Social issues

Ivermectin – attempting an update

by Sabine Vuilleumier, M.D.

(10 February 2022) In April 2020, Australian scientists found that ivermectin, a drug on the “World Health Organisation” (WHO) essential medicines list, virtually halts the replication of Sars-CoV-2 coronaviruses in a test tube within 48 hours.¹ – In mainstream media, one hears nothing of the positive research results published since then in the prophylactic and therapeutic use of ivermectin in combination with other beneficial drugs for Covid-19.

Austria

Questions from the Constitutional Court on the Corona policy.

This article appears only in German. It has not been translated into English.

Pedagogics – on ousted observational learning

by Carl Bossard*

(7 February 2022) He was certainly a self-confident artist and knew he was skilled: the sculptor and master builder Erhart Küng (1420–1507). He came to Bern as a stonemason around 1455; soon he was responsible for the new construction of Bern Cathedral.

A patron saint for sceptics

An obituary of the educationalist Hermann Giesecke

by Michael Felten

(29 January 2022) I first met him a quarter of a century ago: the left-liberal educationalist was about to retire and was beginning to challenge the educational zeitgeist; I was a common grammar school teacher who had gained his first routine and now found time to marvel at the errors and effects of reformist educational thinking in regular schools.

When education reforms widen the education gap

by Carl Bossard*

(21 December 2021) Education always creates disparity. That’s the way. And at the same time, schools must ensure equal opportunities. That is the mandate. But to what extent is it made more difficult by the current wave of reforms?

Energy transition

Wind energy – nothing but hot air?

Talking to Ueli Gubler* about the Swiss energy transition

(14 December 2021) Many governments, including that of Switzerland, have decided to minimise CO₂ emissions in the country due to the predicted global warming. It is assumed that man-made CO₂ emissions are the reason for a predicted rise in the earth’s temperature.¹