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Wesley J. Smith
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October 4, 2021
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Can Employers Punish Employees If Spouses Aren’t Vaccinated?

Wesley J. Smith
October 4, 2021
The Biden administration has readily used COVID as the pretext to empower private-sector coercion to gain our compliance with government-desired policies. That’s a prescription for corporatocracy that allows control without engaging democratic processes or overcoming the impediment of constitutional checks and balances. Read More ›
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Doctor taking a nasal swab test
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Wesley J. Smith
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September 21, 2021
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We Need an ‘Operation Warp Speed’ for At-Home COVID Tests

Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2021
So, how about an Operation Warp Speed to manufacture and widely distribute COVID tests? That’s less clickbaity and base-engaging than the fight over vaccines, but think of the good that would do for the country. Read More ›
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Spanish cuisine. Mixed salad fish salad, red and green Bulgarian pepper, quail eggs, canned mackerel, olives, seasoned with olive oil and sesame. Beautiful serving in the restaurant, on a black plate
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Wesley J. Smith
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September 18, 2021
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Vaccines by Eating Greens? Greens Will Never Let It Happen

Wesley J. Smith
September 18, 2021
Scientists are conducting an experiment that, if successful, would permit us to receive some vaccines and other medicines by eating food rather than by jab. Read More ›
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A no vaccine, no mask, no entry sign at a restaurant, cafe or other establishment.
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 31, 2021
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Questioning Vaccine Mandates

Wesley J. Smith
August 31, 2021
If a free society is to remain worthy of the name, persuasion—not coercion—must be the watchword. Because if COVID becomes the excuse for government and Big Business to exert such extreme control, even greater intrusions on civil liberties will surely follow. Once power is grabbed, the grabbers rarely let go. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 5, 2021
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No, a Vaccine Mandate Is Not Like Requiring Seat Belts

Wesley J. Smith
August 5, 2021
Mainstream bioethics thinking is growing increasingly authoritarian. Princeton’s notorious utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer now joins Ezekiel “Mandate” Emanuel in an internationally syndicated column urging that everyone be legally required to take the COVID jab. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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May 10, 2021
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Stealing Vaccine Patents Would Be a Big Mistake

Wesley J. Smith
May 10, 2021
Patent protection is crucial to the free-market system and essential to continuing medical innovation. Whatever immediate benefit might be derived by stealing the vaccine would ultimately be more than offset by the new drugs never brought to market and vaccines not invented. Read More ›
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