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In the United Kingdom, the National Health Service (NHS) is nothing short of a national treasure, a symbol of the country's commitment to universal healthcare.
Abortion is not an election issue in Australia and non-libertarians rarely debate it. Yet Australian libertarians, who take their debating cues from America, repeatedly clash over it.
Consequently, the pro-life movement needs to learn enough basic climate science to be able to show that the climate scare is unjustified - it is not based on empirical evidence.
Of course, there is no completely foolproof way to ensure that disturbed and deranged people can never inveigle themselves into situations where they can perpetrate harm.
The government must consider that many prominent journal editors have drawn attention to the pervasive influence of financial conflicts of interest on the reliability of research findings.
Under the United Nations system there is a high-level committee on South-South cooperation. It has a mandate to support South-South and triangular cooperation...
The precautionary principle says that if the consequences of an event happening are possibly catastrophic, you are justified in taking all actions to stop that event before you have fully assessed either the risk or the probable size of the consequences.
