“Half the Population Could Die!”: The Great Disease Panic of 2005-06
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If they tried to generate panic based on next to nothing in 2005-06, people should have asked at the time, what will they do when something real comes along? It... Read more.
A Caste System Threatens the West
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The great turn from ancient political and economic structures into more modern ones was not only about property rights, commercial freedoms, and the participation... Read more.
The CDC Alone Is Regulating Rental Markets
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We’ve entered into an area of post-truth governance. If they can take away your right to enforce rent collection from your own tenants — and this has been provisionally... Read more.
Forced Medicine: The New Frontier in Coercion
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Refusal to admit failure is costing us dearly right now, as they added layer upon layer of compulsion as a cover for honestly coming to terms with the appalling... Read more.
The New Segregationism
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The answer is not fear, not segregation, not lockdowns, not the imposition of medieval rules and castes. The answer is freedom and human rights. Somehow those institutions... Read more.
They Considered and Rejected Pandemic Closures in 1957
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Newspaper reports at the time offer no record of widespread public event cancellations much less forced closures. Sometimes college and high school football games... Read more.
What Were Lockdowners Thinking? A Review of Jeremy Farrar
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Every age has generated some fashionable and overriding reason why people cannot be free. Public health is the reason of the moment. In this author’s telling,... Read more.
The CDC Is a Threat to Science
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The unscientific nature of this game is summed up in the following realization. The Biden administration is toying with tactics and strategies for disease control... Read more.
How to Account for the CDC’s New Mask Advisory?
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The CDC seems more easily led by op-eds in political newspapers than actual scientific papers on the topic, of which there are many thousands now. The agency wants... Read more.
Rock Climbers, Skaters, and Risk Assessment
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We all make our own decisions based on our risk tolerances. Yes, that’s the most workable solution of all. Would that we had seen the merit of this approach back... Read more.
A Short History of the Great Barrington Declaration
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The Great Barrington Declaration changed everything. The negative press backfired. The scientists risked everything to write this Declaration... Read more.
Lockdown Ideology Originated in 2006 Under George W. Bush
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Lockdown might be the new orthodoxy but that doesn’t make it medically sound or morally correct. At least now we know that many great doctors and scholars in 2006... Read more.