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Online, there appear to be many like him, and worse. Among pictures of cats dozing on window sills looking onto neat gardens, German “Biedermänner” (and “Bieder-frauen”) are indulging in violent fantasies of “rebuilding” concentration camps, of killing immigrants with hand grenades, axes, flames.
The New Face of Racism in Germany - The New York Times
Anna Sauerbrey
If such a thing as a “purely objective” historian could exist, his work would be unreadable—like eating sawdust. Bias is only misleading when it is concealed.
Practicing History
Barbara W. Tuchman
As is standard practice, we asked all women of childbearing age to use effective contraception during our trials, and then tested them before each vaccination to make sure that they were not pregnant. We therefore did not expect any pregnancies in our trial participants, and did not expect to be able to get any information from our trial about the effects of the vaccine on fertility. However, because real life doesn’t always go as planned, there have been quite a few pregnancies during the trials. These have been evenly split between the vaccine group and the placebo group. If the vaccine really did affect fertility, we would have seen fewer pregnancies in the vaccine group. The claim that vaccines would affect fertility worried many people, but it is completely false.
Vaxxers
Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green
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