Korean Dramas and the Covid Collusion
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Korean dramas exhibit a parade of corrupt politicians, executives, judges, prosecutors, government officials, doctors, and mainstream news organizations, all on... Read more.
Prostate Cancer: Over-Testing and Over-Treatment
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The PSA test has a 78% false positive rate. An elevated PSA level can be caused by various factors besides prostate cancer. Moreover, a PSA test score can spur ... Read more.
The Rise of Global Conformism
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Opposition to global conformism does not mean retreating into an attitude of suspicion and hostility to all things foreign, new, or unfamiliar. The world’s va... Read more.
Heroic Nurses in Horrible Hospitals
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During Covid, responsible nurses were unable to perform their advocate role in many hospitals. Under the cover of a medical emergency, many hospitals devolved i... Read more.
False Knowledge is Our Fool’s Gold
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Many others, including Brownstone writers, have met with far worse treatment than that, including threats, insults, punishments, and the loss of jobs for sharin... Read more.
The Fall of Critical Thinking
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The most alarming aspect of the contemporary scene may actually not be things like the horrific potential of nuclear and biological weapons. Instead, it could b... Read more.
Destructive Solutions to Imaginary Problems
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At its recent Davos annual meeting, the WEF focused much of its attention on how to respond to the fictional “Disease X.” This alarmist concern about an ima... Read more.
Japan’s Covid and Conformity Mania
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Government-directed delusion combined with a culture of conformity can produce very comical (but sad) spectacles. Furthermore, social pressure has made it hard ... Read more.
Dissident Doctors Versus Blundering Bureaucrats in Japan
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In a conformist society like Japan, individuals refusing to bow to the crowd stand out. That has certainly been true during the Covid panic. With the help of in... Read more.
The Covid Narrative Flunked the Critical Thinking Test
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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 le... Read more.
A Brief History of Disease Hysteria
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Clearly the Covid panic is only the latest chapter in a continuing chronicle of corruption, exaggeration, and hysteria. For those who were observant and thinkin... Read more.
The Sad Fallout of Covid Panic in Japan
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In January, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gave a speech expressing worry about Japan’s low birth rate and declining population. However, the Covid panic foster... Read more.