Green Activists Sound Alarm on Wind Farms as More Whales End up Dead

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Green Activists Sound Alarm on Wind Farms as More Whales End up Dead

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recent spike in unexplained whale deaths prompted the Center for Biological Diversity, which advocates for endangered animals, to quietly notify Democrat officials that the development of offshore wind farms may be the cause.

CBD sent a letter to 50 Democratic senators, notifying them that the development of the farms is likely what is putting the North Atlantic whales in danger.

According to the Daily Caller, the CBD’s letter called out Democrats for sneaking a provision into the 2023 fiscal year omnibus bill allowing for lobster fisheries to avoid environmental regulations.

The bill passed, and the CBD reacted by calling the Democrats’ decision an “unprecedented extinction rider” that put whales at greater risk.

Another activist group, known as Clean Ocean Action, called for a federal investigation into the deaths of whales after six dead humpback and sperm whales washed ashore in a 33-day period.

COA’s press release included suspicions that the deaths of the whales has something to do with the development of offshore wind farms.

This idea drew the ire of several other environmental advocacy groups, such as the far-left Sierra Club, which called the theory “unfounded and premature.”

There are six offshore wind farms in development off the New Jersey coast, ranging hundreds of miles.

The CBD’s letter to Congress argued that if fisheries did not face tighter restrictions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would likely need to halt the development of offshore wind farms in order to protect endangered whales.

“Without conservation measures to protect right whales from entanglements, this legislation will likely mean that all offshore wind development along the Atlantic seaboard will have to cease operation in order for NOAA Fisheries to meet its obligations under the Endangered Species Act an Marine Mammal Protection Act to ensure that the right whale population does not decline even further towards extinction,” the CBD wrote.

Although the involvement of the wind farms in the deaths of the whales remains unconfirmed, NOAA scientist Sean Hayes warned that the increased mortality rates of the leviathan would be a likely side effect.

“Additional noise, vessel traffic and habitat modifications due to offshore wind development will likely cause added stress that could result in additional population consequences to a species that is already experiencing rapid decline,” Hayes said.

Fox Reporter Forced to Leave Woke Miami Cafe over his Political Opinions

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Fox Reporter Forced to Leave Woke Miami Cafe over his Political Opinions

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Gianno Caldwell, a Fox News reporter who happens to be black, was kicked out of a Miami restaurant on Saturday because of his conservatism, continuing the recent trend of liberals treating conservatives as second-class citizens.

Gianno Caldwell was asked to leave a North Miami restaurant name “Paradis Books and Bread,” because he was a conservative, according to a Fox News Story he posted on Facebook and Twitter.

Caldwell was joining friends at the establishment for the first time when he was approached by an owner of the restaurant. He reported that the owner said she had been eavesdropping on their discussion and decided that they “were not welcome.”

Caldwell reported asking the owner if he had said something triggering. The owner reportedly responded by having the following exchange with Caldwell:

“Are you a conservative?”

“Yes. In fact, I have a book called Taken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed. You should get the book.”

This exchange resulted in Caldwell and his friends being asked to leave the restaurant. The restaurant, in a post on its official Instagram account, released a statement explaining the event:

“Their behavior and their words made other folks in the space as well as us working very uncomfortable. We told them that our views don’t align, and that the language they were using was unwelcome in our space.”

On the same weekend that Caldwell was kicked out of a restaurant, another Fox News employee, Adam Klotz, was beaten on a subway, according to a video he posted on Instagram.

Three youths involved with the assault were detained, but released without charges, according to the New York Post.

Todd Starnes, an independent journalist who worked for Fox News for more than a decade, commented on the assault on his website.

“This is what happens with you elect Democrats to public office,” Starnes said. “They care more about the well-being of the criminals instead of the victims.”

Seattle Runs Out of Morgue Space Due to Fentanyl Overdoses

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Seattle Runs Out of Morgue Space Due to Fentanyl Overdoses

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A morgue in Seattle, Washington, has run out of space due to a massive influx in fentanyl overdoses, as the deadly drug continues to flow across President Joe Biden’s open southern border with lethal results.

