The True Test of One’s Commitment to Free Speech
Moral emergencies are the times when our principles are most vulnerable to negotiation and even complete collapse.
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Dr. Frieden’s Follies
The failure of public health authorities to honestly appraise a series of historic failures shows why they were so ill-suited to the task. Perhaps they do not have the skills to analyze, execute, learn, and course correct. Or maybe the institutions – from the FDA and CDC to local and state health departments to medical schools – lack some kind of organizational fortitude or resistance to groupthink.Â
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Lockdowns, Mandates, and Natural Immunity: Kulldorff vs. Offit
“We have seen during this last year and a half that all the hard work we’ve done over many decades to build trust in vaccines are now disappearing because we’re making these mandates that makes no sense from a scientific or public health perspective.” ~ Martin Kulldorff
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The Infuriating Habit of Ignoring Natural Immunity
Perhaps they think the public is too stupid to react thoughtfully to the truth, or perhaps something more sinister is afoot. At this point, I wouldn’t blame a soul for suspecting the latter.
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The Stablecoin Trap: The Backdoor to Total Financial Control
While the debate rages over the future threat of CBDCs, a far more insidious reality has already taken hold: our existing financial system already functions as a digital control grid, monitoring transactions, restricting choices, and enforcing compliance through programmable money.
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Trump’s Ukraine Policy Changes the World Order
With President Donald Trump’s re-election and his well-known views, Europe and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky faced an in-tray from hell. The interesting question is: Will this awaken Europe from its strategic slumber?
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The Progressive Authoritarian Tide Retreats
Governments have managed simultaneously to be increasingly out of touch with people’s real concerns and meddlesome busybodies interfering in people’s daily lives. The result is that the liberal democratic order is being stress-tested domestically just like the liberal international order.
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The Greatest Failure in the History of Public Health: The Case for the Prosecution
Governments got it all wrong. They should have chosen the mitigation strategy all along, leaving the management of pathogens to actual medical professionals who deal with individuals and their problems rather than push a central plan hatched by computer scientists, political leaders, and their advisors..Â
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Downplaying the Adverse Effects of Boosters
Downplaying. That has been a handy weapon against anything that threatened the official Covid narrative. Downplaying skeptical voices, downplaying uncertainties, downplaying contradictory data. I recently described a typical example of the latter from Denmark. Here is another one, from Israel, which gives us a dual opportunity.
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Mitigation Is the Golden Calf
It was evident to me from the early days of the lockdown that something very cult-like was occurring. When quite literally nothing happened during those first 15 days to justify the lockdowns, the mantra of “just wait two weeks” was on the lips of the believers of the Branch Covidians, much like how a doomsday cult leader is allowed to pick new dates when the aliens don’t show when they are supposed to.Â
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