Our challenge isn’t merely to reject flawed expertise but to cultivate genuine wisdom. The future depends on those who can navigate beyond the limits of institutional thinking, blending discernment, humility, and courage.
The Illusion of Expertise Read Journal Article
“A health agency director with the authority to shut down a school or assembly wields incredible power to coerce his subjects into submission… This incredible power cannot lawfully be placed in the hands of one bureaucrat.”
Collins also acknowledged that the public health profession, the profession he was effectively leading during the most important crisis of its modern existence, paid “zero” attention to what the ensuing trade-offs would be from the immense restrictions imposed on the public.
Francis Collins Accidentally Reveals His Own Incompetence Read Journal Article
The other day I see this guy with a little kid on a playground. Both masked up. Only the two of them, in the open air, masked. The kid had two masks, no, three. Different colors. The fear’s still there. But people could get over it. Even in California.
Inside Governor Newsom’s head Read Journal Article
What my son did not know is that Piano Man is also a song about how often life is miserable and melancholic, and how all of that can be impacted by a simple melody. The patrons of a bar beg the piano man to sing them a song; play them a memory, one they don’t even remember all that well.
Sing Us a Song, Piano Man Read Journal Article
A new paper in JAMA analyzes survey respondents in the US over the period of time right after the Covid pandemic started in April 2020 and through early 2024. It reveals a significant decline in trust in physicians and hospitals.
Trust in Doctors and Hospitals Plummets Read Journal Article
I hypothesized that if surrounding infants with people in masks interfered with the development of face detection in those infants, then impaired ability or desire to respond to faces might be considered a sign of autism.
How Public Health Wrecked Public Health Read Journal Article
While there was little chance Fauci would face severe consequences for his actions, at the very least a Congressional hearing run by his opposition party might have provided some answers or incriminating statements. Now, we likely won’t even get that.
Covid’s Biggest Villain Gets His Pardon Read Journal Article
Will we live with illogical fear and behaviors for years? Or will we use facts to take back the lives we value?
The Mad Perceptions Driving our Covid Policies Read Journal Article
By examining the hypothetical best-case scenario, we can better predict if a given measure will have a mitigating impact on the identified hazard. For N95s versus output, particle- to- PFU ratios, and MID for SARS-CoV-2, best-case scenario of hypothetical perfect capture of matter that these apparatuses are neither designed nor approved to capture shows them to still be non-mitigating for this hazard, and recommendations for their use should be immediately reconsidered.
Why N95s Fail to Stop the Spread Read Journal Article
