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 Thanks to Maxwell for recommending this article... SMOKING GUN: Two German Professors Expose the Junk Lockdown Science. And not only the Lockdown Lie itself; they also debunk some sixty other scientists, including Prof Lockdown Ferguson and the members of his Imperial College Covid-19 Response Team.  (All of them being involved in the Flaxman paper.) There is science here, but it is not hard to follow.  Understanding is essential.  The alternative is to adopt the sixty-versus-two approach, and assume the sixty must be right. Almost the first article to appear on this site was “Epidemiology for Dummies”, which I wrote in collaboration with Dr Knut Wittkowski. My purpose was to bring an understanding of Epidemiology to almost anyone who read it. If you haven’t read it, please do so now,  here .  Coming back to this article will then bring you to a realisation not only that lockdown is both superfluous and ineffective, as the Germans say; but also t...

  What cats taught me about philosophy By entering our world, our pet felines have given us a window looking out of it BY  JOHN GRAY If one reason for writing a book about cats and philosophy was my love of cats, another was a certain scepticism regarding philosophy. Over the many years in which I pondered writing the book, philosophers responded with bafflement to the notion that cats might be a proper subject of inquiry. One objected that they have no history. When I replied that lacking the sort of history that humans possess might not be a disadvantage in living a good life, he looked dumfounded. Another told me he shared my view that cats should be of interest to philosophers. As testimony to his broadness of mind, he told me he was teaching his cat to become a vegan. When cats come up against human stupidity, they don’t try to change it. They simply walk away. The cat that was the subject of a philosopher’s experiment in moral education was out of doors much of the time,...

  How Brahmins lead the fight against white privilege Upper-class Indians are prominent in America's radical racial politics despite centuries of privilege BY  RAZIB KHAN Saira Rao is an exemplar of her generation, a famous and somewhat notorious Indian-American woman among the ‘very online’ set. An erstwhile Democratic politician two years ago, by the start of the year Rao had become an anti-racist activist best known for regularly trending on Twitter and charging white women $2,500 to  harangue them on matters of race over dinner and drinks . Rao is also co-author of the forthcoming  White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Get Better,  after securing a deal with major publishing house Penguin Random House. She is very good at what she does. But, then, making money runs in Rao’s family — as it does with many Indian activists in the United States, who have become leaders in the battle against ‘white supremacy’. Though it is...

  School Daze By   Anthony Freda   I’m both a teacher and a parent of a student. I can say with authority that distance learning and the in-school New Normal are beyond bad. They are society-killing, man-made disasters. My students are amazing, and we are making the best of the situation. I know my class will be beneficial to the students, but they are being robbed. Quite literally. They are paying for one academic and social experience and receiving a much diluted and polluted version of college life. We are all starting the semester at a disadvantage. And please don’t tell me that it’s better than dying, because attending school is not a death sentence, no matter what you have been told. My high school son has said that online learning is “All of the bad parts of school and none of the good.” He has had more than one meltdown over the stress and confusion. His experience in the physical school was no better. He is masked and distanced all day long. He said he did not ta...

  September 16th, 2020 The US Still Dominates the World Economy The US ruling class has dominated the planet since the end of World War II. Key elements of this control include its military superiority in nuclear and conventional weapons, and the stationing of over 900 military bases around the world. In addition, the US presides over the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. It upholds the US dollar as the global currency, and it controls much of the world’s resources, particularly oil. These factors provide the background to why the US can print, or create, billions and trillions of dollars, running up its national debt, now $25 trillion, yet endure little inflation. The reason for this capacity is only tangentially explained by Modern Monetary Theory. It results from the US position as the imperial superpower, which enables it to export inflation. Back in 1948  George Kennan  wrote: We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6....