In my own field of anesthesiology, the best way to avoid risk is to do nothing at all. I suppose this makes me a walking contradiction: a physician who prescribes medicine while also being somewhat wary of medicine.
A Doctor in Full Continue Reading
Innovative financing looks to be yet more false advertising for global health financing reform, where its ‘huge untapped potential’ mainly lies with how to further promote vested interests at the expense of comprehensive global public health.
Beyond empathy, to combat a psychic epidemic we need meaning in our lives. Not an ersatz top-down solidarity, dreamt up by technocratic communications experts, but genuine, socially meaningful relationships, purpose and values. Lockdowns and restrictions squashed exactly what we need to flourish as human beings in order to counteract a psychic epidemic. For the good of the collective, we must recapture meaning and values as individuals.
The Moral Cruelty of the Pandemic Response Continue Reading
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? Continue Reading
The “anti-misinformation” projects are obvious miscarriages of civility, decency, and the rule of law. We must rediscover the norms of openness, tolerance, and free speech that dignify humankind. Science depends on confidence, and confidence depends on those liberal norms. Those norms are the parents of good science, healthy sense-making, and civil tranquility.
Misinformation Is a Word We Use to Shut You Up Continue Reading
Not only are the test results confidential, even the methodology used hasn’t been made public. The world just has to take manufacturers’ word that there’s no contamination or variability with the mRNA sequence or its lipid nanoparticle components – even though published epidemiology data indicate otherwise.
The FDA and Vaccine Manufacturers Refuse to Show Us Their Work Continue Reading
Casa Garcia’s, 1901 W William Cannon, Austin TX 78745 6:00pm – 9:00pm Austin, Texas $55 per person for appetizer, dinner, speaker Please join us for an evening of laugh-out-loud conversation and “I feel better already” community with humorist and freedom-fighter Jenna McCarthy. While Jenna has a long and accomplished resume, she’s
Brownstone Austin Supper Club April 22, 2026: Jenna McCarthy Continue Reading
Not one governor performed perfectly during the pandemic and lockdowns. With media pressure, a desire to balance their constituents, and a desire to get reelected and move on to federal positions down the road, it was an enormously difficult job for all of them. For every single one, from Governors Newsom and Cuomo to Noem and DeSantis, it was the most challenging policy-making of their careers, and for any governor in perhaps American history
Grading the Governors: Who Locked Down and Who Opened? Continue Reading
Students have begun to protest against mask mandates, and one group in an Illinois high school has received some national attention for their position. The group is Voices Unmasked and they are associated with a suburban high school outside of Chicago that has long imposed a severe masking policy.
Most of Our High School Lives Behind Masks Continue Reading
In short, Americans (indeed, the entire world) now realize that the Biden administration is dedicated to getting as many illegal aliens into the country as possible. This is, of course, aiding and abetting illegal behavior, but rampant corruption in the media, academia, and politics ignores or dismisses it.
Gears of the Refugee Machine Continue Reading
