>Since when did science, the act of acquiring knowledge through a step by step process to be able to validate that knowledge, become a problem...

It's not really that hard to fix. Not everyone learned English as a first language, and guy has more of a point to make than you do.

>Except that is a deal agreed by both parties.

Yeah, labor requires an employment contract between parties to operate. Buying medical services or goods doesn't.

>No one has a right to another person's labor

On the contrary, everyone has a right to purchase at prevailing market rates - that's what a market is. It's also what the government will pay (MRP) for care, but it's apparently not enough.

This sounds so much like "competition working as expected to prevent rent extraction" that it's morbidly abusing to see protest over it, as if large profits are some kind of God-given right.

>The paranoid cultural genocide to stop Muslim terrorism idea they were initially trying is over.

Uhhh

> A bike seller’s eyes widened in alarm when he learned I was a foreigner. He picked up his phone and began dialing the police.

> A convenience store cashier chatted idly about declining sales – then was visited by the shadowy men tailing us. When we dropped by again, she didn’t say a word, instead making a zipping motion across her mouth, pushing past us and running out of the store.

Doesn't sound to me like they've ended it at all. They've just learned to be more covert about it. Less open operation of concentration camps, more threatening people behind closed doors and a choking fear of punishment.

> My ancestors rose up long ago and unshackled themselves from religious prosecution

Apparently that didn't turn you into a decent human being with empathy. You may not need to do jack shit in an amoral sense, but that's a pretty disgusting thing to take pride in in context.

> Russia suspended the deal on Saturday after what it said was a major Ukrainian drone attack on its naval fleet in annexed Crimea. Despite Moscow’s decision, cargo ships set sail carrying 354,500 tonnes of grain, the most dispatched in one day since the programme began in August.

The hilarious (and sad) thing is that Russia pulling out of the deal probably accelerated exports rather than restricting them. Russia was using the deal and inspection as a way to slow exports to a trickle; with no deal, Russia also has no grounds to stop or inspect vessels other than direct piracy, and that's presumably where Turkey would have something to say about it.