Category Archives: Pandemic

CDC’s HICPAC to Gut Hospital Masking Protection for Patients Based on Shoddy “Evidence Review” (and in Further Violation of FACA)

A searching examination of HICPAC’s anti-mask “Evidence Review.” Grab a cup of coffee!

CDC’s HICPAC Prepares to Violate the Letter and Spirit of the Federal Advisory Committee Act at Its August 22 Anti-Mask Teleconference

HICPAC needs to stop operating like a closed, cozy club and comply with the law.

FDA Tries to Pretend It Didn’t Oppose Ivermectin Use for Covid

The FDA attempts to distance itself from its earlier hostility to Ivermectin as a Covid remedy, but too many people have good memories.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Three: Uber Isn’t Really Profitable Yet But is Getting Closer; The Antitrust Case Against Uber

Hubert Horan takes another hard look at Uber financials and finds much not to like.

The NIH Ices a Research Project on “Health Communication”. Is It Self-Censorship?

What sure looks like an NIH study to improve the medical establishment’s propaganda skills had died a well-deserved death.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Google Alleges First Amendment Violations via YouTube Censorship as a State Actor

Oh frabjous day! RFK, Jr. has lobbed a very big bomb at the heart of the censorship apparatus.

Two Overlapping Takes on Inflation

MMT backer Richard Murphy and London finance organ City A.M. have surprisingly simliar views on the causes of inflation but differ on remedies

Project NextGen: Biden Administration Doubles Down on Vax-Only, Boosts Profit over Public Health

Ka-ching.

The Latest on Covid, Cognitive Impairment, and Social Cognition (“Theory of Mind”)

A sociopathic elite is one thing, that we’re used to; but a sociopathic elite with brain damage is quite another.

If MRSA Is Airborne, then CDC Guidance on “Enhanced Barrier Precautions” in Nursing Homes Is Wrong (and Lethal)

More massive resistance to airborne transmission from CDC and the Infection Control community.

The Covid Pandemic Was Devastating. But Was it Trauma?

What seems clear is that we have crossed a threshold: The acute, collective crisis of the first years of the pandemic has ebbed. Now may be a moment to look back on what we’ve just been through, and try to make some sense of it.

How the Mayo Clinic and Uber Killed Efforts to Help Workers in Minnesota

The Land of 10,000 Lakes has been widely celebrated for its supposedly worker-friendly legislation this year, but liberal Democrats headed for the exits when push came to shove.