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Why is Rhode Island Still Irrationally Targeting School Children with “Masking and Testing” Policies?

Andrew Bostom September 14, 2023 Government, Masks 8 minute read

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One of the consistent mercies of the SARS-CoV-2 “covid-19 pandemic,” even at its most virulent initial stages, has been the paucity of serious disease in children generally, and healthy children, universally. Covid-19 always was and remains a very highly age- and comorbid risk-stratified disease that targets the extremely frail elderly—especially those in congregate care—and the otherwise middle-aged to elderly with multiple (for example, ≥ 6!), severe, chronic comorbidities.

Orwell Meets Your Stuffy Nose

Jeffrey A. Tucker September 13, 2023 Pharma 4 minute read

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It’s all quite brazen and absurd. It’s especially rotten that the FDA seems to be placing the blame for a decade and a half of stuffy noses on the manufacturers of cold products – even though it was the government itself that forced them to use inferior ingredients in the first place.

The Renewed Injunction Neglects the Power of the Intelligence Community

Brownstone Institute September 13, 2023 Government 6 minute read

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The Fifth Circuit failed to acknowledge the critical role the intelligence community played in the Covid response and the assault on the Bill of Rights. By reinstating agencies’ power to partner with groups designed to circumvent the First Amendment, the Court risks the continued erosion of First Amendment freedoms under public-private totalitarianism.

Editor at “Pro-Vaccine Publication” Experienced Serious Adverse Event After Second Pfizer Shot

Rav Arora September 12, 2023 Media, Pharma, Vaccines 6 minute read

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As a journalist, I cannot say much more than the best available facts suggest, but as has been clear for far too long, the mRNA vaccines were not beneficial and safe on a population-level for young, healthy men — yet the CDC and FDA didn’t care. Hopefully, “pro-vaccine publication[s]” may recognize the harm they helped perpetuate.

David v. Goliath in New York

Brownstone Institute September 12, 2023 Law 6 minute read

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This governor’s regulation puts the power at the highest levels of the state government – centrally controlled. The governor’s regulation not only circumvents the legislature’s power and responsibility to enact appropriate laws for the citizenry, but it also takes that power beyond the local level, where it can most appropriately be considered, and completely fails to protect the rights of the individuals against misuse or mis-application by the state officials.

Never Again

John Tamny September 11, 2023 Government, Policy, Society 3 minute read

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During what government deems crisis, it’s those most willing and eager to flout convention and expert opinion who produce crucial information for the rest of us. If living freely results in sickness and death, then we all know what not to do. But if as was the case with the coronavirus that living freely wasn’t much of a risk at all except for the already very old and already very sick, then those who didn’t flout convention and expert opinion have the information necessary to alter their lifestyles with the information created by the rebellious.

A Fungal Non-Apocalypse

Steve Templeton September 11, 2023 Public Health 6 minute read

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Bottom line—there’s not going to be a fungal apocalypse. I say this as a fungal immunologist that would certainly benefit from making the case for a fungal apocalypse, but I think we’ve had enough fearmongering the last few years for many lifetimes, and fearmongering ultimately further erodes public trust in scientists and public health “experts.”

A Tremendous Victory for Free Speech

Brownstone Institute September 10, 2023 Law 5 minute read

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Friday’s decision provides a crucial step in fighting against that informational totalitarianism. The Fifth Circuit issued an injunction that prohibits the Biden Administration from taking actions, “to coerce or significantly encourage social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech.”

The Dirty Secret About How Masks Really “Work”

Clayton J. Baker, MD September 10, 2023 Masks 4 minute read

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Masks are also extremely effective in exposing dissidents. Who dares to stand up against the state? There’s one, right over there. Shame on them. Shun them. Arrest them. That’s how masks really “work”, and that’s why the Public HealthTM types love them.

You Should Be Very Worried About the Digital Services Act

David Thunder September 9, 2023 Law, Media, Technology 10 minute read

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The only hope is that this ugly, complicated and regressive piece of legislation ends up before a judge who understands that freedom of expression means nothing if held hostage to the views of the European Commission on pandemic-preparedness, the Russia-Ukraine war, or what counts as “offensive” or “hateful” speech.

Whatever Happened to Informed Consent?

Stella Paul September 9, 2023 Law, Public Health, Society 5 minute read

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Every American is a sovereign individual with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not a sack of meat to be treated as a profit opportunity. Informed consent must be revived from the grave if Americans are to have a fighting chance against powerful financial interests allied against them.

How “Fact Checking” Obliterates Truth

Thomas Buckley September 8, 2023 Media 10 minute read

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For “fact-checking” to have any legitimacy whatsoever, it needs to ditch rating the crazies. It also should start each week with releasing a list of 20 items, check each of those, and then write about all of them, true or false. At the very least, the public would know the fact-checkers aren’t hiding facts they don’t like.