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Mask Mandates at Tufts University: Wrecking Campus Life

Harley Centner / June 2, 2022 / Education / 4 minute read

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Mask mandates have done their best to engender a school environment that is devoid of human connection and visible emotion; is this what we hoped for when mandatory masking went back into place in May 2021? The administration’s decision to renege on this transition indicates they are willing to forcibly mask everyone in perpetuity. For a policy that is ineffective at best and harmful to the mental health of many members of the university body, this is unacceptable.

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When 800 Mainstream US Scientists Warned Against Lockdowns

Edward Stringham / May 24, 2022 / Education / 5 minute read

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Back then, hundreds of professors associated with Yale University organized a letter with signatures to send to the White House. The letter was dated March 2, 2020. It was signed by 800 credentialed professionals largely from the fields of epidemiology and medicine. It might have taken us in a different direction than the one in which governments took us soon after it was published.

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The CDC’s $2.4M Campus Marketing Program

Daniel Nuccio / May 23, 2022 / Education, Vaccines / 9 minute read

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Why did the CDC believe it was worthwhile to spend $2.4 million trying to convince college students to get vaccinated for a disease that poses little serious threat to most young, healthy individuals? Furthermore, why did the CDC and ACHA feel it was appropriate to peddle a potentially risky drug to young people as if it were a lifestyle brand?

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The Memo that Closed the Nation’s Schools

Brownstone Institute / May 15, 2022 / Education, History / 2 minute read

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“Just watch kids with runny noses and coughing and sneezing and touching one another (especially the younger ones),” the memo says. “You couldn’t design a better system to spread disease. Schools and daycare centers are clearly amplifiers of disease transmission…. We don’t need to exhaust ourselves searching for perfect solutions to address all these challenges associated with the 2nd and 3rd order consequences of school closure.”

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Why Is an Entire Generation Ignorant of Cell Biology?

John Vellardito / May 13, 2022 / Education / 4 minute read

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The Next Generation Science Standards have not only failed to achieve its purported goals, but deprived our students, and future voters, of the minimum knowledge and understanding required to engage in meaningful discussion of significant science-related topics of the day: COVID, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, immunization/vaccination, infectious disease transmission, genetic modification, human reproduction and embryology, sex determination, etc.

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What Covid Containment Has Done to Our Children

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / May 2, 2022 / Education, Policy / 16 minute read

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For the past two years, what Western governments have done to the next generation — all in the name of keeping them safe, of course — has been calamitous. Instead of trying to ameliorate problems for our children that were already clear, well-documented and steadily worsening over time, in March 2020 the authorities began to perform particularly gruesome social experiments on them. What kind of generation will result?

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Math Proficiency Rates Show Impact of Prolonged School Closures

Josh Stevenson / April 23, 2022 / Education / 4 minute read

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At some point, the people who did this have to face the music and come to grips with what Covid maximalist school policies have wrought. In this case: outright failure.

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How Did the States Handle Covid?

Ethan Yang / April 21, 2022 / Economics, Education, Policy, Society / 7 minute read

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The major conclusions drawn from this working paper are that lockdowns did very little if anything to help mitigate Covid-19 deaths, especially when you account for differences in demographics that give some states an advantage, and some a disadvantage.

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Contra CDC, School Masking Did Not Keep Kids In School

Emily Burns,

Josh Stevenson / April 20, 2022 / Education / 7 minute read

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One of the reasons we were told masks were essential for school kids this year was that masks would reduce the likelihood of school closures, by reducing disease incidence. Unfortunately, like so much the CDC has promised, the opposite turns out to be true.

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Dear Art Institution: End these Mandates!

Debbie Lerman / March 26, 2022 / Education, Masks, Policy, Society / 5 minute read

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I would have hoped that the arts community would be the first to welcome a return to seeing faces, exchanging smiles, and including all who want to benefit from the inspiration of art. Sadly this has not been the case.

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Who Will Support You in a Crisis?

Aaron Kheriaty / March 21, 2022 / Education, Philosophy / 5 minute read

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Some old friends have disappointed while others have surprised me—including some new friends I had not previously known while at the University. Recently, a professor of English at UCLA sent this unsolicited letter to the UCI Chancellor. I am publishing his extraordinary letter here with his permission.

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End All College Covid-19 Vaccination Mandates

Lucia Sinatra,

Joni Ruller McGary / March 17, 2022 / Education, Law, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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To mandate a medical intervention is to violate the fundamental right to medical choice. Therefore, the decision to mandate must be based on nothing less than incontrovertible medical necessity. In the case of Covid-19 college vaccine mandates, that standard cannot be met based on current science and real-life experience.

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