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The publicity and resulting panic surrounding the WHO’s announcement of Phase 5 and 6 alerts – especially in the absence (until December) of widely available vaccine – also brought out fraudsters peddling all sorts of ineffective and possibly dangerous protective gear and nostrums: gloves, masks, dietary supplements, shampoo, a nasal sanitizer, and a spray that supposedly coats the hands with a layer of anti-microbial “ionic silver.”
Instead of being creative, they have been inspired by a wave of neo-liberal nostrums that blinds them to other opportunities.
He sought to expose the bankruptcy of ascendant ideological nostrums: laissez-faire, spontaneous order, collective cooperation, central planning.
Indeed, only an ongoing skepticism of fashionable political nostrums - both of the statist and market fundamentalist variety - can promote pluralism and tolerance, and avoid a ballooning of the bureaucracy that enfeebles our economy.
Such employee ownership, uncritically lumped together with socialist nostrums over the years, was once widely dismissed as a nutty, ideological illusion.
Since 1989, the firebrand labor leader and radical Lula of the 1960s, now in his fourth attempt at the presidency, has mellowed into "Lula lite," offering fewer socialist nostrums and more social-democratic banter.
The group, it turned out, was led by an exiled patriarch, Li Hongzhi, who had conjured his cult out of traditional Chinese breathing exercises (qigong), a belief in miracle cures, nostrums about clean living, and a mish-mash of Buddhist and Taoist mysticism.
These may all sound like obvious nostrums, but governments have mostly done the opposite.
It is in this anxious atmosphere that the current coalition rules, combining George W. Bush’s conservative nostrums with the centralizing practices of Vladimir Putin.
Above all, they understood that the solution to the problems created by machines would not be found in laissez-faire nostrums.
For the left, his victory is an incentive to come up with realistic alternatives to the tried and failed liberal nostrums, and the discredited state socialism that was abandoned a decade ago.
In fact, even the term chemical science enjoyed some popularity in the nineteenth century – a time when the field sought to distinguish itself from alchemy and the promotion of quack nostrums.
Some assume that Trump’s poor management and obvious incompetence should be enough to dent enthusiasm for populist nostrums elsewhere.
The Myth of Organic AgricultureSTANFORD – Organic products – from food to skin-care nostrums to cigarettes – are very much in vogue, with the global market for organic food alone now reportedly exceeding $60 billion annually.
So we must not be tricked by the fact that those who gained economic power by looting state assets now employ lawyers, invoke free market nostrums, and claim to follow the letter of the law.
Many countries have themselves aggravated the problem, either by encouraging early retirement or – as with France – through job-creation nostrums like the 35-hour working week.
The BJP has now retreated to the same populist and socialist nostrums of its main opponent, the Congress party.
He was clearly a confirmed hypochondriac, and I was dreamily conscious that he was pouring forth interminable trains of symptoms, and imploring information as to the composition and action of innumerable quack nostrums, some of which he bore about in a leather case in his pocket.