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Ebright: "[F]or biosafety, there are no rules with force of law for any pathogen other than the smallpox virus. If you wanted to start research in your garage on SARS-CoV-2…, you could do so without informing anyone...and with no possibliity of penalty." realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/…

Feeling hopeful for our nation after teaching the next generation of free speech champions at FIRE Free Speech Leadership Summit. Our History & Philosophy track had some of the brightest students I’ve ever met. Inspiring to see their work + inquisitiveness this past week.

Scientists do not and cannot answer the questions of meaning of anybody’s life or how somebody should live and die. It is outside of the scope of a scientist’s ability to assign meaning to your pain, suffering, sneezing, or death.

Exactly.

Arkansas is now among the leading states working to roll back the phone-based childhood. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders invites all schools to go phone free, puts up money in pilot program to pay for phone lockers or pouches. Every state should offer such funds. governor.arkansas.gov/news_post/sand…

"The crisis of trust is more accurately described as a crisis of trustworthiness. " Spot on. Just tell us the truth. We're going to find it anyway.

16 yr old working for me this summer invited Ash and I to a BBQ today, So we went. I’ve struggled with this kid this summer. He’s always on time, and he’ll bust ass when we need to, but he struggles a lot of days with staying on task, and I redo much of what he does some days

Our growing community of Free Pressers come from every corner of our modern, subdivided world. For Free Pressers, complexity is a virtue and curiosity isn’t a liability—it’s the healthy condition of free people. Today we want to introduce you to some of them.

It's more dangerous to public welfare to permit the government to suppress the truth in the name of suppressing misinformation than it is to let people be wrong on the internet. A mistaken government does far more damage.

There's a campaign underway to intimidate our friend and @thefp columnist Douglas Murray. We know nothing will stop him from telling the truth: thefp.com/p/our-friend-d…

A reporter from one of the most storied newspapers in the country asking whether the White House will censor speech that the reporter finds offensive perfectly illustrates the crisis that has engulfed legacy media.

Governor Newsom calls for all California schools to go phone free! The evidence supporting his call can be found in this document: docs.google.com/document/d/1uB… The evidence is summarized in this Atlantic article: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… California Governor

Covid school closures were an absolute disaster.

Another academic association betrays its telos: The American Association of University Professors reverses its longstanding opposition to academic boycotts. Jeffrey Flier explains why this move is contrary to the AAUP's professed value of academic freedom thecrimson.com/article/2024/8…

This is a perfect idea

Mark Zuckerberg believes U.S. government pressure on his social media platforms to take down certain COVID-19 content in 2021 was "wrong" and says he'd resist similar attempts in the future, according to a letter submitted to a congressional committee. cbsn.ws/3X4Tk6t

.Marty Makary MD, MPH: "Two-thirds of Americans students say they are distracted by their digital devices during class." It's time to remove cell phones from the classroom.

We cannot make our world better by picking a group of "others" to treat as less than human. Please read the whole thing 👇

Systematic review: "Depression and anxiety symptoms increased in a pre-during-comparison in the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, whereby pandemic-related restrictions (such as school closures) resulted in an immense effect increase" Not in Sweden. populationmedicine.eu/Increase-of-de…

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