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The Lab Leak and the Counter Measures: What Really Happened

Debbie Lerman / March 23, 2023 / History, Policy, Vaccines / 13 minute read / Articles

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Some have argued that it was the powerful forces backing the vaccines, without reference to or need for a lab leak, that set the whole Covid disaster in motion. There is also some resistance to the idea that the entire Covid disaster was – and still is – a conspiracy of the international biodefense network. I would contend that the only explanation for the cascade of Covid events is that it began with a lab leak that required a cover-up, and that those involved in the cover-up were those who dictated and benefited from the response.

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The Latest in the War on Science

Tom Jefferson,

Carl Heneghan / March 23, 2023 / Masks / 5 minute read / Articles

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We do not know what spooked the Editor in Chief, but given the speed and highly unprofessional nature of the reaction, could it be one of their big funders? How the decision was made to undermine the review so quickly and so well – was it a prepared strategy? Finally, the relationship between all this and the NYT opinion piece published on 10 October is unclear. Nor have the Editors of Cochrane had the decency to explain what happened and what the haste was for. Therefore, why were folk working on the review since 2006 not consulted?

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The Covid Disaster was Foreshadowed with Love Canal

Tara Raddle / March 23, 2023 / History, Public Health / 10 minute read / Articles

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Those at the highest risk from Covid were given a piece of cloth to wear over their faces, while those at very little risk from the virus itself saw their future prospects decimated because of overly broad restrictions. Both groups were told that $.05 masks were the difference between life and death, despite a lack of scientific consensus at any juncture. Both groups were told that questioning any of this was tantamount to terrorism; that embracing one-size-fits-none restrictions held the only path forward.

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The Real Trauma of Love Canal

Tara Raddle / March 22, 2023 / History, Public Health / 8 minute read / Articles

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In thinking only about the (very real) dangers posed by benzene and dioxin, activists forgot about everything else. They forgot about the fact that happy communities are healthy communities; that family dinners and book clubs are every bit as essential to a healthy life as staying away from pools of chloroform. Well-meaning people developed tunnel vision; thinking only about the dangers of the landfill, while forgetting about the dangers that come with upending a community.

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The Narrative in Retreat

Ramesh Thakur / March 22, 2023 / Law, Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 14 minute read / Articles

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The puzzle of why there was a worldwide cascading abandonment of a hundred years of accumulated knowledge by scientific and policy advisers will occupy researchers for many years. The result is that old lessons are having to be relearned. Judging by the rush of studies now coming through to contradict key tenets of the 2020–22 narrative, there’s hope that the wall of silence rooted in groupthink and fear of consequences to career and reputation might have been irreparably breached.

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The Mandates Themselves Carry Grave Costs

Aaron Hertzberg / March 22, 2023 / Psychology / 14 minute read / Articles

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The inevitable consequence of public denouncements of the unvaccinated is that those who made them are necessarily rooting for the unvaccinated to suffer the grim fates they had articulated, at least in part, having invested themselves and their credibility in this narrative.

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Dr. Frieden’s Follies

Bret Swanson / March 21, 2023 / History, Public Health / 10 minute read / Articles

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The failure of public health authorities to honestly appraise a series of historic failures shows why they were so ill-suited to the task. Perhaps they do not have the skills to analyze, execute, learn, and course correct. Or maybe the institutions – from the FDA and CDC to local and state health departments to medical schools – lack some kind of organizational fortitude or resistance to groupthink.

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Once More to the Lectern

Rob Jenkins / March 21, 2023 / Education / 8 minute read / Articles

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So, yes, I have removed myself from the New-Agey circle of desks in the middle of the classroom and gone back to the lectern—and it feels good. It’s where I belong. believe, in the long run, my students will benefit, too, as over time I wean them from the spoon-feeding we have all been doing during the pandemic.

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The Devastation is Deeper and Wider than We Know

Justin Hart / March 21, 2023 / History, Public Health / 4 minute read / Articles

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The Covid policies and their aftermath have had far-reaching impacts on our society. People now have lowered trust in public institutions, raised worries about privacy and freedom of speech, and the financial ramifications will persist for a long time. As we face the challenges posed by this pandemic and its policy outcomes, it’s vital to draw lessons from these missteps so future responses are more balanced, open, and successful in tackling public health crises without compromising civic rights and public confidence.

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Your Daughter for a Rat?

David Bell / March 20, 2023 / Public Health / 6 minute read / Articles

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Health professionals who do not prioritize people over animals may get by as veterinary surgeons, but are unsafe with people. It is time for those who believe in the intrinsic and undefinable value of each human to find their voice, and rebuild our institutions on that basis. Public health should elevate humanity rather than degrade it.

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The Tantric and the Terrible Tempest

Bhaskaran Raman / March 20, 2023 / Education / 3 minute read / Articles

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The tranquil tropical town which has restarted whipping kids is Puducherry (India): “H3N2 outbreak: This UT shuts schools from 16-24 March.” In a normal world, people should not ask for evidence to not whip kids to ostensibly prevent future tempests. Regardless, there is a mountain of scientific evidence that whipping kids has no effect on tempests.

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Eye Protection Wasn’t Misdirection

Megan Mansell / March 20, 2023 / Masks / 10 minute read / Articles

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Consider all of the people you’ve seen donning masks or respirators over these past three years, assured in the merit of their virtue. How many still got sick? Did you ever once see someone donning goggles? Are we ever going to get around to discussing exhaustion of the hierarchy of controls, or are actual mitigating measures too taboo, too fringe?

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