Alex Gutentag

1 day ago | public.news | Michael Shellenberger |Alex Gutentag

Since the end of the Covid pandemic, officials, including former US health official Anthony Fauci, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and teachers’ union head Randi Weingarten, have denied that they played decisive roles in the closure of public schools and insisted that officials made the best decisions given what they knew at the time.

3 weeks ago | public.news | Alex Gutentag

Americans’ health outcomes have been worsening over the last thirty years. This has happened despite hundreds of billions of dollars in annual government spending. US life expectancy has fallen compared to peer nations. Our public health and medical institutions are clearly not operating effectively. And much of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding is useless, ideologically motivated, or both.

1 month ago | public.news | Alex Gutentag

Over the last few weeks, the media and Democrats have been lambasting President Donald Trump for cutting the Department of Education’s research budget. In particular, the media criticized the Trump administration for cutting a contractor’s research into support services for students with disabilities who are nearing graduation.

2 months ago | public.news | Alex Gutentag

Last year, a whistleblower gave us a trove of leaked internal communications from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). They showed that the organization was violating basic medical ethics and knowingly causing harm to patients.

2 months ago | public.news | Alex Gutentag

For hundreds of years, the idea of individual responsibility has been foundational in Western civilization in general and the United States in particular. In a court of law and the court of public opinion, you as an individual are responsible for what you have done; you are not responsible for what other people, dead or alive, have done.