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No Way Was the Huanan Market the Epicenter of Covid

Michael Senger / September 7, 2022 / History, Public Health / 5 minute read

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There’s something rotten in the state of virology. The study performed by these leading virologists, who’ve been dead centre in the Covid saga from the earliest secret calls about the virus in early 2020, is entirely reliant on a critical assumption that an early cluster of cases around the Huanan Market in Wuhan in December 2019 represented “the earliest known 174 COVID-19 cases in the world”—an assumption which is belied by an overwhelming amount of replicable, peer-reviewed evidence to the contrary.

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The Appropriation and Corruption of Testimonialism

Thomas Harrington / September 7, 2022 / Philosophy / 8 minute read

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We must begin to stubbornly hold our places when both the powerful old, and the insouciant young, spring the “agree-with-my-sound-bite-version-of-the-truth-or-be- banished” gambit on us. Yes, they will amp up the volume to try and get us to cower and fold. We need to be stubborn and conflictive with them in ways that many of us never wanted, or believed we could be.

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Debi Does Lockdowns

Debbie Lerman / September 7, 2022 / History, Policy, Society / 12 minute read

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Each anti-scientific, non-public-health measure in itself – e.g., universal cloth masking, testing and quarantining after the virus was widespread, focusing on cases instead of hospitalizations or deaths – was not intended to achieve anything, except the singular goal of fomenting massive fear. And the purpose of the fear was to ensure maximum compliance with lockdowns.

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Klaus Schwab is the Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Craig Pirrong / September 6, 2022 / Philosophy, Society / 4 minute read

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Schwab’s main allies are in the managerial class, indeed, they are at the pinnacle of that class being the CEOs of massive corporations. But an organization–a business–is fundamentally different than an economic and social system, and the methods that work for an organization don’t work for a complex system in which formal organizations are just a part. This is why, for instance, avatars of high modernist management and engineering, like Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter, failed miserably as presidents.

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Lockdowns Did Not Save Lives

John Johnson,

Denis Rancourt / September 6, 2022 / Law, Policy, Public Health / 16 minute read

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The regulatory imposition and enforcement of statewide shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders conclusively correlates with larger health-status-corrected, per capita, all-cause mortality by state. This result is inconsistent with the hypothesis that lockdowns saved lives.

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The Experts Still Pushing Coerced Jabs

David Bell,

Domini Gordon / September 6, 2022 / Policy, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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In a previous era, or in a previously credible medical journal, an argument for coercion to support a medical procedure would have required very high standards of evidence of efficacy and safety. It is arguing for the abrogation of fundamental principles such as informed consent that are at the core of modern medical ethics. Failure to address well-known contrary data should prevent an article from even reaching the peer-review stage.

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Israel’s Green Pass Policy: A Chronicle of a Tragedy Foretold

Shirly Bar-Lev / September 5, 2022 / Policy, Vaccines / 8 minute read

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The greater the distrust, the greater the fear of sanctions. But the greater the fear of sanctions, the more those objecting to vaccinate were adamant not to vaccinate. The erosion of trust found in this study echoes other studies indicating that the Israelis are losing trust in public institutions, with over half saying the country’s democracy is in danger.

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Religious Individuals Versus Collectivist Control

Bruce W. Davidson / September 5, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 5 minute read

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One significant gift of Judaism and Christianity is the concept that an individual is responsible and valuable apart from the group. As Larry Siedentop explains in his book Inventing the Individual, Western civilization’s moral and legal foundations owe a great deal to that legacy. Before that, the ancient Romans and Greeks considered loyalty to the family-clan to be an absolute religious duty.

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The Chief Cause of Problems Is Bad Solutions

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson / September 5, 2022 / Philosophy / 8 minute read

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When almost the whole world loses sight of the common goal of human society, and the elimination of a single problem, in the end a rather unimportant one, takes precedence over everything else, thus becoming the goal – a distorted and absurd one, a disastrous and ruinous one for sure – this is an indication of a fundamental loss of common sense.

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Frankenstein Was the Foreshadowing

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 5, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 7 minute read

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We keep doing this, gathering the raw material, going back to the lab, hooking up the idea to the power source, throwing the switch, and experiencing shock and regret at the results. Our modern monsters aren’t isolated threats; they are killing freedom the world over.

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I Weep for My Profession: Letter to the American Economic Association

Donald Boudreaux / September 4, 2022 / Economics / 3 minute read

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Your announcement ensures that I will not attend the meetings under such absurd restrictions. Furthermore, it makes me weep for my profession, for it is strong evidence that today’s leaders of the world’s most prestigious organization of professional economists are unaware of basic facts about covid and, worse, ignorant of basic tenets of economics.

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The Return of Carl Schmitt and His Scheme for Regime Longevity

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 4, 2022 / Philosophy / 9 minute read

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Let us remember that Carl Schmitt despised America and everything it stood for, especially the idea of individual liberty and limits on government. It’s one thing to study his writings in graduate school as a warning to what it means to turn against enlightenment values. It’s another thing entirely to deploy his theories as a viable path to keeping power when it appears unstable, not only in Beijing but also Washington, DC. That should truly terrify all of us.

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