For Those Who Say the Science is Settled
BY GREG PIPER MAY 5, 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/twitter-launches-new-purge-of-covid-contrarians/ Several Twitter users known for questioning U.S. government COVID-19 messaging have found themselves locked out of their accounts or suspended, even as the social media company reckons with a takeover by pro-free-speech billionaire Elon Musk and advancing litigation by journalist Alex Berenson. It’s not clear whether the timing is coincidental…
Recently I worked in another Maine city and was astonished at the number of patients I encountered who were using heroin. I had never seen anything like it, during a lifetime practicing medicine. In New Hampshire, it was said, deaths from heroin now exceed deaths from car accidents. Massachusetts (population under 7 million) had 1,000 deaths related to (all) opioids…
The Presidential Bioethics Commission Report on testing anthrax vaccine and other countermeasures on children was issued today, March 19, 2013. It was accompanied by a press release, an article in the NEJM, and a conference call with the press yesterday. The result is many news articles, but there is confusion about what the report actually recommended….
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spain-rules-pandemic-lockdown-unconstitutional-b1884038.html Last year’s stay-at-home lockdown order by the government under a state of emergency was unconstitutional, Spain’s constitutional court has ruled on Wednesday. The court ruling was in response to a suit filed by the far-right Vox party. It was a split decision according to a brief statement issued by the court. State broadcaster TVE…
On February 11, the Washington Post published a long “perspectives” article written by a PhD student at U. Penn. Most of it is unintelligible, pseudo-intellectual jibberish. How did it possibly get so many column inches? Why was it published? More on that later. Here is how the article starts: Made by History Perspective The Ottawa trucker convoy is rooted in…
Except that is not possible, because: 1. Zero COVID policies are instead “Delay COVID” policies, as exemplified by Australia and New Zealand. You can get it now or you can get it later, but until a certain proportion of your population develops good immunity (which unfortunately is variant dependent) your population is at risk. You…