Coronavirus

Why he was fired from Harvard

Featured image The great Dr. Jay Bhattacharya hosts the Illusion of Consensus podcast. I have embedded his most recent episode below via X. In this episode he speaks with Martin Kulldorff. Please check it out in its native habitat here and help Dr. Bhattacharya extend his reach to other platforms. Dr. Bhattacharya’s introduction to the podcast notes that “in this critical conversation we discuss a number of hot topics, most crucially Martin’s »

The ordeal of Martin Kulldorff

Featured image According to his Martin Kulldorff bio, Ph.D., Dr.h.c., is an epidemiologist, a biostatistician, and a founding fellow at Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science and Freedom. He was a Professor of Medicine at Harvard University for thirteen years. Dr. Kulldorff’s research centers on developing and applying new disease surveillance methods for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance and for the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks. In October 2020, »

Oh, yeah: The Samizdat Prize

Featured image RealClearFoundation president David DesRosiers has announced the inaugural winners of of its Samizdat Prize. Tonight’s the night. The Samizdat Prize is intended to honor the most important users of the First Amendment in the United States. The prize aspires to confer the honor that various of the Pulitzer Prizes bestow and should replace them in the mind of right-thinking men and women. In the words of DesRosiers, the award that »

Faucism in one country

Featured image The Claremont Review of Books has published Jeffrey Anderson’s terrific review/essay “Covid catastrophes.” I think “Faucism in one county” might capture the spirit of Anderson’s take on the tyranny imposed on us by the authorities under the Covid regime. Anderson’s essay makes me angry about it all over again, but the point is to prevent a recurrence. While we’re angry all over again, we should check out former New York »

Post-Fauci Doc

Featured image By now millions have seen Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce urging fans to take a hit of Pfizer vaccine with their flu shot. Before making the call, fans should get to know another player behind the scenes. The Pfizer vaccines are allegedly tailored to new “variants,” which the commercials fail to explain. According to the CDC, the Covid virus “has many variants,” which “represent relatively small changes compared »

From the Wuhan lab

Featured image Former New York Times science editor Nicholas Wade’s new City Journal column is “Story of the Decade” (with many links). In the column Wade reviews the most recent evidence supporting the inference that the Covid-19 virus originated in the Wuhan lab: The day is growing ever closer when Washington may have to add to its agenda with Beijing a nettlesome item it has long sought to avoid: the increasingly likely »

Whole lotta lyin’ goin’ on

Featured image Matt Taibbi has a posted a good column he calls “Orf vs. the Memory Hole: Anthony Fauci’s Pandemic Follies” (behind the Racket News paywall). Orf is Matt Orfalea, who has compiled one of the videos that accompanies Taibbi’s column. Taibbi explains: I’m recovering from a particularly violent bout of Covid-19, so perhaps as a vaccinated person I’m a bit frostier on the subject than one might normally be, but Orf »

A Covid Coda

Featured image As covid recedes into history–we hope–a new study from Washington University sheds some retrospective light. (The link goes to an article in SciTechDaily, apparently by the authors of the study. The full report is here.) The study compared long-term adverse impacts from covid and seasonal flu, and found that covid was in most respects more damaging. However: The statistical analysis spanned up to 18 months post-infection and included a comparative »

Censorship.Gov.Con

Featured image The latest installment in the chronicles of federal government censorship efforts comes from Phillip W. Magness, Ryan M. Yonk and James Harrigan, scholars with the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) in “Biden’s State Department Paid NewsGuard to Tar Organizations Like Ours.” In October 2020, AIER hosted the conference that produced the Great Barrington Declaration, the first major scientific challenge to draconian lockdown policies of Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of »

A White Coat Supremacy Reader

Featured image Of all the members of Congress in all the districts across all the nation, as Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) might say, only Sen. Rand Paul was willing to throw down with Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sen. Paul, a medical doctor, has chronicled the conflict in Deception: The Great Covid Cover-up, and the signs were apparent from the start. CDC director Robert Redfield, a virologist of long experience, found evidence that Covid »

Kevin Roche: A model proposal

Featured image Our friend Kevin Roche is the former general counsel of UnitedHealth, former chief executive officer of United Health’s Ingenix (now Optum Insight) data analysis division, and the proprietor of Healthy Skeptic. When authorities announced that Minnesota would be using a $17 million federal grant to learn from its mistakes in Covid-19 forecasting and improve its forecasts the next time around, we thought that Kevin had an important contribution to make. »

New York Times, Home of Misinformation

Featured image Liberals love to talk about misinformation. They also love to disseminate it. A case in point is New York Times health and science reporter Apoorva Mandavilli. She grotesquely exaggerated the impact of covid on children, apparently for the purpose of supporting school shutdowns, one of the worst policy fiascos of modern times. And her claims were not, remotely, in the ballpark: Reporter who wrote in NYT that 900,000 children had »

Trump Failed the Covid Test

Featured image I have praised the Trump administration’s accomplishments many times, but there is one huge blot on Trump’s record: his administration’s response to the covid epidemic. Via InstaPundit, Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute comments on Megyn Kelly’s interview of Trump. Kelly, to her credit, began the process of asking Trump the tough questions about covid: We need to know why the churches, schools, and businesses were closed at the urging »

Who was that unmasked man?

Featured image Earlier this month President Biden held a White House ceremony to present the Medal of Honor to former Army Captain Larry Taylor. The award recognized Taylor’s unbelievable heroics in Vietnam some 55 years ago. James Freeman’s Wall Street Journal Best of the Web column compiled accounts of the underlying story in “‘A 25-Minute Flight on 20 Minutes of Fuel.’” ABC News has more on the White House ceremony here. Biden »

The pusher

Featured image Marty Makary and Tracy Beth Høeg share the byline on the New York Post column “The real data behind the new COVID vaccines the White House is pushing.” Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Høeg is an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco. Both are physicians. Their column takes on the new Covid vaccine that the Biden administration is peddling like Steppenwolf’s “Pusher.” »

The spy who came in from the sold

Featured image Earlier this week House Committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (Select Subcommittee on the Permanent Select Committee on Coronavirus Pandemic) and Mike Turner (Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) released issued a press release that reads as follows: Staff on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have heard testimony from a whistleblower alleging that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offered six analysts significant monetary incentives to »

Who’s Afraid of Covid?

Featured image One or more new varieties of covid are being reported, and cases are rising. This news is welcomed by the fascists among us, who already are calling for shutdowns and masks. Others–the majority, one hopes–vow not to comply with another round of repression. So what do most Americans think? This CBS News poll offers some answers at a very high level: Despite a recent rise in COVID cases and new »