When the stock markets opened last Monday morning, February 26, Google shares promptly fell 4%, by Wednesday were down nearly 6%, and a week later have now fallen 8%. It was an unsurprising reaction to the embarrassing debut of the …
When Panic Became Normalized
In honor of the fourth anniversary of the tyrannical overreaction to a largely imagined threat that elsewhere I’ve described in terms of Israel’s worship of golden calf, I thought it useful to relive my own experience of how easily normal …
How Will We Remember the Pandemic Era?
As we reach the four-year anniversary of Covid, it is difficult not to wonder what the legacy of that period will ultimately be. How will it be remembered by future generations? How will it be taught in schools? How will …
The PREP Act Swallowed the Bill of Rights
The US sold its citizens’ right to jury trials to the country’s largest lobbying force, and Americans now bear the costs after Pharma cashed record profits.
The PREP Act, a 2005 statute invoked by HHS Secretary Alex Azar at the …
How Did American Capitalism Mutate Into American Corporatism?
In the 1990s and for years into our century, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backwards. We were all gaining access to fabulous things, including webs, apps, search tools, and social media. But governments at all …
Germany’s Role in What Happened
The ‘story of the decade,’ ‘smoking gun,’ ‘case closed.’ The story of US-funded – or, as the case may be, even not funded – gain-of-function research on coronaviruses has been widely presented in recent weeks as the solution to the …
Australian Court Blocks Covid Vaccine Challenge
A judge who previously provided legal counsel to Pfizer has blocked a legal challenge over Moderna’s and Pfizer’s mRNA Covid vaccines, stalling efforts to raise the alarm over alleged unregulated genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including high levels of DNA contamination, …
In the Shadow of Oedipus
[The following is a chapter from Dr. Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.]
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles, Oedipus RexMy experience has been that one of the most heart-wrenching things in life is to …
The War Between Knowledge and Stupidity
Bernard Stiegler was, until his premature death, probably the most important philosopher of technology of the present. His work on technology has shown us that, far from being exclusively a danger to human existence, it is a pharmakon – a …
Can the Chief Justice Stand Up to the Censors?
Chief Justice John Roberts once flipped his vote on Obamacare to appease the DC establishment. Will he capitulate again in Murthy v. Missouri?
In 2012, after oral arguments in Sebelius v. NFIB, the Supreme Court met in a secret conference …
Reflections on Brownstone’s Retreat
My mind “hurts.” I just got back from the Brownstone Institute’s Retreat in Avon, Connecticut, February 22-25, 2024. Thirty-five people from a diverse mix of backgrounds and professions were invited to participate in two and a half days of presentations, …
Science Writing is Rarely Journalism
The Covid pandemic created some of the worst science writing in our lifetimes. Major media outlets failed at providing readers with accurate and balanced news across a host of issues, including vaccines, masks, lockdowns and how the virus likely began …
The Year of Elections
This is the year of elections, with 50 (World Economic Forum), 64 (Time), or 80 (Guardian) countries and the EU going to the polls, accounting for almost half the world’s total population. The list includes the US and India, the …
The Silent Shame of Health Institutions
For how much longer will health policy ignore multimorbidity, that looming, giant elephant in the room, that propagates and amplifies suffering? For how much longer will the ‘trend’ of increasing diagnoses of multiple health conditions, at younger and younger ages …
Shifting Alliances and Building Tribes
Church leaders didn’t want me there. The minister had even called me into her office to ask me to stop passing out anti-war flyers and articles on the Iraq War. Why? Because I led a church peace group that was …