PCR Tests and the Rise of Disease Panic

PCR Tests and the Rise of Disease Panic: Despite the CDC’s own admission that PCR tests “may not indicate the presence of infectious virus," its use to do exactly that in the case of Covid was accepted without question. Worse still, the measures taken against calling PCR into question have become progressively more draconian and underhanded since the very beginning.

Doubling Down on Foolishness

Doubling Down on Foolishness: "Plans to continue down that path at a far more rapid rate, as the Biden administration proposes, are doubling down on foolishness, yet may well occur unless Americans recognize them for what they are." ~ Gary M. Galles

The Continuing Covid Variants Scam

Are We Overreacting to Omicron?: With natural exposure immunity and early outpatient treatment and when combined with no reports of increased lethality, the WHO’s reaction of generating panic toward “Omicron” is causing needless fear and panic. So too with the Biden administration’s newly imposed travel restrictions, which will achieve nothing and will once again disrupt trade and violate human rights.

The Polio Pandemic of 1949-52: No Closures, No Restrictions

The Polio Pandemic of 1949-52: No Closures, No Restrictions: Our rights survived. So did human liberty, free enterprise, the Bill of Rights, jobs, the American way of life. And then polio was eventually beat.

The Six Major Fails of Anthony Fauci

The Six Major Fails of Anthony Fauci: Unfortunately, Dr. Fauci got major epidemiology and public health questions wrong. Reality and scientific studies have now caught up with him.

The Unvaccinated Never Are Any Threat

This Is Not a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated: Some politicians speak about the “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Social cohesion should not be jeopardized over narrow and erroneous views.

Teachers Union Kleptocracy

Democrats, Pick a Fight with Parents at Your Peril

Naturally Acquired Immunity to Covid-19: Documented, Linked, and Quoted ⋆ Brownstone Institute

91 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to Covid-19: Documented, Linked, and Quoted ⋆ Brownstone Institute

79 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to Covid-19: Documented, Linked, and Quoted ⋆ Brownstone Institute

79 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to Covid-19: Documented, Linked, and Quoted ⋆ Brownstone Institute

COVID-19 Mandates Will Not Work for the Delta Variant

COVID-19 Mandates Will Not Work for the Delta Variant: "There is absolutely no good reason to re-enter lockdowns and school closures or masking in response to the Delta variant. We find no evidence that this variant warrants masks in children." ~ AIER Contributing Authors

Media Fraud Checkers

Who Fact Checks the Fact Checkers? A Report on Media Censorship: "When we see fact checkers like NewsGuard, who not only fail to uphold their high-sounding principles but even publicly encourage working with the government to suppress speech, we should raise red flags." ~ Phillip W. Magness & Ethan Yang

The Science Studies Disproving The Case For Lockdowns

Lockdowns Fail: They Do Not Control the Virus: The use of universal lockdowns in the event of the appearance of a new pathogen has no precedent. It has been a science experiment in real-time, with most of the human population used as lab rats. The question is whether and to what extent lockdowns worked.

Covid Policy and Outcomes

Covid Policy and Outcomes: "Science was repeatedly invoked, but at least the actions I examined here were not supported by science. The reason for this may have been identified by Lord Acton in the 19th century. 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'" ~ Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr.

The CDC’s Mask Sham

CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks: Over 70 percent of the case-patients who were contaminated with the virus fell ill despite 'always' wearing a mask.

Biden’s “Big Rail” Ignorance

Biden Places A Bull’s Eye On “Big Rail”: "Joe Biden’s latest pivot against 'Big' reveals shocking ignorance about how businesses remain in business. If the President gets his way. Big Rail will be muzzled to the detriment of its customers, and to competition in the ever-changing world of shipping more broadly." ~ John Tamny

The Race to Win Covidfinity

The Race to Win Covidfinity: "It doesn't much matter what the future 'threat' will look like, or how damaging the Delta or Epsilon variants currently seem. I'm afraid of Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Though, I don’t think it’ll be a string of a pretty lame coronavirus, but something considerably worse." ~...

How a Psychic Healer Blog Convinced the Government to Fund “Long Covid” Research

How a Psychic Healer Blog Convinced the Government to Fund “Long Covid” Research: "The doors have, sadly, been thrown wide open to psychic healing and alternative wellness gibberish. Lockdowner scientists have, in turn, given these suspect claims and defective survey designs a welcome home in the most prestigious institutions of journalism, government, and the ivory tower." ~...

