Until consumerism, the elderly were seen as a precious resource, providing us all with wisdom. So what eventually happens to a culture that has worked overtime to keep the key human realities of death and diminishment locked in the closet?
To Lock Death in a Dark Room Continue Reading
As is well known, Sweden handled the Covid pandemic in a different way to the rest of the world. There were no closures of economic activities or schools and national borders were kept open. Anders Tegnell worked as the state epidemiologist in the Swedish Public Health Authority (FHM) during the pandemic. He was not the top leader of FHM, but in his capacity as state epidemiologist became FHM’s external face. Together with journalist Fanny Härgestam, Tegnell has written a book about the pandemic and here is a summary of it.
History Will Remember Tegnell’s Covid Heroism Continue Reading
It has been surprisingly difficult to get an answer to a simple and highly relevant question: Is aluminium in vaccines harmful? After having studied the best evidence we have, the randomised trials, I conclude that the answer is yes.
Aluminium in Vaccines Is Harmful Continue Reading
Laura Delano’s book weaves together these pieces into an alarming tale of tragedy followed by final hope. From the first chapter in which the supposed problems begin, I could not wait to see how the author would handle the ending.
Psych Meds and Veblen Goods Continue Reading
It’s long past time for the pandemic central planners to level with the American people about what they were attempting and why. They did not explain then, and they have yet to explain to this day.
The Purpose of Social Distancing Was Not to Wait for a Vaccine Continue Reading
For all the talk of the power of Big Pharma, the Covid-19 vaccine that is currently becoming the standard throughout the Western world has a far more powerful state sponsor and the state sponsor is Germany. This raises particularly obvious and thorny issues for the European Union, where the vaccine contracts for all 27 member states were negotiated by a European Commission that is headed by former German Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen.
The Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine Monopoly: The Backstory Continue Reading
There is a raging discussion about whether the leaked final redactions of the minutes of the Robert Koch Institute’s Covid-19 crisis group are forgeries. At least one ostensibly unredacted and highly publicised passage in the documents suggests that they are.
Forgery at the Robert Koch Institute? Continue Reading
Outbreaks do occur and we should monitor and prepare for them. However, we have allowed the development of a system where outbreaks are almost all that matter. Perceptions of risk, and resultant funding, have become grossly disproportionate to reality. The perverse incentives driving this are obvious, as are the harms. The world will be increasingly unequal and impoverished, and sick, building on the outcomes of the Covid response. Fear promotes profit better than calmness and context. It is on us to remain calm and continually educate ourselves regarding context. No one will sell these to us.
Bird Flu, Fear, and Perverse Incentives Continue Reading
Every single candidate should be asked to explain their answer to a basic question: what in your view is the role of government? Whatever the answer is, all existing practices of government need to be assessed in light of that.
What Is Really Going on at Federal Agencies? Continue Reading
It’s over, that phase of American history, when a bunch of people baptized in the values of the 1960s, could be expected to provide the intellectual framework necessary to move society forward. There is no recovery from what they did, they collaborated with the enemy when the fate of society was on the line. To use their favorite phrase — they became “constitutive of” the predatory system they once sought to critique. Our society is so corrupt that the term “intellectual” no longer has a coherent meaning.
How Did the World’s Smartest People Fail So Miserably? Continue Reading
