It’s Time to Line Up to Take Your Unsafe and Ineffective Booster

Imagine, if you can, a country that pushed potentially dangerous medicine on its population without any evidence that it is effective. Vinay Prasad:

Years ago, a famous scientist told me “I am going to have a problem when they recommend 23 boosters over 22 boosters without a randomized study”

I laughed. No one would ever do that, I thought.

Yet, that day steadily approaches.

This week, the FDA authorized a new fall COVID booster. This was done without any studies measuring the impact on severe disease or hospitalization or death. Worse, the viral target was chosen by Peter Marks, against advice, and is already out of date.

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Why We Should Train and Hire Doctors Solely on Merit

Stefan Schubert reports on a new study showing that low-quality doctors hurt patients and cost all of us a lot of money.

This is why we should train and hire solely on merit, not on anything else. Not on DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). See, further, this article on the importance of merit.. "In Defense of Merit in Science."

[Added 2:30pm Aug 15]

John Lafebre offers this graphic:

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The Desperate Situation in London

London is unrecognizable. This is the desperate situation in the UK. According to Konstantin Kisin, the widespread riots are merely a symptom of much bigger challenges in the UK. The government's main tactic to "address this situation" is mass censorship and attempts to shut down Twitter ("X").

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