I am thinking of a certain industry. See if you can guess what it is.
This industry is huge, constituting a large portion of the nation’s GDP. Millions of people earn their living through it, directly or indirectly. The people …
Ulrich Beck and Our ‘Risk Society’
One wonders what Ulrich Beck – the theorist of ‘risk society’ – would say, if he were alive today, given the kinds of ‘risk’ one currently faces on all sides. Yet, with hindsight one can discern adumbrations of the outrageous …
Where Are We Now?
[The following is the first chapter of Dr. Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.]
Pretending something doesn’t matter doesn’t make it matter less.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In Do You Matter?I am Kelly-Sue Oberle. I live at [address]. …
Healthcare Students Still Forced to Inject Vaccines
Almost four years after the start of the Covid pandemic, and healthcare students are still subject to some of the most oppressive and coercive vaccine mandates ever declared. Despite the fact that there has not been one documented Covid case …
The Legal Batteries That Supercharge the Bureaucratic State
There is a legal thing called “Chevron deference” and it has encouraged the massive growth of the power and scope of the bureaucratic state over the past 40 years.
Named after a 1984 legal case, the doctrine holds (in a …
The Loosening of Rules on Informed Consent
On January 22, 2024, amendments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations (21 CFR 50) covering Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) were finalized and implemented. The amendments added a new section 50.22 that allows for exceptions to informed consent requirements …
The Wheels of Life
My professional pursuits have provided me with extraordinary opportunities to live in foreign places for fairly extended periods of time, a gift for which I am extremely grateful.
Over the course of my decades of travel, I have watched with …
We Can’t Ban Our Way to a Better World
Henry, Diana Mara. Police dragging a smiling woman, November 1980. Diana Mara Henry Papers (PH 51). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Il nous faut de l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace!
(We need audacity, …
How to Repair Our Post Repentance Culture
A few days back, in a column published in this same space, Jeffrey Tucker wondered out loud if we will ever witness a public reckoning of the numerous crimes committed against the citizenry and our constitution in the name of …
Room Filtration Didn’t Work Either
Journalist David Zweig spotted an interesting paper released by the British Medical Journal. It concerns the effectiveness of HEPA filters in classrooms as a means of slowing or stopping the spread of Covid. The study looked at German kindergarten classrooms …
Disease-X and Davos: This is Not the Way to Evaluate and Formulate Public Health Policy
[Full PDF of report is available below]
Private Interest and the Development of Pandemic PolicyPublic health messaging should provide accurate information so that the public and their leadership can formulate appropriate responses, weighed against society’s competing priorities. Planning for …
Federal Court Judge Pulls Canada Back from the Brink
The Canadian government’s use of the Emergencies Act was unlawful. The Trucker Convoy did not constitute a national emergency. So said a judge of the Federal Court on Tuesday. The decision may help to pull Canada back from the brink …
Did Pfizer-BioNTech “Placebos” Contain Empty Lipids?
As my Pfizer-BioNTech “placebo” report from last July has for some reason just gone viral again, this is a good time to address an important detail which I did not cover in the original report and which was neglected in …
President von der Leyen’s WEF Speech is Sheer Manipulation
In a recent address to the World Economic Forum, EU President Ursula von der Leyen, citing the WEF’s annual “global risk report,” pointed to “misinformation and disinformation” as the greatest risks facing the global business community at this time. These …
Science-Totalitarianism Now Threatens Liberalism
Crucial amongst classical liberalism’s advantages is that it conforms to the principles of what Mark Pennington has called ‘robustness’ (Pennington 2010, p. 2). A policy, policy-making process, or policy-making institution is ‘robust’ when it takes account of two human imperfections: …