John Tierney
@JohnTierneyNYC
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Co-author of "The Power of Bad" and "Willpower," contributing editor to City Journal, and former science & Op-Ed columnist at the New York Times.
New York, NY
Joined October 2008
Nicholas Wade, one of the world's best science journalists, meticulously reviews the evidence for Covid's origin and concludes that a lab escape in Wuhan is the most likely explanation:
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In City Journal, I argue that the deadliest plague to hit America last year was the moral panic among the laptop class:
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Once activists achieve their goal, they stay in business by finding a new one -- even if it actually undoes the progress toward toward the original goal. Virtually every "crisis" today is an example of what's known as the March of Dimes Syndrome.
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While pundits kept saying it was too close to call, an informal network on X of mostly unpaid number-crunchers in October were already accurately predicting Trump's romp: The New Election Gurus
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After Facebook rated an article of mine "Partly False," I appealed the ruling -- and saw that its "fact-checkers" are actually fact-blockers. They're censors using Big Tobacco's old tactics to distort science and public policy.
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Greenpeace Admits It: Recycling Doesn’t Work | City Journal
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The WHO is the frontrunner for the Nobel Peace Prize, but it's hard to imagine a worse choice. (Okay, Vladimir Putin.) Give it to the true heroes of the pandemic -- in Sweden. My latest in City Journal:
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The response to Covid was the worst mistake in the history of the public-health profession, but the officials responsible are planning to do even worse next time: The WHO’s Power Grab
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My latest at City Journal: The candidates' actual records on authoritarianism contradict the media narrative:
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The CDC's new research shows the vaping epidemic had nothing to do with nicotine (it was all THC), confirming the agency's own deadly malpractice in scaring the public about ecigs:
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Contra "Barbie," there is no evil patriarchy oppressing women. I review the evidence that both sexes are biased against men: The Misogyny Myth
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The New York Times obituary of my wonderful wife, Helen Fisher. A lovely tribute to her life and work.
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Social distancing and masks hinder learning while hurting children emotionally, socially, and physically, all for no purpose excepting providing false comfort to adults who should know better.
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My piece on the new push to bring back Covid masks, and on further evidence of their harms and their failure to make a difference in Covid infections or mortality. No Masks, Please, We’re Rational
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How the irrational green campaign against plastic is harming the environment -- and why it continues anyway. My piece in City Journal:
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Who poses the most threat to science, the Left or Right? My take in the Real War on Science:
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Let us now praise the Throwaway Society. My piece in City Journal on why disposable products are good for both humanity and the planet:
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To keep fear alive, the public-health establishment misleads Americans about the current risk of Covid -- and ignores the evidence of its own mistakes, like mask mandates for schoolchildren. My latest in City Journal:
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Still no proof that lockdowns save lives, but lots of evidence that they end them: many more deaths (not from Covid) than normal among the young and middle-aged, minorities and low-income workers.
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Covid mask poetry: . I will not wear it on my face. I will not wear it any place. I will not wear it to get in. I will not wear it on my chin. I will not wear it on my ear. I will not wear it out of fear. I will not wear your stupid mask. I will not wear it. DO NOT ASK.
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President Obama Tells Graduates to Embrace Free Speech while his Education Dept tightens censorship
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Why is socialism so damned attractive? It's an unfortunate primitive evolutionary hold over.
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My op-ed in the Wall Street Journal: Unlearned AIDS Lessons for Covid by @JohnTierneyNYC via @WSJOpinion.
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Smoking rate hits all-time low but activists are trying to reverse the trend by fighting Juul, the e-cigarette that's decimating the tobacco industry. My City Journal piece:
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Anecdotes of sexism get attention, but hundreds of studies produce more accurate story: Academic Science Isn’t Sexist http://t.co/pv4iPZOzwR.
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At last, science explains the sex appeal of Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Bennet. My NYT science column: http://t.co/KmsbeDrtpf.
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If California’s rate of excess mortality equaled Florida’s, 5,000 fewer Californians would have died during the pandemic. And if California’s unemployment rate equaled Florida’s last year, 500,000 fewer Californians would have been out of work.
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My latest on Covid, in WSJ: Fauci and Walensky Double Down on Failure by @JohnTierneyNYC via @WSJ.
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If you've been vaccinated and are still worried about Covid, please read this:
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The strongest evidence yet that masks don't work, but the CDC still peddles junk science
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Devastating critique of much-quoted study warning of serial rapists on campus. Data wasn't even ABOUT campus rape. http://t.co/mLFNLMveko.
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If you thought college journalism couldn't get any more inanely PC, see Georgetown editorial denouncing free speech: http://t.co/KW1PCPln2D.
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Christina Hoff Sommers: How to make feminism great again
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Appaling example of Left's war on science:.@RogerPielkeJr: My unhappy life as a climate heretic via @WSJ.
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COMMENT: The war on Covid should be over - We do not need lockdowns
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John Stossel in Reason: Activists Profiting Off Panic Are Wrong. The World Is Getting Better. via @reason.
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Dear attorneys general, conspiring against free speech is a crime: Glenn Reynolds via @USATODAY.
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Smart piece on how current war on rape echoes logic of KKK lynch mobs protecting "delicate" white women: http://t.co/lLrmCvkk5e.
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1 small shirt for a man, 1 giant leap backward for women: Column http://t.co/TuU08zmNo4 via @USATODAY.
