Science

  • Despairing America: The Astonishing Psychological Cost of Lockdown

    “If leaders really cared about people, the clearly rational and ethical thing to do would be to fully end the unsupportable government mandates. Continuing pandemic mandates is not just destroying people’s lives and livelihoods. It is killing people.” ~ Sandy Szwarc

    Despairing America: The Astonishing Psychological Cost of Lockdown
  • Twelve Times the Lockdowners Were Wrong

    “This has been a year of astonishing policy failure. We are surrounded by devastation conceived and cheered by intellectuals and their political handmaidens. We trusted these people with our lives and liberties and here is what they did with that trust.” ~ Phillip W. Magness

    Twelve Times the Lockdowners Were Wrong
  • Drink Your Coffee, Be Considerate, and Fight Covid-19

    “Lockdowns are a blunt policy instrument typical of government officials who can only pretend to know how individuals make choices and the tradeoffs they face. However, we can still be considerate of the choices people make and fight Covid-19.” ~ Byron Carson

    Drink Your Coffee, Be Considerate, and Fight Covid-19
  • Oxford’s Stringency Index is Falling Apart

    “In the spring, when the ranking roughly seemed to reflect what was happening in various countries, nobody objected to it ‒ or even looked under its hood. Now, after its strange rewriting of history and poor use of the Nordic countries show very misleading stories, nobody should trust it without looking at the details.” ~…

    Oxford’s Stringency Index is Falling Apart
  • WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website

    “When the existing textbooks that students use in college contradict the latest official pronouncements from the authorities during a crisis in which the ruling class is clearly attempting to seize permanent power, we’ve got a problem.” ~ Jeffrey Tucker

    WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website
  • Singapore’s Accidental Covid Experiment: Reaching Herd Immunity Safely

    “Although it was unfortunate that the migrant workers of Singapore had to endure such appalling conditions amid a global pandemic, the data from the incident is as precise as it gets and shouldn’t be ignored. Close to half of the over 320,000 workers locked away in crowded and unsanitary facilities were exposed to Covid-19 but…

    Singapore’s Accidental Covid Experiment: Reaching Herd Immunity Safely
  • Yes, Follow the Science – in Every Field

    “If science had been followed in 2020 – in all fields – we’d be much healthier and wealthier than we now are. But control freaks have used Covid-19 to justify still more government controls, still more statism. In every field they’ve cited chaos as an (alleged) reason to ‘reimagine’ (i.e., sabotage) capitalism – a system…

    Yes, Follow the Science – in Every Field
  • Lockdowns Do Not Control the Coronavirus: The Evidence

    “The use of universal lockdowns in the event of the appearance of a new pathogen has no precedent. It has been a science experiment in real time, with most of the human population used as lab rats. The costs are legion. The question is whether lockdowns worked to control the virus in a way that…

    Lockdowns Do Not Control the Coronavirus: The Evidence
  • Is Covid a High Risk to Younger Adults?

    “Using actual data – and even assuming that all excess deaths in the 25-44 cohort are caused by Covid, and even if we annualize the authors’ excess-death figure to get excess deaths in this cohort of 28,800 – the chance that Covid will kill any randomly chosen member of this cohort is a minuscule 0.0329…

    Is Covid a High Risk to Younger Adults?
  • The FDA’s Deadly Caution

    “Any discussion of the lives saved by the FDA must include estimates of the lives lost due to that very same agency. Two thousand Americans are dying each and every day while there’s a savior in a syringe sitting in a warehouse ready to protect us.” ~ David R. Henderson & Charles L. Hooper

    The FDA’s Deadly Caution
  • Closing Restaurants Is Unscientific and Dangerous

    “Restaurant closures represent an attack on some of the most sacred cultural institutions in society that will not only further degrade our social fabric, but also generate tremendous economic damage to already devastated communities. In light of the mounting evidence (scientific, economic, and social), restaurant closures will only guarantee to further exacerbate existing calamity while…

    Closing Restaurants Is Unscientific and Dangerous
  • Covid, Lockdowns, & Long-Term Care: State Comparisons

    “While nursing homes await the arrival of the vaccine within the next few weeks, the data still speaks to the importance of protecting the elderly in the meantime. The focused protection of nursing homes and promotion of low-risk individuals’ carrying out life as normal both lower the unintended consequences of the pandemic while still keeping…

    Covid, Lockdowns, & Long-Term Care: State Comparisons