Special Issue on China

Special Issue on China: The United States and China are beginning to compete more closely all around the world, and collisions of interest are occurring more frequently. This issue is dedicated to US-China topics.

The Lie And Hate Of Palestine

The Palestinian Flag Is a Symbol of Hate: By now everyone has seen video or read about angry, young thugs in New York City, searching for Jews to beat up or attack with fireworks. We've seen the cars in Los Angeles chasing an Orthodox Jew from a synagogue, screaming 'Alahu Akbar,' and the

The Green Movement Really Stands For

Fish, Rice and What the Green Movement Really Stands For: "The idea is always to lock us down both in terms of population and consumption and woe to anyone or anything that allows more consumption with equal or fewer resources. Don’t fall for the safety arguments. The argument is against capitalism and humanity. That’s no fish story." ~ Michael Fumento

Remembering the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Remembering the Tiananmen Square Massacre: "We should be inspired by the countless activists across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the world who risk persecution every day to shine a light on the lies of the CCP. We should not only pray but work to ensure that this fateful day was not a violent snuffing of the flame of Chinese liberty...

Redefining Words to Attack Israel

Redefining Words to Attack Israel: ... The 'Science for Peace' letter titled 'Canada must condemn the violence in Gaza and the West Bank and cease all arms exports to Israel,' written by a number of Canadian academics, is full of misrepresentations that are often injected into

The Media Changes Its Wuhan Leak Tune

The Media’s 180 on the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory. | Human Events: The mainstream media has gone from “Wuhan Lab Theory” denial to “Wuhan Lab Theory” advocates—literally overnight.

Scientific Racism As The Democratic Mainstay

The Democrats’ Scientific Racism

The Skew in Science That Feeds US EPA Regulation

The Skew in Science That Feeds US EPA Regulation: "The burden to society will worsen as the EPA continues down a slippery slope. Americans need to be aware that the science used at the EPA for setting air quality regulation is skewed, expensive, and of dubious public health benefit." ~ S. Stanley Young & Warren Kindzierski

The Scam Of Fauci

White Coat Supremacist Anthony Fauci Still Wears Yellow Beret - Frontpagemag

Regulatory Capture, Teacher Unions, and CDC Abuse

Regulatory Capture, Teacher Unions, and CDC Abuse: "There is no doubt that this unprecedented and deviant child experiment has inflicted significant harm on its human subjects. Thus, while some might say that it is wrong to demonize public health officials, we say that their actions, especially as they relate to children, have been demonic...

Progressivism’s Moral Atrocity in the Middle East

Progressivism’s Moral Atrocity in the Middle East

Biden’s “America the Beautiful” Vision Ignores Feds’ Dreadful Record

Biden’s “America the Beautiful” Vision Ignores Feds’ Dreadful Record: "Biden’s '30 by 30' will likely become simply another pork barrel environmental program which deluges their friends and donors with subsidies. But there is no reason to expect 'America the Beautiful' to be less of a debacle than FDR’s farm programs, Eisenhower’s Soil Bank, or the Conservation...

Imperial College, Model Liars.

Imperial College Predicted Catastrophe in Every Country on Earth. Then the Models Failed.: "Why is Ferguson, who has a long history of absurdly exaggerated modeling predictions, still viewed as a leading authority on pandemic forecasting? And why is the ICL team still advising governments around the world on how to deal with Covid-19 through its flawed modeling approach? In March 2020...

Democrats’ Endless Economic Stupidity

The Extraordinary Naivete Of The Democrats’ Economic Planning: "The Democrats and their media enablers plainly believe that wealth just happens, that it once again exists to be taken. What else could explain the childish economic narrative created by Biden’s aides, and reported in unquestioning fashion by rather gullible reporters?" ~ John Tamny

The Lockdown Paradigm Is Collapsing

The Lockdown Paradigm Is Collapsing: "What will replace lockdown ideology? We can hope it will be the realization that the old principles of public health served us well, as did the legal and moral principles of human rights and restrictions on the powers of government." ~ Jeffrey Tucker

10 Politically Correct But Factually False Words To Stop Using Now

10 Politically Correct But Factually False Words To Stop Using Now: To counter the left’s lies, conservatives have to use words that accurately reflect the truth — not words that actively mean the opposite.

