Tag: lockdowns

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Date
July 9, 2026

Categories
Linguistics
Scientific Freedom
Social Sciences
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), censorship, COVID-19, disinformation, domestic extremism, English, George Orwell, government, Harvard University, information, Jacob Siegel, Joe Biden, language, lockdowns, malinformation, neologisms, Newspeak, Oldspeak, Skepticalifornia, surveillance, The Information State, thoughtcrime, UnHerd}

“Malinformation” — Another Sinister Neologism from the Folks Who Specialize in Them

_{Science & Culture
July 9, 2026

Linguistics, Scientific Freedom, Social Sciences

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The government got lots of support from an academic elite that was anxious to introduce Newspeak terms including “malinformation.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, boogeyman, Charles Darwin, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, democracy, disciplines, Elay Shech, evidence, experts, Follow the Experts, Housing First, ID the Future, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jonathan Choe, lockdowns, New York Times, philosophy of science, pseudoscience, reasoning, reliability, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scientific method, Seattle, Signature in the Cell, skepticism, Stephen Meyer, Steve Fuller, trust}

Experts, Non-Experts, and the Wrong Experts

_{David Klinghoffer
January 7, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Philosopher of science Elay Shech gives RFK Jr. grief for a statement back in August that “Science is always evolving.” Read More ›

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Date
April 7, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, epidemiologists, Francis Collins, free speech, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, National Institutes of Health, Newsweek, Scott Atlas, The Free Press, The New England Journal of Medicine, Washington Post, Wesley J. Smith}

At NIH, Bhattacharya Wants to Restore Open Inquiry

_{Science & Culture
April 7, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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Restoring open discussion is certainly worth a try. Science advances more from doubt than from certainty. Read More ›

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Date
March 19, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, China, COVID-19, disease, epidemiologists, Italy, lockdowns, pandemic, political scientists, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, progressives, World Health Organization}

Princeton Scholars Deliver Hard Truths About Covid Policies

_{Science & Culture
March 19, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Princeton political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee have just published a book highly critical of COVID pandemic policies. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, accessibility, activism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Free Science, free speech, government, Great Barrington Declaration, ideology, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, misinformation, National Institutes of Health, Politics, protests, research funding, scientism, scientocracy, Stand Up for Science, Sunetra Gupta, universities}

Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2025

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

5}

“Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, accountability, bureaucrats, children, Congress, COVID-19, deaths, Declaration of Independence, Democrats, English, experts, Hoover Institution, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, leadership, liberty, lockdowns, National Institutes of Health, pandemic, Republicans, Scott Atlas, Stanford University, vaccine, vaccine mandates, viruses, Wall Street Journal, Washington DC, Washington State, Wesley J. Smith}

Let’s Not Forget About That Covid Commission

_{David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

5}

When speaking of the disaster that began to unfold in 2020, do you refer to it as the Covid “pandemic” or the Covid “lockdowns and vaccine mandates”? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 3, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, “consensus science”, americans, authoritarianism, conformity, COVID-19, crime, drunk driving, Ethan Siegel, expertise, freedom, hospitals, hubris, humility, ideology, lockdowns, military, punishment, schools, security, Supreme Court, vaccine mandates, Vaccines}

Far from Chastened by Reality, Scientific Authoritarians Are Doubling Down

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 3, 2025

Medicine, Scientific Freedom

5}

Ethan Siegel, an astrophysicist and award-winning science writer, advocates for criminally and civilly punishing violators of the “scientific consensus.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, authority, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge, COVID-19, culture, denial, England, John West, lockdowns, pandemic, scientism, United States, worship}

John West: How C. S. Lewis Anticipated Our Experience of Scientism

_{David Klinghoffer
January 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

I was shocked during Covid by the way healthy respect for science shaded rapidly into cowering submission and unquestioning scientistic worship of authority. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 5, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bureaucracy, censorship, China, Christians, civil rights, COVID-19, dissent, Donald Trump, epidemiologists, Evangelical Christians, Facebook, Great Barrington Declaration, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, National Institutes of Health, New York City, public health, social media, South Africa, Stanford University, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, The Road to Wisdom, United States}

Frightening Recommendations from Francis Collins

_{John G. West
December 5, 2024

Medicine, Scientific Freedom

12}

The former NIH head thinks the government didn't exert enough control during the last pandemic. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Biden Administration, Covid vaccines, COVID-19, Francis Collins, John West, junk DNA, lockdowns, masks, National Institutes of Health, Politics, schools, skeptics, The Federalist, The Road to Wisdom, Vaccines, wisdom}

Francis Collins’s “Road to Folly”

_{David Klinghoffer
November 18, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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How does someone as inept as Francis Collins (and I’m being charitable) have the gall to tell anyone else how to become wise? Read More ›