Princeton Scholars Deliver Hard Truths About Covid Policies

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Princeton political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee have just published a book highly critical of COVID pandemic policies. Source
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Let’s Not Forget About That Covid Commission

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When speaking of the disaster that began to unfold in 2020, do you refer to it as the Covid “pandemic” or the Covid “lockdowns and vaccine mandates”? Source
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Who’s Afraid of This New Science Journal?

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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

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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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What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

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A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Source
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Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

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A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Source
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