Scientists Promise a ‘Universal Vaccine.’ After COVID, Who’s Ready to Believe Them?

What could possibly go wrong?

Scientists say medicine stands close to a breakthrough that once sounded like science fiction. Bali Pulendran, professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine, leads a research effort to develop a “universal vaccine” that protects against multiple respiratory threats simultaneously.

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Epstein prison guard googled him minutes before body found — and made mysterious deposit before pedophile’s suicide: DOJ

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guards googled the sex predator minutes before he was found dead — and also made a mysterious $5,000 cash deposit 10 days before the predator’s jail-cell suicide, new Department of Justice documents reveal.

Tova Noel was one of the two Metropolitan Correctional Center workers accused of falsifying records to say they checked on Epstein throughout the night before his Aug. 10, 2019, suicide.

They’re not even trying any more.

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Iranian mathematician missing in Canada may have been targeted by Tehran, activists say

Police in Canada have concluded that a missing Iranian activist was most likely the victim of murder, prompting fears that his disappearance has the hallmarks of a transnational repression campaign targeting critics of Tehran.

Masood Masjoody, a mathematician critical of both Iran’s theocratic regime and the exiled family of the former shah, went missing in early February in the city of Burnaby, British Columbia.

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Flying a Union Jack flag is branded a ‘tool of hate’ in Government’s leaked ‘social cohesion’ strategy

Flying English, Scottish and Union Jack flags has been branded as ‘tools of hate’ in a leaked draft of the Government’s new social cohesion strategy.

A leaked draft of the proposals suggests national symbols were sometimes used last summer to ‘exclude or intimidate’.

It warned that the ‘extreme right has tried to turn symbols of pride into tools of hate’.

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Why “Legalize and Tax” Is the Wrong Solution to Our Drug Problem

The economic reasoning is powerful, but it breaks down against reality.

I hate to disagree with my colleague, the great Roland Fryer—and doubly so when it comes to economics. Fryer’s work is consistently both stimulating and insightful, and his contributions to public policy substantially outstrip my own. I nevertheless feel obliged to comment on his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, in which he uses sound economic reasoning to reach a conclusion I reject: that we should legalize and tax addictive drugs.

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