It feels almost dangerous putting those three words in the title of an article. If science is simply a matter of evidence and causal inference, it should be fearless and not doctrinaire. It should go where evidence leads.
Killing survivors, which is the current USDA policy, is certifiably insane. But it whips the nation into a fearful frenzy, ready to buy eggs from Turkey so we won’t starve to death. The conventional narrative reeks of anti-science and fraud.
If there is one thing we should be clear on today, it’s that the origin of this plague of imbecility is the Enlightenment, a movement of civilizational annihilation in the service of predatory imperialism.
Elegance matters, not only because it makes the world more aesthetically pleasing, but because it reminds us in these times when obscenely powerful elites are trying for their own nefarious reasons to convince us that we are all pretty interchangeable.
At least 30% of Republicans (65% of Democrats) agree that WHO health professionals aim to help nations improve health and at least a third of Democrats (70% of Republicans) agree that the WHO is too close to nations like China.
Voter Opinion about WHO Driven by Party Affiliation Read Journal Article
The balance between national sovereignty and freedom is delicate. To permanently detach governing structures from citizen control, even if only through a periodic plebiscite, courts disaster even on topics like trade, to say nothing of infectious disease and virus research.
What if the America you pledge allegiance to isn’t the one running the show? This investigation examines how America’s governance system fundamentally transformed since 1871 through a documented pattern of legal, financial, and administrative changes.
This week, Ioannidis and his colleagues published a paper on Covid-19 advocacy bias in the BMJ, concluding that the ‘BMJ had a strong bias in favour of authors advocating an aggressive approach to COVID-19 mitigation.’
This article tells the story of one of the most disturbing breaches of scientific ethics we’ve encountered in our academic careers—buried in the peer-review process of one of the world’s leading vaccination journals.
Ethical Collapse in the Peer Review of a Leading Vaccine Journal Read Journal Article
Last week a brief was delivered to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s Chief of Staff, urging inclusion of medical training schools in the implementation guidance for President Trump’s Executive Order, “Keeping Education Accessible and Ending Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools.”
A First Step Towards Autonomy in Medical Education Read Journal Article
Immanent critique is the ultimate academic flex. It shows that you understand your opponent’s argument better than they understand it themselves. It disarms your opponent without a clash of swords (metaphorical or literal).
If we want to restore trust in vaccination, we must move beyond the binary thinking of “pro-vaccine” versus “anti-vaccine”. Acknowledging the complexity of vaccines is the only way to ensure that public health policies serve the best interests of all.
