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Medical Freedom: Why It Matters
I received a phone call a few weeks ago inviting me to speak at Defeat The Mandates at Grand Park…
Elon Musk’s Big Move on Twitter
As you undoubtedly have heard, Elon Musk – ever the rebel – has offered to buy the whole of Twitter…
What Covid Crimes Will Victims Not Forgive?
History has altered course. Lockdowns saw the belittling of whole populations by a neo-feudal elite, while that elite, with astonishing…
After Disaster: The Case of Postwar Berlin
“During those days he stood still for such disastrous fatuities as Franklin Roosevelt’s impetuous call for unconditional surrender, a rhetorical…
China’s Covid Numbers are Manifestly Absurd
The Wall Street Journal published a piece titled “Shanghai Has Recorded More Than 130,000 Covid Cases—and No Deaths.” Seeing the…
The Nation’s Top Scientists Lied
This adapted excerpt is from Dr. Scott W. Atlas’ bestselling book, A Plague Upon Our House, published by Bombardier. CDC…
Defeat the Mandates LA: A Report
On Sunday, April 10, Defeat the Mandates came to LA. The hope, after a similar march on Washington, DC that…
What Happened on the Junket To China in February 2020?
The last two years have been such a disorienting blizzard of shock and awe that it is truly hard to…
We Need Truth and Justice
Two years since “two weeks to slow the spread,” life appears to have returned to some kind of normal. With…
Testing Mania: Illogical and Harmful
This adapted excerpt is from Dr. Scott W. Atlas’ bestselling book, A Plague Upon Our House, published by Bombardier. By…
The Shanghai Catastrophe: Lockdown Ideology at Its Most Extreme
Highlight the hundreds of millions of victims of communism, and its advocates are known to try to rebut the evidence…
The China Model Unravels in Shanghai
At the end of the Cold War, the end-of-history theory was that every country in the world that desired prosperity…
Stop Using the Phrase Vaccine Hesitancy
An unsavoury aspect of the Covid-19 response has been the stigmatization of people for various “normal” things: meeting friends, hugging…
The Worship of Zero
The optimal amount of any “bad” (e.g., crime, cancer) is very, very seldom zero. This is because the marginal cost…
The Ins and Outs of Covid Vaccine Safety
At the time of FDA approval for any vaccine, it is impossible to know whether it causes rare, unexpected serious…
How Germany’s Crazy New Rules Punish Natural Immunity
In what must be one of the most mind-bending public health measures adopted anywhere in the world during the entire…
Covid Zero Transitions to Covid Everyone
Each week comes with more announcements that, despite doing everything right, I or someone close to me got Covid-19. From…
Covidians and the Coin Shortage
You have surely seen the signs. They are all over the country. “Please use exact change. We face a coin…
Newsom’s Vaccine Mandate Gets Worse
Considering that Governor Gavin Newsom has decreed that all children in California get vaxxed, their parents in California might wonder…
The Anatomy of Big Pharma’s Political Reach
After graduating from Columbia University with a chemical engineering degree, my grandfather went on to work for Pfizer for almost…
The Hypocrisy of Medical Experts
On the one hand, there are many biomedical faculty who are passionately arguing why 2-4 year olds should be forced…
Up From Pandemic Exclusion
During the past few months, I have contemplated the situation that people like me face. The differently abled deal with…
How Mitigation Caused Carnage: Interview with Knut Wittkowski
Knut Wittkowski, PhD, is currently CEO of ASDERA and formerly a Rockefeller University researcher in biostatistics and epidemiology. He was…
What’s Going On In China: Interview with Michael Senger
Michael Senger, attorney and author of Snake Oil, has led the way in drawing attention to the role of the…
The Global March of Folly
Throughout the pandemic, the media have eagerly compared Covid statistics between different countries. But such comparisons are often deceptive. Take,…
Can We Please Stop Demonizing the “Unvaccinated?”
When the Covid vaccines first came out, I thought everyone should get at least one shot. My belief was based…
Can Elon Musk Defeat the Censors?
A remarkable and truth-telling post appeared over the weekend from the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. Despite…
This Is Not Normal and No One Should Accept It
From the lepers in the Old Testament to the Plague of Justinian in Ancient Rome to the 1918 Spanish Flu…
The Age of Experts
“In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.” ~ Albert Camus Once upon a time – and…
Lockdowns Shredded the Social Contract: Interview with Sunetra Gupta
Sunetra Gupta, epidemiologist at Oxford University and a prolific historian and novelist, and a contributor at Brownstone Institute, speaks to…