The path forward is for us to abandon the outdated dichotomies through which we formerly interpreted politics and the world and instead turn our attention to how to make the world more and more human and less and less inhuman.
Days after the Journal of the Academy of Public Health’s official launch, Science Magazine criticised it in a news item. A scientist wrote that the fact that Science feared our new journal suggested that we were on the right track.
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Snow White opened with devastating reviews and empty theaters coast to coast. It’s fascinating to reflect on how this film got caught in the cultural crosshairs. To understand it, we need to return to 2020 and the lockdowns.
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While the FDA has finally taken steps to close a regulatory loophole regarding “poppers” and amyl nitrate right before Trump’s FDA commissioner has taken office, they haven’t advanced regulatory action on illicit marketing, sales, and abuse of nitrous oxide.
The discursive norms on LinkedIn are a convention, a social practice, a type of theater for the purposes of financial gain. The dialect is an artifice. Corporate Pollyannaism is unconcerned and often contemptuous of the truth.
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In the news this week, the incredible lengths taken by the Victorian government to hide the health advice on which its extremist Covid policies were supposedly based. The Victorian Government should have no qualms about releasing its top-secret health advice.
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When reading In Covid’s Wake, it becomes immediately clear that its authors, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee, have very little curiosity, never mind understanding, of the immense body of superb research produced outside the academy during the past five years.
My sample sizes are small. But if they are robust, they point to terrible outcomes for public health. Smoking is the real threat and any restriction on the vape market will probably lead to an increase in smoking.
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Both conservatives and left-leaning people in Japan usually fail to realize the damage being done here as a result of the Covid measures. However, Japanese Covid dissidents are still keeping up their heroic struggle to make the truth known.
A landmark lawsuit against Merck is underway, marking the company’s first jury trial over claims it misrepresented the safety of its profitable Gardasil HPV vaccine. Newly declassified documents have revealed troubling details about Merck’s failure to conduct key safety tests.
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What can be done and how to get from here to there? Trump’s executive order on the Department of Education illustrates the point precisely. His administration is so uncertain of what it can control, even to urge minor reforms.
Liber-net has built a database of almost 1000 federal government awards from 2016-2024 that went towards countering “misinformation”. That work looked partly at government funding but focused more on the leading censorship organisations and their often public and private support.
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