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Trials on Prozac’s Safety and Efficacy Fudged

brownstone.org A new analysis finds that Prozac (generic name fluoxetine) is unsafe and ineffective for treating depression in children and adolescents. Regulatory documents show that trial participants attempted suicide after taking fluoxetine, but these events were excluded from the final journal publication. I notified the journal of the new

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Believe All Women, or Just Some?

Believe All Women, or Just Some?

mercatornet.com The squalid court case just ended over an alleged sexual encounter in the mid-90s between Donald Trump and a saleswoman in a shop fitting room was always likely to end badly for him. Bizarre as the episode sounded, any accusation would seem credible given Trump’s own record

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Freedom Must Be the Core

Freedom Must Be the Core

brownstone.org Two years ago, major American cities were segregated by vaccine status. Mask mandates delineated safe and unsafe. Signs told us to be separate from each other. We couldn’t even encounter each other during shopping thanks to one-way grocery aisles. We were not allowed to visit families or

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Humphries and the Evolution of Australian Slang

Humphries and the Evolution of Australian Slang

lens.monash.edu If slang is the people’s poetry, then Australia lost a poet last week. Barry Humphries breathed life into Australia’s “slanguage” – but it was often an imagined life. When it comes to their lexicon, Australians take pride in skirting the thin line between reality, romanticisation and

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Why the Coronation Rituals Matter So Much

Why the Coronation Rituals Matter So Much

As Nick Cave has written, today’s coronation of King Charles III “will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of our age. Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest”. Cave meant the latter entirely as high praise. The “strangeness” of rituals

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Bruce Moon

Bruce Moon

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve never met him but I have enormous admiration for Bruce Moon, a man with impressive academic credentials (Google him and see). Now in his 90s, plainly outraged by the blatant lying about the Treaty, he is devoting his remaining years to fighting this

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How the Dollar Became the World’s Top Global Currency

mises.org In March 2009, in the midst of recession, then Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner was pressed to respond on the question of whether or not another currency – possibly the IMF’s special drawing rights (SDRs)—might displace the US dollar as the dominant global reserve currency. Geithner responded that

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Polygamy (Or Something like It) Rises

Polygamy (Or Something like It) Rises

mercatornet.com Reconceiving of marriage in terms of “self-expression” has been a terrible, value-laden mistake, betraying the pretensions to liberal neutrality. Plural marriage is inferior for raising children and for maintaining marital harmony; but most of all, in today’s climate, it creates a culture dedicated to adult sexual self-expression

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What Is a Wahine? Maori Knew Perfectly Well

What Is a Wahine? Maori Knew Perfectly Well

One of the more odious outrages of the rainbow groomers is their sleazy determination to appropriate the religious beliefs of indigenous cultures to their creepy agenda. When the cocks-in-frocks co-opt so-called “two-spirit” beliefs which were present in some Native American tribes, they’re committing a cultural appropriation more egregious than

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The Three Winners of our Give Away Are…

The Three Winners of our Give Away Are…

We have come to the end of yet another fantastic book giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of Roger Childs’ new book New Zealand’s History Curriculum – Education or Indoctrination? Today we are announcing the three lucky BFD members who won a book. We used an online

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ANZAC Day: For Skippy

ANZAC Day: For Skippy

By Cameron Slater ( *republished) I made this video some time ago for Skippy, my father-in-law. Some of the photos in the video were taken by him at Nui Dat. He was an Aussie serving with the NZ Army…he trained at Puckapunyal, Canungra and Singleton…many of the places mentioned

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