Science
Harvard Epidemiologist Says the Case for COVID Vaccine Passports Was Just Demolished
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
A 40-YEAR-OLD Warning on How Humanity’s ‘Unbound Confidence’ in Science Can Undermine Reason—and Lead to Collectivism
Kai Weiss fee.org Kai Weiss is a Research Fellow at the Austrian Economics Center and a board member of the Hayek Institute. “The Science says.” The phrase has become one of the most popular mottos in the popular discourse of our day. Science—with hard facts and without fallacies
There’s ‘Wrong’, and Then There’s ‘Expert Advice’
An “expert”, it is said, is someone who is able to explain at great length why, in hindsight, they were completely wrong. Since the beginning of the Wuhan pandemic, a great many experts have been wrong about a great many things. So why on earth are we still listening to
Informed Consent for Medical Procedures Is a Basic Human Right
Taylor Pace mises.org Government-mandated vaccine passports are a denial of basic human rights. Unlike the ambiguity surrounding abortion, vaccines undoubtedly affect only the individual being injected and therefore should be that person’s choice. Informed consent has historically been a moral principle of the medical field. No cognizant
‘Experts’ Ramp up the Fear over Freedom
Australian PM, Scott Morrison, is pushing hard on the federal government’s roadmap to “re-open Australia”, be done with lockdowns and border closures, and “learn to live with the virus”. Morrison’s plan is eminently sensible and is clearly based on the real-world experience of places like Britain
In Search of the Lost Heisenberg Cubes
It sounds like something from a Marvel movie: mysterious, lost “Heisenberg cubes” of Nazi-era science. But Heisenberg cubes are very real — they were part of the Nazis’ race to build an atomic weapon. Nearly all were lost in the chaos of the fall of the Third Reich, but scientists
Protocol for Re-Opening New Zealand Society
covidplanb.co.nz Introduction 18 months on from the world’s fearful response to the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, we provide an alternative to New Zealand’s elimination strategy to one of ‘living with covid-19’. We are now back in level four lockdown indefinitely with escalating PCR positive
The IPCC’s Deliberate CO2 Deception
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. Many of my disagreements with the IPCC AR6 science Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) are just that, disagreements. I think their reasoning is faulty but at least I understand
Blast From the COVID Past Shows How Far We’ve Fallen
In his The Shape of Things to Come, H G Wells describes “the curious sense of unconsciousness” of the calamity that was about to unfold in the summer of 1914. “The weather that August was exceptionally fine”, and countless Europeans holidayed with no notion that within a scant few years
Science or Pseudo Science?
Christopher Ruthe I was convenor of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for 13 years, (20 of my decisions are in the NZ law reports). I also sat on the Weathertight Homes Tribunal. I am a polymath with a strong interest in the philosophical underpinnings of society – a bit of a
Auckland Lockdown Unlikely to End Next Week
A significant part of the world’s population today is living with high levels of fear. Fear of death by Covid-19. Confronted by stories of hundreds of new “cases”, deaths and horrifyingly mutated variants that will eventually sneak in and get them, average people are losing the will to
The UN IPCC Science Panel Opts for Extreme Nuttiness
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. It was not easy, but the new IPCC Summary for Policymakers manages to outdo itself in nuttiness. They have rebirthed some really bad old stuff and combined it with
Want Your Boss to Monitor You 24/7?
Proponents of forcible vaccination like to couch their authoritarianism in the language of public health and “the greater good”. But so did some of the world’s worst tyrannies. “Public health” has an indelibly bossy streak which must be continually brought to heel if people want to stay free. Of