Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. Governments around the world took drastic measures in 2020 in hopes of slowing the spread of COVID-19, in many cases locking down economies and confining people to their homes
Vinay Prasad brownstone.org Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials and better decision making. He is
Ivan Oransky mercatornet.com Ivan Oransky, MD, is a cofounder of Retraction Watch, editor in chief of Spectrum and a distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.He is a member of Knowable’s Magazine Advisory Group. A warning: This article will not
Simon Chapple Michael Fletcher Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Simon Chapple was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He became Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies in mid-2017. Previously he has worked domestically in a research and policy advisory capacity for a range of government
After Richard Dawkins posted the below tweet a few days ago to his 2.9 million followers, he yesterday tweeted the text of his letter to the NZ Royal Society. We have reproduced it here on The BFD as it is highly unlikely that the MSM will cover it as
Donald Digby When most people think of the America’s Cup they think of wealthy men sailing around in expensive boats representing exclusive clubs where members gather to cluck cluck and tut-tut about whatever topic is current while enjoying a drop of their favourite tipple. Something that happens for
HR Hi everyone. The BFD is humming even more than usual with 1.7 million or so people being in lockdown until recently and highly likely to be locked down again. The hot topics are, of course, covid, the government and the media. Emotions are high and commenters obviously want
Louise M Diack The purpose of computer modelling is to attempt to forecast the future. When real-world data and experimental research results conflict with computer modelling outputs, it tells us the inputs fed into the models were wrong and need changing. The curse of computer modelling is garbage in,
Daniel Lacalle mises.org Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Freedom or Equality (2020), Escape from the Central Bank Trap (2017), The Energy World Is Flat (2015), and Life in the Financial Markets (2014). He is a professor of global economy at
Martin Kulldorff Jayantta Bhattacharya brownstone.org Martin Kulldorff, Senior Scientific Director of Brownstone Institute, is an epidemiologist and biostatistician specializing in infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety. He is the developer of Free SaTScan, TreeScan, and RSequential software. Most recently, he was professor at the Harvard Medical School for ten
Thomas Crow particle.scitech.org.au A team of WA researchers may have discovered a cheap, revolutionary treatment for Alzheimer’s disease – and the key is a body part you may not expect. Dementia is the second leading cause of death of Australians and the leading cause of death for
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
Stacey Rudin brownstone.org Stacey Rudin is an attorney and writer in New Jersey, USA. More and more people feel like something is “off” about our response to the “Covid” pandemic. This pandemic is claimed by political establishment prophets to be the first time in history that we need universal,
Paul Deacon Dear Liz I write to you in your capacity as Chair of the Health Committee, which is in practice the only watchdog over the government on these matters. Please ask the government to pause (or at least modify) the vaccine rollout on the basis of information that has
Don Brash hobsonspledge.nz This Bill must be one of the worst pieces of legislation ever to come before the New Zealand Parliament in that it unashamedly and explicitly introduces racism into the New Zealand health sector. SUBMISSION ON THE PAE ORA (HEALTHY FUTURES) BILL This Bill must be one
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. CLINTEL has produced a very interesting trio of open letters, with one each to heads of government, young people and climate scientists. Most open letters that challenge alarmism are
