In mid-November 2023, Australians for Science and Freedom held its inaugural conference under the banner ‘Progress through Science and Freedom’ on the campus of my employer, the University of New South Wales. ASF (not to be confused with the eponymously …
The AMA is Wrong About Julie Sladden
[This article was co-authored by Dr Jeyanthi Kunadhasan, Treasurer of the Australian Medical Professionals Society, and Dr Duncan Syme, Vice President of the Australian Medical professionals Society]
Last week, the AMA publicly called for the disendorsement of Tasmanian Liberal candidate …
Life After Lockdown: Introduction
My last published book was Liberty or Lockdown, originally printed in September 2020. It was written in a mad fury over what happened to the world in March 2020 and delved deeply into the history of infectious disease and the …
March Open Thread (2024)
Corbett Report members are invited to log in and engage in discussion in this month’s open thread.
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3, 2, 1, Timber
[The following is a chapter from Dr. Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.]
Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time
Is becoming the architecture of the next time….
Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn …
Rachel Levine Plays the Race Card on Climate Change
The 2020s are like a South Park episode. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, earlier this month took time away from encouraging pre-adolescent children to explore their gender identities through the wonders of endocrine-disrupting pharmaceuticals to lecture …
What We Lost Between Then and Now
Sometimes you find evidence that a prior generation had thought through and solved a moral problem in the oddest of places.
Several years ago, while pondering the fact that life went on perfectly normally during the 1968-69 flu pandemic (even …
Constitutional Crisis and Murthy v. Biden
In two weeks, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Murthy v. Biden (formerly known as Missouri v. Biden) to consider whether to uphold an injunction that bars the White House, CDC, FBI, CISA, and Surgeon General’s Office from …
Free Speech on Trial
In a lifetime of observing policy controversies and court cases, we’ve never witnessed anything as crucial to the future of the idea of freedom itself compared with what will transpire on March 18, 2024. On that day, the Supreme Court …
Mandates Ruled ‘Unlawful’ by Supreme Court, Australia
Covid vaccine mandates enforced on Queensland police and ambulance workers have been declared ‘unlawful’ in a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
Justice Glenn Martin found the Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll’s direction for mandatory Covid vaccination, issued in December 2021, to be …
The Tennessee Battle Over Vaccine Lysenkoism
[This article was co-authored with John Drummond.]
Trofim Lysenko believed that acquired traits were inherited, claimed that heredity can be changed by “educating” plants, and denied the existence of genes. Lysenko was supported and empowered by Stalin, and Soviet Communist …
Health Care Students Still Suffer Force
A tremendous injustice is taking place in health care education, and most people are entirely unaware of it.
Today, almost four years since the Covid pandemic began, nearly all US medical students, nursing students, and students training in other healthcare …
The Consensus Conspiracy
What is a consensus? At its heart it is a group of people thinking that something is most likely correct or good or the best way to do or think about something.
What is a conspiracy? At its heart it is a …
The Cruelty of Modern Death
Progress involves improving on the past. Once, we used leeches to suck out an excess of cancer-causing humors, or just blamed them on the wrath of the gods. In modern hospitals, we now image such tumors deep within the body, …
The “Boys Will Be Boys” of Science
The history of the Covid-19 pandemic started long before 2019.
If I were to put a start date on the series of events leading to Covid-19, I’d start in 2011 when the Dutch scientist Ron Fouchier and his team at …