly from racism as people took us for who … Continue reading Sneezes & Sinophobia

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