Where’s Dr. Fauci As Another Corona-Myth Dies?

Where’s Dr. Fauci As Another Corona-Myth Dies?: "In this case, the deniers who lived their lives were correct. Avoiding all contact proved idiotic. The 'doubters' had science on their side. It’s all yet again a reminder that hysterical certitude isn’t the same as knowledge. Emotion is its own form of denial." ~ John Tamny

The Democrats’ Fake Filibuster Crisis

Democrats Are Lying About Filibuster Numbers To Help Them Kill It: Now that they are back in the Senate majority, Democrats are falsely inflating filibuster numbers in order to create a fake crisis.

Science And Fact Are Not The Same

Science Is More Complex than Advertised: "The perpetuation of the myth of 'The Scientific Method' encourages the pretense that we understand science. More to the point, it encourages the false notion that, because we understand science so well, we can always rely on the implications of a thing called 'The Science' as the fount of all...

Stop Greenwashing Socialism

Stop Greenwashing Socialism: "Protecting our environment deserves more attention than a prefix in a campaign slogan for a complete political and economic revolution. Especially one that has caused so much untold misery for both humans and the planet." ~ Christopher Barnard

Yes To Anti-Lockdown Amendments

The Time Has Come for Anti-Lockdown Amendments: "Covid-19 exposed what governors could do in the absence of strong reforms. Without swift and deliberate action there will be another episode of drunken power grabs under the guise of a different threat in the not-too-distant future. The time is now for universal sobriety on this matter and for...

Twitter Censors Famed Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff

Twitter Censors Famed Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff: "If there ever was a troubling sign of the power and arrogance of big tech, of which I’ve long been a defender, this new action is it. Dr. Kulldorff has been a brave proponent of traditional public health in the midst of an unprecedented and very obviously failed policy of lockdowns. He has been...

Why Is Everyone in Texas Not Dying?

Why Is Everyone in Texas Not Dying?: "Now we can see the failure in black, white, and full color, daily appearing on our screens courtesy of the CDC. Has that shaken the pro-lockdown pundit class? Not that much. What an amazing testament to the stubbornness of elite opinion and its bias against basic freedoms. They might all echo...

Fauci’s Mutating Covid Advice

The Many Variants of Fauci’s Mutating Covid Advice: "Although reinfection from new strains continues to be an avenue of research and investigation, the evidence we currently have suggests it remains uncommon. That hasn’t stopped America’s 'leading infectious disease authority' from indulging in wildly irresponsible speculation from a national...

The Technocracy Lies

One Of The Lockdowns’ Greatest Casualties Could Be Science: Politicians, journalists, and scientists have transferred the disease burden onto the working class. They’ve also undermined scientific inquiry.

Welcome to Word Tyranny and Cultural Balkanization

Welcome to Word Tyranny and Cultural Balkanization: "Before this new era of postmodern identity politics, that is; in the prior 'modern' Age of Enlightenment, when human beings foolishly believed in reason, evidence, and individual liberty, all of what is being insisted upon now used to be known as tyranny and criticized as dictatorship. How very...

The One-Year Anniversary of Lockdowns

The One-Year Anniversary of Lockdowns: "The trauma of 2020 will be felt decades hence. The healing will only come from honesty and truth, and a thorough rejection of the folly, duplicity, and deception that has defined our era." ~ Edward Stringham

CDC vs. Common Sense

CDC vs. Common Sense: "Our governmental agencies are bestowed with certain powers to safeguard the lives of individuals and not to harass and subjugate them to the whims of a few narrow field 'experts' who have no idea about the well-being of the society as a whole. We are allowing government agencies and inept...

Fauci and the Communists

Fauci and the Communists: "It’s important to recall that the United States and over 100 countries initiated lockdowns exclusively because of the 'data' that was being transmitted out of Wuhan. It was faulty, unchallenged Chinese data, repeated by authoritative figures like Fauci and his colleagues, that convinced the...

The Rights of the Naturally Immune

The Rights of the Naturally Immune: "The civil authorities have decided, in effect, that fully indemnified pharmaceutical companies have the de facto 'right' to force me to take an experimental vaccine that, in the very, very best of circumstances, will only match what my apparently well-functioning body has already given me...

