The Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class By Thomas S. Harrington Summary: This is one man’s chronicle, at times indignant and at others reflective, of an extraordinary moment in the history of the world, a moment of crisis whose eventual resolution will have far-reaching consequences for our […]
The Manipulation of the Public Mind
In the world of Business Analysis there is a discipline called Process Modelling. Its output would be familiar to most people, consisting of diagrams to show how a business process, like say fulfilling an order, is supposed to work. As a discipline it strives for clarity and simplicity, through a […]
Hey Covid, I’ve Got Religion
For better or worse, my brain is wired to doubt. Even when I’m feeling all gooey and spiritual and thinking that maybe there’s a prime mover in charge of things, my skeptical synapses swoop in and spoil the fun, insisting my thoughts are just a trick of human biology. But the pandemic—or […]
Brown University’s Silence on Post-Vaccine Myocarditis
A well-designed observational study of the entire French population, just published on June 25 in Nature, has again definitively confirmed (here; here; here; here) observations first noted during February, 2021: covid-19 mRNA vaccination confers an excess risk for serious inflammation (here; here) of the heart—both its muscle (“myocarditis”), and suspending covering (“pericarditis”)—particularly in men under […]