The Hidden Cost of Mental Health Parity
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Parity’s intentions were compassionate. Its effects are corrosive. The answer is not cruelty but correction: fund recovery, not lifelong maintenance; support communities,... Read more.
“Eddington” and the Death of Civility
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This isn’t just about Eddington. It’s about all of us. When civility disappears, when personal morality gives way to mass messaging and digital spectacle –... Read more.
Why Have Any Covid-19 Vaccines, 2025?
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In February 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order prohibiting federal funding for educational institutions that mandate Covid-19 vaccines for in-person... Read more.
Peter Daszak’s Smokescreen Attack on Dr. Bhattacharya
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Calling Bhattacharya anti-science is absurd. Erstwhile Stanford professor and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, Bhattacharya has consistently championed... Read more.
The First Lady of Bad Ethics
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Christine Grady, HHS chief of bioethics (now retired, unless she chooses Alaska), and her husband, Dr. Anthony Fauci at NIAID, were central figures during the Zika... Read more.
The City That Treats Adults Like Children
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Newton’s law bans everything with nicotine—whether it burns or not. Cigarettes. Vapes. Nicotine gum. Pouches. Even options that help people quit smoking are... Read more.
The China Covid Narrative: What We Missed in 2020
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For Christakis, China’s drop in cases was “astonishing.” But beneath the awe, a question lingers for us: What was the real “virus” China was fighting—and... Read more.
ASPR and BARDA: Bureaucratic Dysfunction in Biodefense
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Unless the U.S. can streamline its biodefense system and balance security with diplomacy, we will continue to play a costly game of catch-up—spending billions... Read more.
Empowered by the State, Condemned by the Crisis: The Purdue Paradox
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Just as taxpayer-funded research paved the way for the Covid-19 pandemic through gain-of-function experiments in Wuhan, the government’s blind spot—or complicity—in... Read more.
Fauci’s ‘DNA of Caring’
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Dr. Anthony Fauci often claims a "DNA of caring” yet his actions reveal a stark contrast. Avoiding direct patient care, Dr. Fauci focused on populations. His so-called... Read more.
Methadone Maintenance Ignited America’s Opioid Crisis
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The newly adapted and widely adopted “Disease Model of Addiction” soon analogized narcotics’ methadone with diabetics’ insulin as both requiring long-term... Read more.
The Amateur Who Unraveled Wuhan
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Matthew Tye, an independent documentarian with a chronicled decade of living in (and motorcycling throughout) China, developed a profound understanding of its culture... Read more.