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The Truth About Tyranny

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 16, 2021 / Economics, History, Philosophy, Public Health, Society / 8 minute read

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Any regime that wants to stay in power needs to know this secret to hegemony: the desire to cleanse society of the enemy is what compels compliance. Every tyranny in history has depended on recruits to its own ranks from within the culture. They believe the lie knowing full well that it is a lie. The lie allows them to participate in the purge. They become the willing executioners. It’s been true throughout history, regardless of the particular and shifting desiderata of the despotism of the moment.

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The Problem With Science Is Scientists

Steve Templeton / October 11, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 9 minute read

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The overwhelming desire of a terrified public for evidence of interventions that effectively eliminate the risk of infection will inevitably pressure scientists to provide that evidence. Ideally, an acknowledgement of this bias would result in increased skepticism from other scientists and media outlets, but that hasn’t happened

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The Covid Morass: An Academic and Mother Asks Questions

Genevieve Newton / October 7, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 57 minute read

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We have already seen many instances during the Covid pandemic where despite assurances to the contrary, things did not evolve as expected. It seems clear that we simply don’t know what is going to happen next, or what the consequences of our actions and choices will be. What is perhaps most troubling is that this acknowledgement has been almost completely absent from the rhetoric of our leaders and decision makers. It does not show ignorance or weakness to be honest about this reality, it shows wisdom and discernment.

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Great Barrington Declaration: One Year Later

Brownstone Institute / October 4, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health, Society / 4 minute read

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We must bring this sad state of government-promoted mandates to an end. And we must follow the wisdom the field of public health has acquired over a hundred years about what works, what protects people from both COVID and other health risks, and what protects the social fabric of our larger human experience.

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The Corruption of My Liberal Tribe

David Smith / October 4, 2021 / Philosophy, Society / 9 minute read

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Those who think their fear of a microbe gives them the right to destroy society have it backward; your fear (irrational or otherwise) doesn’t give you the right to take away everyone’s inalienable rights and essential liberties; if you want to live in fear then you are perfectly free to do so.

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The Purges Have Begun

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 28, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health, Society / 9 minute read

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This is no longer about scientific confusion. This is starting to look like an old-fashioned political purge, whether justified by fake science or theology. It is happening at many levels of society.

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The Deprecation of Human Rights in the Age of Covid

Michael Tomlinson / September 22, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 10 minute read

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Government should not gamble with the lives and livelihoods of their people by taking extreme measures in the hope that they might work.

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Are You Ready and Willing to Be Free Again?

Stacey Rudin / September 16, 2021 / Philosophy, Public Health, Society / 11 minute read

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To today’s Americans, appearances are everything — we are afraid to be different, lest it make our friends uncomfortable (maybe we will lose one, whatever will we do?!) We have ceased caring about truth and authenticity entirely. We have tacitly agreed as a society that true things should be hidden whenever they conflict with what is “popular”; with what everyone “smart” and “cool” is doing. Anyone acting outside of these boundaries — the “eccentrics” of centuries past, considered by Mill to be geniuses — are today’s untouchables.

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Lies and Tricks, Dressed Up as Science

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / September 7, 2021 / Economics, Philosophy, Public Health / 14 minute read

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The epidemiologists asked to advise governments almost invariably admitted that what they were advocating was only based on their projections of Covid cases and Covid deaths, devoid of any analysis of the effects these actions would have on public health, the economy, education and other important aspects of life. They nonetheless had no problem advocating lockdowns and other draconian measures.

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The Fall of Intellectual Heroism

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 5, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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The case against lockdowns and state medical mandates is the obverse of the case for freedom itself. It seems unconscionable for any liberal mind to be wrong on this point. That so many have gone silent or even shown sympathy for medical despotism reveals just how tremendously confusing these times have been.

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The Covid Cult’s Attack on Science and Society

Roger Koops / August 30, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 37 minute read

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There will always be a new variant, there will always be a new mandate, and there will always be the new carrot dangling on the stick in front of your face (like the booster jab) only to be pulled away again. You can acquiesce to this conditioning and reorganize your entire life around the principle of avoiding this one pathogen while giving up all expectations of freedom. Or you can resist the propaganda, get informed, and join with those who are working to rebuild after the disaster of the last year and a half.

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The Forgotten Principles of the Risk Assessment

Robert Freudenthal / August 23, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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These principles can help risk assessments function as intended – as a tool to help individuals and communities evaluate risk and put in place targeted measures, to contain and ultimately reduce anxiety, and to move away from more performative measures that simply serve to entrench anxiety and cause harm, without any benefit.

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