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In Search of Safety Signals – Let the Light Shine In

Michael Tomlinson / October 20, 2022 / Vaccines / 10 minute read

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Policy in public health should be only made on the basis of the evidence available. The evidence available indicates that the strategy of universal vaccination of the whole population exposed some groups to unnecessary risk, and that a differentiated risk-based strategy would have led to better outcomes. Some countries are now belatedly moving in this direction at least for boosters.

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US Government Officials Dumped Stocks Prior to Lockdowns, Report Shows

Michael Senger / October 20, 2022 / Economics, Government, History / 2 minute read

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In an explosive new report from the Wall Street Journal, leading health officials began offloading stocks at truly unprecedented rates in January 2020—well before the COVID-19 emergency was declared—with officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services selling 60% more stocks in January 2020 than average over the previous 12 months.

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Agree with Us or Hold your Tongue

Ramesh Thakur / October 19, 2022 / Public Health / 12 minute read

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Every crisis, they say, is an opportunity. Governments, health bureaucrats and drug regulators all over the world have exploited the Covid-19 crisis to grab power and gain control over our lives. Predictably, rather than to most people’s surprise, many are proving singularly resistant to relinquishing their extraordinary powers, instead extending the emergency and broadening its scope to embrace other issues.

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Organized Chaos in South Central, Los Angeles

Daniel Nuccio / October 19, 2022 / Public Health, Vaccines / 9 minute read

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Part of what makes this all so frustrating and demoralizing is the way the whole system is set up. No one is really accountable for any of the decisions made regarding exemptions, testing, appeals, or terminations. Everything is done through third parties and anonymous emails.

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The Macroeconomic Consequences of Lockdowns and the Aftermath

David Stockman / October 19, 2022 / Economics / 14 minute read

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Washington compensated one and all for the resulting harm and then some by unleashing a $6 trillion spending bacchanalia in less than 14 months, which was accomplished with barely a dissent from either party to the Washington duopoly because interest rates on government debt had plunged to an all-time low. In turn, that was enabled by the most reckless spurt of money printing and debt monetization in recorded history.

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Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s New Chancellor of the Exchequer, Strongly Backed Zero Covid and Lockdowns

Michael Senger / October 18, 2022 / Policy / 3 minute read

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Part of the reason Hunt’s 2022 bid imploded is that testimony and video surfaced of his praising China’s draconian “Zero Covid” and quarantine measures and advocating for the UK to emulate them. Hunt had likewise been a vocal proponent of lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

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How the Israeli Ministry of Health Became an Agent for Pfizer

Guy Shinar / October 18, 2022 / Public Health, Vaccines / 8 minute read

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Why did Ministry of Health officials enter into this agreement? Why didn’t they maintain their role as regulators, and why did they volunteer to serve as Pfizer’s marketing, distribution, research and publication branch?

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Supreme Court Decided to Keep Torture A Secret

James Masnov / October 18, 2022 / Law / 9 minute read

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Why, then, was this decision not widely reported? It, of course, did not see a total media blackout, but it received far less attention than the abortion case that has now captured the attention of the press and the population. Why is this? Is the official suppression of torture via the Court not newsworthy? How much of this is due to the decision not aligning with how the Court is typically characterized: that of an institutional battle between the ideological left versus the ideological right?

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Doctors Who Live in Fear and Promote it in Others

Thomas Harrington / October 18, 2022 / Philosophy, Society / 5 minute read

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Fear is a ubiquitous and essential part of the human experience. Indeed, a good case could be made that it is the driving force in the lives of many, if not most human beings.

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How College Mandates Shattered My Dreams

Phoebe Liou / October 17, 2022 / Education, Policy, Vaccines / 10 minute read

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When I was canceled from UConn, I was in the middle of writing a neurosurgery research journal article and my participation was abruptly stopped. I was planning to study abroad in my junior year, which would have been this year. I looked forward to entering dental school and eventually opening a dental practice. I made a choice for my body – and my college life was interrupted indefinitely.

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How Deadly Is Covid? A Major Study Defies Conventional Wisdom

Will Jones / October 17, 2022 / History / 3 minute read

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In the new study, which is currently undergoing peer-review, Prof. Ioannidis and colleagues found that across 31 national seroprevalence studies in the pre-vaccination era, the average (median) infection fatality rate of COVID-19 was estimated to be just 0.035% for people aged 0-59 years and 0.095% for those aged 0-69 years.

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How Can Severe Mental Illness be the Deadliest Covid Comorbidity?

Aaron Hertzberg / October 17, 2022 / History, Public Health / 7 minute read

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It is not remotely plausible that “learning disabilities” have a physiological connection or influence on the pathological course of covid infection or disease, certainly not en masse that would show up as a stronger safety signal than both age and obesity. The proposition that an otherwise perfectly healthy individual with a learning disability is at a higher risk from covid than your 83-year-old grandma is so absurd that it should call the entire study into doubt.

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