China’s Role in Global Lockdowns: The Smoking Gun

China’s Role in Global Lockdowns: The Smoking Gun: This time last year, Americans were blindsided by a shocking policy to shut down the US economy to control a virus. The presumption of the officials who enacted this policy is that it would be far more deadly than it turned out to be. They further presumed that the virus could be controlled...

Cuomo’s Forgotten Racketeering at HUD (2000)

Cuomo’s Forgotten Racketeering at HUD (2000): Twenty-one years ago, I scoffed that Andrew Cuomo was “the Clinton administration’s most megalomaniacal cabinet secretary.”  Cuomo said in 1998, “Ultimately, the vindication of progressive politics will come only when people believe the government is competent.” Cuomo is now the embattled governor of New York. His state’s lucky residents haven’t quite had their faith in […]

How to Beat the Permanent Covidocracy

How to Beat the Permanent Covidocracy: "Despite the declines in alleged infections and deaths, vaccine rollouts, and continued progress in finding possible treatments for Covid-19, the pandemic panic remains at high pitch. Until there’s some restoration of reason, we’re shooting BBs at a bull elephant. As Charles MacKay observed in...

Cuomo and the Failure of Covid Absolutism

Cuomo and the Failure of Covid Absolutism: "In a tour of television talk shows shortly after President Biden was inaugurated, Cuomo recited his latest catchphrase: 'Incompetent government kills people.' This intended slapdown of Trump is recoiling badly on the New York governor. If Cuomo is impeached or forced to resign for his Covid...

How and Why Government Creates Disease Panic

How and Why Government Creates Disease Panic: "During this pandemic, governments exasperated rather than eased an out-of-proportion, fear-driven reaction to the pandemic. Actively fueling hysteria has exacted terrible economic, social, mental health, and educational consequences without providing demonstrable relief from the effects of...

Fauci Was Duplicitous on the AIDS Epidemic Too

Fauci Was Duplicitous on the AIDS Epidemic Too: "If you want to see an end to the lockdown madness, the ongoing destruction of human lives and livelihoods, and the unprecedented government failures that have come to characterize our daily routines for the last year, the lessons of this administrator’s performance should be obvious. It’s time...

W. S. Jevons (1865) on the Limits to Renewables

W. S. Jevons (1865) on the Limits to Renewables: "William Stanley Jevons was the first intellectual to question the ability of renewables to serve as primary energies for industrial society. The deep, thorough insight of the father of energy economics remains relevant today." ~ Robert L. Bradley Jr.

The Florida Versus California Showdown

The Florida Versus California Showdown: "California and Florida provide a clear example for the dubious efficacy of Covid-19 restrictions. Their disparities elucidate the enduring costs of lockdowns with regard to the economy and livelihoods of residents. The states also pave the way for us to better understand whether authoritarian...

Covid Cases, like Political Careers, are Dropping Like Rocks

Covid Cases, like Political Careers, are Dropping Like Rocks: "Whatever your theory as to why cases are dropping like rocks – natural immunity, PCR testing changes, drops in tests, seasonality – none of it can be credited to political interventions. What the interventions might do, however, is cause dozens if not hundreds of political careers also to drop...

Will the Truth on COVID Restrictions Really Prevail?

Will the Truth on COVID Restrictions Really Prevail?: "America is now a country where differing interpretations of science in order to seek the truth is the new anathema. I fear that 'the science' has been seriously damaged, and many have simply become fatigued by the arguments. That is even worse, because fatigue will allow fallacy to triumph over...

Who Wanted Pandemic Lockdowns?

Who Wanted Pandemic Lockdowns?: "That we will look back with astonishment at what has happened to the world is a near certainty. The folly! And people of the future will never stop asking that great question of why. The answer is finally unsatisfying. It was a massive screw up by people and groups who wanted to try something...

The Superspreader Scam

Seven Times “Superspreader” Events Were Overblown: "In an international comparison between countries that implemented lockdown policies and those that did not, Stanford University researchers found 'no evidence of large anti-contagion effects from mandatory stay-at-home and business closure policies.' Perhaps if the media reported on these...

