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The Lab Leak: The Plots and Schemes of Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, and Francis Collins

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 13, 2022 / History / 11 minute read

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What strikes me most in retrospect concerning the idea of the lab leak is the following. During the most critical weeks leading up to the obvious spread of the virus all over the Northeast of the U.S., leading to incredible carnage in nursing homes due to egregious policies that failed to protect the vulnerable and even deliberately infected them, public health officials in the US and UK were consumed not with a proper health response but with fear of dealing with the probability that this virus was man-made in China.

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Is Anyone Going to Accept Responsibility for This?

Joakim Book / January 12, 2022 / Economics, History, Policy / 6 minute read

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This is the model that will consume all public discussion of the pandemic response in the future: seeking but never finding anyone to bear responsibility. This is typical for episodes in history that are characterized by mass frenzy and distorted fanaticism. Once the mania is gone, it is hard to find anyone who is willing to accept responsibility for feeding it and acting upon it.

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Why Is the Human Being Not Like a Machine?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 9, 2022 / History, Law, Policy, Public Health / 10 minute read

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What Sotomayer said about machines and humans was not rooted in ignorance as such; it was the fulfillment of the delusions of countless intellectuals the world over for most of this century. She was summarizing countless papers and presentations in the form of a casual quip, thus revealing it for the fundamental insanity that it truly is.

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Deep Inside Our Heads and Our Communal Lives

Thomas Harrington / January 5, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 7 minute read

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We are, under the pressure of what is arguably the most ambitious and well-coordinated perception management campaign in history, having some of our more basic perceptual and behavioral instincts rapidly bred out of our lives. And worse yet, most people have yet to fathom or even contemplate the actual reasons why this is being done and, what it all portends for the future of human dignity and freedom.

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They Said They Would Slow the Spread

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 3, 2022 / History, Law, Policy, Society / 8 minute read

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What a stunning repudiation of state policy – the worst failing of public health and public policy perhaps in the history of the US if not the entire world. We are right now living in its last days. Remember these days, my friends. They are legion and mark what is likely the end of the great fiasco.

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The Reality They Invent to Feed the Power They Crave

Thomas Harrington / December 30, 2021 / History, Philosophy / 11 minute read

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For a certain part of the population, perhaps bereft of rituals and practices designed to help them transcend the crude, cruel and ambiguity-generating rhythms of our now largely transactional culture, the surrendering the self to authority can take on an almost religious allure.

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Slouching Toward Endemicity

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 25, 2021 / History, Policy, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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The ambition to wipe out the virus in two weeks or permanently “slow the spread” only prolonged the pain. Older people had to be isolated much longer. Younger people who never should have faced lockdowns at all were denied normal lives, including two years of educational losses. The ensuing public health calamity will vex us for decades hence.

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American Happiness and the Wisdom of George Will

John Tamny / December 23, 2021 / Economics, History / 18 minute read

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Will brings to mind Oxford’s Sunetra Gupta (or she brings to mind Will) when he writes that “The interconnectedness of the modern world, thanks in part to the jet engine’s democratization of intercontinental air travel, deters the weaponization of epidemics that the connectedness facilitates.”

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Fauci’s War on Science: The Smoking Gun

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 19, 2021 / History, Media / 7 minute read

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This war on dissent is not only a scandal of our times. The lockdowns and now the mandates have fundamentally transformed society and its relationship to government, technology, media, and much more. The emergency continues.

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The Full Secularization of the Doctrine of Original Sin

Thomas Harrington / December 6, 2021 / History, Philosophy / 15 minute read

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Perfectly healthy people were now considered “fallen” in the health sense, and basically told the only way they could be redeemed, that is, permitted to recover their full constitutional rights, was to follow a course of “rehabilitation” capriciously determined by the authorities and enforced by legal sanction.

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Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Fail the Jacobson Test

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Gerard Bradley / November 30, 2021 / History, Law, Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 18 minute read

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A careful reading of Jacobson shows that it is not just an automatic consideration allowing the government to do what it wants when a pandemic emergency has been officially declared. Covid-19 vaccine mandates do not satisfy any of the required criteria in Jacobson, let alone all of them.

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Lockdowns vs. Focused Protection: The Debate Between Lipstich and Bhattacharya

Brownstone Institute / November 29, 2021 / History, Policy, Public Health / 40 minute read

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On November 6, 2020, the Journal of the American Medical Association sponsored an important debate between Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya and Harvard’s Marc Lisitch over the policy response to the pandemic. They have very different points of view, with Jay favoring “focussed protection” and traditional public health measures, while Marc is on the side of the novel “non-pharmaceutical intervention” side, e.g. lockdowns.

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