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University Vaccine Mandates Must End Now

Cathy Stein / July 6, 2022 / Education, Policy, Vaccines / 6 minute read

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One of the most nonsensical aspects of continuing COVID-19 vaccine mandates is that individuals who survived the mandates last year – that is, were fortunate enough to be granted religious and/or medical exemptions – have to reapply this year. Did these religious reasons suddenly change without the person complying with the mandate initially? Did these medical reasons that were severe enough to compel a physician to write an exemption suddenly go away?

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The End of Political and Ideological Allegiances

Pierre Kory / July 1, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 4 minute read

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Tribalism and polarization have made our political and medical discourse nasty and divisive. Doctors must be kept above the partisan fray, not forced to take sides and pick a jersey. Our jobs are too important, and we need to be apolitical to maintain credibility with everyone who comes to us seeking treatment. Progress and innovative medical breakthroughs in the future depend on freedom and medical choice now.

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How the Sausage Gets Made

Michael Senger / June 30, 2022 / History, Policy / 5 minute read

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The truth is that most people don’t particularly want to know what’s gone into these policies that they supported at least at some point, and for which they feel a little bit responsible.

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Poke and Sniff: A Lesson from 1906

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 29, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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The case of poke-and-sniff in meat-packing should serve as a warning for all measures that claim to improve our health, whether designed to protect us from disease, balance our diet, or bring us safety or any other reason.

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What If People Actually Controlled the Government?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 28, 2022 / Government, History, Policy / 9 minute read

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It seems remarkable that the executive order creating Schedule F was issued at all. It needs to be pressed upon any future reformers as a path to revisit, ideally with legislative support. Until that time, there will continue to be the grave problem that our elected officials are positioned to be little more than dancing marionettes while the administrative state wields all the real power.

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The Long Arm of the Covid Saga

Gabrielle Bauer / June 28, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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Above all, we need to avoid turning long Covid into the new Scary Thing, the monster in the closet that leads a frightened public to demand longer and harsher restrictions on living. No level of protection is worth going through that exercise again.

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The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 27, 2022 / History, Policy / 8 minute read

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Trump came to office promising to drain the swamp but it was very late in his term before he figured out the means at his disposal to do just that. His final effort took place merely two weeks before the election that was decided in favor of his opponent Biden, who quickly reversed this action just two days following an ordered review that would have reclassified, and thus gained control over, a sizable portion of the administrative state.

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Lockdowns Harms Impossible to Cover Up

Michael Senger / June 26, 2022 / Law, Media, Policy, Public Health / 2 minute read

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Currently, the mainstream left and right are starting to realize lockdowns were a big mistake, while many career bureaucrats are still stuck pretending lockdowns were the greatest medical breakthrough since penicillin. There really needs to be a bipartisan consensus that lockdowns were an unprecedented policy catastrophe before we can start to see justice and have undue foreign and financial influence taken seriously.

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The Attack on Juul Is a Scandal

Ryan Lau / June 24, 2022 / Policy / 4 minute read

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If the FDA’s so-called health standards include things like preventing lung cancer, why on earth are they targeting the devices widely known to be 95% safer (or more) than actual cigarettes?

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EU Renews Digital Covid Pass Despite 99% Negative Public Feedback

Robert Kogon / June 24, 2022 / Policy / 4 minute read

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The certificate regulation was originally adopted in June of last year, ostensibly to facilitate “safe travel” between EU member states. But the EU digital certificate quickly evolved into the model and sometimes infrastructure for the domestic “health” or Covid passes that would serve to restrict access to many other areas of social life over the following year.

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The FDA’s “Future Framework” for Covid Vaccines Is a Reckless Plan

Toby Rogers / June 22, 2022 / Policy, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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Viruses that evolve rapidly are bad candidates for a vaccine. There is no vaccine for the common cold nor HIV because these viruses evolve too quickly for a vaccine to be effective. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a bad candidate for a vaccine, as it has rapidly mutated, which is why all previous attempts to develop a vaccine against coronaviruses have failed.

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The Lockdown Advocacy of Devi Sridhar

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 20, 2022 / Policy / 10 minute read

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We will wait in vain for any sort of extended literary mea culpas. Not even the pensive afterword comes close. After all, when the next great health crisis presents itself, the WHO pushes for lockdowns again, and the major media empires need some great excuse to order people back home to be glued to the screen, the expertise of these compelling pundits – now with real media experience – will need to be called upon again.

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