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Photography- The American tabacco company Philip Morris decided to sue Uruguay for $2.000.000.000 (damage compensation). Because Uruguay is a nation strongly opposed to smoking, and was among the first to ban public smoking entirely (2006). President Tabaré Vázquez is an oncologist and probably knows quite well what he’s doing.
In Germany, the amounts of cigarettes smoked per year has been reduced by 40% within the last 10 years. It looks like they are becoming desperate. - There is a group called “Homeopaths without Borders” – and they are giving away placebos in Africa: against Malaria.
- A package of 500 Aspirin pills costs $3 in the States. In Germany, we pay €3 for 10 pills. That’s over 5000% more expensive. I’m getting tired of this system. (via Fefe)
- In German pharmacies, they sell beer now. Of course, it is not properly marked to be beer, but a relaxing well-being and balance drink.
- Some years ago, the German government (consisting of the green party and the social democrats) initiated that all nuclear energy was to be stopped 2020. Our current government removed this law again, against the will of a major part of the people in Germany. After Fukushima, they lost plenty of votes in regional elections, and now celebrate the “energy turn” because they want to end nuclear energy 2022 in Germany. How can they possibly do that without losing 100% of their voters? How can you say A against massive protests and then a couple of months later decide to go for B and celebrate it as your own idea? Bah, that makes me a sad panda.
- More and more esoteric stuff is offered at German Universities. Can we please keep this out of the sciences? Read the article, it’s a good one.
June 1st, 2011
June 1st, 2011 at 11:07
They don’t sell the beer anymore:
“Hinweis der Redaktion: Die im Text beschriebenen Produkte der Karlsberg Brauerei werden inzwischen nicht mehr vertrieben.”
June 1st, 2011 at 18:32
That’s something, I guess.
June 1st, 2011 at 23:13
But you could add catholic doctors curing homosexuality with homeopathy: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/0,1518,766184,00.html
June 2nd, 2011 at 02:21
I did link this on facebook. Was too lazy to implement it here ô_ô