Civility is not conformity. It is not agreement per se, but rather how we handle our disagreements. A society made up of identical citizens speaking and thinking in perfect unison, perfectly purged of moral tension, is in no need of civility.
Canada’s Inferno of Incivility Read Journal Article
If you hear your pharmacist, physician, or academic dean parrot the malignant regurgitated trope of “Ivermectin doesn’t work for Covid” or that there is “no evidence” or “no data” to support ivermectin’s use in Covid-19, send them this meta-analysis summary and annotated bibliography of over 100 studies.
Send This Article to People Who Say “Ivermectin Doesn’t Work for Covid-19” Read Journal Article
With all these new court documents, and intrepid researchers so heavily focused on the case, we are more aware than ever of the multitude of ways that government and its partners are curating public culture for political ends.
Censors Unmasked: Flaherty, Gottlieb, and Slavitt Read Journal Article
Even before the pandemic, the best available evidence – randomized controlled trials – already showed that masks are ineffective in containing respiratory viral transmission. Additional RCTs conducted during the pandemic support this conclusion. Therefore, the best available evidence does not support even the recommendation of wearing masks, let alone making them compulsory.
Cochrane Ends the Masking Rage Read Journal Article
In sum, while the poisonous aspect of the media pharmakon has not nearly exhausted its toxic potency, the curative side has incrementally been gaining strength and therapeutic effectiveness, as reflected in the anxiety of the ‘Davos elites,’ detectable in their worry, that they no longer ‘own the news.’ They thought they had it all under control, but were caught unawares by the unexpected power of the alternative media – those ever-expanding digital spaces of the machine inhabited by the resistance.
Technology: Weapon of the People Read Journal Article
Let us hope that the lockdown years were aberrant but it would be wiser to see them as a possible template for what some sectors of elite society truly do have in store. And with Covid, the key to compliance is always and everywhere the same: fear.
Are You Being Frightened Not to Travel? Read Journal Article
The case for nuclear weapons rests on a superstitious belief of magical Realism in the utility of the bomb and the theory of deterrence. The extreme destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes them qualitatively different in political and moral terms from other weapons, to the point of rendering them virtually unusable. Like the emperor who had no clothes, this might well be the truest explanation of why they have not been used since 1945.
My Transition from Nuclear to Covid Read Journal Article
The paper shows evidence of vaccine-related deaths—from Covid—within two weeks of an injection in people who were previously infected. The evidence is at least as good as the paper’s evidence for vaccine effectiveness against Covid death in fall 2021.
Long Post-Vaccination Censorship Read Journal Article
The bill outsources truth policing to social media platforms on the pain of having to pay up to 5% of their annual revenue if they fail to comply. The result is sure to be a massive chilling effect.
The Australian Government Reboots the Misinformation Bill Read Journal Article
Will future campaigns to control Wikipedia narratives rely on this technology? What is the future of a crowd-sourced knowledge base such as Wikipedia that depends on the high cost in human time and social interaction of making an edit to a controversial topic when the ability to automate this makes it close to free?
Was “Philip Cross” an AI? Read Journal Article