Seattle-King County Public Health Director Dr. Faisal Khan made the grim morgue admission at a recent board of health meeting, reported Jason Rantz with 770 KTTH radio.

“The Medical Examiner’s Office is now struggling with the issue of storing bodies because the fentanyl-related death toll continues to climb. Obviously, they have finite space in the coolers they use and that space is now being exceeded on a regular basis,” Khan said.

He also emphasized the outsized role of fentanyl in the deluge of deaths.

“The biggest driver of these fatal overdoses involves fentanyl in white powder and in fake pills, which are flooding the streets.”

Democrats recently decriminalized drugs soon after the state Supreme Court deemed its felony possession law to be unconstitutional. Now, the possession of illicit drugs is subject merely to a misdemeanor.

Per a Public Health spokesperson, the state may have to look at adding more morgue capacity to address the problems created by the state and federal governments.

“We have options for temporary morgue surge capacity when our census count gets high, including storing decedents on autopsy gurneys and partnerships with funeral homes. We’re exploring longer-term options for adding more capacity,” the spokesperson said.

Of course, the problem is also related to federal border policy, led by Vice President Kamala Harris.

Harris’s lack of border law enforcement has opened up a broad market for Chinese fentanyl suppliers, who have ramped up the drug’s production, transporting it into the U.S. via Mexican as well as Central and South American cartels.

Of 6 Antifa Goons Arrested in Atlanta Riots, Only One from Ga.

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Of 6 Antifa Goons Arrested in Atlanta Riots, Only One from Ga.

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The Soros- and Silicon Valley-backed terrorist organization, Antifa, is up to its old tricks once again, transporting violent criminals across state lines to incite riots and violence.

Of the six criminals involved in the latest Atlanta riot, only one lived in Georgia.

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp tweeted out the news.

“Only one perpetrator arrested during Saturday’s riot is from Georgia,” he wrote. “None of those arrested during last week’s operation are from Georgia. Law enforcement demonstrated how quickly we shut down those trying to import violence from other states, and we’ll continue to do so.”

The violence ensued in the wake of an Antifa rioter being gunned down by Atlanta police after he shot an Atlanta state trooper. Antifa members were attempting to establish an “autonomous zone.”

Antifa members then began encouraging members and supporters to converge on Atlanta for a “night of rage.”

Right on cue, pundits at CNN redefined the word “violence” in order to support their desired pro-Antifa narrative, despite their perpetual efforts to frame the J6 rally as domestic terrorism.

CNN guest David Peisner argued that the only people engaged in violence were the police.

“I think that there’s a real blurring of the lines in the use of the word violence. Is property destruction violence? To some people it certainly is. But, you know, this idea that breaking windows or other acts of property destruction are the same as actual violence against humans, it’s kind of a dangerous and slippery concept,’” he told CNN.

“You keep using these words ‘violent, violent, violent, violent’… The only acts of violence against people that I saw were actually police tackling protesters,” he added.

Peisner made his claims despite the fact that Antifa leaders had previously issued “a call for reciprocal violence to be done to the police and their allies” with a “night of rage”.

Harris Omits Declaration’s Right to Life in Speech about Abortion

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Harris Omits Declaration’s Right to Life in Speech about Abortion

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris neglected to mention the right to life when quoting the Declaration of Independence in a speech in Tallahassee, Florida, acknowledging what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

“We are here together because we collectively believe and know, America is a promise, America is a promise—it is a promise of freedom and liberty,” Harris said.

“Not for some, but for all,” she continued. “A promise that we made in the Declaration of Independence that we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Harris continued, insisting that “these rights were not bestowed upon us,” but that “they belong to us as Americans.”

According to the Post Millennial, she did not mention the right to life in her speech, which was just under 20 minutes.

During the speech she also announced that the Biden administration is working to protect access to abortion pills throughout the country, even in states where the practice is now illegal—including Florida.

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill making abortions illegal after 15 weeks, with exceptions for safety of the life of the mother or at risk of injury to the fetus.

