March 2019

November 2019 Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Essay Prescribed Title #1 RLE – 85 year old Japanese man found not guilty of murder in retrial.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/28/national/crime-legal/39-years-13-year-jail-term-85-year-old-finally-exonerated-kumamoto-murder-retrial/ “In a retrial held decades after his conviction, a court on Thursday acquitted an 85-year-old man of a 1985 murder in Kumamoto Prefecture… “‘There is no evidence that shows the defendant was the culprit and the court cannot accept he committed the murder,’ said presiding Judge Yoshihisa Mizokuni in Read more…

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November 2019 Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Essay Prescribed Title #5 RLE – The Independent news article on the anti-vaccination movement.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/doctor-blames-andrew-wakefield-son-catching-measles-vaccine-mmr-autism-anti-vaxxers-measles-a7813001.html “Doctor blames Andrew Wakefield and anti-vaxxers for her baby son catching measles” Dr Eleanor Draeger’s son contracted the disease measles. Draeger’s son got the disease when he was only 10 months old, which is too young to be vaccinated for the disease. Some parents have not gotten vaccinations for Read more…

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November 2019 Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Essay Prescribed Title #1 RLE – Academic article / CBC article on a woman with a unique genetic mutation.

CBC reported on a “former teacher has a rare genetic mutation that means she feels less pain, heals faster and experiences less anxiety than most people.” This news article is based on research published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(19)30138-2/fulltext. Considering the original research and the (simplified) news article, Read more…

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November 2019 Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Essay Prescribed Title #2 RLE – CBC article on a woman with a unique genetic mutation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/painless-genetic-mutation-1.5075605 “The former teacher has a rare genetic mutation that means she feels less pain, heals faster and experiences less anxiety than most people.” This subject of the article is certainly “unique.” One of the challenges that patients like this present to doctors is the lack of knowledge due to Read more…

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November 2019 Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Essay Prescribed Title #4 RLE – CBC article on vaccinations in Mozambique

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mozambique-cholera-beira-camps-who-1.5075415 “Mozambique will start a cholera vaccination campaign next week in areas ravaged by Cyclone Idai, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, after five confirmed cases were detected.” This article highlights the fact that simple observation is not always sufficient. There is some simple observation during a patient’s diagnosis Read more…

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