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).
The Limits of Immanent Critique Continue Reading
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.
The Hidden Effects of Vaccines Continue Reading
The increasing rule of efficiency over truth is a sign of sliding into totalitarianism. And a sign of the decline of one of the key tenets of human dignity: the inner sense of truth.
The Rule of Efficiency over Truth Continue Reading
Christine Grady, HHS chief of bioethics (now retired, unless she chooses Alaska), and her husband, Dr. Anthony Fauci at NIAID, were central figures during the Zika virus controversy. Grady helped shape ethical guidelines, underlying those for a potential Zika vaccine.
The First Lady of Bad Ethics Continue Reading
Marine Le Pen is the most popular leader in France, yet the taxpayer-funded press corps ignores that salient detail while it smears her supporters as radicals amidst the lawfare campaign aimed at barring her from power.
The Regime Media versus Le Pen and the French Continue Reading
If the US dollar would become the new gold, other countries could hold it as collateral. Those other countries had a secret weapon: low production costs for manufacturing, backed by wages for labor that were a fraction of the US.
How Richard Nixon Wrecked Free Trade Continue Reading
A Licensed Texas Physician with significant experience successfully treating measles during the current outbreak is reporting a second tragic death of a chronically ill child who had been previously infected with measles in a Texas hospital.
Another Texas Child Dies after Recovering from Measles Continue Reading
The acting of becoming a mindful and hopefully ethical being has, for millennia, centered on a very simple dialogical process: one in which the child learns to view sensorial inputs in light of the wisdom of those who preceded him.
Generational Dialogue in the Age of Machines Continue Reading
In a spectacular feat of reality-denying partisanship, the political left has convinced itself that they’ve somehow admitted wrongdoing on their extremist Covid policies. Nothing, absolutely nothing, could be further from the truth.
The Atlantic Insists on Covid Denial Continue Reading
The majority of people who led lockdowns at the state and local level are still in their jobs despite having failed. The majority of journalists who spread fear and failed to hold power to account are still in their roles.
The Five-Year Anniversary of Covid Lockdowns Continue Reading
While I love seeing DOGE upend the government and expose both wasteful spending and heinous criminal operations masquerading as bureaucracy, we can’t let our guard down. Traditional methods won’t work – the deep state has its claws in everything.
Complacency Is Dangerous Continue Reading
By all accounts, Marty Makary’s confirmation hearing to lead the FDA went smoothly. But the real issue was not what the senators asked Makary—it was what they didn’t ask him that was most concerning. They sidestepped the FDA’s failures.
Senators’ Silence on the FDA’s Failures Continue Reading
