Coronavirus
April 18, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
The Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has subpoenaed Dr. David Morens, a former senior advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci. According to chairman Brad Wenstrup: Dr. David Morens purposefully evaded FOIA laws to give his “best-friend” EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak non-public, internal information that had the potential to undermine the operations of the United States government. This is not only highly concerning, but it is also likely illegal.
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April 9, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
As Steve notes, a Canadian social scientist is out with “a paper that finds job applicants who include non-binary pronouns (like “they/them”) on their resumes get fewer call backs than normal people.” That is hard to top, but consider COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Risk of a Traffic Crash, published by the American Journal of Medicine but authored by a trio in Canada. As Sir Bedivere (Terry Jones) might say, who are these
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April 6, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
It Wasn’t Fauci: How the Deep State Really Played Trump, the documentary Scott recently posted, outs Deborah Birx as the villain in the Covid drama. The case is strong, but there’s a back story people should know. In 1985, Birx began her career with the Department of Defense as a “military trained clinician in immunology, focusing on HIV/AIDS vaccine research.” That was the project of Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose bio
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April 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Rob Montz is CEO of Good Kid Productions (“visual storytellers for the American counter-elite”). Good Kid has released Montz’s mini-documentary It Wasn’t Fauci: How the Deep State Really Played Trump. John Tierney talked with Montz about the documentary in the City Journal podcast posted here, which is where I heard about it. Montz narrates the documentary, but Hoover Institution’s Scott Atlas is its prophetic voice. I have embedded the video
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March 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
RealClearPolitics has posted the video (below) of Dave Rubin’s panel session earlier this month with the winners of the first RealClearPolitics Samizdat Prize — Twitter Files reporter Matt Taibbi, Great Barrington Declaration co-author Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and New York Post reporter and Laptop From Hell author Miranda Devine. RCP has also posted transcribed excerpts along with the video here. It’s hard to keep up with the news of the day,
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March 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The New York Times looks back on covid, four years down the road, and says “Here’s what we’ve learned.” I would say we have learned some things that the Times doesn’t touch, like the idiocy of shutting down stores, businesses, churches and, especially, schools. But admitting that would be a bridge too far for the Times. Even on the lessons the Times acknowledges, you sometimes have to read between the
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March 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Professor Jonathan Turley has concerns about the fate of the First Amendment based in part on the oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri. He writes: In Murthy v. Missouri, the court is considering a massive censorship system coordinated by federal agencies and social media companies. This effort was ramped up under President Joe Biden, who is arguably the most anti-free speech president since John Adams. Biden has accused companies of
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March 13, 2024 — Scott Johnson
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
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March 12, 2024 — Scott Johnson
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,
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March 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
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
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February 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
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
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January 31, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
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
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January 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson
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
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January 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
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
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January 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
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
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December 12, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
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
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December 3, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
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
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