Olivia Colman Calls Out 12,000% Pay Disparity

Photo: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images During an interview with CNN’s Christine Amanpour promoting her new film Wicked Little Letters, Olivia Colman spoke out against the pay disparity actors face in Hollywood. “Don’t get me started on the pay disparity, but male actors get paid more because they used to say they drew in the audiences. And… Continue reading Olivia Colman Calls Out 12,000% Pay Disparity

Florida Health Official Calls for Halt to Covid Vaccines

Florida’s surgeon general on Wednesday called for a halt to the use of Covid vaccines, citing widely debunked concerns that contaminants in the vaccine can permanently integrate into human DNA. “These vaccines are not appropriate for use in human beings,” Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general and highest-ranking health official, said in a statement… Continue reading Florida Health Official Calls for Halt to Covid Vaccines

HBO’s ‘Telemarketers’ Calls It Like It Sees It

Patrick J. Pespas and Sam Lipman-Stern are not your typical documentarians, and Telemarketers is all the more powerful for it. Photo: HBO Cop widows and cancer survivors, paralyzed veterans and retired firemen, dying children’s wishes and “brave police under siege”: In Telemarketers, nearly all the organizations for which boiler rooms of callers raised millions of… Continue reading HBO’s ‘Telemarketers’ Calls It Like It Sees It

Medical Group Backs Youth Gender Treatments, but Calls for Research Review

The American Academy of Pediatrics backed gender-related treatments for children on Thursday, reaffirming its position from 2018 on a medical approach that has since been banned in 19 states. But the influential group of doctors also took an extra step of commissioning a systematic review of medical research on the treatments, following similar efforts in… Continue reading Medical Group Backs Youth Gender Treatments, but Calls for Research Review