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Extensive Efficacy Studies that Rebuke Vaccine Mandates

Paul Elias Alexander October 28, 2021 Policy, Public Health, Vaccines 42 minute read

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What these studies show, are that vaccines are important to reduce severe disease and death, but unable to prevent the disease from spreading and eventually infect most of us. That is, while the vaccines provide individual benefits to the vaccinee, and especially to older high-risk people, the public benefit of universal vaccination is in grave doubt. As such, Covid vaccines should not be expected to contribute to eliminating the communal spread of the virus or the reaching of herd immunity. This unravels the rationale for vaccine mandates and passports.

Lockdowns Were An Attack on Human Life

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker October 26, 2021 Public Health, Society 14 minute read

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From a social perspective, lockdowns are like trying to get humans to act out a reprise of the hunter-gatherer period, isolated in small groups and interacting infrequently. The failures of lockdowns are all related to the impossibility of really trying to live that way again.

The Treason of the Healers

Thomas Harrington October 26, 2021 History, Public Health, Society 9 minute read

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During the middle years of the 20th century, the social privilege, deference and power previously granted to clerics, and then to writers, was bequeathed to the science-based healers. While they have done much to improve our lives with the money and authority we have given them, they have—even though they seem largely unaware of it—now fallen into a grave state of moral decadence.

Why the CDC Ignores Natural Immunity

Aaron Kheriaty October 24, 2021 Public Health 4 minute read

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There are many political reasons the CDC continues to ignore the scientific evidence on this issue. Here is a sampling of the reasons, which are neither compelling nor grounded in scientific findings.

Your Booster Life: How Big Pharma Adopted the Subscription Model of Profitability

Julius Ruechel October 24, 2021 History, Policy, Public Health, Technology 76 minute read

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What if, by depriving us of normal life, those who stand to gain from vaccines can forever cement themselves at the center of society by providing an artificial replacement for what our immune systems used to do to protect us against common respiratory viruses back when we were still allowed to live normal lives?

The Politicization of Immunology

Steve Templeton October 22, 2021 Philosophy, Policy, Public Health 7 minute read

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Both immunity to vaccination and infection protect against severe disease, but the scope of immunity that develops after infection is broader, generally more durable, and more specific to lung reinfection. Stronger immunity derived from infection comes with increased risk of severe disease and a higher incidence of long-term effects, especially in older people and those with comorbidities.

The Attack on Scientific Dissent Becomes Ever More Brutal

Paul Elias Alexander October 22, 2021 Philosophy, Public Health 14 minute read

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In this ‘Age of Lysenkoism,’ the approach is to use the hysterical media to go on the attack, to smear, and blame the skeptics who question failed policies and mandates, for the very failure of the policies and mandates that were implemented. It has gotten to a point now where the media has garnered near zero credibility and the public believes near zero in terms of what the media prints.

Dear Pfizer: Leave the Children Alone

Paul Elias Alexander October 20, 2021 Policy, Public Health 8 minute read

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This is absolutely reckless, dangerous based on lack of safety data and poor research methodology, and without any scientific basis.

The Rationing Is Already Here

Jeffrey A. Tucker October 20, 2021 Economics, Policy, Public Health 8 minute read

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The failure to admit the enormous and shocking policy failures of the last two years is costing us dearly. The refusal to reverse course and re-embrace fundamentals of freedom and human rights is setting the stage for outcomes even more grim than what we have heretofore experienced.

The Decay of Science in the Age of Lockdowns

Martin Kulldorff October 20, 2021 History, Policy, Public Health 6 minute read

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Because of political strategies using slander and ad hominem attacks, many physicians and scientists have been reluctant to speak out despite their reservations about pandemic policies. The error-strewn attacks in British Medical Journal demonstrate what awaits academics who do challenge prevailing views.

Colin Powell’s Breakthrough Infection Was Hardly Unusual

Joel Hirschhorn October 19, 2021 Public Health 6 minute read

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The tragic end to Colin Powell, age 84 who had two major underlying medical problems, also pertains to the 65 and older population. They are especially vulnerable to having immune systems unable to block a breakthrough infection when the vaccine immunity seriously degrades. Powell surely had his initial vaccinations many months earlier.

The Frightened Class

Thomas Harrington October 19, 2021 History, Public Health, Society 8 minute read

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For most of recorded time prosperity and education have been the gateway to a life of relative freedom from worry. But now, the people who most enjoy these benefits are, it seems, wracked with anxiety and, in the not infrequent way of many people suffering that plague, and hellbent on sharing their misery with others.