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Restrictions in Sweden and Denmark: What Do The Numbers Show?

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson / July 12, 2022 / Law, Society / 2 minute read

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According to the models used to justify harsher restrictions in Denmark, about 30,000 people were expected to have died, had Sweden’s strategy been followed. But according to the data, the excess mortality in Sweden over the two years was around 6,000 and in Denmark 3,000, which amounts to the same percentage as the Danish population is about half the Swedish. Thus, the models were off by around 90%.

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The Generation of Children Raised by Fear

Molly Kingsley,

Liz Cole / July 11, 2022 / Education, Society / 6 minute read

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Our hearts groan, for two years not only have we shattered any myth that children are resilient, that they can take whatever trampling adults see fit to dole out in the name of fear, but we have shattered the myth that our society can take it.

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WHO Wants To Run the World?

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / July 11, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 9 minute read

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This is the first clear instance of a globalist coup attempt. It would subvert national sovereignty worldwide by putting real power into the hands of an international group of bureaucrats. It has long been suspected that the authoritarian elites arisen during covid times would try to strengthen their positions by undermining nation states, and this 75th jamboree is the first solid evidence of this being true.

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The Catastrophic Covid Convergence

Debbie Lerman / July 11, 2022 / History, Society / 15 minute read

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How did my family, friends and neighbors – who I thought shared my liberal, humanist values – turn into a group-thinking, bullying herd? What forces were exerted to erase scientific and intellectual integrity from the minds of literally millions of doctors, scientists, economists, journalists, educators and other normally curious and compassionate people worldwide?

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As Military Ranks are Purged, US Is Unprepared for War

P. Michael Phillips, Ph.D. / July 10, 2022 / Policy / 5 minute read

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Shortsighted policies, some recent and some decades in the making, have worsened matters. Even now, before a shot has been fired, the Pentagon is struggling to recruit fresh troops, while at the same time it’s preparing to pitch 60,000 unvaccinated National Guardsmen and Reservists it relies on for routine mission support.

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Brown University’s Silence on Post-Vaccine Myocarditis

Andrew Bostom / July 9, 2022 / Vaccines / 10 minute read

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In March, 2021, two months before enacting its mandatory, aggressive covid-19 vaccination campaign, a healthy 20-year-old male Brown University student was apparently hospitalized for covid-19 vaccine-induced myopericarditis. The University never disclosed this hospitalization, then, till now, ignoring the established ethics of risk/benefit-based informed consent.

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Musk Declines to Save Twitter from Itself

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 9, 2022 / Economics, Technology / 7 minute read

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Elon looked more closely at this vaunted ruling-class time waster and found vast puffery, low profitability, wildly inflated numbers concerning usage, and a vicious and expensive staff that hates his guts, while opposing free speech and the values of most regular American people.

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The Best Mask Study Yet

Ian Miller / July 8, 2022 / Masks / 8 minute read

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There was no statistically significant benefit to mandating masks in schools, in a comparison between two school districts located right next to each other, sharing very similar population demographics and secondary mitigation policies.

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Proportionality and the Fog of War

Eileen Natuzzi / July 8, 2022 / History, Policy, Public Health / 4 minute read

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Our representatives and public health agencies have repeatedly violated the rule of proportionality and those who continue to do so without guidance from data on masking, mandates and vaccine effectiveness against Omicron must be called out on this. How many jobs have been lost because of lockdowns and then inappropriate vaccine mandates?

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Model Misspecification and Grossly Inflated Estimates of Lives Saved

Spiro Pantazatos / July 8, 2022 / Public Health / 7 minute read

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While generative models are often a useful tool to simulate scenarios that have not occurred, inaccurate assumptions about model parameters can easily lead to model misspecification. In the case of Watson et al. 2022, they can lead to counterfactual simulations that grossly inflate estimates of deaths averted due to mass vaccinations.

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The Crash and Burn of Credentialism

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 7, 2022 / Economics, Media, Philosophy / 7 minute read

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Whatever it is that the World Economic Forum is promising does not look especially impressive by comparison to the normal freedoms we took for granted. Indeed, we let the experts have a go at it and they created a monstrous experience for billions of people the world over. This will not be soon forgotten.

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The Senior Executive Service: Heart of the Medical Deep State

Robert Malone / July 7, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 16 minute read

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To break up these “public-private partnerships” which compromise the ability of HHS to perform essential oversight duties and truly protect the health of American Citizens from the rapacious practices and disgusting ethics of the medical-pharmaceutical complex (in which they behave as predators, and we have become the prey), we must sever the financial and organizational ties that bind the medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex to the HHS Administrative State, and which have been incrementally developed and deployed over many decades.

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