The Fairy Tales of Empire
The violence and exploitation that used to be directed from the First World outward to the periphery in the Third World is now directed inward toward enslaving the middle class in the U.S. and Europe via iatrogenic illness.
September 9th Is International Falsely Accused Day
Lies and mistakes in the application of justice harm men, women, and children who deserve to grow up in a just society. On September 9, celebrate the better future offered by International Falsely Accused Day.
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More Access. More Choice. Less Cost.
Secretary Kennedy is right to question the cost and power of the American Medical Association’s Current Procedural Terminology monopoly. But eliminating CPT would solve the wrong problem—and could create a much larger one.
Saving Lives Should Not Require Permission
Will we repeat actions simply because the correct institution has ordered them? The Humane Societies asked whether the apparently dead could be resuscitated. Our question is now more unsettling: can medicine recover its courage before its conscience is gone?
Pfizer and the CIA Privately Cited High Population Immunity in May 2020, Unclassified Document Reveals
The latest Fauci-focused document tranche released by Senator Rand Paul contains a surprising nugget buried as part of a CIA report. On May 7, 2020, CIA Chief Operating Officer Andy Makridis led a briefing with Dr. Scott Gottlieb.
Human Rights in the Post-Pandemic Era
Any decision to override the fundamental rights of populations should be resisted and at a minimum must be robust and defensible. It should not rest on the basis of opinion, especially opinion that can be controverted.
A Nothing Burger
People are emailing right and left about this proposed Executive Order from President Trump giving farmers and ranchers the right to process their animals on their own properties for their consumption. Duh, that is already legal.
Beware of Starship Captains Who Bear Gift Cards
Next time you see one of those scammy Medicare ads, write to your elected officials and demand that brokers present all options to the seniors that they serve and abide by the same fiduciary standard as if they were recommending financial investments.
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The Herd Immunity Fallacy
Even under idealized assumptions of highly effective or “sterilizing” immunity, maintaining herd immunity in practice is complicated by continual population turnover, global migration, and the ease of international travel, all of which allow for repeated reintroduction of pathogens into communities.
Does the Flu Vaccine Prevent Death?
My letter is concerned with the effect of the flu vaccine on flu-related death. That’s the ultimate endpoint of interest for vaccine effectiveness (VE) research, yet it is not captured in most studies that employ the test-negative design.
America’s Drug Shortage Is a National Security Crisis
A nation that cannot supply its hospitals with essential medicines is not merely experiencing an inconvenient drug shortage. It has discovered a strategic vulnerability, and the next time that vulnerability is exposed may be precisely when we can least afford it.
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Game Theory and the Push to Go Along
The final kill switch is transparent noncoerced consent. Instead of taking “a share of the loot” from the drug-DOPE game, we need our universities, the National Institutes of Health, and our medical system to enshrine the principle of non-coerced consent.