More and more companies are turning to neuromarketing. This controversial practice involves studying consumers’ brains, analyzing how and why we respond to certain stimuli, in order to influence our decisions.
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Every year, shinier, slicker new models are released to encourage us to upgrade. But it’s not enough just to persuade consumers to buy more and more: they have to be forced to upgrade.
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Pharmaceutical companies are medicalising normal conditions, like the menopause, promoting non-existent diseases, and transforming mild problems into serious conditions that need treatment.
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In association with BBC Panorama, we investigate the world of tax havens and show how some of the world’s most famous companies are using a tax haven at the heart of Europe to save millions in tax.
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The anti-abortion brigade is building up its troops – and the new recruits are getting younger and younger.
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The herbicides sprayed during the war have crippled more than three million Vietnamese. Scientists suspect that the diseases and injuries have transferred to the genes of Vietnamese people. Babies without legs or arms, or with other deformities, are born in Vietnam even today. All having one thing in common: Agent Orange.
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of Africans risk their lives trying to get into Europe. We follow a convoy of young migrants: this is their story.
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Every year, thousands of women are killed for defiling their families’ honour. We hear the stories of four young Dutch girls, all living in a state of ‘Code Red’, on the run from their families.
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Bloody scores being settled and streets invaded by waste have tarnished the picture-perfect image of Naples. Diverse crimes and trafficking are the marks left by the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia, that is the chief employer in the city.
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