Covid’s origins and the systemic
corruption of science
Posted By: Judy W., 5/23/2021 9:03:32 AM
For more than a year, honest and impartial scientific exploration of the origins of the Covid-19 virus has been blocked, with consideration of the possibility that it was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology virtually suppressed, mocked as a “conspiracy theory.” This has had enormous real-world consequences, not merely because it let off the hook China – and Dr. Fauci, who approved American money flowing to gain-of-function research there on coronaviruses -- but because “an engineered virus behaves differently from a naturally evolved one, and this has implications for how it can best be fought.”
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Me in my international bestseller fifteen years ago:
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This Time Israel Should
Finish Off Hamas 14 replies
Finish Off Hamas 14 replies
Sometimes when psychopaths, religious and otherwise—people whose charter urges the faithful to “kill all Jews,” even Jewish trees, whatever that is or could be—rain missiles on your country again and again, try to destroy you any way they can, dig tunnels under your property, loft flaming balloons over your schools and farms, fly drones toward your airports and even nuclear installations, it’s time to say “enough!”
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of Common Sense 7 replies
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No Race Has Ever Done
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More for Another Race than
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You can see a clip of their discussion here. In the clip, one of the CRT supporters calls for both the rejection of reason and the end of the American Constitution. The four CRT backers involved in the conversation are Alfred “Shivy” Brooks, candidate for city council in Atlanta; Dr. Kate Slater, a recruiter for a leading prep school; and Louiza “Weeze” Doran. Los Angeles high school teacher Will Rausch
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The article by Matthew Crawford that Lifson refers to is great. It's on the British website UnHerd, one of the more interesting places, where views from all sides are presented in good writing with no namecalling.