Tag: Reagan administration

Peter van Buren, Covid-19, AIDS, & The Politics of Viral Fear

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Peter van Buren In the 1980’s, agenda-driven panic around the HIV epidemic set back the public health response by years… Nothing is more viral than fear. Fear – fight or flight – is a terrible way to make decisions that call for time, science, and rational thinking. Want to screw up a public health crisis? Let fear drive. Democrats, Pavlovian conditioned by years of believing everything Trump does is “an existential threat,” are about twice as likely as Republicans to say the coronavirus poses an imminent danger. Make a joke of it—pandemic or…

Twitter (Absurdly) Bans Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts

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[Editor’s note: I have long regarded Paul Craig Roberts as our nation’s leading public intellectual. That Twitter would ban him discredits Twitter and indicates the profound corruption of the Social Media Giants in their despicable censorship of freedom of speech and of freedom of the press. This is disgusting beyond belief. Update: It appears to have been an account that Paul Craig Roberts himself requested be taken down. See below.] Sputnik News Twitter has suspended noted anti-war commentator, economist and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts. The suspension…