Bill Clinton Begins the Phony Era of Pandemics and Bioterrorism
In November 1997 US Secretary of Defense William Cohen held up a 5 lb bag of Domino sugar in front of an army of cameras and told the world that if the …
Remdesivir
[The following is a chapter of Lori Weintz’s book, Mechanisms of Harm: Medicine in the Time of Covid-19.]
Tragically, the government-backed mechanical (ventilators) and pharmaceutical (remdesivir, mRNA shots, etc) interventions didn’t work to remedy the respiratory illness problem. Instead, they added …
The WHO and Pandemic Response – Should Evidence Matter?
[Full PDF of report is available below]
The Basics of Policy DevelopmentAll public health interventions have costs and benefits, and normally these are carefully weighed based on evidence from previous interventions, supplemented by expert opinion where such evidence is …
The Multi-Headed Elites
This article was co-written with Martin Enlund, former Global Chief FX-Strategist at Nordea Bank, now Founder and CEO of Under Orion AB.
In mid-January, we were able to watch the gathering of the global elite in Davos, Switzerland. The publicly …
WHO Official Admits the Truth About Passports
The World Health Organization’s Dr. Hanna Nohynek testified in court that she advised her government that vaccine passports were not needed but was ignored, despite explaining that the Covid vaccines did not stop virus transmission and the passports gave a …
Letters to a Young Medical Student
The following text represents an interaction I had with a young medical student in the first year of medical school. I also include two brief excerpts showing how anti-intellectualism and closed mindedness are sabotaging key institutions, in this case the …
On the Modern Plight of the Youth
During oral arguments in the Murthy v. Missouri First Amendment case, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talked about kids “seriously injuring or even killing themselves” by “jumping out of windows at increasing elevations” thanks to a social media “teen challenge” that the government would need …
A Coup Without Firing a Shot
The last few years can be tracked at two levels: the physical reality around us and the realm of the intellectual, mental, and psychological.
The first level has presented a chaotic narrative of the previously unthinkable. A killer virus that …
Children’s Health: By the Numbers
Last month, a young student at Eton College died at the age of 17 years while playing games at the College fields. Unfortunately, this sad event is not an isolated incident. During the same week, a different young football player …
Children’s Health: By the Numbers
Last month, a young student at Eton College died at the age of 17 years while playing games at the College fields. Unfortunately, this sad event is not an isolated incident. During the same week, a different young football player …
We’ve Forgotten Kant’s Moral Lesson
In the 18th century Immanuel Kant – arguably the most important philosopher of the historical European Enlightenment – gave us what is known as a ‘deontological (duty-oriented)’ moral philosophy, as opposed to, for example, a ‘consequentialist’ variety, or one that …
The Rich Get Richer: Thank the Fed
The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and it’s all thanks to the Federal Reserve.
Last week the Fed released a new study that wealth of the top 1% in America hit an all time high of …
Australia Bins 35% of Covid Vaccine Supply
As part of its pandemic response, the Australian government purchased 267.3 million doses of Covid vaccines, enough to vaccinate Australia’s population of approximately 26 million people ten times over.
But figures released to Dystopian Down Under by the Department of …
The Nursing Home Paradox
The title of this post should have been given to a study that was published in 2022. I have missed that publication until recently, perhaps because of its uninformative title: “Nursing home quality, COVID-19 deaths, and excess mortality.” There is …
Is the Swamp Drainable?
Jeffrey Tucker, perhaps America’s most prominent “adult in the room,” penned another mature and wise column at Brownstone today.
In this essay, Jeffrey highlights several positive developments he sees in society and opines that society’s elites are increasingly being discredited…and …