Opinion
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Fear: The Best Tool of the Ruling Class
Opinion -Editorial -Fear is a valuable, basic human emotion which functions as a self-preservation instinct. The ruling class is using fear as a tool to control the masses. -
Government Is Awful at Insurance – and Certainly Shouldn’t Be Rewriting Policies
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -You don’t want government anywhere near any insurance policies you purchase. -
Where’s the “Science” That Governor Newsom Continues to Preach?
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -California Governor Gavin Newsom needs to show actual science if he continues to shut down California's economy. -
Did the Lockdown Save Lives?
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Whether school closings and stay-at-home orders slow an outbreak is an important and really challenging research question. This question must be answered before we compare economic costs and health benefits. -
Be Not Afraid
Opinion -Editorial -It is common knowledge and well-established scientifically that fear degrades the immune system. Coronavirus is making this evident. -
Nurses As Super Heroes
Opinion -Editorial -National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on Florence Nightingale’s birthday, May 12th. -
The Pandemic vs. the Shutdown: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -The long-term economic effects of the COVID-19 shutdown will be felt for years to come. -
Failures of an Influential COVID-19 Model Used to Justify Lockdowns
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -Professor Neil Ferguson, who led the COVID-19 modeling team at Imperial College in London, resigned May 5 from his government advisory role after breaking the very same British lockdown rules that he had a role in influencing. -
Did We Give Informed Consent?
Opinion -Editorial -That two weeks or two months of lockdown would prevent the feared deaths from ever occurring was a false hope. -
Global Corruption and the Pandemic: Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste
Opinion -Editorial -As the philosopher Rahm Emanuel once said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste." -
Public Health Agencies Care More About Controlling You Than Prepping for Pandemics
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -What were public health officials at every level of government doing last year? Were they preparing for a pandemic? Or were they using their office to meddle with your lifestyle choices? -
The Coronavirus and the Attack on Liberty and Privacy
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Efforts to get us to accept and even support more of this government intrusion and data mining into our private affairs is one of the great dangers facing us in the coronavirus crisis. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to IL Gov. Pritzker’s Shifting Goalposts to Lift State-wide Lockdown
Opinion -Press Release -‘Pritzker’s behavior is not just cautious, nor simply callous in the extreme. It is tyrannical.’ -
Covid Confusion
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -Fudged figures and muddled modules highlight the COVID-19 pandemic. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Applauds Senate Bill That Would Create Health Share Plans
Opinion -Press Release -‘With the gig economy taking flight, future generations need flexible, affordable, coverage and this bill is a step in the right direction.’ -
Covid-19: What Will Happen If We Re-Open for Business?
Opinion -Editorial -The idea of “flattening the curve” was to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. It was a delaying tactic, with no prospect of ending the disease. -
Challenges and a Coronavirus Vaccine
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -President Trump recently announced “Operation Warp Speed,” a plan for a novel coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020. -
Nicotine Policy Should Not Be Exempt From Science
Opinion -Editorial -There seems to be an inclination among policy-makers that adherence to evidence-based policy-making is a luxury we can only afford when not in a crisis. -
Alphabet Unit Experiment Shows Promise in Reducing Disease Bearing Mosquitos
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A project operated by Verily Life Sciences to wipe out mosquitos that spread diseases including dengue fever, malaria, West Nile virus, and Zika among others, is having success in tests at three sites in California. -
Markets and Medicines
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -Would you try an unproven drug to treat COVID-19? Is it your right? -
States Suspending Plastic Bag Bans in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Numerous cities and states with plastic bag bans are suspending these policies in response to public health concerns raised about the safety of alternative reusable bags during the Coronavirus pandemic. -
COVID-19: Where’s the Evidence on COVID-19 Treatment?
Opinion -Editorial -The American Medical Association and many other professional organizations demand “peer-reviewed science” before they will recommend or even accept the re-purposing of a long-established anti-malaria drug to treat or prevent COVID-19. -
Tale of Two Panics — Covid & Climate
Opinion -Editorial -While they are occurring on vastly different time scales, the Covid-19 panic and the climate change panic are remarkably similar. -
Dueling Meta-Studies
Opinion -Editorial -Clinical trials do more than inform us whether a drug is effective. They inform us when a drug is effective, in what combinations, in what dosages, and what are the counter indications.