The Post-Partisan Emporium

Fiction Disguised as Science to Promote Hatred Disinformation Must Be Called Out Dr. Byram W. Bridle If you only have a few minutes, jump to the section below entitled “Proof that the Paper by Fisman,  et al . Should be Retracted Immediately”. The legacy media has been like pigs at a trough today and yesterday with the publication of an atrocious ‘peer-reviewed’ ‘scientific’  article  by Dr. David Fisman, Dr. Ashleigh Tuite, and a graduate student. After all, with raw public health data unable to support the only COVID-19 narrative that has been deemed acceptable, fresh fuel was apparently needed. Lots of media outlets have been reporting on this study; one of them being CTV News. Here is the headline for their  article : “Being with unvaccinated people increases COVID-19 risk for those who are vaccinated: modelling study” This kind of messaging will only fuel hatred and segregation and the potential development of harmful policies. And it is all in the name of bad s...

THE CORONA OVERREACTION HAS BEEN THE MEANEST PRANK EVER I like clever pranks. I’ve had some pulled on me and had to take my hat off to the perpetrators. And I’ve played some on other people. All were intended in good fun. I would never intentionally injure someone or mock them, and no prankster has hurt or mocked me. Nor would I give someone bad news and later tell them it was a lie. Life is hard enough without inducing undue alarm. But after the past two years, you would know that. At least three times I’ve convinced people they had won some prize or award when they really hadn’t. I figure that the prank target got to  feel  like they won and that having that feeling was probably nearly as good as the actual experience of winning would have been. Feel free to disagree with me. You won’t be the first. Once, the deception was unintentional. Without providing excessive detail, I had a college friend, Anne, who told me that she was trying to win some award that she admitted was k...