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The CDC Changed Its COVID Risk Formula. The Results Are Stunning0
- Politics
- March 3, 2022
On Feb. 25, the CDC made its expected announcement that it was updating its framework to monitor and contain COVID-19. “We’re in a stronger place today as a nation with more tools to protect ourselves in our communities from COVID-19, like vaccination, boosters, broader access to testing, availability of high quality masks, accessibility to new
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Evidence Suggests COVID Vaccines May Not Save More Lives Than They Take0
- Science
- March 3, 2022
Medical journals and textbooks are clear that the only way to accurately determine the life-or-death impacts of medical treatments is by measuring “all-cause mortality” in “randomized controlled trials.” Clinical lingo aside, this is simply the number of deaths in studies where people are randomly assigned to receive or not receive a certain treatment. Though widely
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The World Wants to Be Deceived1
- Culture
- March 2, 2022
In October 2021, Facebook changed its brand name to Meta. “We believe the metaverse will be the successor to the mobile internet,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a speech announcing the change. “We’ll be able to feel present—like we’re right here with people no matter how far apart we actually are.” Never mind that this
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Protecting the Magic of Childhood53
- Culture
- March 1, 2022
A couple of years ago, some friends and I were discussing the lottery. “When people ask me if I ever buy tickets, I tell them I already won the lottery,” one man said. “I was born in the middle of the 20th century in the United States of America.” Roughly 70 years after that mid-20th
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NYT Publishes Slanderous Video About the Death of Trayvon Martin0
- Culture
- March 1, 2022
On the 10th anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin, the New York Times has published a video about this tragedy that slanders individuals, sows racial resentments, and impugns the people of the United States en masse. In addition to employing a series of highly deceptive half-truths, the video edits a police recording to make
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Is Putin Considering Using Nukes on NATO?0
- International
- March 1, 2022
From his principal avenues of attack on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin began this war with three strategic goals. Send an army south from Belarus to capture Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and replace the government. Send forces into northwest Ukraine to capture its second largest city, Kharkiv, with 1.4 million people. Third, extend the Donetsk enclave
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A Principled Way of Addressing Trans Athletics0
- Culture
- February 28, 2022
Swimmer Lia Thomas swept her individual races at the recent Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships, breaking numerous records in the process. Thomas is now headed to the NCAA Championships in mid-March, albeit with much controversy, for Thomas’s recent identification transition from a man to a woman is perceived by many, teammates included, as an
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Trucking With Joe Biden2
- Culture
- February 25, 2022
The big rigs are hitting the road as I write these words. A thousand trucks departed from California late in February on their way to Washington, D.C., The Daily Mail reports. Others from around the country will join that convoy. If their schedule goes as planned, they’ll arrive in the
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Where Have All the Great Men Gone? (Not to Harvard)0
- Culture
- February 24, 2022
The other day, Harvard senior Julie Hartman wrote a brief tale in the Wall Street Journal about what has been happening on that revered campus since COVID landed its microscopic self on American shores. She and her classmates have been denied the norms of campus life, treated instead to mask-wearing, social distancing, and endless COVID
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