The Oddness of Dissidents

"We can be coerced, we can be manipulated. We can face pressures from all sides that make us feel like our a scope of choice is not what it was," he says. "But we cannot be forced to be other than what we want to be in our souls." He adds: 'It's very sad to me when i hear people who have been hurt by what happened over the last couple of years'

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Bret speaks with Dr. Julie Ponesse who saw her academic career of 20 years fall apart after she refused to comply with a Canadian university's COVID vaccine mandate.

Dr. Julie Ponesse has a PhD in Philosophy with areas of specialization in ethics and ancient philosophy, a Masters in Philosophy with Collaborative Specialization in Bioethics from the University of Toronto, and a Diploma in Ethics from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.

Since then, Dr. Ponesse has joined The Democracy Fund as the Pandemic Ethics Scholar focussing on educating the public on civil liberties and has recently released her new book My Choice: The Ethics Case Against Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates.

References:

Julie’s short video on the ethics of vaccine mandates: https://youtu.be/8uVHeZg9oz0

Website: https://www.thedemocracyfund.ca/julie_ponesse

Book: https://www.mychoicebook.ca/

Twitter: @DrJuliePonesse

Instagram: @drjulieponesse

Facebook: @DrJuliePonesse

YouTube: The Democracy Fund channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZGkldeQOAM6nX4hTlz_79A

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Welcome

(01:35) Julie’s background

(06:12) Approach to teaching

(09:03) Parallel to Evergreen

(12:51) Lack of non-compliance against mandates in academia