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Pandemic Psychology: Nothing New Under the Sun

Pandemic Psychology: Nothing New Under the Sun

Steven Taylor knowablemagazine.org Information Opinion In early 2019, months before the world had heard of Covid-19, I finished writing a book titled The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease. The first publisher rejected it, dismissing it as “an interesting book that no one

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Will Reverence for Rules Be the Lasting Legacy of Covid?

Will Reverence for Rules Be the Lasting Legacy of Covid?

David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. A significant part of the world has by now accepted that Covid-19 is part of the normal cycle of flus and colds and, as such, should not be

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Wonder What Baker Would Say About This?

On Saturday I wrote about the wrongness of Michael Baker and posited that if this functional idiot pulled his head out of his back passage, he’d see what was happening around the world and how it shouldn’t be a surprise to see what is coming to New Zealand

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The Triumph of Natural Immunity

The Triumph of Natural Immunity

Martin Kulldorff brownstone.org Martin Kulldorff, senior scholar of Brownstone Institute, is an epidemiologist and biostatistician specialising 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 10 years. Co-author of

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The Rise in Severe Diseases in Children

The Rise in Severe Diseases in Children

Carla Peeters brownstone.org Carla Peeters is founder and managing director of COBALA Good Care Feels Better. Warning Long read: 1596 words Since the pandemic, young children are dealing with a mysterious increase in disease. Some may even have doubled in frequency, varying from infectious diseases, mental diseases (anxiety, depression,

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What Sense in Classing Haircuts as Illegal?

What Sense in Classing Haircuts as Illegal?

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 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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Your Chance to Win a signed Hardback Copy of “Nudged into Lockdown?”

Your Chance to Win a signed Hardback Copy of “Nudged into Lockdown?”

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are two signed, hardback copies of Nudged into Lockdown? Behavioral Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19 by BFD author Ananish Chaudhuri. Utilizing extensive research in economics, psychology, political science, neuroscience and evolutionary theory, Ananish Chaudhuri provides a critical perspective on the

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Choice Quotes from Bill Gates’s New Book

Choice Quotes from Bill Gates’s New Book

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

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NZ’s Bill of Rights Act Is Not as Strong as Some Might Wish

NZ’s Bill of Rights Act Is Not as Strong as Some Might Wish

Claire Breen University of Waikato Dr Claire Breen holds a BCL from the National University of Ireland (University College Cork). She also holds an LLM (International Law) and a PhD from the University of Nottingham. While the recent legal challenges to elements of the government’s COVID-19 response have had

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The Problem With Radio New Zealand

The Problem With Radio New Zealand

Dave Witherow Dave Witherow, who was a long time columnist with the Otago Daily Times, emigrated to New Zealand from Northern Ireland in 1971. He’s an author and script writer, and worked as a scientist for Fish and Game. Information Opinion About three times a week I turn on

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Could Michael Baker Be Any Wronger?

Newshub have been running a story that New Zealand may be over-counting deaths, and their rent-a-mouth, the Chicken Little of the talking head scientists, Michael Baker, thinks that the rest of the world is undercounting. Not yet we don’t, just wait. New Zealand is running six months behind the

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COVID-19 Emergency Powers

COVID-19 Emergency Powers

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The CDC Surveilled for Lockdown Compliance

The CDC Surveilled for Lockdown Compliance

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

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The Guardian’s Useful Fool

The Guardian’s Useful Fool

Jack thecommoner.substack.com Warning Long Read. 1320 words. Information Opinion Much can be learned from the past two years of Covid policy, but if there’s one thing in recent weeks that has struck me the most, it is this: The luvvies of the left-wing journalist class cannot bear

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

“They’re not going to be used in the foreseeable future in the way that they were previously, for hospitality and all those sorts of things.” Is “in the foreseeable future” similar to Ardern’s “Not while I am PM“? “The new vaccine pass-type system will have to take into

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They Won’t Let the Pandemic Be Over

They Won’t Let the Pandemic Be Over

Debbie Lerman brownstone.org Debbie Lerman has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA. According to the most reliable experts – those who have been correct in their interpretation of data throughout the Covid era, most prominently John Ioannidis

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