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The Dystopian Vision of the Health-Information Police

Laura Powell / September 24, 2022 / Law, Policy / 10 minute read

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Assembly Bill 2098 would empower the Medical Board of California to go after the licenses of physicians who disseminate “misinformation” or “disinformation” regarding Covid-19. The bill in its latest iteration defines misinformation as “false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care.” The inscrutability of this definition lies at the core of the bill’s opponents concerns.

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In Defense of Jay Bhattacharya

Donald Boudreaux / January 12, 2023 / Education / 4 minute read

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The deceptive description of the policy proposed in the GBD as a “let it rip” strategy was fueled by the purposeful – or perhaps recklessly ignorant – mischaracterization of the GBD by Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci. Prof. Bhattacharya calls not for letting the virus “rip,” but, instead, for Focused Protection. Focusing resources, attention, and care on those persons who are vulnerable while rejecting the utterly unprecedented practice of locking down whole societies is emphatically not a “let it rip” strategy.

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The Scapegoat Mechanism

Naruhiko Mikado / August 20, 2022 / Philosophy, Society / 5 minute read

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The scapegoat mechanism is a speculative device to explain how some of the human systems, in a fairly broad sense of the phrase, establish and keep their order. The most fundamental tenet is that order is attained and sustained through the cyclic sacrifice of an entity that is internally excluded.

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Lockdowns Were Counterterrorism, Not Public Health

Debbie Lerman / January 18, 2023 / History, Policy, Technology / 11 minute read

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Anyone who knows what our Covid response policy truly was is theoretically barred from revealing it. We do know the public health agencies were not in charge of the policy, and we know they were pushed out of their leadership role in coordinating and implementing the response. So Fauci et al. are technically correct if they claim no responsibility – although how they could in good conscience advocate such policies is another matter.

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The Psychology of Mimetic Contagion

Aaron Kheriaty / April 26, 2022 / Psychology, Society / 8 minute read

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Participation in the ritual, which lacks pragmatic advantages and requires sacrifice, demonstrates that the collective is higher than the individual. For this portion of the population, it doesn’t matter whether the measures are absurd. Think of walking into a restaurant with a mask on, and removing it as soon as one sits down, for example.

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Pascal Made Slaves of Us All

Toby Young / January 12, 2023 / Philosophy / 21 minute read

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We need something more than rational scepticism. We need a new ideology – something like a religious movement of our own – one that’s more optimistic about the future of humanity, that places a little more faith in the ability of people to do their own risk assessments and voluntarily adjust their behaviour if necessary.

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Kennedy, DeSantis and a Covid Reckoning Election

Ramesh Thakur / June 16, 2023 / Government, Policy, Society / 17 minute read

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The political implications of DeSantis and Kennedy’s successful challenge against the establishment narrative on all things Covid would reverberate in many other Western democracies and encourage other major parties to differentiate themselves from the ruling establishment as lockdown and vaccine sceptics and opponents.

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Biden’s Other Unwinnable War

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 16, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 9 minute read

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My overall impression is that the mask wearing and distancing are entirely performative at this point, just as the fighting in Afghanistan has been for the better part of 15 years – performative in the sense that no one really believes it is working but very real in terms of cost.

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The Future of Biology Studies is Obedience to Orthodoxy

Daniel Nuccio / December 27, 2022 / Education / 7 minute read

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Countless people from all walks of life have found themselves lost in a shared Kafkaesque dream since the dawn of the Pandemic Era nearly three years ago, yet, what makes accounts such as those contained here particularly jarring is that these students were not simply contending with a class of administrative automotons, as many have, but with well-trained, well-educated biologists – the kind of people one might have initially expected to put up the greatest resistance to illogical and scientifically unsound Covid policies.

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State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 4

Ramesh Thakur / January 5, 2023 / Government, History, Policy, Public Health / 8 minute read

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With help from the media, social media and police, people were frightened, shamed and coerced into submission and compliance with arbitrary and increasingly authoritarian government edicts. The intense and unrelenting propaganda unleashed on the people by governments using sophisticated tactics of psychological manipulation and enthusiastically amplified by the media was astonishingly successful in a remarkably short time.

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