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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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Covid Exposed the Medical-Pharmaceutical-Government Complex

Mark Oshinskie / June 18, 2022 / Economics, Government, Pharma, Policy / 8 minute read

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The Med/Pharma/Gov establishment, including the NIH and CDC, hasn’t saved America during 2020-22. To the contrary, Covid interventions have worsened overall societal outcomes. These net harms should have inflicted—and, depending on longer-term vaxx effects, may yet inflict—a big black eye on the Medical Industrial Complex.

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When Generals Quibble

Scott Sturman / June 17, 2022 / Policy, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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Integrity, trust, and honesty are character traits that are unwisely discarded to curry fleeting favor with the press and political establishment. The political general, who employs the language of the quibbler, obscures the truth and makes the boundary between politicians and military leaders indistinguishable.

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Is the WEF the Headquarters of Evil?

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / June 15, 2022 / Economics, Policy / 10 minute read

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The total disconnect between what Schwab’s pandemic conference said should be done and what actually happened during covid times is once again proof that Klaus is not led by his principles. If he were, he would have been loudly protesting what has gone on over the past two years. Instead, he is merely riding his “good luck” that the leaders who came to drink champagne at his events have now embraced him as their supposed figurehead.

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Lockdown Deaths in the US: 170,000

Michael Senger / June 13, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 2 minute read

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It’s nice of the New York Times to finally print this fact, but they would appear to be, euphemistically, a day late and a dollar short—the “dollar” in this case being as many as 200,000 young American lives.

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Stigmatize, Surround, and Stomp

Thomas Harrington / June 13, 2022 / Philosophy, Policy, Society / 7 minute read

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Freedom of conscience is out. The real responsibility of the players, according to the Gray Lady, was to seamlessly parrot the wholly extraneous ideological line of their employer whether they believed in it or not. The truth is they should have never, ever been put in that position.

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The Origin and Operation of the US Administrative State

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 11, 2022 / History, Policy / 6 minute read

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Let’s not be naive about the prospects for change. It is going to require far more than merely electing a new class of supposed rulers via the democratic process. The real rulers are too smart to subject themselves to the business of elections. Those are designed to keep our minds busy with the belief that democracy still survives and therefore it is the voters, not the government, that is responsible for outcomes.

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The Urgent Need to Break the Public Health Monopoly

Austin Stone / June 11, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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Before the next public health crisis, we need to create a fair, forward-thinking, and reputationally robust institution to serve as a non-governmental alternative and foil to federal bureaucracies like the CDC. Privately funded laboratory research, an alternative framework for reputation analysis and peer review and influence-free conclusions could revolutionize the political approach to health and safety. Ideally, such an institution would be a gathering-place for those experts like the Barrington signatories who stood against the tide and prioritized real science over politics.

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Already in 2020, There Were Signs of Increased Non-Covid Mortality

Josh Stevenson / June 9, 2022 / Policy / 2 minute read

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Second-order effects on mortality were not measured in real time like SARS-COV2 cases. Why? What we measure matters. What we don’t measure might actually just matter even more. Months and years later we are still accounting for how the Covid-19 response disrupted life and cost lives in many other ways we simply chose to ignore.

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When Believing the Health Authorities Requires Denying Obvious Realities

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson / June 7, 2022 / Masks, Policy, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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With every excuse we accept, with every denial we echo, every misguided action we support, we entangle ourselves more and more deeply; by each step, we take a higher stake in the narrative, and the higher it gets, the more fiercely we defend our parallel set of truths; the harder it becomes to break away and accept reality.

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Uses and Abuses of the Defense Production Act

Jordan Schachtel / June 6, 2022 / Policy / 2 minute read

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These are emergency powers granted to the executive with a precedent for being enacted during an actual war. These powers allow the president to compel private companies to work with the government on developing material goods that are supposed to be used for national security purposes.

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A Short History of the Testing Debacle

James Bovard / June 5, 2022 / Policy / 9 minute read

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Federal health agencies have had more blunders than practically anyone expected during this pandemic. The least that Uncle Sam can do is get out of the way of private efforts to help Americans recognize the risks in their own lives.

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