Japanese police have arrested two Greenpeace activists for exposing a whale meat scandal involving the government-sponsored whaling programme. The two activists, Junichi Sato, 31, and Toru Suzuki, 41, are being investigated for allegedly stealing a box of whale meat which they presented as evidence.     Full Story…

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We’ve received good news about the ongoing campaign to protect the Amazon rainforest: the landmark two-year-old “soya moratorium”, brought about after we demonstrated that the rainforest was being cleared to make way for soya farming, has been extended for another year.     Full Story…

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Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. St. Martin’s Press, 1987.
There are a few books on my shelf that I can read any given number of times without being bored or impatient. One of these is And the Band Played On, a painstaking work of journalism that never feels […]

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…and his name is Edzard Ernst.
And here’s the reason why.
Anyone who can rile up homeopaths that much is my kind of guy.
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