US Senator to Facebook: Kill Free Speech Now
Intelligence Committee chairman targets private companies.
Weaponizing Scientific Expertise
Activist scientists have appointed themselves arbiters of who’s entitled to protest and who isn’t.
Many Frontline Workers Decline COVID Vaccines
Concerns mustn’t be swept under the carpet.
Facebook, Fact-checkers & Medical Debate
When group think masquerades as ‘fact-checking.’
What We Know About UK Vaccine Reactions
460 people have died after receiving COVID-19 vaccines.
China: Land of the Anal Swab
Travelers to China are now subject to anal penetration by the authorities.
Who Died After Receiving COVID Vaccines?
966 post-vaccine deaths have been reported to the CDC.
Biogen’s Superspreader Conference: One Year Later
Boston biotech conference likely infected hundreds of thousands of people.
What the Swedish Doctor Said 6 Months Ago
Be careful of your words, lest the future make a fool of you.
What Canada’s Top Health Official Said A Year Ago
Theresa Tam repeatedly said the risk was low & COVID cases would be rare. She naively trusted China & relied on the WHO. 20,000 Canadians are now dead.
Veterans’ Home Bosses Banned Face Masks, 200 People Died
New Jersey officials waged an aggressive, anti-mask campaign against nursing home staff & ambulance crews.
The Story of America’s First COVID-19 Hotspot
Did this nursing home fail in its duties? Or did authorities do too much to hinder it – and too little to help?
We Don’t Know if COVID Vaccines Are Safe
Let us be adults. Let us be honest. At this stage, no one knows what will happen when COVID vaccines are given to millions of people.
Vaccines, Legal Liability & Learning from History
Governments are shielding vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits.
Vaccines & Informed Consent
Adverse reactions to a 2009 swine flu vaccine profoundly harmed a small minority of those who received it.
Checking Your Blood Oxygen
Consider adding an oximeter to your pandemic medicine cabinet.
Eastern Europe’s COVID Woes
While many of these nations skipped the first wave, they’re struggling now.
Record-Breaking COVID Deaths
April 17th was the worst day for reported COVID deaths globally. Until the past two weeks. We’ve now blown past that record seven times.
Money, Medications & COVID
Experts with fewer financial ties to drug companies are noticeably more supportive of an inexpensive, off-patent drug.
COVID: Worries, Weariness & Humility
We don’t know what’s coming next – and the past three months are not a reliable predictor.
Pandemic Bungling Undercuts UN Goals
German study calls public transit ‘the big loser.’
Vaccines Are Complicated
Eager as we are for a COVID vaccine, we need to be realistic about possible harms – and a plausible timeline.
Is COVID Responsible for Only 6% of US Deaths?
When someone commits suicide, comorbidities on their death certificate don’t mean they didn’t kill themselves.
Davos and COVID-19
While our ‘thought leaders’ worried about the elderly in the year 2050, a virus that would kill hundreds of thousands of elderly people this year was spreading like wildfire.
Blog Returns Sept. 23
I’m deep diving into a new research project. There’s lots to read and lots to learn.
Science, Skepticism, and Irony
An impressive new book about the shortcomings of scientific research is inadvertently ironic.
Will Skyscrapers Survive COVID?
Tall buildings, dependent on elevators, have become precarious investments.
Hydroxychloroquine & the Judgment of History
How a safe, well-understood malaria drug was demonized as a COVID-19 treatment. Because a politician said good things about it.
A Few Months of Hindsight
Journalist George Gilder declared the pandemic over in April. Mathematician Isaac Ben-Israel insisted the virus would burn out everywhere 70 days after it began.
Funerals Have Spiked in Numerous Nations
Across the globe, many more funerals are being held this year than normal.
WHO: Disinformation from the Top
The head of the WHO isn’t annoyed his organization learned about the coronavirus from third parties. He isn’t angry it had to ask China for info more than once. In fact, he’s been covering for China.
WHO Now Says China Didn’t Report Coronavirus – Corrects Timeline
After implying for months that China followed international rules, the World Health Organization backtracks.
Secrecy & Stonewalling: China and SARS 1.0
China gave the WHO permission to send in investigators, but wouldn’t allow them near the affected area after they’d arrived. They departed empty-handed, two weeks later.
Where Are COVID Deaths Rising?
Chile, Peru, Brazil, and Mexico have experienced dramatic increases. So have New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
40 Days in Brazil
Forty thousand Brazilians have died of the coronavirus in the past 40 days.
Financial Conflicts & the Retracted COVID Research
Lead author, paid by drug companies, gives the all-clear to products those companies sell. World’s leading medical journal fails transparency test.
Retracted Papers Written by Journal VIP
The lead author of two retracted COVID-19 papers is editor-in-chief of an Elsevier medical journal.
What Went Wrong in Massachusetts?
State hit disproportionately hard by the coronavirus.
Staggering Death Rate in 7 US States
American deaths per million equal or exceed Europe’s worst-hit nations in several locales.
Fantasy Wish List Masquerades as Climate Poll
Green lobby group invites public to endorse green fantasies.
When Government Tells You Whose Balls to Touch
First came the virus. Then new rules for recreational tennis.
Racism, Magical Thinking & the Coronavirus
Rather than quarantining travelers, our leaders chose a course of action that led to entire countries being locked down.
This Blog Will Return May 20th
In the interim, I recommend this brilliant essay on what the coronavirus has taught us.
Civil Liberties, the Economy & Typhoid Mary
Let us not be cavalier about the coronavirus. Let us pay proper respect to the dead.
Inside America’s Hospitals
The coronavirus is straining the healthcare systems of the richest nations in the world.
How NYC’s Leaders Betrayed the Public
Medical bureaucrats wrapped themselves in the cloak of science. They said the battle was against paranoia, misinformation & stigma. Thousands have now perished.
Why Homemade Masks Make Sense
Coronavirus deaths follow choir practice. A grassroots, homemade-masks-for-all movement gathers steam.
Losing Doctors on the Battlefield
176 61 physicians have died in Italy. They’re also dying in France, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Protect Hospital Staff, Or Healthcare Collapses
Doctors on the front lines are shouting from the rooftops.
Italy’s Hospital Meltdown
Coronavirus has turned hospitals into war zones, say Italian doctors.
So You Thinks SARS Was No Big Deal (Part 1)
Canada was the only country outside Asia in which people died from the SARS coronavirus. A doctor and two nurses were among its victims. All three were in their 50s.
Coronavirus Math: The Number I’m Watching
How are different countries coping? What is the case fatality rate?
When Is A Pandemic Not A Pandemic?
The World Health Organization is playing games.
Cancel Culture Hits Medical Journals
Anti-meat experts ask external bodies to suppress rival research.
About Those Nitrates in Our Food
Your salad contains more nitrates than a bacon sandwich.
Diabetes, Doctors & Real World Results
Some people are ‘curing’ their Type 2 diabetes by changing what they eat.