Healing from the current crisis does not require more civil servants, it requires a restored relationship with the natural world. I’m grateful for the people who are troubled by the New York Times’ attempts to manufacture unnecessary anxiety and alienation.
The New York Times: Latest Descent into Madness Continue Reading
A massive attack on civil liberties is underway in the wake of a week of rioting in the UK. For politicians, the media, NGOs, and academics our old friend “misinformation” is the excuse that keeps on giving.
The UK Riots: Misinformation Causes Everything Continue Reading
Absent from discussions of Crooks’ tragedy are the despair, losses, and mental health crises Covid-era lockdowns caused especially young people; the cruel, vitriolic, and even violent rhetoric pervading our culture in the last several years…
The Broken Life of Matthew Thomas Crooks Continue Reading
The indoctrination and propaganda model is creaking and groaning. From the fact that the Democrats ran with Biden and then had to force him out in this amateurish manner, we can only conclude that the desperation must be enormous.
The Propaganda Model Has Limits Continue Reading
VDARE is not everyone’s cup of tea, and its content is certainly outside the mainstream. But are we willing to sit by as weaponized censors impose an information flow for a population of people treated as children by political elites?
Letitia James vs. VDARE and the First Amendment Continue Reading
Perhaps the biggest lie was the years-long campaign to “debunk” suggestions that Biden was growing incapable of commanding the highest office in the land. PolitiFact was very diligent in “fact-checking” “cheap fakes” that alleged Joe Biden was senile.
Biden and the Media’s ‘Anti-Disinformation Campaign Continue Reading
By late 2020, the media and public health establishment had two obsessions. One involved forcing the public to wear masks, even though data had confirmed that they don’t stop transmission. The second obsession was forcing everyone to take Covid vaccines.
The Media’s Latest Pathetic Blame Game Continue Reading
Stories aside, today, an array of fact-checking organizations have been built, and accusations of fake news or misinformation fly with reckless abandon. Yet, the news, easier to consume than ever before, retains the same problems Dumas wrote about.
The Ultimate Monument to Journalism Continue Reading
But for X, the last 24 hours would have looked very different: nothing but propaganda, apart from a few marginal places here and there. Therein lies another irony: the way X is managed is increasing trust rather than reducing it.
During the Crisis, Free Speech Worked Brilliantly Continue Reading
Kudos to the physicists for their humility and honesty in admitting what they don’t know. But this makes the arrogance of immunology all the more glaring by comparison. Immunology is stuck in an 18th century paradigm.
Immunology Needs Physics Envy Continue Reading
The WikiLeaks document dumps caused embarrassment to some governments. However, for all the repetitions of the charge against Assange that he put the lives of US and allied soldiers at risk, no credible evidence has been produced that this happened.
Self-Inflicted Harm: The Persecution of Assange Continue Reading
The world desperately needs far more whistleblowers. We need an active and robust WikiLeaks…or more organizations that perform the vital work of WikiLeaks. The people who could disclose important information about government crimes are simply terrified to do this.
Assange and the Whistleblowers That Could’ve Been Continue Reading
