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Where Have All the Lanternflies Gone?

Michael Lesher / September 25, 2023 / Policy / 10 minute read

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So remember the lanternfly. Remember how silly and how ephemeral was the story of its threat to us all. And yet, how seriously we were lectured that the lanternfly meant the End of the World. Remember it the next time you’re told that the entire globe is about to burn because people are driving cars or cooking with gas stoves. Or that somebody’s sniffles are going to kill you. Or that censorship is meant for your protection. Or that democracy and freedom aren’t really in your best interest.

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Did Lockdowns Finish Off Public Schooling?

Charles Krblich / September 25, 2023 / Education / 8 minute read

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The public schools cannot be fixed. The bureaucracy is over crowded. Union control is absolute. Awful ideas abound about everything. There is a tendency to rely on technology rather than time-tested fundamentals as the preferred solution to any problem. As a result, the amount of technology is overwhelming; The amount of basic reading, writing, and arithmetic – vastly underwhelming.

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Naomi Klein’s Extremely Strange Attack on Naomi Wolf

Toby Rogers / September 25, 2023 / Policy / 16 minute read

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Ms. Klein, the revolution that you have sought your whole life is right here — in the medical freedom movement — left, right, and, center; rich and poor; all nations, races, and ethnicities fighting with a common purpose to stop corporate capture and corruption. Together we can and will overthrow the Fascist Pharma State and create a world that supports, loves, respects, and protects all children.

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How Myocarditis Became the Silent Scandal of Covid Vaccination

Justin Hart / September 24, 2023 / Vaccines / 4 minute read

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Myocarditis – inflammation of the heart muscle – had never been linked to vaccines before. So when 28 cases were reported to the U.S. vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS) in January 2021, it raised eyebrows. By February, the trickle had become a stream. VAERS received 64 more reports, including two deaths. Then in March, Israel and the military started reporting cases too.

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Stuck to Our Own Metaphors

Thomas Harrington / September 24, 2023 / Philosophy / 8 minute read

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If there is anything that the Covid phenomenon has shown us, it is that in the third decade of the 21st century, it is precisely our most putatively literate classes that are least capable of accepting the various states of contingency implicit in the work of engaging with the vast complexity of the world.

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The Great Demoralization

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 23, 2023 / History, Public Health, Society / 8 minute read

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History provides many cases of a beaten down, demoralized, and increasingly poor and censored majority population being ruled over by an imperious, inhumane, sadistic, privileged, and yet tiny ruling class. We just never believed we would become one of those cases. The truth of this is so grim and glaring, and the likely explanation of what happened so shocking, that the entire subject is regarded as something of a taboo in public life.

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Ten Examples Where Experts Were Wrong

Steve Templeton / September 23, 2023 / Masks, Media, Public Health, Vaccines / 24 minute read

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Unfortunately, many of these examples are not becoming outdated. Mask mandates have returned in some places, including schools, despite no high-quality supporting evidence. Same for COVID vaccine booster recommendations for healthy people under 65. Many European countries, including Denmark, have altered their recommendations based on careful risk/benefit analyses. Once again, although it would seem obvious that U.S. leaders should have followed suit, that didn’t happen.

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Healthy Vaccinee Bias: Letter to the Editor of The Lancet Regional Health – Europe

Eyal Shahar / September 22, 2023 / Vaccines / 4 minute read

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I could have submitted this letter to you, as usually done, and published it here, if rejected. However, I had tried to submit letters three times before and decided to reverse the order this time. Incidentally, my second rejected letter was submitted to The Lancet, and the point I have made there about residual confounding bias was recently exposed (by others) in a letter to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.

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The Covid Narrative Flunked the Critical Thinking Test

Bruce W. Davidson / September 22, 2023 / Philosophy, Society / 8 minute read

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The essential problem has never been about one’s IQ. Many highly intelligent people (in an academic sense) swallowed a very dubious narrative, while others less academically gifted did not. The real divider was the ability and inclination to think critically about it.

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Adam Smith Vs. the Great Reset

Daniel Klein / September 21, 2023 / Philosophy, Policy / 18 minute read

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The book is an act of intimidation. It presages growing governmentalization, it advocates growing governmentalization, and communicates: Obey us or get hurt. Knuckle under or we will hurt you. The book is not only anti-liberal in its political outlook, it is illiberal in its manner of discoursing. Its whole manner is dishonest; the book is disagreeable to any dignified and self-respecting reader.

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Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Woman

Ramesh Thakur / September 21, 2023 / Law, Policy, Society / 14 minute read

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Price is a threat to the city-based power structures because she rejects the moral foundations on which the existing Aboriginal industry has been created. She is prepared to articulate an alternative moral framework as the pathway to genuine reconciliation and eventual union. This is why veteran Australian journalist Paul Kelly’s takeaway from the NPC address was: “Australia’s elites are in the process of being administered a huge shock.”

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Researchers Alarmed to Find DNA Contamination in Pfizer Vaccine

Maryanne Demasi / September 20, 2023 / Vaccines / 7 minute read

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Phillip Buckhaults, a cancer genomics expert, and professor at the University of South Carolina has testified before a South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Ad-Hoc Committee saying that Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine is contaminated with billions of tiny DNA fragments.

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