Gerald Posner

The single fact that most shocked the Oxford Union when I debated there last June was this: Americans are just 5% of the world’s population… …but we pay for 75% of Big Pharma’s entire global profits. That’s why our drug prices are insane. @SecKennedy do something

@SwipeWright Proofreading must be another tool of colonial oppression and subjugation. Freedom through typos

Apparently the concept of proofreading is also an oppressive colonial construct.

Ebola just broke out again in Congo. 246 suspected cases. 65 dead. Here’s what most people don’t know: the name “Ebola” was chosen by exhausted doctors in Africa over bourbon, staring at a map — picking the nearest river to the outbreak village. They picked the wrong river. The map was imprecise. A disease that has killed thousands was named by accident. From my book PHARMA: “One night, over a couple of bottles of Kentucky bourbon, the medical team that had been dispatched to Africa decided they should name the new microbial killer. A French microbiologist from the Pasteur Institute suggested the Yambuku Virus, after the Congolese village it had wiped out. Others disagreed, saying that would forever stigmatize that village. That had happened before. In 1969 a virus struck Lassa, Nigeria. Later named the Lassa virus, it caused an exodus by many locals who mistakenly thought it was more likely to break out there than anywhere else. A CDC researcher suggested that if they named it after something like a local river, that would make it geographically generic. Everyone liked that. The obvious choice was the continent’s second-biggest river, the Congo, which snaked through the country. The problem was that a few years earlier a tick-borne viral disease had been designated Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. One of the doctors pulled a map from the wall and looked for the river that ran nearest to Yambuku. It was Ebola River, which in the local language meant ‘Black River.’ Only later did the doctors realize the map they had picked was not very precise; Ebola was not the river nearest to the infected village. In 2005, two British medical researchers caused an uproar by publishing a thesis that the fourteenth-century Black Plague that killed some 25 million Europeans was not a flea-borne bubonic disease but rather an early version of Ebola. It took researchers five years of DNA analysis to convincingly disprove that.”

RT @kdeutschjourno: Abetting this antizionist lawfare effort are the @MiamiHerald, @CBSMiami and @WPLG, all of which are whitewashing the a…

I had a great deep dive with @MooretoConsider on the JFK assassination - Ck the post below 👇 for the full YouTube link

@kumarchellappan 👍

@geraldposner pgurus.com/book-review-of…

@elonmusk That’s what’s worrying me ))

𝕏 is the mind of humanity

@christopherrufo @AdamWilday A great ending At great personal cost, @eithandhaimmd and @V_Sivadge set the standard for doing what was right

In 2023, Dr. Eitan Haim and nurse Vanessa Sivadge worked with me to blow the whistle on the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. The Biden Administration tried to imprison them. Now, Texas has fired the gender doctors and is building a detransition clinic.

There is a word for what is happening in Miami Beach. A sitting city commissioner spent $4,000 of his own money on billboard trucks during Art Basel, criticizing the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace. JVP's lawyers have now introduced those billboards as exhibits in federal court — and are arguing that the commissioner's personal political speech is direct evidence of unconstitutional animus in their civil rights case against the city. The word is lawfare. JVP, for the record, is not a humanitarian organization caught in the crossfire. It opposes Zionism, has hosted a convicted PFLP bomber, denied the October 7 atrocities, and was ordered earlier this year to pay $677,000 for defrauding CARES Act pandemic relief funds. None of that strips them of constitutional protections. It's America. But neither should a politician's decision to spend his own money on political speech become evidence of unconstitutional animus in a federal civil rights case. That principle, once normalized, will be turned against every political movement. Eventually against the left. Eventually against everyone. Miami Beach is a test case. The outcome matters far beyond South Florida. Read my full analysis 👇justthefacts.media/p/the-lawfare-…

@AbigailShrier 🎯

Anything families love is loathsome to the progressive Left.

@pennypeachpit @MaxBlumenthal I wrote about Max Blumenthal’s role in denying the truth about October 7 only a month after it happened justthefacts.media/p/denying-octo…

@geraldposner I think @MaxBlumenthal needs to weigh in. This X by Posner appears to be riddled with factual errors as well. The Israelis routinely rape prisoners, this is an established fact. Israeli society supports it.

