Yes, SARS-CoV-2 Is a Real Virus

While some still claim SARS-CoV-2 doesn't actually exist, this seems to fiy in the face of several well-established facts.

Communing with Camus in 2022

Albert Camus, Michel y Jeannine Gallimard by Antonio Marín Segovia (source) The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It’s just the way it is. I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself” way, or in any deep psychoanalytical sense, but very simply.

Can These Foods Help Combat COVID?

This article was previously published June 20, 2020, and has been updated with new information.

The Age of Intolerance: Cancel Culture’s War on Free Speech

“Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.” George Carlin Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that is little more than fascism disguised as tolerance—has shifted us into an Age of Intolerance, policed by techno-censors, social media

Statins Do More Harm Than Good

Amid the pandemic media storm in January 2021, a study published in the journal Atherosclerosis quietly revealed that people taking statin medications had a higher rate of cardiovascular events than those who were not on statins. 12 In the study, the researchers separated the participants by assigning them a coronary

6 Ways Facebook Ruins Relationships and Friendships

Does Facebook ruin relationships and friendships? Well, to be honest, no.

Harmless Untruths

In Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Cat’s Cradle, the deadpan realist from the Midwest–the 20th century’s Mark Twain–delivers an instructive review of the way in which Americans hold scientists in exceedingly high esteem—and the perils therein. One of his characters is scientist Felix Hoenikker. Hoenikker

What Happens When You Exercise With a Mask?

In this 13-minute video from 2020, Peggy Hall from The Healthy American offers evidence that cloth face masks may not be as effective as people believe.

Behavioral Modification: What You Need to Know

This story is about behavioral modification, both as a philosophical ambition and as a military application.

Bombshell Admission — The COVID Tests Don’t Work

From the earliest days of the COVID pandemic, the PCR test has been a source of unrelenting controversy, with experts repeatedly pointing out that it's not a valid diagnostic and produces inordinate amounts of false positives. Importantly, a PCR test cannot distinguish between “live” viruses and inactive (noninfectious) viral particles.

Letter to the UN Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime

(New York) - Human Rights Watch together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and 125 non-governmental organizations and academics sent the following letter, urging Members of the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime to ensure that its work includes meaningful civil society participation, and that any proposed convention on cybercrime

Singapore: Tightening the Screws on Speech

(New York) – The Singapore government ramped up its all-encompassing control over speech and association in 2021 with a new law aimed at ostensible foreign interference, and unrelenting harassment and prosecutions of the few critical voices, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2022. “Singapore’s new Foreign Interference

Kazakhstan: Protect Human Rights During Crisis

(Berlin) – Kazakhstan authorities have failed to prioritize protecting human rights during the country’s current crisis, and should urgently cancel any order to shoot to kill without warning and uphold the rights of those in detention, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2022. More broadly, Central Asian

Russia: Repression Escalates

(Moscow) – Russian authorities unleashed a full-fledged witch hunt on civic groups, independent media and journalists, political opposition and other critics in the run-up to the parliamentary election in September 2021, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2022. The actions decimated civil society and forced many activists, journalists,

Belarus: Civil Society ‘Purge’

(Berlin) – Belarusian authorities unleashed an unprecedented crackdown against civil society following peaceful countrywide protests in spring and summer 2020, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2022. In 2021 Belarusian government viciously targeted political and civic activists, independent journalists, and human rights defenders, subjecting them to smear campaigns,