by Monty Self | Nov 9, 2020 | Opinion
The speed at which technological advances are happening causes us to take them for granted. We act like we have always had access to the internet, a smart phone at our fingertips and advanced, cutting-edge health care processes and equipment. Rarely do we stop and...
by Monty Self | Nov 2, 2020 | Opinion
The University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) announced on Oct. 26 that it would repurpose its Genealogical Eugenics Institute Fund. According to the school, the fund was originally a private trust set up in 1960. By 1975, the trust was transferred to the...
by Monty Self | Sep 24, 2020 | Opinion
A whistleblower complaint was filed against immigration officials at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, according to a Sept. 14 Associated Press report. Dawn Wooten, a former nurse at the facility, asserts in the complaint that women were receiving...
by Monty Self | Apr 29, 2020 | Opinion
Thirty-five members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 20 requesting that the FDA streamline the approval process for the development of COVID-19 vaccines. “We write to assure you that Congress...
by Monty Self | Apr 28, 2020 | Opinion
The modern history of immunizations goes back to Dr. Edward Jenner. On May 14, 1796, Jenner took samples from the lesions of a dairymaid who was infected with cowpox and attempted to inoculate an 8-year-old boy. The boy suffered mild fever and body aches. Nine days...