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Julian Assange

553 weeks of deprivation of liberty for telling the truth

Valérie Tilman

Valérie Tilman est enseignante et philosophe

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Democracy and the common good: a matter for experts or for everyone?

La parole « experte » officielle a fait peu de cas des effets contre-productifs nombreux, en termes de santé globale des populations, qui ont découlé des mesures adoptées durantla crise sanitaire ; elle a conduit...

Mickomix

The Citizen University, independent and responsible?

En 1998 paraissait un Plaidoyer pour des universités citoyennes et responsables. Ses auteurs, le physicien et philosophe Georges Thill et la juriste Françoise Warrant, pointaient déjà l’éthique de l’expertise...

Christophe Nottet

There is no supreme scientific authority!

Ainsi, certains voudraient détenir l’autorité et le pouvoir de décréter ce qui est scientifique et ce qui ne l’est pas, qui est un scientifique de qualité et qui ne l’est pas. Une telle instance scientifique...

Distrust of experts selected by the authorities and certain media is not distrust of science

Today, we hear many politicians and scientists lamenting that the population does not have enough confidence in science and scientific expertise. The etymology of the word trust has links with faith, belief: is it...

Resistance and the right to self-defense

Chanic Dans la crise actuelle, tout n'est que violence. Violence faite à la réalité pour la travestir (statistiques et modèles biaisés, propagande). Violence faite aux mots pour les pervertir (« solidarité...

A disturbing draft decree to be voted on this Wednesday, February 2 in the Walloon Parliament

On Wednesday, February 2, 2022, a draft executive order regarding health promotion will be submitted for discussion and vote in the plenary session of the Walloon Parliament. This draft order has already been...

Debates in the House on mandatory vaccination and choice of experts: a travesty of democracy!

In a context where omicron dominates contaminations, where this variant is even less lethal than its predecessors (the omicron variant is 100 times less dangerous than H1N1), where it no longer saturates intensive...

The Covid-19 barometer: towards a shift in our values?

The mask has finally come off: phase 1, the only one that, according to the new Belgian Covid barometer, can give us back our freedom to breathe without a filter, to see people's faces again, to be with our loved...

Vaccines, patents and the commons in the age of Covid-19

In the pharmaceutical field, intellectual property, and in particular patents, have been the subject of much discussion for decades. While some argue that patents are indispensable incentives for pharmaceutical research,...

Mass vaccination against covid-19: the result of individual, free and informed consent?

Echoing the analyses of more and more scientists who question politicians and citizens about the risks linked to the new anti-covid 19 vaccines, despite the media vindictiveness they are subjected to on a daily basis,...

Censorship: the European Commission’s response to « non-authoritative » information

On June 10, 2020, the European authorities published a communication entitled " Combating misinformation about COVID-19 - Sorting out the facts ". Under the guise of " preserving democracy " and " protecting the...

Censorship: The European Commission’s response to « non-authoritative » information

The right to freedom of expression is an inherent right of democracy. This right is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the European Convention on Human Rights. It is therefore a fundamental...

Vaccination of teenagers and children: a more than questionable benefit/risk ratio!

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) found on Friday, May 28, 2021, that the benefit/risk ratio of Pfizer/BioNTech's covid vaccine was positive in children aged 12 to 15 years, particularly in children with conditions...

All is not yet lost

What kind of world do we live in? In a world in crisis, certainly. Sixth extinction, climate change, unprecedented land use change, disruption of the phosphorus and nitrogen cycles, ocean acidification: 4 out of...

The opinion of the Bioethics Committee on compulsory vaccination: one more step towards the dissolution of the ethics of fundamental rights

Part 1(see Part 2) The following text is a response to the Belgian Bioethics Advisory Committee following its position on mandatory vaccination. A brilliant rebuttal to this opinion is available here. Our text...

The opinion of the Bioethics Committee on compulsory vaccination: one more step towards the dissolution of the ethics of fundamental rights

Part 2(see Part 1) The arguments of the Bioethics Advisory Committee, built on a flawed scientific basis as shown in the first part of this text, are easily refutable. In the text below, we have refuted them one...

The question of side effects neglected in the debate on compulsory vaccination, despite scientific and citizen syntheses made available to the public!

Among the scientific and ethical reasons that oppose mandatory vaccination against covid-19, the question of side effects is an issue that is of equal interest to non-vaccinees who refuse the current vaccines as...