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If someone asked you to think of a well-known conspiracy theory, which would be the first one that came to mind? Well, there are plenty of silly ideas floating around the cybersphere nowadays. And sad to say, the rise of the internet has been accompanied with a rise in antisemitic and anti-Israel propaganda; rather than in a salutary remission of this longstanding ideological cancer of Jew-hatred. However, the utter ubiquity of conspiratorial thinking as part of the darker underbelly of human nature means that Israel, just like any other country, has not been found entirely immune to this pro...

The US president has proposed waiving patents on Covid-19 vaccines in a bid to boost global supply. But it won’t work on its own terms and holds dangers for the future.

Ian Hanomansing speaks to two people who were some the first in the world to get their COVID-19 shot. Tom Chivers and Kristen Choi explain why they chose to take part in clinical trials in London and Los Angeles almost a year ago, and their message today for those still feeling hesitant.

Print this article President Joe Biden speaks as he tours a Pfizer manufacturing plant producing the coronavirus vaccine in Kalamazoo, Mich., February 19, 2021. (Tom Brenner
/Reuters) The week of May 3: waiving the COVID-19 vaccines’ intellectual-property protections, disappointing jobs numbers, and much, much more. Just in case its tax plans were not evidence enough that the Biden administration has little understanding of the value of incentives, its proposal that intellectual-property protections should be waived in the case of COVID-19 vaccines bolste...

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