Harris slammed DeSantis, insisting that “the government should not be telling people what to do with their own bodies.”

“Here in Florida, healthcare providers face prison for up to five years for simply doing their job,” the vice president claimed, according to the Daily Mail. “And now the state has also targeted medication abortion—and even threatened Florida pharmacists.”

In a presidential memorandum to mark the anniversary of Roe, which was overturned in the summer of 2022, President Joe Biden included a section dedicated to ensuring that people looking to access abortion pills are “free from threats or violence,” but did not define what it meant by violence.

“The President has long made clear that people should have access to reproductive care free from harassment, threats, or violence,” the memorandum said. “Pharmacies should be treated no differently.”

Meanwhile, pregnancy centers and churches across the country are being attacked for their pro-life views. The FBI’s investigation into the matter is slow going, despite militant groups taking credit for the attacks in online statements.

RNC Braces for Drama as McDaniel Faces Two Serious Leadership Challenges

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RNC Braces for Drama as McDaniel Faces Two Serious Leadership Challenges

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) By week’s end, the Republican National Committee is set to resolve a leadership feud that has exposed major divisions within the institution charged with electing the next GOP president.

Those inside the fight believe the days ahead of Friday’s secret ballot at a luxury seaside resort could get even uglier as forces within former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement threaten to upend RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel’s reelection bid.

The attacks have been led by McDaniel’s chief rival, Harmeet Dhillon, a Trump attorney who has accused the incumbent of religious bigotry, chronic misspending and privately claiming she can control the former president—allegations McDaniel denies.

Also in the race is My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a pro-Trump entrepreneur who secured enough support to qualify for the ballot.

Trump hasn’t made a public endorsement, but he and his team are privately advocating for McDaniel, whom he tapped for the position shortly after his 2016 victory. Still, many Trump loyalists blame McDaniel, the niece of Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, for some of the party’s recent struggles.

In an interview, Dhillon insisted that the overwhelming majority of Republican voters want a leadership change at the RNC. She warned of serious political consequences for any of the committee’s 168 elected members who support McDaniel’s reelection.

“For those members of the party who vote not with what the people in their state want but with what their own self-interest is, the next time they’re up for election, it’s going to be an issue,” Dhillon told the Associated Press.

Apprised of Dhillon’s statement, McDaniel said, “That sounds like a threat.” She condemned the increasingly ugly attacks against her and the divisions plaguing the committee.

“There’s nobody who’s enjoyed this more than Democrats. I know, because I love it when they’re fighting each other,” McDaniel said.

Friday’s vote for RNC chair serves as the latest high-profile leadership test for a Republican Party grappling with questions about its future—and Trump’s influence—ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

The infighting was on public display earlier this month as House Republicans almost came to blows before uniting behind House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, undermined by the same MAGA forces threatening McDaniel this week.

In both cases, Trump has struggled to control his own loyalists, who seem intent on fighting the status quo—whether McCarthy or McDaniel—no matter the cost.

Seeking to influence the vote, a group of Florida Republicans from the party’s MAGA wing moved last Friday to hold a vote of “no confidence” in McDaniel, which Republican groups in a handful of other states have done in recent weeks as well.

But the Florida gathering, which drew leading McCarthy detractor Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., fell far short of reaching the quorum needed to hold an official vote.

Still, dozens of anti-McDaniel protesters waved signs outside the event. One read, “RONNA IS THE ENEMY WITHIN.”

“The biggest thing is that we want a really strong leader who’s in touch with MAGA, and Ronna just doesn’t have that,” Lake County, Florida, GOP Chair Anthony Sabatini, who led the anti-McDaniel push, said in a phone interview from a shooting range as gunshots rang out. “She’s lost the confidence of voters.”

Trump has avoided weighing in on the RNC chair fight at McDaniel’s request, according to those with direct knowledge of the situation. The former president would endorse her if she asked, but McDaniel’s team currently believes she will win without his public backing, allowing her to maintain a sense of neutrality heading into the 2024 presidential primary season.

