Who’s Afraid of This New Science Journal?

Academy of Public Health, Ajit Varki, Authors, Catherine Offord, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, editors, Food and Drug Administration, gatekeeping, Great Barrington Declaration, Greg Piper, Jay Bhattacharya, Journal of the Academy of Public Health, Just the News, Martin Kulldorff, Marty Makary, Medicine, Michael Eisen, National Institutes of Health, Paul Ginsparg, Peter Suber, Real Clear Foundation, Science (journal), Sunetra Gupta
Skeptics worry that the new journal "will be used to sow doubt about scientific consensus." Source
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In Covid Response, Government Did Not Trust the People with Information

AIDS, americans, Anthony Fauci, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, coronaviruses, COVID-19, free speech, herd immunity, hospitalizations, immunology, infection, Joe Biden, Larry Hogan, Maryland, Medicine, pandemic, paternalism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert R. Redfield, truth, vaccine, Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund, vaccine mandates, viruses, Wesley J. Smith, White House Coronavirus Task Force
Ex-CDC director Robert Redfield explores the issue of trust in public health — and its loss — with Wesley J. Smith. Source
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The Technocratic Authoritarians Still Want Their “Pandemic Treaty”

authoritarianism, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, demonization, dissenters, Donald Trump, fearmongering, free assembly, free speech, health, International Court of Justice, lockdowns, masks, media, Medicine, misinformation, national sovereignty, Nature (journal), pandemic treaty, pandemics, schools, shaming, technocracy, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Wesley Smith, World Health Assembly, World Health Organization
Wouldn’t it all have gone a lot better if, instead of our fellow Americans doing it to us, we’d handed over national sovereignty to an international body? Source
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Top U.S. Science Journal Calls for Dismantling Capitalism

Big Pharma, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Capitalism, collectivism, colonialism, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Fogarty International Center, intellectual property, international agencies, Medicine, pandemic, public policy, Research, Science (journal), science journals, technocracy, US Agency for International Development, Vaccines, Wellcome Trust, woke ideology
Establishing a quasi-socialistic technocratic approach — focused on equity instead of excellence — would stifle innovation. Source
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How the Public Health Establishment Squandered Our Trust

Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Francis Collins, Great Barrington Declaration, Human Genome Project, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, media, Medicine, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, National Review, pandemic, public health, Sunetra Gupta, vaccination, Wuhan Institute of Virology
The Covid pandemic was devastating, not only for society generally, but also to the reputations of our once-trusted health agencies. Source
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Scientists Behaving Badly: Suppressing Intelligent Design Was Only the Start

activists, alarmism, Ann Gauger, cancel culture, censorship, climate change, climate disruption, climate science, Climate Uncertainty and Risk, ClimateGate, COVID-19, craziness, Denyse O'Leary, Education, Evolution News, free speech, funding, gatekeepers, Geology, global warming, Intelligent Design, Judith Curry, Medicine, misconduct, Peter Biles, Springer Nature, Wesley J. Smith
The best that each of us can do to fight back is to continue educating as many people as possible. Source
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C. S. Lewis’s Prophetic Legacy on Scientism

C.S. Lewis, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Faith & Science, freedom, government, humans, ID The Future, intolerance, John West, lockdowns, moral relativism, natural world, physical science, planned society, Podcast, privacy, scientific progress, scientism, scientists, technocracy, Willing Slaves of the Welfare State
As an illustration, John West discusses the COVID pandemic and how that recent public health crisis revealed much of what Lewis warns against. Source
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How Media Helped to Corrupt Science

academic freedom, Allysia Finley, Anthony Fauci, Ashley Rindsberg, Breakthrough Institute, China, City Journal, climate science, COVID-19, Emily Kopp, First Amendment, free speech, gain-of-function research, Internet, James B. Meigs, Jay Bhattacharya, media, Medicine, Mind Matters, News Media, Patrick Brown, Paul Thacker, science media, skepticism, Stanford University, Tablet, Wall Street Journal, Wuhan
Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science! Source
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