We often fear the wrong things. The latest horrific news out of China, that the authorities seem to be using their “social credit” and Covid-19 tracking apps to squelch public protests, is something we should worry about here in the US and other Western nations because there are powerful forces…

We can apply our “measurable correlates of consciousness” approach to provide answers to this question, at least in outline form This is part of a conversation in early 2022 between a Google engineer (LeMoine) and LaMDA, Google’s AI “chatbot generator”: lemoine [edited]: Let’s take it for granted for the moment…

A column in today’s New York Times today highlights new studies that have found almost 200,000 people in the US under 45 years old died as a result of lockdown policies in 2020 and 2021. …

Miracles are possible, apparently. I’m now on my third adventure in vegan eating. I did a one month experiment five years ago, a three month experiment four years ago, and am almost six weeks in to my third experiment now. I normally follow a “vegan-ish” diet, where I allow myself…

New peer-reviewed research finds no physical basis for long Covid in most patients and the only strong correlations are female gender and a history of anxiety disorder This is a tough message to hear but a lot of CDC “science” is, in the words of this UCSF epidemiologist, Dr. Vinay…

The conflict and economic fallout highlights our state’s excessive dependence on global supply chains and imported fuel and food. Authors: Tam Hunt and Noel Morin; this piece appeared originally in Honolulu Civil Beat in May 2022 Russia’s unjustified and illegal invasion of Ukraine has caused upheavals around the world, including…

Mainstream media and our leaders are failing in their fundamental obligation to explain the distinction between deaths “with” vs “from” Covid-19 President Biden (who I voted for) announced on May 12 that all federal building Stars and Stripes flags must be flown at half-staff to commemorate the one million deaths…

A number of studies have looked at potential vaccine harms, including fatalities. Other studies have examined “breakthrough” Covid-19 deaths, which are defined as Covid-attributed deaths in fully vaccinated people. The standard of causality used in studying these deaths, including requiring a direct causal linkage that is “proven beyond doubt,” is…

China’s mass Covid-19 testing programs are guaranteed to result in a vast majority of false positives and yet these are reported as “cases,” justifying lockdowns of 26% of China’s population and untold suffering China has fully locked down its largest city, Shanghai, with a population of almost 26 million people…