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Responding to On the Media on Free Speech: FIRE’s So to Speak Podcast

Taibbi and others respond to On the Media segment about the evils of so-called “free speech absolutism.”

Experts Accuse CDC of Cherry-Picking Data on Vaccine Immunity to Support Political Narrative

Mounting evidence shows natural immunity to COVID trumps vaccine immunity, but experts say the CDC is ignoring the long-standing science of natural immunity and manipulating data to support “what they’ve already decided.”

Biden Orders Sweeping, Unprecedented Vaccine Mandates for Millions of Americans, Politicians Vow to Fight Back

President Biden on Thursday laid out a plan to boost vaccination numbers that includes vaccine mandates for all federal contractors, healthcare workers and businesses with more than 100 employees — who face thousands in fines if they don’t comply.

Interview: The War on Informed Consent

Dr. Paul Thomas’ license was suspended by the Oregon Medical Board on transparently false pretexts, the true reason being that he posed a threat to state policy by respecting the right of parents to make their own informed choice about childhood vaccinations.

The ACLU, Prior to COVID, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures to Fight Pandemics

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) surprised even many of its harshest critics this week when they strongly defended coercive programs and other mandates from the state in the name of fighting COVID.

The Corporatization of American Science

Science in the United States almost exclusively serves the interest of corporate and military power. Scientists are employed in “hypothesis-driven” research to promote the interests of the food industry, the tobacco industry, and the fossil fuel industry, attacking or silencing scientific studies that cast doubt on the claims of these industries.

Refusal to Apply Cost-Benefit Analysis to COVID Debates

Cost-benefit analysis, even when not expressed in such explicit or crude terms, is foundational to public policy debates — except when it comes to COVID, where it has been bizarrely declared off-limits.