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Pandemic Panic: Civil Liberties in Canada during Covid

Pandemic Panic: Civil Liberties in Canada during Covid

By: Christine Van Geyn 25 July 2024
What has Covid science taught us about Medical Nihilism?

What has Covid science taught us about Medical Nihilism?

By: Jacob Stegenga 10 July 2024
The Biomedical Empire during the Covid pandemic

The Biomedical Empire during the Covid pandemic

By: Barbara Katz Rothman 3 July 2024
How did the Covid pandemic response harm society?

How did the Covid pandemic response harm society?

By: Kevin Bardosh 16 July 2024
Mozambique: Effects of restriction policies during the pandemic 

Mozambique: Effects of restriction policies during the pandemic 

By: Pedrito Cambrão 16 July 2024
A different pandemic strategy: Nicaragua example

A different pandemic strategy: Nicaragua example

By: Coleen Littlejohn 16 July 2024
Episode 10 Governance - 10 Ways the Covid Response Harmed Society

Episode 10 Governance - 10 Ways the Covid Response Harmed Society

By: Kevin Bardosh 5 February 2024
Episode 9 Environment and Ecosystems - 10 Ways the Covid Response Harmed Society

Episode 9 Environment and Ecosystems - 10 Ways the Covid Response Harmed Society

By: Kevin Bardosh 24 January 2024
Episode 8 Community - 10 Ways the Covid Response Harmed Society

Episode 8 Community - 10 Ways the Covid Response Harmed Society

By: Kevin Bardosh 9 January 2024
Did the Covid inquiry just admit lockdown was a mistake?

Did the Covid inquiry just admit lockdown was a mistake?

The Covid inquiry has this afternoon published a full report on its first module, assessing the resilience and preparedness of the UK’s pandemic response.

By: Toby Green 18 July 2024
The lesson they're determined to ignore: lockdown was a disaster, writes infectious diseases expert Kevin Bardosh

The lesson they're determined to ignore: lockdown was a disaster, writes infectious diseases expert Kevin Bardosh

At 240 pages thick, the first official report from the near two-year-long Covid Inquiry is certainly weighty.

By: DailyMail, Kevin Bardosh 18 July 2024
Media backs Supreme Court’s Covid-era censorship ruling

Media backs Supreme Court’s Covid-era censorship ruling

The US Supreme Court this week ruled against (6-3) plaintiffs in a historic free speech case. Murthy v. Missouri alleged that Biden administration officials engaged in a wide-ranging censorship campaign during the Covid pandemic, with the goal of stifling dissent on lockdowns, vaccines, natural immunity and masks.

By: Kevin Bardosh 29 June 2024
Cracks emerge in the Covid inquiry consensus

Cracks emerge in the Covid inquiry consensus

Small cracks are emerging in the mainstream Covid consensus following three weeks of proceedings in Wales, which wrapped up this week.

By: Kevin Bardosh 16 March 2024
Why is the WHO calling critics ‘conspiracy theorists’?

Why is the WHO calling critics ‘conspiracy theorists’?

The organisation is trying to avoid scrutiny over its pandemic treaty.

By: Kevin Bardosh 26 January 2024
Don’t trust Davos on ‘Disease X’

Don’t trust Davos on ‘Disease X’

The WEF risks repeating Covid-era mistakes in future pandemics.

By: Kevin Bardosh 17 January 2024
A tale of covid-era censorship from the front lines of economics

A tale of covid-era censorship from the front lines of economics

In March 2024, the journal Australian Economic Papers published our paper, “Hiding the Elephant: The tragedy of Covid policy and its economist apologists.” The paper was based on invited keynote conference presentations that each of us gave to the online Australian Conference of Economists held in July 2021, and a working-paper version had been published […]

By: Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters 11 April 2024
(RE)Constructing the missing COVID-19 UK impact assessment for 2020/21

(RE)Constructing the missing COVID-19 UK impact assessment for 2020/21

This document considers, in the widest sense, all the costs and benefits to the United Kingdom of the proposed policy.

By: Peter Grove 8 March 2024
Censorship is unacceptable in democracies - It also disqualifies the “We didn’t kn­ow” argument

Censorship is unacceptable in democracies - It also disqualifies the “We didn’t kn­ow” argument

I am a historian of communism and post-communism by trade

By: Muriel Blaive 8 February 2024
Daily Life in Post-Pandemic Senegal Series

Daily Life in Post-Pandemic Senegal Series

By: Mamadou Ndiaye 11 August 2023
The Children of Nowhere

The Children of Nowhere

By: Abeer Khan, Kunal Purohit 23 March 2023
CG FILM: Sex Workers in India: The Impact of Lockdowns

CG FILM: Sex Workers in India: The Impact of Lockdowns

By: Abeer Khan, Kunal Purohit 24 March 2022

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