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Wildfires and the Hoary Hoax of a Burning Planet

Wildfires and the Hoary Hoax of a Burning Planet

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The current raging California fires are largely a function of misguided government policies. Officials have essentially curtailed the supply of water available to firefighters, even as they have increased the supply of combustible kindling and vegetation which feeds these wildfires.

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Free Speech Win Down Under as Misinformation Bill Is Officially Binned

Free Speech Win Down Under as Misinformation Bill Is Officially Binned

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In a win for free speech advocates, the Australian Government formally abandoned its misinformation bill. The proposed laws would have forced social media companies to show that they were preventing the spread of misinformation and disinformation on their platforms.

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The Cost of Facebook’s Now-Repudiated Censorship

The Cost of Facebook’s Now-Repudiated Censorship

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Meta’s dismantling of its fact-checking program – announced by Zuckerberg as a “cultural tipping point towards prioritizing speech” – reads like a quiet footnote to what may be one of the most staggering violations of fundamental rights in recent memory.

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The Trump Administration Must Bring Moderna to Heel

The Trump Administration Must Bring Moderna to Heel

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The extent of the cover-up remains unknown, but Moderna, headed by CEO Stéphane Bancel, disregarded federal law requiring companies to report “summary results information, including adverse event information, for specified clinical trials of drug products” to clinicaltrials.gov.

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Nosferatu in the Wake of the Covid Experience

Nosferatu in the Wake of the Covid Experience

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Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula (1892) was written as a Victorian-style moralizing tale of sin and its consequences. The novel would become a bestseller largely due to its lascivious imagery and terrifying plotline that fed into every anxiety over morality, science, and public health, much less kick off a century and a quarter of vampire films.

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