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Are We Medicating Millions of ADHD Children without Scientific Justification?

Yaakov Ophir / March 1, 2023 / Society / 6 minute read

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Stimulant brands for ADHD, such as Ritalin, Concerta, Adderall, or Vyvanse rank at the top of the best-selling lists of medications for children. Indeed, the American dream may play a significant role in the proliferation of such cognitive enhancers in the US, but the rush for the magic pills crosses national borders. In fact, the ‘semi-final’ countries that are currently ‘winning’ the Ritalin Olympics, according to the International Narcotics Control Board, are: Iceland, Israel, Canada, and Holland.

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Focused Protection: Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff

Danger, Caution Ahead: Zeb Jamrozik and Mark Changizi

Gabrielle Bauer / February 25, 2023 / Government, Policy, Public Health, Society / 16 minute read

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The precautionary principle uses the worst-case scenario, rather than the most probable scenario, as a basis for creating policies. And as we’ve seen with Covid, people often end up confusing the two. Such policies are blunt and brutish. They require extreme societal disruptions that, over time, may cause more harm than they prevent.

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The Sanctuary in Action

Brownstone Institute / February 23, 2023 / Government, Philosophy, Society / 6 minute read

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So much needs to be rebuilt after the last three years, but among the needs are serious intellectual communities. The colleges and universities have, for the most part, been taken over or smashed. The major media is captured. Our companies are forced into an obsequious stance. Our previous networks have been shattered. For lovers of freedom, we’ve experienced something of a diaspora.

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Unmask the Audiences Already!

Robert Blumen / February 15, 2023 / Masks, Society / 12 minute read

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People no longer have an emotional connection while speaking when wearing masks. And we can no longer understand each other’s speech. A venue full of masked people is a place lacking in humanity. It is an artificial world based on virtue-signaling and the elevation of appearance over reality, rather than actual human connection.

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The Covid Coup Attacked the Right to Travel

William Spruance / February 13, 2023 / Law, Policy, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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There was a coup d’état in this country that presented itself under the innocuous banner of “public health.” Our country’s most powerful forces – including information centers, unelected officials, and multinational corporations – worked together to unravel the protections of the Constitution. Among them was the longstanding precedent of the right to travel and its replacement by tyrannical house arrests.

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The Tragic End of Laughter

Eric Hussey / February 13, 2023 / Society / 8 minute read

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It’s pretty hard to laugh when you’ve been inoculated with fear and isolation. Paralyzing gaslighting was the starting point. But the constant and continuing drumbeat of fear and necessary isolation transcend simple gaslighting. Fear and isolation were beneath the plunger being pushed down hard in the first needle forcibly stabbed into the world’s arms. And, that original fear-and-isolation inoculation of stress provided the opportunity for more tangible inoculations. Denial of natural immunity amplified any justification for, if not providing an outright blessing on many of these outrages.

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Blindsight Is 2020: Gabrielle Bauer reports on the resistance with Jeffrey Tucker

Brownstone Institute / February 9, 2023 / Media, Public Health, Society / 1 minute of reading

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Gabrielle Bauer joins Jeffrey Tucker, founder and president of Brownstone Institute for an interview about her new book, Blindsight Is 2020: Reflections on Covid Policies from Dissident Scientists, Philosophers, Artists, and More

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Covid Emergency, Climate Emergency: Same Thing

W. Aaron Vandiver / February 8, 2023 / Government, Law, Policy, Society / 20 minute read

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All signs indicate that the U.S. and other world governments want to expand the reach and control of the globalized industrial food system, further concentrating power in the largest Big Food corporations. Governments around the world are using environmental goals to forcibly shut down small farms as they promote dependence on industrial technologies and factory foods that could make climate change and other environmental problems worse.

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The Madness of Crowds

Gabrielle Bauer / February 4, 2023 / Psychology, Society / 13 minute read

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As Desmet explains in the book, every totalitarian regime begins with a period of mass formation. Into this tense and volatile mass steps an autocratic government and voilà, the totalitarian state clicks into place. The architects of the new regime don’t go around shouting, “I am evil.” They often believe, to the bitter end, they are doing the right thing.

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It All Began with Fear

Gabrielle Bauer / February 1, 2023 / History, Psychology, Society / 13 minute read

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When Covid-19 came along, Laura Dodsworth grew alarmed—not at the virus, but at the fear swirling around it. She watched the fear grow legs and wings and wrap itself around her country. What troubled her most was that her government, historically charged with keeping people calm during times of crisis, seemed to be amplifying the fear. The media, which she had expected to push back against government edicts, gave the fear train an extra shove.

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How the “Unvaccinated” Got It Right

Robin Koerner / January 31, 2023 / Society, Vaccines / 19 minute read

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The continued insistence on rolling out the “vaccine” to the entire population when the data revealed that those with no comorbidities were at low risk of severe illness or death from COVID was therefore immoral and ascientific on its face. The argument that reduced transmission from the non-vulnerable to the vulnerable as a result of mass “vaccination” could only stand if the long-term safety of the “vaccine” had been established, which it had not.

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The Compulsive Delusions of the Imperial Mind

Thomas Harrington / January 30, 2023 / History, Society / 8 minute read

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Perhaps it is time to admit that much of what occurred during the acute phase of the Covid crisis was, in many ways, the culmination of a long multi-decade process of intense, top-down social pedagogy designed to separate us from our most basic empathic instincts.

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