David Vauthier

David Vauthier is a Montréal based student in neuroscience with a keen interest for understanding how the world works. His articles seek to explore social norms, and how science affects everyday life.

Journalist 11 posts

        
            Haiti
        
    Haiti Was Never Even Given a Chance
            Haiti has long been plagued with colonialist intervention–particularly from the US, France, and Canada, which has left it fundamentally unstable. In short, Haiti was never even given a chance at success.
        
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            Everydaylife
        
    Why British People Can't Donate Blood, And What It Means for The Future of Disease
            Despite these alarming symptoms, studies from the time–around 1989–lead British experts to think it was unlikely that BSE could pose any risk to humans… Unfortunately, in another 5 years, this was shown to have been a catastrophically incorrect assessment.
        
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            Everydaylife
        
    How American Corporations Destabilized Latin America for Bananas
            It all started with the Monroe Doctrine of 1904, an American policy that allowed the U.S. to excuse any foreign intervention under the guise of “policing them”. In reality, it allowed for the government and corporations to exploit these countries.
        
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            human rights affairs
        
    Hockey Culture is Still Homophobic
            Earlier this year, Yanic Duplessis–a prospect for the Voltigeurs de Drummondville in the QMJHL–came out as gay. In an ideal world, this would be a non-story, so why is it such a notable event?
        
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            covid-19
        
    Horseshoe Crabs, COVID-19, and Climate Change: How Everything is Connected
            One only has to take a cursory glance at the news cycle these days to see about
a dozen and one stories about the development of COVID vaccines and their
        
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            Death Penalty
        
    The Case Against the Death Penalty
            53 countries across the globe still have capital punishment in place. What’s more, in recent years, polls from the populations of various countries including Canada and the United Kingdom have illustrated a desire for reinstating the death penalty
        
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            Inauguration
        
    O Canada: Northern Insecurity
            The inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Harris was historic in many regards, but one particularly important and focused-on aspect was that of Harris being the first black and south-Asian vice-president
        
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            journalism
        
    Disinformation in the Digital Age
            "Today, disinformation and ‘fake news’ is more prevalent than ever before." David Vauthier reflects on the rise of fake news in the digital age.
        
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            political affairs
        
    ‘No Longer Gage’: The Intersection of the Law and the Brain
            On September 13th, 1848, Phineas Gage would go on to revolutionize the field of
neuroscience. He was no doctor or researcher, yet his story would become one of
the best-known
        
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            nuclear
        
    Nuclear Armageddon: The Real Threat Level Midnight
            Back in January this year, the Doomsday Clock was moved to only 100 seconds
until midnight–the representative marker for nuclear war. In doing this, the
Bulletin of the Atomic
        
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            technology
        
    Bits and Pieces: Shattering Encryption with Quantum Computing
            The real importance of Quantum Physics comes when it is applied in the ‘real world’, like in quantum computing.
        
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