Muriel Blaive, PhD

@MurielBlaivePhD

Historian of 20th-21st century Czech Republic dabbling in the biopolitics of Covid. Allergic to self-satisfaction and smug superiority. I critique all sides.

Vienna, Austria

murielblaive.substack.com/publish/posts

Joined July 2009

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Muriel Blaive, PhD
@MurielBlaivePhD
Apr 7, 2025
Here is a better link to download my book for free, thanks to the Austrian Research Agency: library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.…
Muriel Blaive, PhD
@MurielBlaivePhD
Feb 18, 2025
My book has finally come out! Courtesy of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), it is in open access and can be freely downloaded with the link provided under. Help yourselves! Thank you @CEUPress, @LindaKunos, and @tonyeditorial. The friends, colleagues, and discussion partners I
Muriel Blaive, PhD
@MurielBlaivePhD
10h
Excellent as always.
Ian Miller
@ianmSC
22h
Vinay Prasad makes an extremely important point. Fauci’s diary shows he knew that the Covid vaccines did not stop transmission or infection, yet he and Biden still pushed mandates and passports anyway, including on kids Completely indefensible
Chief Nerd
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Muriel Blaive, PhD
@MurielBlaivePhD
13h
Yet another...
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@Dr_Tad
19h
It looks like Tamiflu is going to be the next example of a medical reversal (when a widely used treatment is finally subjected to proper clinical trials & found to be ineffective or even dangerous).
Muriel Blaive, PhD
@MurielBlaivePhD
22h
Excellent piece that retraces the whole story quite convincingly. Fauci's plan A (the lab leak would pass off as a bad flu season) got unexpectedly thwarted by the show of force on the part of the Chinese authorities, which rendered the virus anything but invisible. So he
What Did Fauci Mean by “Game On?”
From brownstone.org
Muriel Blaive, PhD
@MurielBlaivePhD
Aug 19
Not sure what JK Rowling is talking about here, but it works very well with the Covid response, lol 😜
J.K. Rowling
@jk_rowling
Aug 18
The more nonsensical and obviously absurd a belief is, the more people who hold it (or pretend to) will resist recanting. The potential for humiliation rises in direct proportion to the ridiculousness of what they've publicly swallowed. They see no choice but to double down.