Michel Accad, MD

Articles

The Pandemic War Analogy: Turning Natural Disaster into Violent Civil Conflict

09/15/2021 Power & Market Michel Accad, MD

The main reason we are seemingly so accepting of lockdowns and vaccine mandates is that we have been conditioned to view a pandemic or an epidemic as a war being waged on our society. In wartime we...

The Political Animal: Aristotelian Metaphysics for Austrian Schoolmen

05/26/2021 Journal of Libertarian Studies Michel Accad, MD

ABSTRACT: This essay aims to introduce the Austrian community to the metaphysical principles of political life first discovered by Aristotle and subsequently clarified by Thomas Aquinas. I begin by...

The Great Barrington Declaration: A Few Words of Caution

10/14/2020 Mises Wire Michel Accad, MD

With the recently issued Great Barrington Declaration, the antilockdown movement has received a shot in the arm. The proposal, introduced by three prominent epidemiologists and scientists at a summit...

Media

Stanley Goldfarb on Taking CRT Out of the Exam Room

05/03/2022 Michel Accad, MD Anish Koka

Our guest is Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, author of the recently-released Take Two Aspirins and Call Me By My Pronouns, a book that details the intrusion of critical race theory and identity politics into medical education and medical practice.

Tracy Høeg on the Antiscience of School Closures

01/04/2022 Michel Accad, MD Anish Koka

Our guest is Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD, who has made remarkable research contributions pertaining to SARS-COV2 transmission in schools and to vaccine-related myocarditis.

That Bangladesh Mask Study!

12/01/2021 Michel Accad, MD Anish Koka

Our guest is Ben Recht, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, who recently got hold of and analyzed the raw data from the Bangladesh cluster randomized control trial of masking which made headlines in September.

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