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David Bell

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David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and Director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, WA, USA.

Vaccines and the length of our lives

The commercial imperative to extract money from human bodies is playing havoc with medical education, and the body of knowledge through which the medical...

The right to speak evil

Words can harm. The childhood saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” is obviously untrue. Words bring ruin...

Farms of all sizes feed the world

We live in a world where oligarchs accumulate land, use their media assets to denigrate natural foods, and invest in fake alternatives. On the other...

The WHO takes another step towards the pit

Last week, amid fanfare from both advocates and opponents of centralization of future pandemic management, the world continued its unfortunate stumble back to old-fashioned...

Tedros must face reality

It would be easier to ignore the World Health Assembly’s (WHA) deliberations in Geneva this week, but the opening address of the Director-General, Tedros...

Pandemics: A business opportunity

Relax for a few minutes, sit back, and pretend morals and business ethics are redundant. Then imagine an infallible, risk-free business scheme in which you...

The WHO Pandemic Agreement: A guide

The World Health Organization (WHO) and its 194 Member States have been engaged for over two years in the development of two ‘instruments’ or...

The cruelty of modern death

Progress involves improving on the past. Once, we used leeches to suck out an excess of cancer-causing humors, or just blamed them on the wrath...

The painless extinction of formerly free Australia

The Demise of Frogs If you place a frog in cool water and slowly raise the temperature, it’s said that you can boil it without...

The WHO, the UN, and the Reality of Human Greed

The World Health Organization (WHO) is not plotting to take over the world. We need to remember what it is; an organization of fairly ordinary...

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