“Are vaccines becoming less effective at preventing Covid infection?”
As more data about the Covid vaccines comes out, it is becoming acceptable to step away from cheerleading and make factual judgments.
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Michael Hudson: Biden Forfeits His Afghan Victory by Defending His Deep State Advisors
Biden gave a bizarre justification of the horrifically mismanaged US exit from Afghanistan, revealing his capture by intel incompetents.
Read more...The War Nerd: Was There a Plan in Afghanistan?
Trying to make sense of Afghanistan.
Read more...Pfizer CEO to Public: Just Trust Us on the Covid Booster
“All of this has sown a sense of confusion about what exactly will work, and when.”
Read more...IPCC Climate Report: Profound Changes Are Underway in Earth’s Oceans and Ice – A Lead Author Explains What the Warnings Mean
The latest IPCC report gives a Defcon 1 climate emergency alarm. But are any of the right people paying attention?
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Seven: Despite Staggering Losses, the Uber Propaganda Train Keeps Rolling
How Uber keeps pumping hot air into a financially flaccid business.
Read more...Does the Tuskegee Experiment Really Explain Black Vaccination Rates?
A data analysis disproves the liberal myth that the Tuskegee experiment is why black vaccination rates lag, as opposed to (gah!) class.
Read more...‘The Economist’ Notices the Climate
A prominent example of Serious People giving lip service to the disastrous consequences of climate change, with no urgent call to action.
Read more...Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent – Bob Smith Pt 2/2
Bob Smith got the Watergate break-in leak before the Washington Post. But the New York Times, then as now, avoids tough political stories.
Read more...Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent – Bob Smith Pt 1/2
The New York Times is impartial when convenient…which wasn’t during Watergate, My Lai, the Iraq War, and the Trump era, for instance
Read more...Competition from Online Platforms and the Impoverishment of Newspapers
How the Internet killed newspapers.
Read more...Trump Can’t Beat Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in Court – but the Fight Might Be Worth More Than a Win
Trump is back for another misguided, erm, quixotic fight. Could he still score points?
Read more...Moving the Covid Vaccine Goalposts
The Covid propagation and vaccine news is not pointing to happy outcomes
Read more...U.S. Government’s Witness Against Assange Admits He Lied
An informant publicly recanting critically important testimony against Julian Assange seems unlikely to change the trajectory of his trial.
Read more...How Policies Affect Beliefs and Preferences: The Example of Covid-19 Vaccination Willingness
Covid and other major political challenges show that devising policies isn’t the hard part: it’s getting the public to go along.
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