Bretigne Shaffer's Blog, page 17
October 10, 2020
More Lockdown Truths from a Stranger: "Left with the Memory of what our Government Did to our Loved Ones."
Posting with permission from Annie Bukacek, MD:
I Made this Back in Early May. I Say it's Held Up Pretty Well:
Hitler Learns that Sweden is Doing Fine. The effort to control the narrative about Covid-19 is failing miserably, and poor Adolph is upset.
October 9, 2020
Sorry Pharma, You Can't "Wakefield" Everyone
Image: Public domain Some of us learned, back when Andrew Wakefield came under attack–not for having published a study that raised the question as to whether there was a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism, but because he later...
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October 8, 2020
Faith in Miso Soup
I happened to be in Paris on 9/11. In the days that followed, I would walk along the Seine and feel the huge, solid stones that made up the walls along the river. Those stones gave me comfort: Because of...
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Please Sign to Support Professor Mark Crispin Miller and Academic Freedom
NYU Professor Mark Crispin Miller was a guest on my show recently, and he spoke about how he has been attacked for talking about masks in his class on propaganda. There is a petition up now in support of Professor...
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October 7, 2020
"You Don't Have the Right to Infect Others"
Image: Public domain. This whole idea that "you don't have the right to infect others" flies in the face of all of human history, and what it means to be human. For hundreds of thousands of years (millions, really), we...
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October 5, 2020
WTMWD #35: Connor Boyack: Fighting the war over our children's minds
I speak with Connor Boyack, author of the Tuttle Twins series. He talks about the war that is being waged for our children's minds, why independent thinking is so critical, and gives some positive inspiration for communicating the philosophy of...
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October 4, 2020
A Much-Needed Burst of Optimism from Larken & Amanda Rose: "Why We Win in the End"
If you're in need of a boost–and who isn't?–take a listen to this wonderful interview with Larken and Amanda Rose, and soak up some of the reasons they are both so optimistic about the future. ...and then go share it...
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Powerful Statement from New York Rabbi
There are some chilling echoes of history (and the history of how Jewish leaders have assisted in enabling tyranny, in particular) in this talk by Rabbi Yitzhak David Smith, speaking to other leaders in the Jewish community: "When Jews are...
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October 3, 2020
"The Nearly"–My Podcast Manifesto (re-posting)
People should be free. People should be free to live their own lives. To decorate their homes as they choose, to plant their gardens, to run their own businesses. They should be free to read the books they want to...
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