An exploration of the intersection between Covid-19 and mental health. The waves of two crises crash together, and the impact can already be measured by looking at suicides in the Toronto subway system.
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The Arsenal. Diego Rivera.
Lessons of a Scab — Divide-and-Conquer at the University of Windsor
A personal tale of working class betrayal sets the stage for a discussion of the divide-and-conquer strategy employed by the capitalist class.
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Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston loch. Sir Henry Raeburn.
In Search of Scientific Truth
Does objective truth exist? Can humans ever uncover it? With a focus on my recent publication on oxygen-sensing proteins, concepts of Truth — qualitative and quantitative, discrete and continuous — are explored and critiqued.
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La Gare de l’Est. Maximilien Luce
The Virology of Capitalism
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, socialists insist that “Capitalism is the Virus!” Capitalist systems promote the material conditions to promote pandemics and other widespread health problems. Austerity drives malnutrition and susceptibility to pestilence, and the profit-motive leads to inappropriate usage of antibiotics. We must inoculate ourselves against corporate propaganda and wipe the system of exploitation and oppression off the face of the earth.
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Les batteurs de pieux. Maximilien Luce.
Hierarchical Science and a Historical Hatred of Labour
From Plato to Salk, scientific institutions revel in the people that think rather than the people that do. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that contemporary science is incredibly hierarchical; the trainees, technicians, and postdocs that perform valuable work are left destitute and anonymous while accolades and a living wage are lavished on the principal investigators who sit on top of the pyramid.
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