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Beware of totalitarian control of scientific and medical thought here in America. Prominent academic publications, medical organizations and even some state legislatures are trying to silence scientific disagreements about COVID-19. That will kill medical progress. On Friday, Anthony Fauci, the face of the federal government's COVID response, urged graduates at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island to stand up against disinformation and "the normalization of untruths" about COVID-19. Let's hope graduates were too busy tossing their mortar boards skyward to heed Fauci's dangerous advice. It's dangerous because there is no such thing as scientific certainty about COVID-19 or any other...

A stark difference between the approach of President Trump and the newly radicalized Democratic Party is revealed by the issue of mandatory face masks. The “mask police” mentality of the Dems is inciting an Orwellian society of snitches and bullies. Democrats are now insisting that everyone be required to wear masks and that anyone seen not wearing a mask be reported to the authorities. This is despite leading liberal television commentators, including Chris Cuomo of CNN, being spotted outside without masks while they were being quarantined for COVID-19. The wearing of masks in public places causes harm beyond COVID, which...