Author: Barry Arrington

ID critic Ed George was asked the following question: “Are you suggesting that the genetic code works through a series of chemical reactions?” His response: “Duh!” When asked to elucidate, he wrote the following comment: DNA is a chemical (deoxyribonucleic acid). It interacts with other chemicals (e.g., transcriptase) to form yet other chemicals (e.g., RNA) Read More…

This news article reports the death of an Ohio resident who was skeptical of the efficacy of lockdowns. The liberal media never seems to tire of celebrating the death or misfortune of those who disagree with them. It is tragic that they have sunk to new lows. Is it any wonder that the media is Read More…

Yet another study, this one out of Germany, confirms what was reported in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Boston and New York. This one arrives at an infection rate of 15% (10X the previously thought number) and a CFR of .37%. One wonders how orthomyxo will spin this (either “don’t believe it” or “it is what Read More…

Much has been written about In this article, Keith Carlson compares California (first in the nation with drastic lockdown measures that are not yet lifted) with Florida (lockdown started two weeks later and is already easing). This is the summary: California’s population is 39.5 million, Florida’s is 21.5 million. The average age in each state is: California, 36, Florida, Read More…

“There is no point in keeping grocery stores open if the meat packers are closed due to the virus.” Commenter Ed George

To our progressive interlocutors: When even Newsweek bails on you, it is time to abandon your narrative. MOST U.S. HOSPITALS ARE EMPTY. SOON THEY MIGHT BE CLOSED FOR GOOD instead of merely preserving hospital beds and other resources, this heavy-handed injunction has created a burden of its own design: a historic number of empty beds Read More…

In response to my last post (The Data Are in: A Nationwide Lockdown Was Never Necessary) Bob O’H got red in the face, stamped his feet, and apparently insisted that a nationwide lockdown was necessary. Was it? Here is an analysis performed by a friend: To put US COVID19 cases into perspective, it helps to Read More…

According to a study discussed today in the Wall Street Journal (behind a paywall), the nationwide lockdown was never necessary. The vast majority of states should have followed Sweden’s example: We ran a simple one-variable correlation of deaths per million and days to shutdown, which ranged from minus-10 days (some states shut down before any Read More…

I am watching Waco on Netflix. I recommend it. My view of the Branch Davidian tragedy in a nutshell: David Koresh was an evil man who broke the law and needed to be stopped. The government’s actions to stop him were breathtakingly over-the-top cowboy antics that resulted in many needless deaths , including dozens of Read More…

This is the lede from an April 23 article in Science News: I don’t understand this at all. The article purports to account for all deaths. Yet it states the death tolls only for “men” and “women.” The question that goes entirely unaddressed — much less answered — is how many deaths there have been Read More…

Even the mouthpiece of the progressive movement (CNN) is waking up to a reality that was always glaringly obvious. In this story CNN reports on a new UN report: The world is facing multiple famines of “biblical proportions” in just a matter of months, the UN has said, warning that the coronavirus pandemic will push an additional Read More…

Thank you to the UD News Desk for this article in which Coyne is quoted as saying this: The error is taking what is possible and making people think that this is what’s common or probable. **klaxon horns sounding** IRONY ALERT: The entire Darwinian edifice rests on this very foundation. Nice of Jerry to let Read More…

This account of the report states: Preliminary results from New York’s first coronavirus antibody study show nearly 14 percent tested positive, meaning they had the virus at some point and recovered, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. That equates to 2.7 million infections statewide — more than 10 times the state’s confirmed cases. Cue the science Read More…

Guess the sources of these statements: Worst case scenario planning encourages counterproductive overreactions in which law-enforcement techniques and drastic anti-civil liberties measures are used as the first resort, rather than the last resort. “the law enforcement/national security approach” to fighting a pandemic “converts the exception into the rule by treating everyone in the general population Read More…

Government is good at imposing overarching regulations. Making finely tuned (or even roughly tuned) adjustments to fit particular circumstances? Not so much. This is nowhere more apparent than in the government’s decision to shut down “elective” procedures everywhere, even though the need to so so varied in the extreme from place to place. This article Read More…