Pandemics will happen. The world will benefit from an international health organization that can help coordinate rational responses, whilst also assisting in managing other public health priorities. The WHO risks making the latter worse by abandoning a robust evidence-based approach.
WHO’s New Pandemic Approach: Expediency over Evidence? Continue Reading
The NSS articulates the administration’s national security vision and how the elements of US power will be used in pursuit of national security goals. It is meant to bring the different elements of his international policies into a coherent strategic framework.
They gave undue prominence and praise to the three dissenting ACIP voices and outsiders, who were depicted as experts or scientists. They didn’t check if what the critics of the policy change claimed was correct.
Hepatitis B Vaccination of Newborns: Seriously Misleading Media Reports Continue Reading
This essay only scratches the surface. The strange moral history of nicotine, caffeine, and acceptable addiction exposes a much larger problem: modern institutions have forgotten how to reason about risk.
Coffee, Nicotine, and the Politics of Acceptable Addiction Continue Reading
ACIP was still erring on the side of Pharma, which they presumably have to due to the sponsored-Congress problem. They may have got it right, they may not. Now the onus is on someone to do sensible prospective trials.
The POUCH Act is a beginning, not an endpoint. If lawmakers are serious about improving public health, they must resist the gravitational pull of the Sinclair Trap and design a nicotine policy that rewards switching rather than punishing it.
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Jackson’s verbose monologues reveal that she understands the importance of this struggle. She knows that her benefactors depend on her denying the President from obtaining “actual control” over the agencies that the Constitution designates to his realm.
Justice Jackson’s History of Shilling for the Deep State Continue Reading
All farmers have a choice, and the faster our society respects them enough to put their choice consequences in their hands, the sooner farmers will make more creative and innovative decisions. The crop insurance safety net prejudices decisions.
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Such proposed reforms do seem like legitimate recommendations that would allow for the progression of science and the continuation of worthwhile work while also serving as important first steps in cleaning the Augean stable that science in academia has become.
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The vote on whether to continue the universal newborn hepatitis B vaccination policy was postponed, but the discussion at ACIP exposed how the directive to vaccinate infants rested on assumptions and partial data rather than on a scientific foundation.
There will be no shortage of economists and policy apparatchiks offering very legitimate and serious questions centered over that portion of the population that is not young and healthy. The more pressing problem is unburdening wage earners from economic insanity.
The experts have not been quick to assess, let alone apologize for, their performance during Covid. I took note, therefore, when two elite institutions that led the pandemic response co-hosted a retrospective event on Thursday, November 6.
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