You will not be able to hide the observational studies and models used to support your policies. Who knows how many more machinations your funders, the US public, know nothing about are backstage. Presumably, we are about to find out.
Dear US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Continue Reading
In discussing the current jurisdictional kerfuffle between the US federal executive and judiciary, I find it impossible to overlook the failure of the courts to protect people’s rights, dignity, and liberty under comprehensive assault from the administrative state during Covid.
If MAHA is to become more than just a populist uprising, it is important to take the time to examine and develop public support for the boundaries between the proper role of government and the sovereign rights of the individual.
The Regulatory Question for the MAHA-MAGA Populists Continue Reading
A century ago, Americans clearly recognized the moral implications of inflation. Vice President Calvin Coolidge bluntly declared in 1922: “Inflation is repudiation.” Did Donald Trump learn anything from watching Joe Biden economically suicide-bomb his own presidency?
Reality engineering requires three components: institutional power to create the narrative, social pressure to enforce it, and the deliberate persecution of anyone who challenges either. The Covid era revealed how performative activism serves as this machinery’s most potent enforcement mechanism.
How Performative Activism Enabled Mass Persecution Continue Reading
President Trump has nominated Susan Monarez for the Director of the CDC. This has sent shock waves through the MAHA community, as they were expecting a Covid-era celebrity to take up the reins.
The path forward is for us to abandon the outdated dichotomies through which we formerly interpreted politics and the world and instead turn our attention to how to make the world more and more human and less and less inhuman.
Days after the Journal of the Academy of Public Health’s official launch, Science Magazine criticised it in a news item. A scientist wrote that the fact that Science feared our new journal suggested that we were on the right track.
Science Magazine Attacks the Journal of the Academy of Public Health Continue Reading
Snow White opened with devastating reviews and empty theaters coast to coast. It’s fascinating to reflect on how this film got caught in the cultural crosshairs. To understand it, we need to return to 2020 and the lockdowns.
The Post-Lockdown Disorientation in the Arts Continue Reading
While the FDA has finally taken steps to close a regulatory loophole regarding “poppers” and amyl nitrate right before Trump’s FDA commissioner has taken office, they haven’t advanced regulatory action on illicit marketing, sales, and abuse of nitrous oxide.
The discursive norms on LinkedIn are a convention, a social practice, a type of theater for the purposes of financial gain. The dialect is an artifice. Corporate Pollyannaism is unconcerned and often contemptuous of the truth.
LinkedIn and Soul-Sucking Corporate Pollyannaism Continue Reading
In the news this week, the incredible lengths taken by the Victorian government to hide the health advice on which its extremist Covid policies were supposedly based. The Victorian Government should have no qualms about releasing its top-secret health advice.
Victorian Government Loses Fight to Keep Covid Health Advice Hidden Continue Reading
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