By Martin Kulldorff October 20, 2021
Because of political strategies using slander and ad hominem attacks, many physicians and scientists have been reluctant to speak out despite their reservations about pandemic policies. The error-strewn attacks in BMJ demonstrate what awaits academics who do challenge prevailing views.
That such an article was published exemplifies the decay in standards of scientific journals. Open and honest discourse is critical for science and public health. As scientists, we must now tragically acknowledge that 400 years of scientific enlightenment may be coming to an end. It started with Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and René Descartes. It would be tragic if it would end up as one of the many casualties of this pandemic.
91 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to Covid-19: Documented, Linked, and Quoted
By Paul Elias Alexander October 17, 2021
We should not force COVID vaccines on anyone when the evidence shows that naturally acquired immunity is equal to or more robust and superior to existing vaccines. Instead, we should respect the right of the bodily integrity of individuals to decide for themselves.
The Brownstone Institute previously documented 30 studies on natural immunity as it relates to Covid-19.
The Truth About Tyranny
By Jeffrey A. Tucker October 16, 2021
Initially, I had assumed that the nation would rise up against stay-at-home orders, school and church closures, and the discriminatory shutdowns on business that privilege big box retailers over local merchants. I was wrong. Governments were able to recruit multitudes into the ranks of the irrational. Fear made people compliant. That compliance turned many people into champions of their own plight and lustful for mass conformity with the new despotism.
The unvaxed are the enemy, in exactly the way that philosopher Carl Schmitt said that enemyness is supposed to work: an arbitrary assignment of malice as a means of intensifying political power through social division. This is the essence of politics, Schmitt wrote approvingly. It is conflict, contention, and suffering – not social peace and prosperity – that give life meaning.
Any regime that wants to stay in power needs to know this secret to hegemony: the desire to cleanse society of the enemy is what compels compliance. Every tyranny in history has depended on recruits to its own ranks from within the culture. They believe the lie knowing full well that it is a lie. The lie allows them to participate in the purge. They become the willing executioners. It’s been true throughout history, regardless of the particular and shifting desiderata of the despotism of the moment.
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