In mid 2017, this site began as the anonymised investigative journalism platform RippleFind.
In April 2020, it’s reborn as part of a project to publish, in collected form, the central node, the kernel, of linked historic investigations.
Meanwhile, it continues to offer new public-interest journalism, reportage and opinion, specialising in public health policy and healthcare (devices, pharma, diagnostics), but also covering the environment and consumer and legal affairs.
Underpinning the writing is a commitment to the public good, but also a passion for life and for human values — so there’ll also be the odd splash of something different: from nature, the arts, sport or philosophy. Different, but equally meaningful — that’s the aim.
Still the ‘Ripplefind’ ethos…
A ripple is what a stone makes in a pond… a diver in the sea… a thinker in the facts… And the facts in the thinker too. A ripple is also an olden-day tool, a special comb for collecting cereal seeds from their stem — to separate the wheat from the chaff, you might say… The finding is therefore about causes and effects, and the seeds of these.
Yes, their kernel…
Bernard Murphy, April 2020
The kernel | El meollo 