Tag: Public Health

How Major Media Outlets Suppressed My COVID Journalism

Commentary The COVID-19 emergency has at last come to an end as even the most restrictive countries—the United States, most recently—have lifted draconian COVID mandates. Freedom has been restored, but the pandemic has left an indelible mark on the bedrock institutions of our society. The corruption of the FDA, CDC, the White House, Big Pharma has been undeniably…


Health Experts on Twitter Overwhelmingly Exaggerated Risk of Kids Getting Monkeypox: Study

During last summer’s monkeypox (mpox) outbreak, medical professionals on Twitter were four times more likely to exaggerate the risk of the viral disease spreading among children than share accurate information, a new study suggests. Mpox is spread through intimate skin contact, including sex, kissing, and sharing bedding or clothing. Data from the United States and…


[ATL:NOW] Sen. Ron Johnson: EcoHealth Grant Reinstated; COVID Corruption ‘On a Grand Scale’

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has been a vocal critic of COVID protocols since early on in the pandemic. “As much as they said they were ‘the science’, they weren’t. And they didn’t follow the science. They ignored it. They had an agenda. They had their solutions, they had their response, and don’t let any facts…


[ATL:NOW PREMIERING 7:30PM ET] Sen. Ron Johnson: EcoHealth Grant Reinstated; COVID Corruption ‘On a Grand Scale’

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has been a vocal critic of COVID protocols since early on in the pandemic. “As much as they said they were ‘the science’, they weren’t. And they didn’t follow the science. They ignored it. They had an agenda. They had their solutions, they had their response, and don’t let any facts…


Social Media and the Scourge of Suicide Contagion

Commentary The kids of America are not OK. Although the mental health crisis plaguing younger generations is very much global in nature, it’s particularly bad in the United States. Suicide is the now second-leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of 15 and 24. Close to 20 percent of high school students have…


After Getting Everything Wrong During COVID, Top Health Officials Now Try to Deflect Blame

Commentary The United States was shut down at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This started under the Trump administration, with guidelines in March 2020. They declared that in order to “slow the spread,” the nation would have to self-quarantine for 15 days. Then we were told, 15 days? That’s not enough to “flatten the…


Why Did They Kill the Things They Love?

Commentary There are several features of the pandemic policy response that still astonish me. It does not surprise me that bureaucrats couldn’t suppress, control, much less eradicate, a respiratory virus by scrapping the Bill of Rights. What I cannot get over is all the ways that the response ended up achieving the opposite of what…


The Freezer-Truck Canard

Commentary These are the days of grasping for excuses. In sector after sector, leaders who gave us lockdowns and all that followed are trying to account for their actions, not apologizing of course but admitting that, in the classic formulation, mistakes were made. That said, they all agree on the core point. The government had…


The Dangerous Illusion of Scientific Consensus

Commentary Science is the process by which we learn about the workings of material reality. Though modern innovations—built on the fruits of science—would look like magic to people living only decades ago, they result from the time-tested scientific method. Contrary perhaps to media portrayals of science, the scientific method depends not on the existence of…


San Francisco’s Fentanyl Crisis

Commentary The devastating fentanyl epidemic in San Francisco, California has become so catastrophic that on April 21, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state will send in the National Guard and California Highway Patrol to help. As part of a new collaborative operation with the San Francisco Police Department and the San Francisco District Attorney’s…