Norberto Keppe Archives - Page 11 of 11

20Nov

Media Literacy

The trend is alarming - the media is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands every day it seems. And the owners are the same big guys who chum around on boards and in secret clubs with the big money industries that get all the favorable press coverage. The influence on our information consumption is ghastly.

04Nov

Controlling our Food

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

It should be a sacred thing. And indeed, our food philosophy used to be closer to common sense in the past. My parents, already a generation closer to nature than mine, taught me that the best thing you could put in your body was something you washed the dirt off before putting it in your

05Oct

Fathers of the Lie Part II

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

Our thinking. Our philosophies of life. These are things we take for granted most of the time. "That's just the way it is," we say, and we step out confidently upon that premise. But what extensive research and clinical study from Brazil is showing us is that we would do well to investigate a little

22Sep

Fathers of the Lie Part I

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

The truth will set you free, it is written. OK, good. But knowing what the truth is, recognizing it when it pulls up alongside, ah, that's a little more difficult. Especially as our materialistic worldview would tell us that truth depends. And this idea of relative truth is a lie that comes to us from

23Aug

Re-thinking Vaccines

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

Vaccines have been sold as essential for our survival. And we're vaccinating a significantly larger number of kids because of it. Many hospital boards and health care systems even link incentive pay for executives and directors to their pediatric immunization rates. But there's more than a conflict of interest going on here. Vaccinations, it appears,

03Aug

Redefining the Relationship between Work and Capital

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

It's a philosophy deeply entrenched in our North American view of life: make your money work for you, leverage your investments, make money while you sleep. But hidden behind these strategies is a massive trap. Money, which is supposed to be a means, has become the ends. Today, capital is more important than your mother.

24Jun

Debunking the Germ Theory of Disease

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

He revolutionized the field of medicine, and has numerous institutions named after him for his efforts. He was one of the most celebrated scientists of his time, and a giant in medical circles even today. He supposedly proved the Germ Theory of disease, the basis of most medical education. But Louis Pasteur's science was highly