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A new memoir offers appalling revelations about the troika of bureaucrats who set Covid policy with scant attention to scientific research -- and zero concern for the disastrous effects of their edicts.
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Google's best engineers conclude renewable energy 'simply won't work" at stopping climate change: http://t.co/w8IZTLgoBN via @theregister.
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Another journalistic hoax: the NPR story that triggered the "rape culture" panic: http://t.co/j2IHseOOLO via @Chsommers.
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For anyone who still thinks that masks do any good, take a quick look at this simple graph comparing the trajectories of Covid in states with mask mandates versus states without mandates.
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Recycling is still garbage: an updated look at our obsession with sorting trash, in the NYT Sunday Review: http://t.co/BYBnr2XErW.
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My latest, on the senator who has consistently given better scientific guidance on Covid than Fauci, the CDC or the media: Rand Paul’s Lonely Battle | City Journal
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Efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: A Revi.
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A big win for science -- and a serious threat to the budgets of campus bureaucrats and censors:
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How Trump could make US airports great again without spending federal dollars. My piece in City Journal:
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"Freedom feminist" Christina Hoff Sommers defends video gamers from "gender feminists": http://t.co/I6OtDuT77V via @APGNation.
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My scientific advice in NYT for holiday shoppers: You don't have to try so hard. It's not the thought that counts.
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We're always told to just "be yourself" but how do you try not to try? My NYT column on the science of spontaneity: http://t.co/eSERgCxZaJ.
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Time and time again, we're told that certain ideas are "misinformation." Time and time again, those things turn out to be true. via @reason.
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Inspiring: Celebrities Spell Out 'We're All In This Together' With Their Yachts via @TheBabylonBee.
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Charlotte Allen in LA Times rates the Top 10 feminist fiascoes of 2014 http://t.co/8vFsvPOQQZ.
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How heterodox is your university? See how your school ranks with regard to free speech and viewpoint diversity.
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Raise a glass tonight to the substance that made civilization possible (and is still essential for large societies to flourish): alcohol. My review of a book by the superb scholar Edward Slingerland: "Drunk."
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Closing schools does practically nothing to save lives or stop the spread of Covid, according to a definitive study comparing hundreds of thousands of Swedish parents whose children either studied online or went to school (without masks):
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Who pressures women to be thin and chaste? Other women, not the media or men. My NYT column on female competition:. http://t.co/NuIb0QasSW.
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The Deep State's royal -- and unlawful -- powers. My WSJ Weekend Interview w Philip Hamburyger:
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Reusable grocery tote bags spread deadly viruses (like COVID-19) and bacteria because so few people wash them. Researchers have long warned that they're a hazard to public health. Another reason that plastic-bag bans make no sense:
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My review of Steven Pinker's new bestseller, a highly recommended paean to Enlightenment (read libertarian) values:
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When Feminist Ideology Trumps Science - Minding The Campus
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I talk to John Stossel in his video showing where the real threats to science are coming from -- and it's not from the Right:
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My piece in City Journal on a terrible new media trend:
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Superb piece by Don Boudreaux on what it takes to create wealth:
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Climate models run too hot: Nature Geoscience reports humanity has more time to avert dangerous man-made warming
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Teen smoking declines as vaping increases, but CDC and media hide good news in their bizarre campaign against ecigs: http://t.co/58DXnTtW9I.
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The deadliest school massacre in US history was in 1927. Why its aftermath matters now http://t.co/xGtIzGpU.
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The gender gap in prison sentencing, as explained by the Factual Feminist:
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The Moral Case for Reopening Schools—Without Masks | City Journal
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Yet another study, in NEJM, debunking the evils of salt, yet feds and American Heart Assoc. keep crusading http://t.co/PHFrUaCoCy via @WSJ.
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A Modest Proposal for Adam Falk, President of Williams College #RogersRules via @pjmedia_com.
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Emily Yoffe exposes campus injustices and the junk science of the "rape epidemic":. http://t.co/vjM8kN822t … via @slate.
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Why You Won’t Be the Person You Expect to Be. My NYT article on the "end of history illusion" you'll stay the same. http://t.co/SgEJFX58.
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Anti-Instagram Case Built on Hype, Not Science | City Journal
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Want a top college that promotes free speech & diverse ideas? Try U of Chicago or Princeton. Avoid Harvard & Yale.
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CDC too busy worrying about salt and e-cigarettes to do its job on Ebola: http://t.co/RVZhAopkIW via @usatoday.
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In The Atlantic: “Being able to hold your tongue rather than say something nasty or spiteful will do much more for your relationship than a good word or deed,” Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney write:
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My review in the WSJ of Michael Shellenerger's new book, "Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All":
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My proposal to honor the public servants who created the TSA -- name the lines after them:
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Where the "Highway to Nowhere" stands in Baltimore, there used to be a vibrant black neighborhood. http://t.co/PzNAUjFRrd.
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The lockdowns are the riskiest experiment ever performed, and studies show they've been ineffective. Now that their side effects appear much deadlier than the virus, there is no ethical justification for continuing this experiment.
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An entertaining video from John Stossel (including an interview with me) that explains just about every moral panic in the news:
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The Atlantic's profile of my brilliant wife: The love expert Helen Fisher brought science into online romance. @kait_tiffany catches up with her two decades later:
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We think we can read body language, but we (and the TSA) are terrible at spotting liars. My NYT science column: http://t.co/Rq4TsE7RCj.
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