Together, Apart
What do all these “Babel moments” have in common? If we recognize the moment while we are in it, can we do something to change our course, to make the outcome less disastrous than it might otherwise be?
Francis Collins Accidentally Reveals His Own Incompetence
Collins also acknowledged that the public health profession, the profession he was effectively leading during the most important crisis of its modern existence, paid “zero” attention to what the ensuing trade-offs would be from the immense restrictions imposed on the public.
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Fauci’s Lies Are Catching up with Him
It turns out that Senator Paul did know what he was talking about, and it was Fauci that was lying and deflecting. Or maybe it was just a memory failure, as Fauci repeatedly claimed during his Missouri v Biden testimony.
A Helpless, Weary, and Traumatized Populace
For many, I think, the idea that governments might have the capacity and the desire to assault their own populations with well-organized and persistent campaigns of information warfare seems rather far-fetched.
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Too Big to Fail
Whether on the plains of Shirah or in a lab in Marburg, faith in human technology outpaces our ability to focus and mold it. The “We can, so we will” attitude barrels us ahead without the guidance of whether “We should.”
Brownstone Institute’s Struggle for a Better World
So many institutions, including nonprofits, failed us for these terrible years. From under the rubble came Brownstone Institute to show the way out. We see the profound difference it makes for a single voice to rise up and empower so many other voices.
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Inside the Henry Ford Vaccine Controversy
When an unpublished study from one of America’s most respected hospital networks surfaced in the US Senate last month, it reignited a fierce debate in medicine: are vaccinated children healthier than unvaccinated children?
The Pandemic That Broke Our Faith in Modeling
There is no going back to a time before Covid-19 made our world crazy. You are right to be mistrustful of trusted officials and respected institutions. Zweig’s writing lays out all the evidence you need to feel this way.
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Charlie Kirk and Socrates
In short, it appears that, as several commentators have observed – and as we know from history – in death, Charlie Kirk is proving to be much stronger than in life. This has always been the case with martyrs.
Vaccine Misunderstanding…or Intentional Deception?
With Covid-19 we were told that vaccination was our only way out of the pandemic, that natural immunity from prior infection was insufficient protection, and that the Covid vaccines were 95% effective. Except it wasn’t, because “95% effective” was based on obfuscation.
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The Rise and Fall of Scientific Journals and a Way Forward
Scientific journals have had enormous positive impact on the development of science, but in some ways, they are now hampering rather than enhancing open scientific discourse. After reviewing the history and current problems with journals, a new academic publishing model is proposed.
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Echoes of the Great Famine in the Covid Era
The lesson is simple. Trust people with their lives, their choices, their communities. Governments have formal responsibilities to their people, and micromanaging breathing or bread consumption are not among them. Let crises teach humility, not hubris.
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