Big Pharma’s Rap Sheet
The rap sheet of illegal activities is alarming. It seems that barely a month goes by without some pharmaceutical company in court, somewhere. Criminal convictions are common and fines tally into the billions.
What Broke Libertarianism?
Nearly the whole of the professional, intellectual, and government class has betrayed the cause of universal human liberty in our times. But among those who were supposed to be less susceptible were the libertarians. They fell too, and tragically so.
Mathematical Models Are Weapons of Mass Destruction
Mathematical modelling is a good servant but a bad master. If it turns out that mathematical models were – once again – wrong, it may be too late to undo the damage caused in the name of “combating” climate change.
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Technocrats and Authoritarianism
As the ideal of representative democracy moved to the center of European and American life, those slated to lose power began touting a modern wisdom that would spare us the inefficiency of government by and for the people.
Trump’s 63 Million Doses of Hydroxychloroquine Could Have Been Great for America
Following Trump’s proposal, HCQ came under an unwarranted full-scale attack from federal officials, the press, “fact-checkers,” and university professors. Many of the attacks contained falsehoods about HCQ’s pharmacology and safety or Trump’s endeavor to make HCQ available to eligible patients.
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Doctors, Not Bureaucrats, Know Best
The White Coat Summit doctors were finding that HCQ administered at the onset of Covid illness was preventing progression of the disease. It was their professional opinion that HCQ could have an impact on bringing the pandemic to an end.
The Media Wants a Return to 2020
A combination of immunity across the population effectively ended the pandemic. It had nothing to do with any pandemic policies from governments. The fact that this is up for debate is a testament to the power of media misinformation.
The Curious Case of Mark Zuckerberg
On August 27, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a statement confirming what the Twitter Files, Murthy vs. Missouri, and many others had long claimed – that the Biden administration aggressively pushed to censor First Amendment-protected speech on social media.
Censors Unmasked: Flaherty, Gottlieb, and Slavitt
With all these new court documents, and intrepid researchers so heavily focused on the case, we are more aware than ever of the multitude of ways that government and its partners are curating public culture for political ends.
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Why the Ruling Class Fears Democracy
Being unheard and vilified has broken public trust in the underpinning institutions of democracy. In the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer, less than half the people in high-income developed countries trust their government, media, business, and NGOs.
Entertainment Weaponized
Entertainment is ‘weaponized’ against populations through films or television series which communicate a mostly subliminal, but sometimes more explicit, ‘message’ to viewers about what to expect in the future, thus ‘pre-programming’ them for such events.
Trust in Doctors and Hospitals Plummets
A new paper in JAMA analyzes survey respondents in the US over the period of time right after the Covid pandemic started in April 2020 and through early 2024. It reveals a significant decline in trust in physicians and hospitals.