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Secret internal Facebook emails reveal the feds' campaign to pressure social media companies into banning COVID "misinformation."
Elon Musk reignited the GOP’s interest to bring charges against Anthony Fauci.
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Public officials concealed their conflicts of interest and role in funding research that may have caused the pandemic, says health reporter Emily Kopp.
The GOP has understandably cast Anthony Fauci as a villain, but there are few plans to overhaul public health bureaucracies.
The foremost advocate of social distancing, masks, vaccines, and gain-of-function research will remain in the public eye.
"This research was a dangerous type of research that should have been reviewed," said Paul. "It wasn't."
The White House's coronavirus adviser answered questions about mask mandates, gain of function research, and more.
"If government is big enough to give you anything, it's big enough to take everything away from you."
Travelers and families find that some officials just can’t let go of pandemic powers.
The good doctor's "individual assessment of my personal risk" apparently lets him attend brunch but not dinner.
The president’s COVID-19 adviser embodies the arrogance of technocrats who are sure they know what’s best for us.
That's a fundamentally anti-democratic attitude.
The anti-lockdown Stanford public health professor on being attacked by Fauci, the loss of trust in medical experts, and how to save science going forward.
Plus, the CDC's amateur psychoanalyzing.
Based on the experience in South Africa, the Biden administration's top medical adviser says "this thing will peak after a period of a few weeks and turn around."
Should the no-fly list include another 70 million Americans?
"Any time you have government dogma saying they are science, or government bureaucrats who claim that 'this is the one and perfect truth'…we should run headlong away."
The White House COVID-19 advisor and his ilk admit they will never let some mitigation measures expire.
What did Fauci know and when did he know it?
Overcautious health officials are living on another planet.
If you support "my body, my choice," you cannot support vaccine mandates.
Big tech platforms should encourage debate, not forbid it.
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Inside the dispute over gain-of-function research.
Unvaccinated children have as much protection as vaccinated adults.
"A lot of what you're seeing as attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science."
Politicians and policymakers know less than they think they do, in part because they have less power over our lives than they assume.
The COVID-19 adviser's unsatisfying explanation of his conversion feeds skepticism about the value of a sensible precaution.
How a debate about COVID-19's origins exposed a dangerous hubris
Officials’ cynical manipulation of the public damaged their own credibility as well as the world at large.
Burdensome regulations have likely cost lives.
We can justifiably hope for normalcy by Independence Day.
Health officials will never give people permission to be unhealthy. Who cares?
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Pandemics are like margin calls, exposing in a moment the pre-existing weakness of various positions and institutions.
Centralization makes sense only if you ignore differences in local conditions—and trust the feds to make the right choices.
Legal responses to this fall's surge in new cases, like last spring's lockdowns, are frequently illogical and unscientific.
The president's COVID-19 adviser is not always right, but at least he is attempting to describe reality.
"Economists are accustomed to thinking about tradeoffs," says economist and Nobel laureate Alvin Roth. "It appears that at least in some parts of the ethics community, they are not."
After failing to frame Robert Mueller, Elizabeth Warren, and others for sexual misconduct, the infamous Trumpster hoaxers tried to go after Fauci. But the woman they hired to play the victim had second thoughts.
The gatherings are ill-advised but understandable given the harms of government-enforced shutdowns.