Tag: lockdowns

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 30, 2026

Categories
Biology
Ethics
Genetics
Tagged
, Abraham, Abram, Albert Jay Nock, America, Ashkenazi Jews, assaults, baitings, biology, boycott, Bronx, Brooklyn, calendar, Candace Owens, COVID-19, Darwinism, economists, Europe, Federal Government, Gaza, genetics, Holocaust Encyclopedia, human biology, human genome, incitements, intimidations, Iran, Israel, Jackson Heights, Jeremy Boreing, Jewish Question, Jews, Judaism, Khazars, lockdowns, Mike Huckabee, monologue, National Review, New Testament, Nowhere Doctrine, Nuremberg Code, Old Testament, picketings, prisoners of war, science, soapbox speeches, Soviet Jews, Soviet Union, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Monthly, theology, Tucker Carlson, William F. Buckley Jr., Yorkville}

Science, Science Abuse, and Today’s “Jewish Question”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 30, 2026

Biology, Ethics, Genetics

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Tucker Carlson has called for everyone in Israel to have a DNA test, to sort out the real from the false of “Abram's descendants.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, books, Brian Miller, C. W. Howell, conservatism, Delphic oracle, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), evolution, God and Evolution, history, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jay Richards, journalists, lockdowns, Logan Gage, Michael Behe, Michael Chabarek, news angle, news hook, NYU Press, opinions writers, scientism, skepticism, Thomism, thought crime, Tom Bethell, vaccine mandates, William Dembski}

Is Intelligent Design the Root of All Science Skepticism?

_{Casey Luskin
August 28, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As author C. W. Howell puts it, various ID proponents have sometimes committed the thought crime of “doubting the science consensus outside evolution." Read More ›

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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

3}

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

4}

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

5}

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

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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 ›