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Jeffrey A. Tucker | August 22, 2022 | Philosophy, Technology | 11 minute read

How Could We Have Been So Naive about Big Tech?

During lockdowns and medical mandates, the power of the state and its corporate allies truly reached its apotheosis, and failed us miserably. Our times cry out for justice, for clarity, and for making a difference to save ourselves and our civilization. We should approach this great project with our eyes wide open and with ears to hear different points of view on how we get from here to there.

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John Mac Ghlionn | August 21, 2022 | Technology | 4 minute read

Digital ID in Canada. Is the US Next?

With Canadian authorities creating the infrastructure required to implement a digital identification network, some are concerned that a social credit system similar to the one in China is just around the corner. Their concerns are warranted. Digital IDs lay the path for social credit systems. Without them, a credit system would be impossible.

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Thomas Harrington | August 21, 2022 | Philosophy | 9 minute read

How We Lost Agency and Acquiesced to Power

Keeping the peace at all costs has become a sacred and unquestionable goal among large parts of our society, especially among its more credentialed sectors. This implacably strict pose positions multitudes into a spirit of acquiescence to power, no matter how dangerous or devastating the results.

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Dutch Jenkins | August 20, 2022 | Government, Policy, Public Health | 8 minute read

The CDC’s “Community Level” Tool Is Broken

Once a government agency, business or school adopts the CDC’s Community Level tool, flexibility to make masking decisions based on accurate local data and prevalence of vaccines and treatments in a local community are completely removed. Instead, the owner of a complex, inaccurate CDC database is managing all your decisions related to COVID-19.

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Maryanne Demasi | August 20, 2022 | Policy | 5 minute read

The Declining Standards of FDA Drug Approvals

Independent experts now say the declining evidentiary standards, shortening approval times, and increasing industry involvement in FDA decision-making, has led to distrust, not only of the agency, but in the safety and effectiveness of medicines, in general.

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Naruhiko Mikado | August 20, 2022 | Philosophy, Society | 5 minute read

The Scapegoat Mechanism

The scapegoat mechanism is a speculative device to explain how some of the human systems, in a fairly broad sense of the phrase, establish and keep their order. The most fundamental tenet is that order is attained and sustained through the cyclic sacrifice of an entity that is internally excluded.

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David Bell | August 19, 2022 | Philosophy, Public Health | 9 minute read

What Is Man That Science Art Mindful of Him?

The people who orchestrated isolation in nursing homes in 2020, who enforced malnutrition on hundreds of millions, who condemned millions of girls to servitude, are not doing so with ‘right’ or ‘wrong‘ in mind. They don’t accept that such fixed concepts exist. If there is nothing beyond the physical, then their actions are rational and cannot be wrong.

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Steve Templeton | August 19, 2022 | Public Health, Society | 6 minute read

There Was No Pandemic Mastermind

All one had to do was believe the illusion. Because of the absolute terror of the unknown and complete ignorance of the risks of severe disease and death, most people were more than willing to take comfort in CDC recommendations and subsequent government mandates without the slightest hint of skepticism or protest.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker | August 19, 2022 | Economics, Philosophy, Policy | 7 minute read

How To Tame a Bureaucracy? Get Rid of It

There needs to be a to-be-abolished list and any federal government institution with the word agency, department, or bureau needs to be on it. The last few years have shown us the power of these institutions and the devastation they can cause. The only sure way of preventing it from happening again is to put a hard stop on all the bureaucracies that caused our suffering. Society itself, which is smarter than bureaucracy, can manage the rest.

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Joanna Moncrieff | August 18, 2022 | Public Health | 9 minute read

How We Have Been Misled About Antidepressants

Psychiatric drugs have been misunderstood and misrepresented in the interests of profit and professional status. It is time to let people know not only that the serotonin story is a myth, but that antidepressants change the normal state of the body, brain and mind in ways that may occasionally be experienced as useful, but may be harmful too.

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Robert Malone | August 18, 2022 | Education, Policy | 7 minute read

More on College Vaccine Mandates

Many of the very best schools in the nation are still requiring vaccines and boosters. However, some of the very best schools in the nation are not. Luckily a group has taken it upon themselves to sort this issue out for parents and students.

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Harvey Risch | August 18, 2022 | Government, Policy, Public Health | 2 minute read

CDC’s Ludicrous Makeover

The CDC’s announcement covers everything except the fundamental problem to which the director and the external reviewer are blind: industry subservience and epidemiologic incompetence.

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