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Having the activists on his side helped Fauci in another, more tangible way—the harder they pushed for funding, the bigger his research budgets became. In 1984, when he took over the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, it was the fifth-largest of the NIH’s departments, with a budget of $320 million. By 2005, its budget had incre

I learn that First Draft was founded in the United Kingdom in 2015 with primary backing from Google. The executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is Hillary backer Eric Schmidt. Alphabet was Hillary’s second-largest campaign contributor. According to internal campaign emails, Google offered up use of its jet to Clinton during her ca

En su libro Propaganda (1928) había escrito esta frase profética por la que, en cierto modo, pasaría a la posteridad: «La consciente e inteligente manipulación de los hábitos organizados y las opiniones de las masas es un elemento importante de la sociedad democrática. Quienes manipulan este desconocido mecanismo de la sociedad constituyen un gobie

Money is as much a social construct as it is a government one. Together, we must make sure that the values that are enshrined today in the US dollar and the currencies of other democracies—values like individual liberty, freedom of speech, personal privacy, free enterprise, and the rule of law—are encoded in the digital money of the future.

Reality is a moving target because it is affected by our understanding.

By late 2017, Berkeley had replaced Oxford as the financial capital of effective altruism. One reason for this was that Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna, signaled their intent to give away most of their multibillion-dollar fortune to effective altruist causes—but there were others. Oxford was still the movement’s intellec