The electric chair, psychiatric electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and the death penalty
On 6 August 1890, a form of execution called the electric chair was used for the first time in the United States.…
Antidepressants and mental health, a damn billion-dollar business
The consumption of antidepressants keeps increasing in a world that looks easier for the pill than for finding the actual problem and…
Antidepressants and mental health, a bloody multi-million dollar business
Antidepressant use continues to rise in a world that seems easier on the pill than on finding the real problem and solving…
Corruption, a lucrative business for the pharmaceutical industries
pharmaceutical - In August 2013, three months after Xi Jinping entered the Chinese government, a corruption scandal broke out in the national…
Religious terrorism, the Kenyan sect and the West
More than 100 bodies were found this past April in the Shakahola Forest in southern Kenya, another form of religious terrorism.