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Photo: Today and AFP Joseph Schooling, the young man who won our first ever gold medal at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 has failed to defend his Olympic crown. Mr. Schooling finished last in the 100-meter butterfly heats and did not even qualify for the finals. Mr. Schooling has received a few nasty comments online... 

NUS associate professor Daniel Goh notes three groups to which the bases of xenophobia are linked in many advanced economies: the working classes for whom globalisation has had adverse effects; the middle classes who have not benefited as much as others; and "the politicising of a narrow, extremist nationalism", with the idea... 

Someone asked me if I watched videos of doctors who hold alternative opinions, e.g. about the risk of vaccination. I do. I watched many alternative videos (but not all of them). I use my logic, reasoning and knowledge of statistics to know what is reliable and what is not. Some of these doctors with alternative views talk about...