Once advocacy and industry are financially interdependent, neither has reason to question the other’s assumptions. Funding circulates between the same actors; criticism is treated as heresy; and innovation that arises outside the sanctioned ecosystem is dismissed as industry propaganda.
Who Funds the Room Where It Happens? Continue Reading
It seems remarkable that the executive order creating Schedule F was issued at all. It needs to be pressed upon any future reformers as a path to revisit, ideally with legislative support. Until that time, there will continue to be the grave problem that our elected officials are positioned to be little more than dancing marionettes while the administrative state wields all the real power.
What If People Actually Controlled the Government? Continue Reading
This is the year of elections, with 50 (World Economic Forum), 64 (Time), or 80 (Guardian) countries and the EU going to the polls, accounting for almost half the world’s total population. The list includes the US and India, the world’s most powerful and populous democracies, respectively. The US presidential election is the most internationally consequential of all while, by sheer weight of numbers, India’s is the most awe-inspiring.
The Year of Elections Continue Reading
We are about to find out whether the frogs really boil to oblivion, or whether they recognize the water is scalding and make the effort to leap to freedom – even risking a fall and injury in the process. After all, standing against tyrants was never actually supposed to be safe. The water is quite hot. It is not the experiment as I imagined it to be, but we are soon to find the answer.
The Painless Extinction of Formerly Free Australia Continue Reading
If you’re an early- or mid-career faculty member and you’ve never tried teaching online—except perhaps for an unpleasant Zoom experience in 2020-21—I would encourage you to give real online teaching a try.
Why I Came around to Online Learning Continue Reading
Free people of the world are duly warned: embark on this path at your own risk. What you take for granted today may well be gone for good
How Quickly Our Freedoms Were Taken Away Continue Reading
This situation reminds me of the tension between the greenies and the churchgoers. California’s lack of water and biomass control, facilitating catastrophic fires, is a result of greenie environmentalists’ policies. To not own these policies indicates an arrogance beyond comprehension.
The Greenies and the Churchgoers Continue Reading
As the FDA submission discussed by Latypova makes clear, several other categories of preclinical testing were simply omitted altogether. These include so-called safety pharmacology studies, which, per 2005 WHO guidelines, are intended to investigate the effects of a candidate vaccine on “physiological functions (e.g. central nervous system, respiratory, cardiovascular and renal functions) other than those of the immune system.”
BioNTech (Not Pfizer) “Brazenly” Dodged Safety Testing of C19 Vax Continue Reading
By pitting America’s free-speech roar against Europe’s muffle, a First Amendment diplomacy would not just help France — it would spark a global revolution against officialdom. Media freedom isn’t bureaucrat-boxed; it’s people-powered. France, grab the line: Your Rogans are calling.
Does France Have Independent Media? Continue Reading
Even with carte blanche to express ourselves, it’s impossibly difficult for us humans to lay bare our true thoughts. Self-censorship is baked into our DNA. Free speech maximalism serves as a counterweight to this force.
Is Free Speech Maximalism Just for Young Men? Continue Reading