According to its bylaws, the RNC must remain neutral in the presidential primary. Trump is the only announced GOP candidate so far, but other high-profile contenders are expected in the coming months.

Still, Trump could ultimately endorse McDaniel ahead of Friday’s vote if his public support is deemed necessary, according to people familiar with his thinking who, like others interviewed, spoke on condition of anonymity to share internal discussions.

At least three top Trump lieutenants—senior advisers Susie Wiles, Chris LaCivita and Clayton Henson—are planning to attend this week’s three-day RNC winter meeting in Southern California, where the vote will play out. While they are not attending specifically on McDaniel’s behalf, Trump’s team is making clear in private conversations that he backs McDaniel.

McDaniel’s unofficial whip team is expected to include former Trump chief counselor Kellyanne Conway, former Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus, former Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, she said. Another high-profile Trump loyalist, Maryland RNC member David Bossie, is also backing McDaniel.

Dhillon’s guest list is still in flux, but she said over the weekend that her team would likely include former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk and country singer John Rich.

After three consecutive disappointing national elections, there is a broad sense of dissatisfaction among Republican voters and RNC members alike about the health of their party.

Some are increasingly eager to move on from Trump and, by proxy, McDaniel, who is viewed as a close Trump ally—even if many Trump’s supporters outside the RNC membership see her as insufficiently committed to their cause.

“She’s been Trump’s lap dog for four-plus years,” said Bill Palatucci, an RNC member from New Jersey and a vocal critic of both Trump and McDaniel. While Palatucci formally endorsed Dhillon late last week, he is skeptical she has the votes to defeat McDaniel.

Dhillon has unleashed a torrent of attacks against McDaniel in recent weeks that have resonated across Trump’s MAGA movement. But as the far right cheered, Dhillon may have alienated would-be supporters on the actual Republican National Committee, which is made up of activists and elected officials from all 50 states.

In recent days, the attacks against McDaniel have intensified.

Last week, Dhillon promoted claims that a McDaniel ally raised concerns about Dhillon’s faith in at least one private conversation. Dhillon, who is of Indian heritage, identifies as a member of the Sikh religion.

The McDaniel ally has denied the claim, which was outlined in a detailed email to the RNC’s entire membership bearing the subject line “Religious Bigotry.”

Dhillon also highlighted a Washington Post report that McDaniel has said, in multiple private conversations with RNC members, that only she can dissuade Trump from launching an independent presidential bid—and ultimately destroying the party’s chances in the next presidential election—should he fail to win the GOP nomination.

“She said it to many people: Only I can control Trump,” Dhillon told the AP, likening such a statement to someone believing they could single-handedly stop an asteroid from crashing into Earth.

McDaniel said such claims are “ridiculous.”

“After working with President Trump for six years, I don’t think anybody could ever say they control him,” McDaniel said.

Meanwhile, McDaniel warned of a “huge risk” if Republicans cannot stop the infighting as the 2024 election season begins. The GOP is well positioned to win the Senate majority and maintain control of the House, although the presidential contest will dominate much of the committee’s focus.

“This is really critical as we head into ‘24 that we stop labeling, attacking, demonizing other Republicans to the point where we can’t bring them together post-primary,” she said.

For her part, Dhillon said she would “of course” unite behind McDaniel if she ultimately prevails Friday.

“Job 1 is winning elections,” Dhillon said. “I’m a team player.”

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers.

Durbin and Manchin Slam Biden Over Classified Documents

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Durbin and Manchin Slam Biden Over Classified Documents

(Headline USA) Senior Democrats, dismayed by a steady stream of startling disclosures, expressed criticism Sunday of how Joe Biden handled classified material after leaving office as vice president and disappointment that the White House has not been more forthcoming with the public.

Lawmakers who might have anticipated questions focusing on the debt limit or Ukraine aid when they were booked last week for the Sunday news shows found themselves quizzed about the latest development over the weekend in the document drama that has put Biden’s presidency on the defensive.

During a search Friday of Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, the FBI found additional documents with classified markings and took possession of some of his handwritten notes, the president’s lawyer said Saturday.

