These vaccines couldn't possibly have been known to be harmless when they hadn't been around for even a year. There was no way to know what they would do to people 5 years out and 10 years out.

We are being asked to get a fourth booster shot. This is obviously not a highly effective vaccine. This is, at best, a very weakly effective vaccine. It doesn't prevent the acquisition of the disease or the transmission of the disease, and we all know that they cause myocarditis in some people.

Even if these vaccines had been excellent with no known hazard associated with them, there were lots of people who simply didn't need them—people who were safe from COVID by virtue of the fact that they were young and healthy.

In my opinion, I don't think we should have vaccinated anyone because the risks and unknowns were too great, and we had alternatives.

If you use your intuitive, honed instincts in order to sort through novel problems, you will constantly upend yourself because those instincts aren't built with those problems in mind.

And [Robert Trivers] said, do not accept a job in which you are not exposed to undergraduates because teaching undergraduates means exposing yourself and the thinking that you are presenting to naive minds who will throw curve balls at you. And some of those curve balls are going to be nuisances, and maybe they'll waste your time, but some of them are likely to reveal to you the frailty in your own thinking or in the thinking of the field, and that is the way that progress is made.

The picture of how to address COVID should have emerged naturally from clinicians. Instead, it was handed down; it was preordained—and that is completely unnatural. It was extremely dangerous. It resulted in a serious violation of the Nuremberg Code. And I suspect... we're going to see that not only was there large-scale harm, but that there was a completely unnecessary reduction in human longevity.

What we got during COVID was not an inept response; it was the inverse of a good response ... Had they simply failed, that would be one thing, but what they gave us was a recipe for disaster. And to the extent that they were willing to do that, for whatever reason, and allow the harm to flow from it that did... These people must be removed from power lest this happen again.

I think we have now all come to an understanding that lab leak was plausible all along ... As I have said from very early on, all of the evidence that points in one direction points toward the lab. And we have now gotten to a place where it is impossible to deny that.

Back away from that which is novel & untested and in the direction of that which is time-tested, and it will result in a decrease in anxiety and increase in your control over your own life. And the way you'll tell is that you will feel less confused more of the time.

Well, we are headed for collapse. That's really not even an extraordinary claim. If you just simply extrapolate out from where we are, we are outstripping the planet's capacity to house us, and we don't appear to have a plan for shifting gears. So, it's really a factual statement.

What Pharma is is a business that needs to have a medical need that can plausibly be associated with some compound over which it has intellectual property rights. And so, how can you increase your profit in such a world? Well, you might manufacture a disease, you might broaden the definition of a disease so more people appear to have it ... There are lots of ways to increase your profit.

Science is a method for correcting for bias ... It is a slightly cumbersome mechanism for correcting for human bias. And the result is that it produces a set of models and a scope of knowledge that improves over time. And what improves means is it explains more while assuming less.

The vaccine mandates required people to accept a product about which little was known and a product that was entirely novel in terms of... its mechanism of action. That is a violation of Nuremberg. Informed consent was impossible because people don't know what was in these vaccinations, and they don't have enough information to understand what risks they may be facing.

Wherever perception is the mediator of success, you have deception as an important evolutionary force. Where physics dictates whether you succeeded or failed, you don't have that problem—you can't fool physics.

If you treat your children, more or less, at least cognitively... You just shoot way over their heads. You talk to them like adults from very early on, and they cannot respond in kind, but they get much more than you would think based on what they can say in response.

The vaccines appeared to be the one-size-fits-all solution, which is preposterous at a number of levels. For one thing, epidemiologically, it was not wise to mass vaccinate in the face of an ongoing pandemic. That's very different than vaccinating in advance of a disease outbreak.

The very thing that made us so successful, as a species is now setting us up for disaster. That is to say, our evolutionary capacity to solve problems has outstripped our capacity to adapt to the new world that we've created for ourselves. And so, we've become psychologically and socially and physiologically and politically unhealthy, and our civilization isn't any better.

Being courageous about actually acknowledging what you don't know often leads to the best conversations.

I'm concerned about the meaning of the monkeypox outbreak. And the reason I'm concerned is because we really shouldn't be having an outbreak. This is a disease that's actually traditionally relatively difficult to transmit.

Virtually everything that people know is coming through a social channel. So, it is all open to manipulation, augmentation, distortion.

I'm not sure I like the term anti-vax because it's now been pointed at me so many times despite the fact that I regard myself as a vaccine enthusiast.

Not only do we need people to be able to see that they've made mistakes and actually course-correct, but we need people to be taking enough risks early on that they are likely to sometimes make errors.

Our brains are antifragile, and our bones are antifragile. And they become stronger with stressors.