RFK Jr.’s rise reveals how pseudoscience paranoia now holds political power. Conceived in the late 19th century, the survival of the fittest ideas of Social Darwinism helped drive Nazi ideology.
Author: Jakob Simmank
Jakob Simmank, born in 1988, studied medicine in Hamburg, Leipzig and Buenos Aires between 2008 and 2016. Short break from medicine: studied moral theories and cognitive psychology at Queen’s University Belfast in 2011/12. Between 2011 and 2016: doctoral thesis on decision-making processes in overweight people at the Max Planck Institute for Neuroscience. In between: writing, writing, writing. Stations at the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” and the magazine ZEIT Wissen. Head of since deparment of Die Zeit since April 2021.
Millions of people could die from antibiotic-resistant germs in the near future. But there are very few new antibiotics in the research pipelines of the big pharmaceutical companies, which are focused on developing more profitable drugs. What is behind this blatant injustice — and what can be done about it?