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The Censorious Scott Gottlieb Was a Major Influence on Lockdowns

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 9, 2023 / Law, Media / 5 minute read

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The person and role of Gottlieb is a paradigmatic case of why and how solving the mysteries of the lockdowns and mandates is such a complicated undertaking. It’s not just about government intervention and it’s not just about private corruption. It’s about a complicated relationship between the two, involving a range of public and private actors in and out of government who seized control of the policy machinery to achieve private ends at enormous public expense.

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Ineffective Maltruism

Thomas Buckley / January 9, 2023 / Media, Philosophy / 14 minute read

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The current fad of the financially fabulous is Effective Altruism, which essentially involves promising to give your money while you are still alive to causes and organizations that “do good,” while simultaneously tethering them to your whims through financial dependence. A very specific example of this is the massive money going to barely-surviving but purportedly legit media organizations (or you can just buy the Washington Post.) You get good press when you own it.

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The Travel Ban Wrecks Commerce, Constitution, and Civility

Gwendolyn Kull / January 9, 2023 / Policy / 4 minute read

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Fiancés and other nonimmigrant family members cannot reunite with their loved ones after years separated. Unfortunately, my family will remain divided, just like countless others, until this Administration decides whether it will defend our Constitution, freedoms, and economy on the world stage or keep doubling down on failed policies until there’s no republic left.

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The Boy Who Trapped Death in a Nut

Haley Kynefin / January 9, 2023 / Philosophy / 9 minute read

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Life is a messy, risky, and at times lethal adventure, and while it’s perfectly acceptable and in fact compassionate to try to lower this risk to some extent, a complete elimination of all risk would create a dull, lifeless world devoid of conviviality and meaning. The people of Jack’s town are willing to accept some level of pain, sadness and suffering in order to reap the concomitant rewards that come with living life to the fullest.

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Jordan Peterson: Enemy of the State

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 8, 2023 / Law, Psychology / 10 minute read

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No question that this follows Jordan Peterson’s aggressive questioning of the whole of the Covidian agenda, including mass forced vaccination of the population.

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Where’s the Woodward and Bernstein of the Covid Scandals?

Bill Rice / January 8, 2023 / Media / 7 minute read

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When you stop and think about it, there’s no way a “Woodward and Bernstein” could tell the story of the Covid Scandal. There’s simply too many scandals that would have to be exposed. It would take an army of Woodward and Berstein’s to break the pieces down into individual, sub-scandal components.

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Consequences for Children: Data So Far

Justin Hart / January 7, 2023 / Public Health / 6 minute read

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Lockdowns resulted in a 10-20% increase in new cases of severe child abuse and a 50-80% increase in fatalities from child abuse, caused a 30-50% increase in cases of malnutrition and a 50-100% increase in fatalities from malnutrition, and resulted in a 40-60% increase in new cases of mental illness in children and adolescents and a 100-200% increase in suicides by young people.

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Fear of Covid Is the Opiate of the People

Mark Oshinskie / January 6, 2023 / Philosophy, Psychology / 8 minute read

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Like any old school respiratory virus, this one made us feel lousy, albeit with a different constellation of symptoms. We handled it the same way as other viral illnesses: we drank extra water, took some home remedies, and tried to get some extra sleep. A few years ago, no one made a big deal about, or needed to categorize, being sick like this. People rode it out. No one cared what you had. Or didn’t have.

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State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 5

Ramesh Thakur / January 6, 2023 / Government, History, Law, Public Health / 6 minute read

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This is the year when we will learn if Covid illiberalism will begin to be rolled back or has become a permanent feature of the political landscape in the democratic West. Although the head says to fear the worst, the eternally optimistic heart will still hope for the best.

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End These Travel Restrictions Now

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 6, 2023 / Law, Policy, Vaccines / 8 minute read

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We are turning back the clock: away from high civilization to a much lower form without a solid guarantee of even the freedom to travel, while giving up the dream of universal human rights. Confidence in a better world with more human connection is being replaced by isolation, fear, and compliance as guiding principles. The price will be very high.

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Time to Rethink the Core Question: What Is Health Care?

Alan Lash / January 5, 2023 / Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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The health policy worldview determines its success only in the fact that they have controlled the individual health decisions. Any mistakes in policy will be taken into account in the next decision. There never is a policy failure as long as the decision makers remain in charge to tell us what is best. The individual worldview requires that each patient be treated uniquely, with a personal relationship with a doctor viewing their needs and desires as important and unique. This attitude is wholly counter to centralized control of all health care decisions.

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Did National Security Imperatives Compromise COVID-19 Vaccine Safety?

Phillip Altman / January 5, 2023 / Vaccines / 12 minute read

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Definition of these vaccines as “countermeasures” rather than therapeutic agents has permitted their expedited progression to emergency use authorisation and widespread rollouts. Many adverse consequences have been the outcome of this secret military response to a public health matter. Why are governments around the world, including Australia, planning to make further significant investments in this rushed vaccine technology driven by the US military?

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