Sasha Baron Cohen's keynote speech et the ADL Awards

If you do one thing this weekend to challenge the industrialised promotion of hate & bigotry - share this video https://t.co/sbDpCMstyW - worth watching in full #StartSpreadingLove #StopFundingHate

— Stop Funding Hate (@StopFundingHate) 23 November 2019

Please watch this magnificent speech to the end. Cohen is an educated, intelligent and impassioned speaker. He also brings some of his characters to illustrate his arguments.

Action Days countering Antisemitic Hate Speech

On the occasion of the Action Days countering Antisemitic Hate Speech, the No Hate Speech Movement is calling for civil society organisations, youth organisations and governmental institutions to join our efforts to counter the increasing antisemitic hate speech and to speak up for diversity and Human Rights as basic values of peaceful democratic culture.

Please join the Action Day by sharing this image on your social media channels and website.

I see no Russian trolls!

The weirdness continues.

This Russian account tweeted just once: a smear of ProPublica, that somehow got 23k RTs. pic.twitter.com/S4F1lsIJEz

— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) 25 August 2017

No Hate Speech Movement

"Hate speech, as defined by the Council of Europe, covers all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify racial hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism or other forms of hatred based on intolerance, including: intolerance expressed by aggressive nationalism and ethnocentrism, discrimination and hostility against minorities, migrants and people of immigrant origin."

(Don't read the comments to this on YouTube: they are of course mostly ignorant hate from the very bullies the movement seeks to reeducate).

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Objectives of the No Hate campaign

• To raise awareness about hate speech online and its risks for democracy and for individual young people, and promoting media and Internet literacy;
• To support young people in standing up for human rights, online and offline;
• To reduce the levels of acceptance of online hate speech;
• To mobilise, train and network online youth activists for human rights;
• To map hate speech online and develop tools for constructive responses;
• To support and show solidarity to people and groups targeted by hate speech online;
• To advocate for the development and consensus on European policy instruments combating hate speech;
• To develop youth participation and citizenship online.

The official site of the No Hate Speech Movement is here.

You'll also find the latest posts on their site in the FEEDS section of this blog.

The most important paper I ever published | Edzard Ernst

WARNING: THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

My first ever scientific paper, a spin-off from my MD thesis, was published exactly 40 years ago. Since then, I have written many more articles. Readers of this blog might think that they are all on alternative medicine, but that is not the case. My most cited paper is (I think) one which combined my research in haemorheology with that in epidemiology. Yet, I would not consider it to be my most important article.

So, what is my most important publication?

It is one that relates to the history of medicine.

How come?

In 1990, I was appointed as chair of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Vienna. On the occasion of the official opening of the new 2000-bed university hospital in Vienna, I was asked to say a few words and thought that a review of the history of my department might be a fitting subject. But I was wrong. What I discovered while researching it turned out to be totally unfitting for the event; in fact, it contributed to my decision to leave Vienna in 1993. I did, however, summarize my findings in an article – and it is this paper that I consider my most important publication. Here is its abstract:

Misguided by the notion that the decline of the German race would be prevented by purifying “Aryan blood”...

Read on: The most important paper I ever published

Normalisation of extremism - David Colquhoun

I put some thoughts about normalisation of extremists on my FB page pic.twitter.com/6gVkMEZUSi

— David Colquhoun (@david_colquhoun) 15 November 2016