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March 30, 2022

Concerned Ontario Doctors’ Covid-19 Summit Part II: Complete Transcript

The event: “Medicine, Science and Public Health: Restoring Trust and International Ethical Principles,” premiered March 20, 2022. What follows is…

March 29, 2022

The 4th Shot: The Flawed Research

A new preprint has been offered as proof that the 4th dose save lives. Here is the key figure, death from Covid-19…

March 29, 2022

The German Faith in Authority

The ongoing pandemic revealed two problematic aspects of German society. Firstly, there appears to be widespread faith in government bodies…

March 29, 2022

Where Is the Bio-Fascist State Headed?

California has been the tip of the spear for novel pandemic policies. My home state’s failures are legion, and it…

March 29, 2022

The Moral Imperative of Sanctuary 

The headlines of two years, and intensifying by the day, have followed a trajectory from the history books: disease, quarantine,…

March 28, 2022

The Specter of Asymptomatic Spread

In January 2020, at the very start of the pandemic, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter that suggesting the…

March 28, 2022

Eli Lilly Fired Employees for Refusing the Vaccine

Mandy Van Gorp was confident that her employer of 18 years, Eli Lilly and Company, would treat her fairly when…

March 28, 2022

How Coercion Compromised the Vaccine 

The fight over the Covid vaccines has become an epic struggle. It’s not just about who should get the shot…

March 28, 2022

Not Every Health Problem Needs a Social Solution

In his pre-COVID book Killjoys: A Critique of Paternalism (2017), nanny-state nemesis Christopher Snowdon reports on the rise and pernicious…

March 27, 2022

The White House is Now Your Doctor!

The New York Times is reporting this: “Biden Administration Plans to Offer Second Booster Shots to Those 50 and Up.”…

March 26, 2022

Covid Prediction: January 2020

With new pouring out of China in January 2020, and knowing full well of government powers over disease management, I…

March 26, 2022

Dear Art Institution: End these Mandates!

As a practicing artist in Philadelphia, I am dismayed that the arts organizations I love and whose activities I regularly…

March 26, 2022

How Proximity Makes Progressives

Two years of a coronavirus pandemic and the extraordinary responses to it by all kinds of institutions and jurisdictions have…

March 25, 2022

Crowd Creation: A New Political Tool

Put yourself in the mind of a smart, power-hungry politician obsessed with winning, someone with no moral compass. He is…

March 25, 2022

I’ve Lost My Parents, To Covid Brainwashing 

I remember when I was five years old. My cat, Grey Feathers, had been missing for almost two days. I…

March 25, 2022

Fauci Finally Admits Natural Immunity

Yes, Fauci has never worried about consistency or even contradicting himself one day to the next, often without explanation. Too…

March 24, 2022

How the C-Suite Embraced Lockdowns and Economic War

A while back, corporate America was bending over backwards to appease the Virus Patrol with lockdowns, mandatory masking and threats…

March 24, 2022

The Inflation Disaster Is Collateral Damage from Lockdowns 

The outrageous prices at the grocery store and gas stations – the highest ever recorded and increasing at rates too…

March 23, 2022

The Brutal Politics of Branding

Over the summer, I received an email from “your” Faculty Secretary—as the most pro-administration office-holder in recent memory likes to…

March 23, 2022

How Vaccine Messaging Confused the Public

Pivotal randomized control trials (RCTs) underpinning approval of Covid-19 vaccines did not set out to, and did not, test if…

March 23, 2022

Interview: Students Against Mandates

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Leigh Vossen and Brandon Paradoski Leigh Vossen, President & Founder and Brandon Paradoski, VP & Head of…

March 23, 2022

How the Flu and Covid Shots Are Different

I heard the argument recently that since we accept a yearly flu shot— and some places even mandate it— we…

March 22, 2022

CDC Promotes Another Misleading Mask Study 

The CDC clearly disgraced itself during the pandemic. At this point, that’s not particularly newsworthy — it’s become an expectation…

March 22, 2022

Conviviality: The Alternative to the Administrative State

On 17th February, in an article at Brownstone Institute, David McGrogan described the Trudeau-trucker stand-off as not only ‘the single…

March 22, 2022

Faroe Islands: The Tiny Country that Rejected Lockdowns

Mid-way between Iceland and Scotland, the Faroe Islands are a country of approximately 50,000 people. The Faroe Islands are part…

March 21, 2022

Who Will Support You in a Crisis?

It’s been instructive to see which colleagues from the University of California have (or have not) reached out to support…

March 21, 2022

The Fact-Checking Game

Social and political elites have long relied on euphemism to make their schemes of social control more palatable to those…

March 21, 2022

The Silencing of the Scientists 

Early in the COVID pandemic, Michael Levitt noticed a gradual decay of case growth rates over time in Wuhan, and…

March 20, 2022

Politicians of the World Unite! 

Vladimir Putin has given an address to the Russian nation that urged his country to be patient with the current…

March 20, 2022

Freedom Must Begin at Home 

The end of the Covid-19 pandemic is being declared by most countries in the world at almost the precise 2nd…