Biden should be “embarrassed by the situation,” said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate.

A special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland is investigating the case. 

“Well, of course. Let’s be honest about it,” Durban Said.

“When that information is found, it diminishes the stature of any person who is in possession of it because it’s not supposed to happen. … The elected official bears ultimate responsibility.”

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Biden “should have a lot of regrets. … You just might as well say, ‘Listen, it’s irresponsible.'”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Biden Expected to Pick COVID Boss to be Chief of Staff

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(Headline USA) Joe Biden is expected to name Jeff Zients, who ran the administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of Biden’s term, as his next chief of staff, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Biden’s current top aide, Ron Klain, is preparing to leave the job in the coming weeks.

Since serving as COVID-19 response coordinator, Zients has returned to the White House in a low-profile position to work on staffing matters for the remainder of Biden’s first term.

The two people familiar with the matter were not authorized to publicly discuss Biden’s plans before an official announcement and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Washington Post first reported on Zients’ expected appointment. The White House did not respond to requests for comment.

Zients and his deputy on the White House’s pandemic response team, Natalie Quillian, left the Biden administration last April. Biden thanked him for “stunning” and “consequential” progress battling the pandemic.

“When Jeff took this job, less than 1% of Americans were fully vaccinated; fewer than half our schools were open; and unlike much of the developed world, America lacked any at-home COVID tests,” Biden said when the White House announced Zients’ departure.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Termination Process for Cops is Speeding Up Despite Shortages

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(Headline USA) The speed with which five Memphis police officers were fired following the traffic stop of a man who later died in a hospital is unusual but could become more common, despite recent difficulties in hiring new officers.

The five Memphis Police Department officers were fired Friday, less than two weeks after the Jan. 7 arrest of Tyre Nichols, 29, Officials said the five were dismissed for excessive use of force, failure to intervene and failure to render aid.

It’s rare for a police department to act so quickly, said David Thomas, a professor of forensic studies at Florida Gulf Coast University. Investigations can sometimes go on for up to a year, he said.

“It never happens this quickly,” Thomas said.

One recent turning point has been the advent of police body cameras, which can be quickly reviewed, along with cellphone video taken by passersby, said Thomas, who served 20 years as a police officer in Michigan and Florida.

Typically before a firing, officials will determine if an officer has violated a department’s general orders, which set out the procedures and regulations officers are meant to follow, said Patrick Oliver, director of the criminal justice program at Cedarville University in Ohio.

“The seriousness of the job action is based on the severity of the violation,” said Oliver, who spent 28 years in law enforcement, 16 of them as a police chief, including as chief of the Cleveland Police Department.

Firing an officer is the most severe job action, Oliver said, suggesting that department officials feel confident they can support the decision.

“There is far more scrutiny of police today,” he said. “When I was in policing there was less of a likelihood that something a police officer was doing would be caught on video.”

Oliver added that many times videos will confirm police acted properly. “I would say that’s the majority of times,” he said.

While unusual, it’s not unheard of for a city to fire an officer before criminal charges are filed, but that’s not necessarily the end of the story, said Stephen Rushin, a Loyola University Chicago law school professor who has studied police contracts.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Admits Vax Critics Were Right, Still Doesn’t Get Why

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‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Admits Vax Critics Were Right, Still Doesn’t Get Why

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) In a video posted to his YouTube account Saturday, “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams admitted that those who refused to submit to the deadly coronavirus vaccine “appear to be right” based on the latest evidence.

Instead of getting the gene-altering jabs, so-called anti-vaxxers held out for a less virulent strain of the virus to arrive and deliver natural immunity, mimicking the way all earlier vaccines worked prior to the mRNA breakthroughs by Moderna and Pfizer in late 2020.

“Now you’ve got natural immunity and you have no vaccination in you,” Adams noted.

“Can we all agree that that was the winning path?” he continued. “The smartest, happiest people are the ones who didn’t get the vaccination, and they’re still alive.”

