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Let’s Look At All Cause Deaths Again
It's been a while since we looked at all-cause deaths (some of this is for the new readers). This is the one statistic that can't be cooked or juiced; or…
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Experts—Trust Them!—Discover Coronadoom Misinformation Causes Depressive Symptoms
Gettin' bad out there, friends. Lot of people poppin' happy pills. Pills, that is, designed by Experts to make them happy. Or what Experts say passes for happy. Pills that,…
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There Was No Panic In The Similar 1957-58 Pandemic; But Panic Galore For Coronadoom
There is much fun contrasting earlier approaches to pandemics and our Great Global Panic, now entering it's third---and final?---year. Let's take the 1957-1958 Asian (the novel H2N2) flu, the worst…
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Celebrating The Court’s Common Sense — And Lamenting Its Mistake
The OSHA opinion is here: the "Health" opinion is here. We earlier went through the Fifth Circuit quashing the OSHA mandate. The Court ruled twice yesterday. Once on the OSHA…
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Science Proves Unemployment Cures Covid — Coronadoom Update CXIV
We still await the blessings or curses of the so-called Supreme Court. Since we don't know what they will do, we cannot say much about it. What I can do…
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Covid & The Cathedral — Guest Post by John Q Public
As the reader may know from my last guest appearance, I am entirely on the side of the COVID skeptics. I have never believed any aspect of the response to…
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How Did We Do On Our 2021 Predictions?
How'd we do? Put it this way: none of us would have won any awards. Here is the list so you can follow along (perhaps open in a new window).…
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Researchers Who Built Model To Say Vex Saved A Million Lives Announce Vex Saved A Million Lives
This is a slow day, with most off the internet, as is right and proper. So I will leave us with this repetition: All models, good or bad, inexpert or…