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Restrictions in Sweden and Denmark: What Do The Numbers Show?

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson / July 12, 2022 / Law, Society / 2 minute read

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According to the models used to justify harsher restrictions in Denmark, about 30,000 people were expected to have died, had Sweden’s strategy been followed. But according to the data, the excess mortality in Sweden over the two years was around 6,000 and in Denmark 3,000, which amounts to the same percentage as the Danish population is about half the Swedish. Thus, the models were off by around 90%.

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The Generation of Children Raised by Fear

Molly Kingsley,

Liz Cole / July 11, 2022 / Education, Society / 6 minute read

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Our hearts groan, for two years not only have we shattered any myth that children are resilient, that they can take whatever trampling adults see fit to dole out in the name of fear, but we have shattered the myth that our society can take it.

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The Catastrophic Covid Convergence

Debbie Lerman / July 11, 2022 / History, Society / 15 minute read

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How did my family, friends and neighbors – who I thought shared my liberal, humanist values – turn into a group-thinking, bullying herd? What forces were exerted to erase scientific and intellectual integrity from the minds of literally millions of doctors, scientists, economists, journalists, educators and other normally curious and compassionate people worldwide?

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How Many Among Us are Suckers?

Thomas Harrington / July 6, 2022 / Philosophy, Society / 8 minute read

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We live in a time when powerful forces, wielding very powerful new informational weapons, seek to place a wedge between ourselves and practices which have long been essential to the search for self-knowledge, social meaning, and the ability to promote and safeguard human dignity.

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A New Western Religion Takes Shape

Gigi Foster,

Paul Frijters,

Michael Baker / June 27, 2022 / Economics, Law, Society / 10 minute read

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The new global institutions, politicians hope, will assist in ensuring the flock remains deeply obedient to their leaders, is preoccupied with self-loathing, and continues to be wary of any fellow man with whom they might have organised resistance.

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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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Mattias Desmet on the Totalitarianism of Mass Panic

Joakim Book / June 12, 2022 / Philosophy, Psychology, Society / 9 minute read

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The covid pandemonium was a reminder that even rich, sensible, well-mannered, and well-educated societies can descend into the pits of hell faster than you can cry “emergency.” Society always balances on the edge of an unspeakably horrific abyss.

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The Milgram Experiment Restaged, with Millions of Real Victims

Thomas Harrington / June 9, 2022 / Philosophy, Psychology, Society / 5 minute read

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These Milgramite “experimenters” and “teachers” knew exactly what they were doing. Indeed, many of them, like our President, clearly relished initiating and firing up a “stick-it-to-your-family-and-friend” movement among us.

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I Cannot Believe It’s Come To This

Stacey Rudin / June 8, 2022 / Economics, Society / 7 minute read

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We’ve never lived in Texas, in fact I’d never even been to Texas when we finally decided to bail out of New Jersey, during “Omicron.” Before that, I don’t think my husband thought I was serious about moving. But my intuition had been telling me for months, many of them, that this wasn’t the place for me. I feel betrayed.

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School Closings and Violent Youth: A Potential Link

Paul Elias Alexander / May 25, 2022 / Law, Society / 5 minute read

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Is this Buffalo teen shooter and the Texas teen shooter the last such shooters? I fear not, as we may have damaged the minds of many people irreparably. There are grave consequences due to lockdowns and school closures, not only from a weakened immune system and the vast economic damage, but also due to the wrecked psyches of many young people.

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Germophobes to the Left and Right

Steve Templeton / May 22, 2022 / Psychology, Public Health, Society / 14 minute read

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With two years of overreaction to and media obsession with the myriad of ways that COVID-19 can kill or permanently disable people, there’s reason to believe a major subset of the population that was faithfully adherent to public health edicts about non-pharmaceutical interventions will remain mentally scarred.

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Monkeypox Was a Table-Top Simulation Only Last Year

Michael Senger / May 20, 2022 / Law, Media, Society / 3 minute read

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The global Monkeypox outbreak—occurring on the exact timeline predicted by a biosecurity simulation of a global Monkeypox outbreak a year prior—bears a striking resemblance to the outbreak of COVID-19 just months after Event 201, a simulation of a coronavirus pandemic almost exactly like COVID-19.

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