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The real story of 'The Old Guard'

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Analysis Science apoliticism Charlize Theron compassion fatigue Enrico Fermi history of science human experimentation medical experimentation medical imperialism medical research Netflix Paul Feyerabend profiteering rationalism The Old Guard violence

Spoiler alert: Don't read this post if you intend to watch The Old Guard but haven't done so yet. The Old Guard, an action film starring Charlize Theron among others, released on Netflix on J…

Partial review: 'Hitler's Circle of Evil' (2018)

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Culture Adolf Hitler Berchtesgaden Berghof Ernst Rohm fascism Heinrich Himmler Hermann Göring interwar Germany Joseph Goebbels lebensraum Martin Bormann Mein Kampf Nazi Party Nazism Netflix Reinhard Heydrich Rudolph Hess Second World War Third Reich World War II Hitler's Circle of Evil

Hitler's Circle of Evil is a documentary series on Netflix that narrates the lives and actions of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, leading up to and during the Second World War. This is a partial…

Free speech at the outer limits

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Op-eds Scicomm boycott Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1964 Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 climate change Constitution of India free speech freedom of speech Goop Gwyneth Paltrow Laurie Penny Leonid Teytelman Netflix protest reproducibility crisis Tripura high court Wall Street Journal

On January 12, Peter W. Wood, president of an American organisation called the National Association of Scholars (NAS), wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal against attempts by one individual to p…