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Why Are So Many Choosing a Life in a Cage? ~ Dr. Julie Ponesse

Julie Ponesse / November 22, 2021 / Philosophy, Psychology, Public Health, Society / 11 minute read / Articles

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“Today, we face substantial rewards for compliance; if we comply with the government’s pandemic response measures (masking, distancing, lockdowns, and now the ever-increasing and nebulous vaccine rollout), we are granted the conditional privilege of reentrance into society; and the penalties for failing to comply? being bullied, shamed, excluded, cancelled, even fined or arrested.”

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The Urgent Need to Rediscover Meaning

Edward Curtin / November 22, 2021 / Philosophy / 11 minute read / Articles

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“Sooner or later we must come to terms with our own nature and destiny. What is the nature of man, of death, and what are the nature of the implications of death for the way in which we live our lives? The first two questions amount to asking about the nature of consciousness.” ~ David Lorimer

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How Much Have Vaccine Mandates Contributed to the Great Resignation?

Liam Cosgrove / November 22, 2021 / Economics / 5 minute read / Articles

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There’s a sinister, symptom of denying that the labor shortage and vaccine mandates are unrelated. It absolves political leaders of accountability. Given that unemployment is a major bipartisan issue, average citizens may oppose mandates if they thought they were contributing to driving people out of the workforce.

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Should Every American Older than 18 Get a Booster?

Vinay Prasad / November 21, 2021 / Public Health / 8 minute read / Articles

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The FDA cannot know that the benefits to such a man outweigh the risk. The FDA does not even know the benefits to this man and broader society outweigh the risks. The FDA is playing a dangerous game with vaccine perception.

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Protests and Rage Against Lockdowns and Mandates All Over the World

Brownstone Institute / November 21, 2021 / History, Media, Policy, Public Health, Society / 6 minute read / Articles, Video/Podcast

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Governments can continue to press these lockdowns and mandates against all scientific evidence and good public health or they can listen to the pains and anger of their own people.

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The Mental Health Crisis on College Campuses

Julie Birky / November 20, 2021 / Education, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read / Articles

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Threatening emails, door checkers, mandated testing, long quarantines, Plexiglas barriers, increased cleaning supplies, and mobile tracking apps have all been prioritized over the mental health of students.

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Biden Administration Pushes Mandate Despite Court and OSHA

Jeffrey A. Tucker / November 19, 2021 / Law, Policy, Society, Vaccines / 5 minute read / Articles

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If OSHA repeals the implementation and enforcement of a major edict, and a court strikes it down, and no one knows about either rebuke – media hardly reported these events – has it really happened? The White House is presuming not.

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A Fantasy of Virus-Free Air

Steve Templeton / November 19, 2021 / History, Public Health / 12 minute read / Articles

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In our current safety culture-driven pandemic response, any risk of infection is deemed unacceptable, and those who highlight potential costs of mitigation measures are labeled irresponsible and dangerous. However, safety worship and building engineers might override old-fashioned common sense, but they can’t override our own biology.

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New Book Exposes Fauci’s Mythological Scientific Acumen

Jordan Schachtel / November 19, 2021 / History, Public Health / 3 minute read / Articles

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Fauci and his compatriots flourish in Washington, D.C. because they are masters of media manipulation and the federal government bureaucracy. According to Dr. Atlas, Fauci, routinely exposed his lack of intellectual capacity and scientific expertise.

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Media Pushes Mass Confusion over Cause and Effect

Jeffrey A. Tucker / November 19, 2021 / Media, Philosophy, Public Health / 9 minute read / Articles

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A person who is convinced that making green tea causes it to rain isn’t going to be open-minded toward a lecture on atmospheric science and cloud formation. Similarly, based on the above examples, South Korea’s case increases are due to too much freedom, a virus caused 100,000 to die of drug overdoses, and the president can crush a pathogen with behavioral guidelines and mandates.

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Misinformation and the Ministry of Truth: Testimony to U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis

Jayanta Bhattacharya / November 18, 2021 / Media, Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read / Articles

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The ultimate ironic effect of the fact-checking enterprise – the Ministry of Truth — has been the promotion of misinformation. By boosting the demand for lockdown and COVID-restrictions, these errors have proven disastrous.

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Do masks reduce risk of COVID19 by 53%? How about 80%?

Vinay Prasad / November 18, 2021 / Masks, Public Health / 4 minute read / Articles

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Scientists have lost any consistent standards for evidence appraisal. Non randomized data with dirty measures of exposure and unrealistic effect sizes should set off warning bells. Or, if you want to just believe in things, then go ahead, just believe in them, but don’t pretend you are following a consistent framework for evaluating evidence.

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