If we want to know the facts about something, then we should look at the scientific research that has been done on the topic.
There has never been a disease that has been researched as extensively as COVID-19. Like everyone else, I wanted to know the truth, so I looked at the scientific papers I could find on the Internet. These days, you can find answers more quickly by asking AI to summarize the research that has been done.
What I have read has led me to the conclusion that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and mostly effective. There is a small chance of complications, which are generally treatable and much more likely to occur as a result of the disease itself.
It is my observation that every single anti-vaxxer is a conspiracy theorist who believes that there is a cabal that wants to hurt us.
About half of my friends believe in conspiracy theories, and this has become so prevalent that I am starting to become alarmed by it. Hardly a week goes by without my hearing COVID-19 theories that aren't supported by scientific research.
Even government websites are promoting COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Multiple government officials are promoting the idea that COVID-19 originated in a lab, but the evidence is overwhelming that the disease had a natural origin.
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is basing government policy on conspiracy theories. He is a terrible choice for this job.
We recently passed the third anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel. The amount of antisemitism and the number of conspiracy theories about Israel have increased dramatically. The number of anti-Israel posts online has been overwhelming. However, these posts make claims that fail to take into account the actual history of the region and make extremely exaggerated claims about Israel.
In the past, conspiracy theories like these seemed to be much more prominent in other countries. However, since COVID-19 emerged, it feels like many Americans have gone bat-shit-crazy.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
What's the Largest Ocean in the World?
20 hours ago
Oceans 11 was pretty big
@GiliGulu1969
13 hours ago
Just glad no-one said the American Ocean.
Freedom of Speech Is a Western Phenomenon
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“You cannot take Christianity out of the West and have anything that’s recognizably the West,” atheist British pundit Douglas Murray has acknowledged. “To live in a Western country is to live in a society still utterly saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions,” says British historian Tom Holland in his popular book Dominion. One of those Christian concepts and assumptions, channeling ideas that draw upon even more ancient Greek and Roman sources, is that people must be free to speak their minds without the threat of arrest or violence. It was an incredibly hard-fought freedom. And it is one many of our elites seem eager to surrender for the sake of inclusivity and tolerance toward Muslims and people who call themselves transgender, among others.
Freedom of Speech Is a Western Phenomenon
Two hundred and 50 years ago, the United States declared its independence based on the proposition that “all men” are endowed by God with the unalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” When, 15 years later, an independent, sovereign nation ratified its Constitution and Bill of Rights, the right to freedom of speech was included in the very First Amendment. Of course, its authors and signers did not think they were innovators in this regard but rather drew upon an ancient Western — and perhaps most singularly, British — tradition that included, per Thomas Jefferson, Aristotle, Cicero, John Locke, and Algernon Sidney, who all recognized the importance of free speech.
Persecution Of John Cleese Shows Islamist Hatred Of Free Speech
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Peter Hitchens Explains Why Britain Is Finished
Britain is an important ally of the United States. Peter Hitchens's comments could apply to many European countries and, to some extent, to the United States.
The US-China Space Race Has Begun
The claim is that we need to go to the Moon so that we can go to Mars. We don't need to go to Mars. It far too risky and to costly to go to a dead, dangerous planet with a 1/3 of the gravity of the Earth. The radiation on Mars and on the way is too dangerous.
Breaking: Judge hears arguments in effort to ban Trump’s $100k a month Truth Social grift
The video has a very anti-Trump bias, but they aren't necessarily wrong...
Wizards (1977)
This animated film is overtly, or maybe covertly, political.
Ironically, Mark Hamill, from Star Wars, does a voice in the film, which was crushed at the box office by Star Wars.
Friday, October 9, 2026
Thursday, October 8, 2026
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