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In memoriam, the Oscars honor the memory of those who have died in the previous year. This year, there were no prominent people who were not included in the In Memoriam. Why did this happen? And why did they not include them in the usual montage of people who had died over the past year? In this episode, sociologist Mark Crispin Miller and I discuss why this might be the case. And why Pfizer and BioNTech should be worried about the growing number of deaths from sudden cardiac arrest, heart attack, or stroke, among other causes, that have been reported in the past few years. We also talk about why the Oscars should have included a list of all the people who died suddenly since the last time they were honored in such a way, and why that would have been a bad idea. And we talk about how the Oscars' lack of such tributes might be a reflection of the industry's anxiety about the rising death toll from heart attacks, strokes, and other heart attacks. and why they chose not to include them. . Mark Miller is a professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University, and teaches a course on propaganda, which has been one of his focuses for many, many years. He s the author of The Patriot Act, a show that he performed for six weeks at the New York Theatre Workshop. that is more relevant than ever today. Dr. Mark is on the Board of the Organization for Propaganda Studies and the Alliance for Human Research Protection, an international group that seeks to prevent or correct violations of informed consent in medical research. He s of the use of pseudoscientific research in medicine. Mark is a writer, and an expert in the field of propaganda, and he s an author of too many books to even list them everywhere, to even include The New York Times Magazine, and his essays and articles that have appeared in many journals, magazines, and articles in many papers around our nation and the world and newspapers around the world. In 2004, he wrote The PatriotAct. And he s a book about the book he wrote, The War Room a show about the war of the late 19th century tobacco. and early 20th century. We've known this since the late 1800s, but did you know who he was talking about it? Robert Downey Sr.? And now you do, too? And you do?
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