The Flight of the Covid Quacks

The Flight of the Covid Quacks: "Even the most statist public health official completely oblivious to Hayekian critiques of central planning must know, deep down, that issuing general medical orders from on high is quackery. They now flee in great flocks but what will it matter if other quacks replace them? We don’t need new...

Cuomo’s Comeuppance

As Health Officials Resign, Cuomo Says He Doesn't Trust The Experts: Nine top health officials in New York have resigned in recent months because Gov. Andrew Cuomo refused to listen to them.

Free Labor Markets vs. Biden’s Push for Compulsory Unionism

Free Labor Markets vs. Biden’s Push for Compulsory Unionism: "Joe Biden’s pro-union labor agenda, if implemented, would rob all those working for a living the liberty and latitude to do so freely and of their own choosing. They would be reduced to servants and supplicants to those controlling the unions and who possess the power to allow or prevent people...

The Question of Masks

The Question of Masks: "Until a substantial portion of us stand up and make clear that we will not tolerate being stripped of life, liberty, property, and dignity, our governments will continue to inflict these repressive measures." ~ Jenin Younes

What Does It Mean for a Virus to Become ‘Endemic?’

What Does It Mean for a Virus to Become ‘Endemic?’: "The sooner we recognize Covid as endemic, the sooner we can overcome this unfettered hysteria. By comparison to the previous year’s headlines, the media would no longer be able to act as a foghorn of fear-mongering. Citizens could become increasingly tolerant of the virus, and responsibility...

Carlsbad, CA Says No More to Lockdowns. May It Be a National Model!

Carlsbad, CA Says No More to Lockdowns. May It Be a National Model!: "Those who are sickeningly intoxicated with power can’t incarcerate us all. As for the businesses terrorized by the political class in Carlsbad, they decided they no longer have any choice. Given the choice between going out of business and defying politicians, they chose the latter. Good for...

New Study Indicates Lockdowns Didn’t Slow the Spread of Covid-19

New Study Indicates Lockdowns Didn’t Slow the Spread of Covid-19: "Perhaps there is a sort of heroic romanticism about flexing the muscles of the state to stop a fearsome enemy that makes lockdowns so attractive. The only problem with this is that we are dealing with reality, and society is not a playset." ~ Ethan Yang

Pandemic Security Theater

Pandemic Security Theater: "After ten months of lockdowns and shocking degrees of economic and social carnage, millions of Americans have decided that there surely must be some rationale for all the insanity and have signed on to become enforcers themselves, even and perhaps especially when the rules make no sense at all...

Congressional Hypocrisy and the Crackdown

Congressional Hypocrisy and the Crackdown: "It is possible to condemn both the protestors who rampaged in the Capitol and the career politicians whose perennial abuses have destroyed Americans’ faith in the federal government. It would be especially unwise to confuse last week’s buffoonery with a bona fide coup attempt – which could...

What They Said about Lockdowns before 2020

What They Said about Lockdowns before 2020: "Significant present-day evidence continuously demonstrates that mass quarantine is both ineffectual at preventing disease spread as well as harmful to individuals. Learning the wrong lesson – assuming that mass quarantines are both good and effective – sets a dangerous precedent for future...

The Liberal-Left Has Gone Fully Illiberal

The Liberal-Left Has Gone Fully Illiberal: "Human rights are negotiable under this new ideology. I am not certain what this political theory should be called – perhaps left-wing authoritarianism – but it bears no resemblance to liberalism whatsoever. To the extent we have not gone quite as far as China in violating human rights in the...

10 Times Democrats Urged Violence Against Trump And His Supporters

10 Times Democrats Urged Violence Against Trump And His Supporters: Many of these same Denocrats blaming Trump for the Capitol riot have for years called for violence against those who believe differently than they do.

New Study Links Lockdowns to Potential Long-Term Increases In Excess Deaths

New Study Links Lockdowns to Potential Long-Term Increases In Excess Deaths: "Regardless of your position on lockdowns, addressing the economic damage these policies have created is just as important to preventing excess death as containing the virus. Failing to heed this lesson will simply be fighting one disease by creating another." ~ Ethan Yang

The Myth Of The Pacific Response

Should the US Have Been More like Pacific Countries?: "Those wishing to use Australia as a 'model' for the United States would be wise to investigate other causes besides lockdowns that explain their differences. They may also soon find that some of those causes are not only incapable of being replicated elsewhere – they also defy the same experts’...