In reality, America’s new public-private “Ministry of Truth” mainly serves the interests of the tech platforms and Democratic Party operatives who underwrite and support the fact-checking enterprise.

As grave of a threat as deliberate war is, unintended escalation from miscommunication and misperception can be as bad. Biden is the perfect vessel for such risks.

Our nation’s finances are long overdue for a belt tightening, and Covid prevention and treatment are easy places to start without any drop-off in effectiveness.

Our minds are wired to select for cognitive ease and forcefully reject information which challenges our present worldview. Pushing past the cognitive discomfort and facing reality is the only way to come to real understanding.

On February 10, we achieved a remarkable victory — Pfizer was forced to withdraw its Emergency Use Authorization application to inject kids 6 months to four years old because the data was so terrible. But it was a temporary reprieve.

The rule for covering such a story is obvious: write about both possibilities as evenhandedly as possible until the truth emerges. But science writers have consistently trumpeted any developments favoring natural emergence while downplaying or ignoring those pointing to a lab leak.

The possibilities are as endless as they are terrible. Central Bank Digital Currencies are a death knell for the very idea of individual freedom.

Companies are still trying to force COVID-19 vaccines on employees under threat of job loss, even with employees who already have natural immunity from prior infection with SARS-CoV-2.