The last time government sought a “warp speed” vaccine, dead and paralyzed vaccine recipients were the tragic consequences.
SCIENCE
On The Pros and Cons of Banning Plastic Bags
Politicians “looking for something to do” like banning plastic bags routinely do more harm than good.
Green Jobs: A Bipartisan Mirage
Are green jobs the bipartisan silver bullet they’re cracked up to be or are they instead a bipartisan mirage?
The Science Behind ‘Climate Change’
Does the data validate those who say humans are causing the earth to catastrophically warm?
Do 97% of Climate Scientists Really Agree?
Is it true that 97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is real?
Coronavirus Pandemic Is Not Exponential
Contrary to what almost everyone has said during the last three months – from media talking heads to presidents and epidemiologists and your neighbor – the growth of pandemics is not exponential. The number of people infected and number of dead don’t follow “exponential” curves. They follow S-shaped curves.
Only The Rise of Capitalism Can Save The Brazilian Amazon Rainforests
Let poor countries grow rich, and in due course they will, too, look after their forests.
How a South Korean Biotech Company Created COVID-19 Testing Kits In Three Weeks
To understand how Seegene accomplished the fast development and production of the testing kits, we must grasp the four crucial values at play—values that we cannot afford to lose, even during a pandemic: reason, independent thinking, production, and freedom.
John Maynard Keynes’s Vision of the Future
Keynes’s futuristic vision also entailed a scientifically planned world of human heredity, ordered around a state policy of eugenics.
How CDC/FDA Socialism Created The COVID-19 Epistemic Problem
Why did the coronavirus produce a social and economic calamity, whereas the H1N1 (Swine flu) from ten years ago is barely remembered by most people.
Capitalism and Free Markets Can Save Nature For Humankind
Instead of succumbing to the eternal alarmism that should undermine ecologists’ credibility, we should accept that maybe – just maybe – the world is getting better. And much-reviled capitalist markets are, in no small feat, to thank for that.
Climate Crusades and Green Finance
Who counts as green? Whose debt should be subsidized?
The Purpose of Flying A Nearly Empty Plane
An efficiency-minded environmentalist could object that this trip shouldn’t be made, a Marxist-leaning commentator that this was an example of the horrible waste and misallocation of the capitalist system.
Only Capitalism Can “Save The Planet”
A Socialist “Green New Deal” Will Destroy It
Climate Activism: Doublethink and Cognitive Dissonance
What angers most people about climate alarmists is their doublethink, cognitive dissonance, and ability to rationalize their own behavior.
Harvard-Yale Environmental “Protestors” Willing To Forcibly Sacrifice…The Happiness of Others
Wouldn’t an actual sacrifice involve the protestors living with the severely diminished energy usage that they are demanding?
Climate Scientists: Dishonest or Afraid?
Once in a while environmentalists reveal their true agenda.
Climate Myths
Governments want to keep control… Carbon dioxide becomes that molecule by which (they) can take control of your lives.
Climate Alarmism, Fossil Fuels and Apocalyptic End of the World Scenarios
With climate alarmism and “extinction” protests now in the mainstream, it is no wonder that most people consider the alleged man-made catastrophic climate change an established fact, and advocate curtailing carbon “pollution” or even banning fossil fuels altogether.
California’s Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) Electricity Woes: Political Failure, Not Market Failure
Californians are right to feel dismay in this situation. Basic services like electricity should be the norm, despite dry weather and upticks in wind speed. Their ire would be best directed not at PG&E, but at the regulated monopoly model that Californians themselves have maintained through their state government.
Free the Power Grid From Government Created Electric Monopolies
Competition and the profit motive will encourage competing utilities to criss-cross the country with a more robust transmission grid, providing safer and cheaper electricity to all.
Facebook and Google Must Answer to the Market
Facebook and Google’s ability to watch their customers has made many uncomfortable, but after 2018 both know that their customers are watching back.
Gender Wars: The Difference Between Male and Female Brains
It’s politically correct to say men and women are mentally the same, but Stossel lays out science that says otherwise
The New Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
For the last five years, Alex Epstein's 2014 New York Times bestseller, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, has been one of the most important books in the world of energy policy, influencing leading politicians, executives,...
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