“Covid and the cynical betrayal of the elderly” – “The pandemic has exposed deep and disturbing prejudices against the elderly, the gravely ill and people who are disabled,” writes Simon Caldwell in TCW Defending Freedom.
“Why are we vaccinating children against Covid?” – “The clinical trials did not address long-term effects that, if serious, would be borne by children/adolescents for potentially decades,” write the authors of a new article in Toxicology Reports.
“Medical student, 21, died a day after getting J&J vaccine” – John Foley, 21, a student at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio received the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine on Saturday and was discovered by his roommates on Sunday, reports MailOnline.
“Australian notes” – “If there is one thing this Covid pandemic has shown us it is the hollow and massively politicised nature of the lawyer-driven human rights complex in this country,” writes James Allan in the Spectator Australia.
“Homeowners set to be hit with new eco gas tax in green nudge” – Climate change levies currently added to domestic electricity will be axed and new payments will be added to gas to entice people to replace their central heating boilers and cookers, reports MailOnline.
“Britain’s Coming Winter Energy Crisis” – This winter, the U.K.’s wrongheaded energy policy may test public devotion to environmentalism, writes Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal.
“The Culture War is Coming for Your Genes” – “Imposing any single conception of merit on the world amounts to tyranny as it means trampling on everyone else’s conception,” writes Damien Morris in his review of Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden’s The Genetic Lottery for Quillette.
“The lost art of the political put down” – “What one grieves for when hearing Raynor’s [Rayner’s] speech is what has been lost: the art of the political put down. Her diatribe was absent of any wit and the true imagination of a good insult,” writes Jamie Walden in Bournbrook Magazine.
“Bond is about the last real man standing in Hollywood” – It would be utterly preposterous to have Wonder Man replace Wonder Woman, just as it would be to utterly preposterous to see James Bond turned into Jane Bond, writes Piers Morgan in MailOnline.
“‘A preprint from a great scientist, Joe DeRisi’” – A new study – which is yet to be peer reviewed – has found “no significant difference in viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated, asymptomatic and symptomatic groups infected with [the] SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant”.
Preprint from a great scientist, Joe DeRisi. He did a rotation in my lab at Stanford decades ago. https://t.co/hc4DMltPtu
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