How Big Tobacco Corrupts Science
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Complete video at http://fora.tv/2012/03/02/Does_Corporate_Funding_Corrupt_Science Robert Proctor, Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, explains ways in which the tobacco industry has manipulated science. Proctor argues that tobacco-friendly scientific research was "mounting a gigantic confusion campaign." ---- Some 65%... Read more
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- -: How Big Tobacco Corrupts Science
March 13, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Complete video at http://fora.tv/2012/03/02/Does_Corporate_Funding_Corrupt_Science Robert Proctor, Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, explains ways in which the tobacco industry has manipulated science. Proctor argues that tobacco-friendly scientific research was "mounti...
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- -: Stephen Coleman: The moral dangers of non-lethal weapons
February 7, 2012 (about 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Pepper spray and tasers are in increasing use by both police and military, and more exotic non-lethal weapons such as heat rays are in the works. At TEDxCanberra, ethicist Stephen Coleman explores the unexpected consequences of their introduction and asks some challenging quest...
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- -: Lessig: 'Money Buys Results in Congress'
February 4, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2012/01/17/How_Money_Corrupts_Congress_and_a_Plan_to_Stop_It Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford University, points out a fact that we all know: Congress has been corrupted by money. Government distrust has led to abysmal Congressional approval ratings...
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- -: TEDxYouth@Chennai - BLAAZE - The Power of Words
December 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Rap Artist And Playback Singer Blaaze (born Lakshmi Narasimha Vijaya Rajagopal Seshadri Sharma Rajesh Raman) is a rap artist and a popular playback singer in Indian films. Born in Chennai and later raised in Zambia, educated in England and graduated from United States, he started performing brea...
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- -: Gabriel Byrne Praises Irish PM for Speaking Against the Vatican
December 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/12/11/James_X_Talkback_with_Mannix_Flynn_and_Gabriel_Byrne Gabriel Byrne, director of "James X," a play about sexual abuse in the Irish Catholic church, commends Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny for speaking out against the Vatican, an act that resulted in t...
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- -: George Ayittey: Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa's future
August 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Ghanaian economist George Ayittey unleashes a torrent of controlled anger toward corrupt leaders in Africa -- and calls on the Cheetah generation to take back the continent. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where th...
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- -: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How to help Africa? Do business there
April 15, 2008 (about 16 years ago)http://www.ted.com Negative images of Africa dominate the news: famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Finance Minister of Nigeria and now a director of the World Bank, says there's a less-told story unfolding in many African nations: one of reform, econ...
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- -: Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Some of the world's most baffling social problems, says Peter Eigen, can be traced to systematic, pervasive government corruption, hand-in-glove with global companies. At TEDxBerlin, Eigen describes the thrilling counter-attack led by his organization Transparency International...
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- -: Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks
July 19, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished -- and what...
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- -: Culture of Corruption
November 8, 2006 (over 17 years ago)A series of clips featuring Democrats talking about the Culture of Corruption
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