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In-depth, ongoing analysis of public health, social policy, and public policy, exploring their wide-ranging impacts on economics, open dialogue, freedom of speech, personal liberties, and everyday social life.

Our articles critically examine government interventions, pandemic responses, mandates, medical narratives, and their effects on society. From COVID policies and vaccine debates to broader issues like cancer warnings, mental health treatments, food systems, and human rights.

The Progressive Authoritarian Tide Retreats

The Progressive Authoritarian Tide Retreats

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Governments have managed simultaneously to be increasingly out of touch with people’s real concerns and meddlesome busybodies interfering in people’s daily lives. The result is that the liberal democratic order is being stress-tested domestically just like the liberal international order.

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Who Is Wei Cai, German Public Health’s ‘Hidden’ Scientist from Wuhan?

Who Is Wei Cai, German Public Health’s ‘Hidden’ Scientist from Wuhan?

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Why was the very existence of the RKI’s staff member from Wuhan redacted in the original official release of the “RKI Files”? Why were the minutes in question, now unredacted and revealing her existence, hidden in the ostensible leak?

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Confusion and Clarity: Excerpts from House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Report

Confusion and Clarity: Excerpts from House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Report

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Despite sections with refreshing clarity and depth, the report is also often shallow and dismissive of fundamental issues. It fails to assess with evidence the overall effectiveness of the lockdown-mass vaccination paradigm, making sometimes contradictory claims.

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FDA “GRAS” Additives and Artificial Food Coloring Banned in Many Countries Still “Certified” in the USA

FDA “GRAS” Additives and Artificial Food Coloring Banned in Many Countries Still “Certified” in the USA

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GRAS food additives and food colorings will be one of many things that Trump-appointed HHS Director Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his new FDA commissioner will need to address, alongside an extended list of overdue, critical FDA modernizations and reforms.

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