The Post-Partisan Emporium

Hippocratic vs. Technocratic Medicine BY  AARON KHERIATY     The following excerpt from my book,  The New Abnormal , was published on  The Stream  this week, reprinted here with permission (yes, I gave permission to Regnery, the book publisher, which gave permission to The Stream, which gave permission back to me to print this excerpt — intellectual property!). Enjoy… Hippocratic vs. Technocratic Medicine Many of our technocrats seem undeterred by the failure of public health policies and associated new technologies to mitigate the COVID pandemic. Consider, for example, Pfizer’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines. How successful was this technology in its first large-scale trial run in humans? A useful metric to cut through a lot of statistical noise is all-cause mortality. We can argue about the causes of death. Did this person die with COVID or from COVID? Was this fatality a vaccine side effect or a random temporal association? But we cannot argue about the bod...

Net Zero Bombshell: The World Does Not Have Enough Lithium and Cobalt to Replace All Batteries Every 10 Years – Finnish Government Report BY   CHRIS MORRISON   Influential elites are either in denial about the horrifying costs and consequences of Net Zero – witness last Wednesday’s substantial vote against fracking British gas in the House of Commons – or busy scooping up the almost unlimited amounts of money currently on offer for promoting pseudoscience climate scares and investing in impracticable green technologies. Until the lights start to go out and heating fails, they are unlikely to pay much attention to a  recent 1,000 page  alternative energy investigation undertaken for a Finnish Government agency by Associate Professor Simon Michaux. Referring to the U.K.’s 2050 Net Zero target, Michaux states there is “simply not enough time, nor resources to do this by the current target”. To cite just one example of how un-costed Net Zero is, Michaux notes that “in th...

Another approach to voting and governance... why you should be a one issue voter a simple solution to a complex problem el gato malo one issue voting is oft portrayed as the act of the small minded zealot. “it’s always more complex, you should always take more things into account.” seems reasonable. seems plausible. but what if it isn’t and we’re just getting the issue wrong? on many or even all of the issues around which elections are held, “don’t be a one issue voter” is likely true, but this is because the elections themselves are part of the problem and are mostly playing superficial games on topics that matter a lot less than people think. it’s smallball coke vs pepsi changes. it’s the magician’s flourish to pull your eye away from the trick. meanwhile, the vast undercurrent of what some have come to call “the deep state” (a term falling into disuse because the deep state itself HATES the moniker and strives to see it consigned to the tinfoil hat bin) continues garnering ever more...