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The Urgent Need to Break the Public Health Monopoly

Austin Stone / June 11, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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Before the next public health crisis, we need to create a fair, forward-thinking, and reputationally robust institution to serve as a non-governmental alternative and foil to federal bureaucracies like the CDC. Privately funded laboratory research, an alternative framework for reputation analysis and peer review and influence-free conclusions could revolutionize the political approach to health and safety. Ideally, such an institution would be a gathering-place for those experts like the Barrington signatories who stood against the tide and prioritized real science over politics.

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The Children We Call Our Leaders

Donald Boudreaux / June 10, 2022 / Economics, Philosophy / 5 minute read

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Social engineering appears doable only to those persons who, seeing only a relatively few surface phenomena, are blind to the astonishing complexity that is ever-churning beneath the surface to create those surface phenomena. To such persons, social reality appears as it does to a child: simple and easily manipulated to achieve whatever are the desires that motivate the manipulators.

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What Is the Value of a Covid Test?

Alex Washburne / June 10, 2022 / Public Health / 9 minute read

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If you tested yourself on a random day when you had no symptoms, your one test would probably say “You’re Negative,” and that wouldn’t change your behavior at all. Such a negative test used with a low pretest probability of being positive is like firing a bullet haphazardly into the fog, long before you see the whites of your enemy’s eyes with a low pre-shot probability of hitting anyone.

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Wearing a Mask During Indoor Exercise Can Be Fatal

Carla Peeters / June 10, 2022 / Masks / 11 minute read

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Participants wearing masks reported marked discomfort, such as feeling hot, humid, and breathing resistance and claustrophobia with higher exercise intensity. While other researchers could not measure significant detectable differences, these signs need to be taken seriously.

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The Mass Betrayal of Trust

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 9, 2022 / Media / 5 minute read

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The world that the lockdowns and mandates, and all that is associated with them, unleashed is dark, corrupt, duplicitous, dishonest, dangerous, tribal, and pervaded with nihilism and a loss of moral clarity and a resulting criminality both public and private. How easy it turns out to be to shatter trust, to disable a functioning social order, to spread corruption from person to person, institution to institution, to the point that the center no longer holds!

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China’s Culpability for Lockdowns Does Not Depend on the Lab Leak Theory

Michael Senger / June 9, 2022 / Media / 5 minute read

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Part of the problem is that much of the evidence refuting the lab leak theory comes from scientists on the political left, who’ve so thoroughly debased themselves on this subject. It’s testament to the CCP’s dark sense of humor—riddled throughout the response to Covid—that they were able to convince the left it was woke to support the even-more-ridiculous theory that Covid came from some poor Chinese shopkeepers in Wuhan’s Huanan market selling pangolins.

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Already in 2020, There Were Signs of Increased Non-Covid Mortality

Josh Stevenson / June 9, 2022 / Policy / 2 minute read

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Second-order effects on mortality were not measured in real time like SARS-COV2 cases. Why? What we measure matters. What we don’t measure might actually just matter even more. Months and years later we are still accounting for how the Covid-19 response disrupted life and cost lives in many other ways we simply chose to ignore.

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The Milgram Experiment Restaged, with Millions of Real Victims

Thomas Harrington / June 9, 2022 / Philosophy, Psychology, Society / 5 minute read

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These Milgramite “experimenters” and “teachers” knew exactly what they were doing. Indeed, many of them, like our President, clearly relished initiating and firing up a “stick-it-to-your-family-and-friend” movement among us.

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Sorry, Kids: We Were Wrong

Brownstone Institute / June 9, 2022 / Education / 6 minute read

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The road to healing and rebuilding ahead is still long, but as a first step we must take responsibility, admit that we have lost our way, and ask our children for heartfelt forgiveness. At the same time, we must direct massive resources toward our children in order to repair the harm of the past two years, in both the socio-emotional and the educational spheres.

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I Cannot Believe It’s Come To This

Stacey Rudin / June 8, 2022 / Economics, Society / 7 minute read

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We’ve never lived in Texas, in fact I’d never even been to Texas when we finally decided to bail out of New Jersey, during “Omicron.” Before that, I don’t think my husband thought I was serious about moving. But my intuition had been telling me for months, many of them, that this wasn’t the place for me. I feel betrayed.

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The Delusional Ideology of Mask and Booster Mandates

Ian Miller / June 8, 2022 / Masks, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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There is no explanation that justifies these mandates. But those in power no longer need explanations or justifications, just the support of a willing media and political class captured by a delusional ideology.

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French President Macron: “Vaccinate Everything That Can Be Vaccinated”

Robert Kogon / June 8, 2022 / Vaccines / 2 minute read

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“Vaccinate everything that can be vaccinated,” Macron said, “because we avoid the virus. That’s the best response for unburdening the healthcare system and having a healthy population. So, we’re going to continue to work on this aspect.”

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