BREAKING: Israel is suing The New York Times over Nicholas Kristof’s shoddy and error-filled opinion column alleging systematic rape and sexual torture of Palestinian prisoners by Israeli guards, soldiers, and settlers. Kristof’s piece — published May 11 — has been widely criticized by independent journalists and denounced by Israeli officials as a modern “blood libel.” Kristoff relied heavily on unverified claims from sources with documented Hamas sympathies and repeating graphic allegations (including much ridiculed claims about dogs trained for sexual abuse) without any rigorous corroboration. Little wonder the NYT ran it in the opinion section and not the news. Still, that does not absolve the paper's editors of a duty to fact check and vet such an inflammatory piece. As an investigative journalist, I’ve spent decades watching how stories get distorted. This one stands out for its timing and sourcing failures: it landed just before the release of a two-year Israel investigation about detailed evidence on Hamas’s own systematic sexual violence on Oct. 7, which the Times largely ignored. Israel’s government isn’t letting it slide. The Prime Minister’s Office and Foreign Ministry have now authorized a defamation lawsuit, calling Kristof’s column “one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press.” This is NOT just another media spat. It’s a major escalation: a sovereign democracy taking on one of the most influential legacy newspapers for its reckless, agenda-driven journalism. The New York Times is standing by the piece for now. We’ll see how this plays out in court. But the mere fact that Israel felt compelled to sue speaks volumes about the state of elite media coverage of the Jewish state. I am looking forward to litigation discovery to determine what was behind Kristof's 'reporting'

@GadSaad @cglassey_author The Bolsheviks would have loved social media

Bingo. In advertising, you are not allowed to target ads to young children because their minds are not yet fully developed to recognize the persuasive intent. BUT, you can parasitize their minds with "twerking drag queen" reading hour because transphobia.

@Olivia_Reingold Shameless

Tuesday: ask Mamdani's comms team—why does Rama Duwaji appear to have a Spotify account with songs about greedy Jews and how “Israel gon’ die bitch”? Any comment? Wednesday: the account is totally shut down, made private

@MegEBrock Such a good bit of advice

If you’re not having fun—you’re doing life wrong. Be serious about what you do, but don’t take yourself too seriously. Being a person who is actually fun to hang out with will bring more success in the long run than being cut throat and self-obsessed.

The best factoid on this day: the word “vaccine” was born. On this day in 1796, a British country doctor, Edward Jenner, used an 8-year-old boy in an experiment to prevent smallpox. Don’t get too upset about testing it on a child, Jenner included one of his own children in the early phase. Smallpox was a devastating disease that had a 30% death rate. Jenner’s scratched material from a woman’s cowpox sore (a mild skin infection that was usually contracted by milking infected cows) into the arm of the 8-year-old. The kid got mildly sick and recovered from the cowpox. Two months later, Jenner injected the child with smallpox and the boy did not get ill. Since he had used cowpox (vacca in Latin), Jenner merged that with the Latin Vaccinus for “of or from a cow) and dubbed the process “vaccination” A lot of people quickly were afraid of the side effects of receiving infectious material from cows and many opposed the basic concept on religious grounds, saying that they would not be treated with substances originating from God's “lowlier creatures.” Parliament banned it in 1840 before making it compulsory 13 years later. That led to widespread marches and vehement opposition from those demanding freedom of choice. Sort of sounds like today. As a side note, the WHO certified smallpox eradicated 184 years after Jenner’s test and all smallpox vaccine production ended in 1982. It also ended the ‘fake cures’ I write about in #PHARMA

@LevineJonathan @WomanFromAfrica 🎯

A list of animals Israel has been accused of "weaponizing" against Palestinians over the years Thread 🧵🧵

@WHENESOTA 😡

If Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens had a son, its Dan Bilzerian — the social media personality with over 29 million followers — who is running as a Republican for Florida’s 6th Congressional District. Just when I think nothing else can shock me about the explosion of anti-Israel / anti-Jewish hate, I see his vile rant. ✅“The only real battle in the world that is worth fighting for is fuc***g exterminating Israel.” ✅“I would sign up tomorrow and go put boots on the ground and f***ing kill Israelis. That would be a great day for me." ✅"I truly believe the majority of that country is evil...and they need to be wiped off the fucking map." As @trishaposner and I wrote in our Skeptic magazine article, “The New Normal for Antisemitism,” this kind of unhinged, eliminationist hate now faces virtually zero consequences. Instead, it’s turned into a brand, a grift, and a follower/money-making machine. Some will dismiss him as “fringe.” With 29+ million followers and a congressional campaign he’s mainstreamed in certain corners. This is how poison spreads — when open calls for the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state and its people are met with shrugs, likes, and campaign donations instead of universal condemnation.

@KonstantinKisin Compared to perfection

Utopia is not the standard. Reality is. Every civilisation has sins if you judge it by today’s moral standards. You can build an entire career doing nothing but listing them. That is easy. The harder question and the only one that matters is this: compared to actual, existing alternatives, who has done better? I am not claiming the West is perfect. It is not. No society is. But if you are honest about measurable progress on rights, equality, and self-correction, it is still ahead of every other major system in the world today. So stop asking "is it perfect?" That is a childish question. Ask: "compared to what?"

@christopherrufo @pmarca Sick

Gavin Newsom spent $189 million to give every state prison inmate a free iPad. Child predator Nathaniel Diaz allegedly used it to stalk, control, and exploit a minor on the outside. In the name of "digital equity," Newsom gave convicted pedophiles a new way to commit crimes.