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Businesswoman interviewed for a podcast

Information Imperialism: The Battle for Free Access Heats Up

Headline incidents are only one part of an international trend toward attempted government control of the news stream
Regardless of who emerges as the victor in the battle between government censors and independent creators, the traditional media landscape is now history. Read More ›
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Young scientist wearing a lab coat and protective glasses is adjusting a microscope while working late in a laboratory

At NIH, Bhattacharya Hopes to Restore Open Discussion in Science

In a recent interview, he seemed surprisingly conciliatory to those who attempted to ruin his career over his dissenting views on Covid.
What he most wants to advance is open discussion in science. Science, after all, advances more from doubt than from certainty. Read More ›
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Intensive care unit in the prison hospital

When Top People “Must Be Right,” Dissent Becomes Mental Illness

A healthcare historian looks at the history of the use of psychiatry to crush alternative viewpoints
If all sadness, however caused, is depression and all anger, however motivated, is aggression, government can easily create contexts or pretexts for interference Read More ›
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Close-up shot of microscope with metal lens at laboratory.

75% of Scientists in Nature Survey Thinking About Leaving U.S.

But there is less to this "trend" than meets the eye, when we look more closely at the survey
Respondents were self-selected and are probably more ideological or more personally impacted by the changes in approach. Read More ›
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Cancel word on a red enter key of the black pc keyboard. Concepts of cancel culture, ostracism and call-out culture social media and in the Internet. Computer enter key with message.

How Our Expert Classes Have Torpedoed Public Trust

Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choice
All that said, it’s not villains who keep Cancel Culture going. It’s people for whom being Nice is far more important than telling the truth. Read More ›
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Woman putting red sign with words

NYT on COVID: Not “Badly Misled.” One of the Worst Misleaders!

The Times writer smears legitimate doubt by associating it with unnamed questionable persons and causes — that works if people don’t know the story
Legacy media are giving way to broader-based social media. But trust in science is also at a low ebb. And what’s the replacement for science? Read More ›
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Kids running up in the forest

Medical Support for “Gender-Affirming Care” Is Cracking

Amid stubborn denials, a new article in a prominent journal admits that the “science” is far from settled and recommends caution, not enthusiasm
States like California that treat parents who refuse to consent to radical procedures as abusers can no longer claim a scientific basis for their policies. Read More ›
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A monkey looking at a virus in a close-up shot

PETA Sues NIH: Claims First Amendment Right to Talk to Monkeys

The complaint alleges the animal rights advocates have a right to receive communications from “fellow primates” that are “willing speakers.”
Effective stroke treatment was almost prevented decades ago because animal rights fanatics nearly destroyed the researcher’s career. PETA still brags about it. Read More ›
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Woman yelling into a bullhorn

Stand Up for (Ideological) Science 2025 Day!

The protestors should have rallied against themselves
Trust in the science sector ebbed precisely because the establishment became intolerant of dissent and pushed ideology in the guise of pursuing knowledge. Read More ›
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A Hispanic male patient receives Chemotherapy from a African-American Nurse through a port that is placed in his chest area. A caucasian female nurse looks on. 2010

The Medical Establishment’s Persistent Zeal for DEI in Education

The article’s authors seem to believe that people can be good doctors only for patients who look like them or have similar sexual or identity preferences.
How can we trust a medical establishment bent on dismantling excellence as the primary goal of medical education and on ignoring data contrary to beliefs? Read More ›
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Antique Wooden TV Stand with Decorative Frame Cut-Out for Historical Display

Stop Moaning About the ‘Mainstream Media’. You Are the Media Now

Social media have become much more important, relative to traditional news media and we are only beginning to grasp the profound implications
People can now build in their own spare rooms an audience that used to require printing presses or big TV studios. No surprise, governments want control. Read More ›
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Child with measles symptoms

Steep Turn: RFK Jr. Endorses Measles Vaccine

He notes that measles was already in full retreat by 1960 — before the vaccine’s introduction — thanks to improvements in sanitation and nutrition
He also promoted Vitamin A and oft-neglected strategies like a balanced diet for reducing measles mortality. Is he making science matter again? Read More ›
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152874 3d illustration of molecule model. Science background wit

John West’s New Book Stockholm Syndrome Looks at Francis Collins

It’s not possible to reconcile Collins’s treatment of unborn children with a Christian view of them
The genome mapper is widely cited as a famous Christian in science but West asks us to look a little deeper — into his actual policies. Read More ›
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Mature doctor giving a speech on a stage at a conference in front of an audience

Claim: Only Doctors Can Prevent Global Warming

Becoming as political as one medical journal wants would corrode the medical sector’s “unique credibility.”
Few people who are not already fixated on global warming will care what doctors may think about it; most would rather their doctors stick to medicine. Read More ›
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A Native American medicine wheel made of stones, with symbolic objects placed inside the circle

“Indigenous Wisdom” Would Make Environment Science Less Scientific

Indigenous people were and are keen observers of nature but modern environment policy needs to be deeply rooted in science as well as culture
much of the advocacy is about imposing ideology on what should be scientific practices Read More ›
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Doctor vaccinating a senior woman

Anthony Fauci and Trust in Public Health: An Inside View

Ex-CDC director Robert Redfield explores the issue of trust in public health — and its loss — with Wesley J. Smith
FDA doesn’t want to release the safety data on the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines until 2026, Redfield says, because it may make people vaccine-reluctant. Read More ›
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Diverse group of children playing on swings at a colorful playground on a sunny day

Gender-Dysphoric Children Protected from “Gender-Affirming Care”

The American medical establishment is increasingly the fringe advocate on this issue
Associated Press, covering for the transgender lobby, is all yesterday’s news, akin to a million-year-old mosquito stuck in amber. Read More ›
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Young Asia lady nurse giving Covid-19 or flu antivirus vaccine shot to senior male patient wear face mask protection from virus disease at health clinic or hospital office. Vaccination concept.

Former CDC Director Discusses the Covid Years: What Worked, Didn’t

Robert Redfield’s surprising interview with Wesley Smith shows that there was significant opposition within the agency to the vaccine mandates
He talks about how Americans were sometimes misinformed on critical issues like whether the vaccines prevent Covid. Read More ›
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young african scientist looking through a microscope in the laboratory about the vaccine she is working on.

Trump Withdraws from the World Health Organization

In recent years, the organization has been using its clout to impose woke cultural agendas on the world.

This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) because of its Covid failings, allegations of being soft on China, and the disproportionate share of funding borne by the United States. There is even more wrong in how WHO leaders have wielded their influence. In recent years, the organization has not just been about promoting public-health internationally, but also in using its clout to impose woke cultural agendas on the world — including areas that have traditional moral values — and in seeking to construct an international technocracy. Item: WHO sought to force a radical abortion regime on the world by allowing abortion through the Read More ›

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Human head and compass. The concept on the topic of navigation, psychology, morality, etc.

Progressive Columnist Almost Embraces Sanctity of Human Life

Some ethical codes are so important they need to be adopted by society to protect the general welfare and guard liberty
Nat Hentoff paid a steep price for his pro-life advocacy, losing his decades-long Village Voice column and suffering other career sanctions. Read More ›