Category Archives: Science

Covid-19: Pandemic of ignorance

By Robert E. Wright, AIER

America’s biggest problem is ignorance of proven precepts of political economy. I don’t mean fancy econometric techniques or models full of malarkey (i.e., much of professional economics), I mean the basic, irrefutable concepts and empirical regularities sketched below. If those had been widely understood and applied a year ago, states would not have locked down in response to a highly contagious virus deadly only to a relatively small and easily identified segment of the population. All the costs associated with lockdowns would have been avoided and the number of excess deaths would have been lower, if not nil.

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Open all schools now!

By David Arnett

“Vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for safe reopening of schools,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said during a White House COVID-19 briefing Wednesday.

“I want to be very clear,” Walensky said. “Yes, ACIP has put teachers in the 1b category, the category of essential workers.  But I also want to be clear that there is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely.”

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COVID-19 study: 99.8% probability not natural

By David Arnett

The 193-page paper published January 29th is titled “A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived.”

“The purpose of the analysis was to determine the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Beginning with a likelihood of 98.2% that it was a zoonotic jump from nature with only a 1.2% probability it was a laboratory escape, twenty-six different, independent facts and evidence were examined systematically. The final conclusion is that it is a 99.8% probability SARS-CoV-2 came from a laboratory and only a 0.2% likelihood it came from nature,” a summary notes.

The National Pulse reports that the author, Dr. Steven Quay, has 360+ published medical studies and has been cited over 10,000 times, placing him in the top one percent of scientists worldwide. What’s more, he holds nearly 90 US patents and has invented seven FDA-approved pharmaceuticals.

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Black Americans need action, not navel-gazing

By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD

On Martin Luther King, Jr.’s holiday, I’m reminded that Rev. King was not only a thinker but a man of action.

While today’s social justice omphaloskeptics are pondering white privilege, Marxist critical race theory, and “the intersectionality of health equity,” COVID-19 is busy killing black and brown Americans.

Black Americans continue to get infected and die from COVID-19 at rates more than 1.5 times their share of the population. Hispanic and Native Americans face similar disparities. Black Americans are twice as likely to be hospitalized as whites. Moreover, when admitted to the hospital, people from racial and ethnic minority groups were in worse shape than their white counterparts. Consequently, they were more likely to die.

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Unfiltered news needed on COVID-19

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Manipulating the news is a propaganda technique for molding public behavior. Today it may be called “fake news.”

It can be very hard to sort out the facts in the cacophony of conflicting statements on COVID-19. Dr. Anthony Fauci, perched as head bureaucrat at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since the 1980s, would make it very simple for you: “Just do what you are told.” Don’t wear a mask, or wear a mask. Go back to normal when there’s a vaccine; or when 70 percent are vaccinated; no, when 90 percent are vaccinated; or maybe when 70 to 85 percent are vaccinated.

If Americans were to make informed decisions for themselves, they would need to know the facts about such issues as:

  • The true risk of disease and death—and the accuracy of diagnostic tests;
  • The means of transmission of the disease;
  • Health measures to improve their immune system, such as vitamins and zinc supplements;
  • Early at-home treatments, including hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, corticosteroids, and ivermectin; and
  • Risks and benefits of the vaccines now being rolled out.
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