Covid Bias at the BMJ
This week, Ioannidis and his colleagues published a paper on Covid-19 advocacy bias in the BMJ, concluding that the ‘BMJ had a strong bias in favour of authors advocating an aggressive approach to COVID-19 mitigation.’
How Richard Nixon Wrecked Free Trade
If the US dollar would become the new gold, other countries could hold it as collateral. Those other countries had a secret weapon: low production costs for manufacturing, backed by wages for labor that were a fraction of the US.
The Five-Year Anniversary of Covid Lockdowns
The majority of people who led lockdowns at the state and local level are still in their jobs despite having failed. The majority of journalists who spread fear and failed to hold power to account are still in their roles.
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Complacency Is Dangerous
While I love seeing DOGE upend the government and expose both wasteful spending and heinous criminal operations masquerading as bureaucracy, we can’t let our guard down. Traditional methods won’t work – the deep state has its claws in everything.
The Story Could Have Happened Anywhere
Josh Urban’s book, Cities on a Hill: 21 Isolated Months with the Elderly during COVID, was prominently displayed near the front of the store as a welcome anomaly after searching for books by anyone exploring what we have endured.
Inflation Is Repudiation
A century ago, Americans clearly recognized the moral implications of inflation. Vice President Calvin Coolidge bluntly declared in 1922: “Inflation is repudiation.” Did Donald Trump learn anything from watching Joe Biden economically suicide-bomb his own presidency?
The Post-Lockdown Disorientation in the Arts
Snow White opened with devastating reviews and empty theaters coast to coast. It’s fascinating to reflect on how this film got caught in the cultural crosshairs. To understand it, we need to return to 2020 and the lockdowns.
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Who Controls the Administrative State?
What can be done and how to get from here to there? Trump’s executive order on the Department of Education illustrates the point precisely. His administration is so uncertain of what it can control, even to urge minor reforms.
The New Enthusiasm for Slaughter
Dismembered European corpses and terrorized children are just part of maintaining this ideological purity. War is acceptable once more. Let’s hope such leaders and ideologies can be sidelined by those beyond Europe who are willing to give peace a chance.
The Medical Masquerade: Introduction
The world has changed in many ways since March 2020. And the world needs to change a lot more, especially our human institutions, if we are to prevent the tyranny of Covid from being repeated.
The China Covid Narrative: What We Missed in 2020
For Christakis, China’s drop in cases was “astonishing.” But beneath the awe, a question lingers for us: What was the real “virus” China was fighting—and why didn’t we, in the supposedly free West, push back harder on the narrative?
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The Medical Masquerade: Foreword
Dr. Baker is a rare case, an Ivy-trained medical doctor who saw through the hoax. In a few years, he will be recognized as the prophet he is. You will soon agree once you finish his collection of essays.