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Supreme Court Finally Curbs CDC’s Total Power

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 27, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 9 minute read

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In a 6-3 decision, the highest court has called out the out-of-control agency that has been imposing itself on all aspects of American life for this past year. The majority opinion makes for fascinating reading, if only because the author or authors (the opinion is unsigned) expresses genuine alarm at the same reality that has wrecked the lives of billions of people all over the world. Our basic rights and liberties have been trampled on by states presuming no limits on their powers, and there has heretofore been very little in the way of judicial resistance.

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Beijing Did Not, Could Not, Cover Up the Virus

John Tamny / August 26, 2021 / Economics, Public Health / 5 minute read

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The virus was and is real, but never the threat that the expert, political and pundit class thought it to be. Because if it had been, experts, politicians and pundits would have panicked long before March of 2020.

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Plexiglass Nation

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 25, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 8 minute read

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There really must not be a living soul around who believes that these sheets of clear plastic, sitting on every surface and hanging from ceilings in retail environments all over the country, really protect anyone from the coronavirus. Surely not.

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Where Are We Now? An Interview with Jay Bhattacharya

Brownstone Institute / August 25, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 1 minute of reading

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In this interview with Unherd, conducted by Freddie Sayers, Jay Bhattacharya reflects on the aftermath and how events have transpired since the document was signed and promulgated. He speaks to a range of issues from lockdowns to vaccines and mandates.

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The Forgotten Principles of the Risk Assessment

Robert Freudenthal / August 23, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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These principles can help risk assessments function as intended – as a tool to help individuals and communities evaluate risk and put in place targeted measures, to contain and ultimately reduce anxiety, and to move away from more performative measures that simply serve to entrench anxiety and cause harm, without any benefit.

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Intellectual Courage Is as Essential as it Is Rare

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 19, 2021 / Economics, History, Policy, Public Health / 11 minute read

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We’ve long misconstrued who precisely can be part of the intellectual battle. Everyone without exception can qualify as an intellectual provided he or she is willing to take ideas seriously. Anyone and everyone is entitled to be part of it. Those who feel the burden and the passion of ideas more intensely, in Mises’s view, have a greater obligation to thrust themselves into the battle, even when doing so can bring disdain and isolation from one’s fellows – and doing so most certainly will (which is why so many people who should have known better have fallen silent).

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Biden’s Other Unwinnable War

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 16, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 9 minute read

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My overall impression is that the mask wearing and distancing are entirely performative at this point, just as the fighting in Afghanistan has been for the better part of 15 years – performative in the sense that no one really believes it is working but very real in terms of cost.

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Five Presentations on Viruses and Epidemics by Dr. Dan Stock

Brownstone Institute / August 14, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 2 minute read

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Brave intellectuals like Dan Stock continue to speak out. They have platforms, even if they get a fraction of the traffic of the mainstream

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The Respected Scientists Who Pushed for Alcohol Prohibition in 1920

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 13, 2021 / History, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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The Journal of the American Medical Association said of alcohol prohibition in 1920: “Most of us are convinced that it is one of the most beneficent acts ever passed by a legislature.”

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LinkedIn Censors Harvard Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff

Brownstone Institute / August 13, 2021 / Censorship, Philosophy, Public Health / 3 minute read

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Receiving less attention has been the rise of censorship on the Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, the social network for professionals that has thus far seemed to be a less active participant in the Covid information wars. Its largely passive approach is starting to change.

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Vaccine Mandates and the Pretense of Knowledge

John Tamny / August 12, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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Similarly, private businesses were in some instances going to shut down altogether, shut down partially, not at all, and many ways in between. What’s important is that varying actions in response to the virus were going to produce voluminous information about how it really spreads, along with the behavior and level of business openness most associated with spread. Human action was going to teach us about the behavior most associated with good health outcomes, while lockdowns based on highly limited information were going to blind us.

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Comedy and Tragedy in Two Americas

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 11, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 8 minute read

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What this means for people in open states is the dawning of a new consciousness. If they are going to keep their freedoms and good lives, they have to prepare for a new way of thinking. It’s a sense of independence and determination to avoid the hysteria, demands, and attacks from the party in power — and the media apparatus that works all day to bolster them.

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