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skulls The Antikamnia Chemical Company Promoted Its "Cures" in the 1890s with skeleton imagery Popkin
drugs 10 reasons why you should smoke cocaine-infused cigarettes Mark Frauenfelder
noir Take a lurid look at LA noir Bob Knetzger
health Big Pharma's origin: how the Chicago School and private equity shifted medicine's focus from health to wealth Cory Doctorow
Business As Canada-US trade-war draws nigh, so does the threat to nationalise US pharma patents Cory Doctorow
Business Former Obama trade official teams up with Trump to create highly profitable TB epidemics in poor countries Cory Doctorow
Copyfight The Open Revolution: the vital struggle of open vs closed, free vs unfree Rufus Pollock
Science Goldman Sachs report: "Is curing patients a sustainable business model?" Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Copycamp is returning to Warsaw, and wants your papers on "How exclusive rights affect real life" Cory Doctorow
Health Care The current state of American healthcare Matthew B.J. Delaney
videos New Zealand's Prime Minister: I'll stay in TPP's economic suicide-pact even if the USA pulls out Cory Doctorow
Business Pharma company offers $1/dose version of hedge-fund douchenozzle's drug Cory Doctorow
Business Former IMF chief economist on the problems with TPP Cory Doctorow
Copyfight US trade rep demands end to other nations' healthcare, privacy rules, food labelling… Cory Doctorow
Kids As kids' accidental ODs rise, FDA still won't mandate flow restrictors in medicine bottles Cory Doctorow
Science Snake Oil's secret ingredients David Pescovitz
Copyfight Canadians: write to Parliament about keeping generic pharma available to poor countries Cory Doctorow
happy mutants HG Wells's "Tono-Bungay," a memoir about quack remedies, as a free audiobook Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Over 100 NGOs ask WIPO to postpone secretive South Africa meeting Cory Doctorow
politics Killing Bill C-393 equals killing period. A visual aid for Canadian politicians. David Ng