As is often the case with comedians, Adams’ tone makes it difficult to discern the extent to which his video may be tongue-in-cheek.

He has developed a sizable following on Twitter, where he largely supports conservative causes and positions, but controversially broke rank with many of his followers in coming out strongly in favor of the vaccines.

The dilemma is a familiar one within MAGA’s anti-vax subculture, where even once-sacred cows like former President Donald Trump and Fox News host Sean Hannity, both of whom crowed about the importance of the vaccine, have been left tarnished, to an extent, by the science.

Adams’s sarcastic intonation seemed to suggest that the recent video was a nod to his many online critics, more a genuflection than a sincere admission of error.

Indeed, since being proven wrong by the data, he has regularly pushed the idea that both sides in the debate use faulty reasoning and information to reach their conclusions.

After saying that he didn’t want to “put any shade … whatsoever” on his acceptance that the vaccines were a mistake, Adams them proceeded in the video to reiterate his defense that drinking the vax Kool-Aid seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

He also downplayed the fact that warning signs about the vaccine’s risks were present almost immediately, along with strong evidence suggesting they had no efficacy in preventing the transmission or contraction of the virus.

Instead, Adams suggested that opponents were simply invested emotionally in a contrarian worldview.

“The anti-vaxxers, I think, were really just distrustful of big companies and big government,” he said. “That’s never wrong.”

Adams then suggested he was the victim for going out on a limb and having the courage to make himself a vaccine guinea pig based on his informed decision-making.

“All of my fancy analytics got me to a bad place,” he said, beckoning back toward a white board that showed a graph of his cost–benefit analysis. “All of your heuristics—‘Don’t trust these guys, it’s obvious’—totally work.”

Naturally, he was met with more backlash online after posting the video.

While invoking the psychological concept of heuristics—essentially, the idea that vaccine skeptics relied on their preconceived beliefs and opinions to form a snap judgment,  Adams’s fallacy lies in another clinical concept—the idea of Type I versus Type II errors in hypothesis testing.

The term comes from statistical analyses, in which there exists both a control/null hypothesis and a treatment/alternative hypothesis of some kind, with researchers calculating the probability, based on a given sample, that one’s assumptions are true.

Since there is always a degree of uncertainty, a Type I error results in the rejection of a hypothesis that is, in fact, true. A Type II error result from acceptance of a false hypothesis.

While it seems needlessly complicated due to the use of variables and other jargon, humans instinctively calculate these sorts of risk assessments with every decision we make: Is it better to try something experimental that might offer some unknown benefit or to follow the status quo and risk missing out on something better?

For Adams and his pro-jab cabal, however, there was no such dichotomy. Instead, the vaccine was an all-or-none proposition, and any who reached a different conclusion were not only wrong by default, but evil, selfish, ignorant rubes who rightfully deserved to be punished.

By contrast, vaccine skeptics never demanded that anyone follow their decisions, recognizing the chance of error that existed on either side of the bell curve.

But in reality, another variable was added into the mix—the possibility that the vaccine not only had no effect, but that it had an actively adverse effect on different segments of the population, including healthy young adults and children.

All scientific experiments need a control group, and had everyone agreed to take the jab, we might never know if it worked or not relative to natural immunity. Millions of people would still be getting boosted mindlessly, assuming that the decline in COVID cases was proof positive that Big Pharma had saved the day.

Sadly, the scientific reality is that, as a so-called anti-vax movement, those who adopted the live-and-let-live mentality of staying out of other people’s medical decisions also failed.

Since, as Adams readily acknowledged, the null hypothesis proved true in the end, a truly equivalent situation would have seen anti-vaxxers aggressively attacking those who chose the vaccine and threatening to curtail their rights on the basis that vaccination was a social menace that put pure-bloods at a greater risk.

And let’s not forget the collateral damage to various sectors of the economy after vaccine mandates led to shutdowns and supply-chain failures that led to inflation—which we’re all still paying for.

But as Adams will surely agree, hindsight is 20–20, and all we can do is to take the lessons learned and apply them when the next scamdemic comes along. Right?

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers.

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