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5 Reasons Pfizer’s Reply to President Trump Is...

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2025/09/16

5 Reasons Pfizer’s Reply to President Trump Is Complete Rubbish by Clayton J. Baker, MD at Brownstone Institute On September 1, 2025, on Truth Social, President Trump posted a demand for transparency. Specifically, he called for public release of the data he has received from pharmaceutical companies regarding the modified-mRNA-based Covid injections, calling out Pfizer specifically. He wrote: It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many

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The Spirit of Pioneering

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2025/09/15

The Spirit of Pioneering by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book,Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] Of all the chapters in Eric Sloane’s book, his fifth chapter on pioneering is the most melancholy. He reflects on the hardships of life in the 18th and 19th centuries, the strange and spectacular ways people unrooted themselves to travel for months on end to find new homes in uncharted land and make new homes for

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Germophobia Doesn’t Pay, But It Does Sell

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2025/09/15

Germophobia Doesn’t Pay, But It Does Sell by Steve Templeton at Brownstone Institute The following is an excerpt from Steve Templeton’s book,Fear of a Microbial Planet: How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe. As I discussed in the first two chapters, much of what germophobes do has little effect on their ability to avoid getting sick and might even be counterproductive. Studies of antimicrobial products have shown they don’t provide any advantage over soap and water. The

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The Spirit of Thankfulness

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2025/09/14

The Spirit of Thankfulnessby Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book,Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] It’s no longer fashionable to pray before meals, especially with guests around. Don’t want to offend anyone, invoke a god someone else rejects, or otherwise be seen as old-fashioned or superstitious. I get it, and I too feel the sense that we should all just sit down and start eating. But you know what? No matter how

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Former CDC Director Believes in ‘Early Spread’

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2025/09/13

Former CDC Director Believes in ‘Early Spread’ by Bill Rice at Brownstone Institute Dr. Robert Redfield became more candid after he was CDC director. Note: this article was originally published in June 2024. In a recent interview with Chris Cuomo, former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield made several eye-opening comments about the government’s Covid response and “vaccines.” However, what stood out to me (and has generated scant coverage) were Redfield’s views that the novel coronavirus was

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The CDC Needed a Thorough Housecleaning

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2025/09/12

The CDC Needed a Thorough Housecleaning by Joseph Varon at Brownstone Institute For 715 consecutive days — every single day — I put on full protective gear in the ICU at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center, fighting Covid-19 on the frontlines. I never took a day off, because when lives hang in the balance, doctors don’t get the luxury of excuses. We act. We fight. We serve. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was created to serve with that same urgency — to protect Americans from

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Toby Rogers’ Statement to the Permanent Subcommittee...

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2025/09/12

Toby Rogers’ Statement to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations by Toby Rogers at Brownstone Institute Good afternoon, Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member Blumenthal, and members of the Permanent Subcommittee: On July 4, 2015, my then-partner’s son was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. I was in a Ph.D. program in Political Economy at the University of Sydney where I had access to almost all current scientific and medical journals. I wanted to better understand what was

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“Safe and Effective” Is Not Rooted in Science

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2025/09/11

“Safe and Effective” Is Not Rooted in Science by Jennifer Smith at Brownstone Institute "Toxic and Effective” Does Not Make for a Snappy Marketing Slogan Over the last 4+ years, we have heard the slogan “safe and effective” ad nauseum in relation to vaccines — repeated by health agencies, media, and pharmaceutical companies. But what does "safe" really mean? This post isn’t about fear. It’s about precision. The word “safe” is not scientific, especially when evaluating the effects

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Pharma’s Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card

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2025/09/11

Pharma’s Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card by Yaakov Ophir at Brownstone Institute “I’m approaching this as a doctor, not as a senator… I applaud you [Secretary Kennedy] for joining the president in a call for radical transparency…I believe it that President Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed. If he had been President Obama, he would have gotten it. But because of Operation Warp Speed, forcing the federal government to come to a vaccine development within 10 months when others said it

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Charlie Kirk: May He Rest in Peace

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2025/09/10

Charlie Kirk: May He Rest in Peace by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute Charlie Kirk had a gift for embracing his critics, for refuting their arguments, for harnessing their hatred. He loved debate and he loved ideas. He believed in discussion and openness, and urged this country to open it up so that everyone had a place, not just those who agreed with codified claims of mainstream media. Kirk ran a nationwide debating society, building it from its founding to a huge national

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AI, Inevitability, and Human Sovereignty

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2025/09/10

AI, Inevitability, and Human Sovereignty by Josh Stylman at Brownstone Institute I didn't want to feed my soul into a machine. That was my first instinct when AI tools started appearing everywhere - not concern about jobs or privacy, but something deeper. These tools promise to make us smarter while systematically making us more dependent. After decades of working in the internet industry, I'd already watched it transform into something more insidious than just a surveillance machine - a system

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The Spirit of Work

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2025/09/10

The Spirit of Work by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book,Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] “I’m not straightening ties for $4.50 an hour.” Those immortal words are still with me. They were uttered to me in private when I worked at a men’s store when I was 17. It was from a coworker. The boss had just walked by and suggested that so long as there were no customers in the store, we should get busy making the products

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Has the Political Risk-Benefit Analysis on Vaccines...

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2025/09/09

Has the Political Risk-Benefit Analysis on Vaccines Changed? by Bill Rice at Brownstone Institute Every significant decision comes down to a cost-benefit analysis. For almost 6 years, politicians concluded the risk of questioning the “vaccines” was greater than any benefit from going against Big Pharma and the Deep State. But this risk-benefit calculation could change faster than most might think. As I write, the Internet is abuzz because President Trump just made one of the most eye-opening

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Savages in the Senate: Kennedy Ambushed in a Game of...

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2025/09/09

Savages in the Senate: Kennedy Ambushed in a Game of Dirty Politics by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute Last Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr entered, the Senate Finance Committee hearing knowing what to expect. Democrats had declared war before he’d even sat down. On the eve of his testimony, they issued a “report card”cataloguingevery alleged misstep during his 203 days as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). From his shake-up at the CDC to the fact that he once wore jeans on

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Response to Save HHS Letter: In Defense of Secretary...

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2025/09/08

Response to Save HHS Letter: In Defense of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. by Jennifer Smith at Brownstone Institute I respectfully disagree with the Save HHS letter calling for Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s resignation. While concerns have been raised about recent developments at the Department of Health and Human Services, these must be balanced against the urgent need for bold reform and restoration of public trust in health institutions. For decades, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has stood at

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The Only Medical Specialty That Survives on Lies

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2025/09/08

The Only Medical Specialty That Survives on Lies by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute I am a specialist in internal medicine and have a keen interest in statistics and research methodology.1 My general approach to science has led to publications in many different areas because people came to me when they suspected something fishy in their specialty.1 In 2007, midwife Margrethe Nielsen from the Danish Consumer Council wanted to find out if history was repeating itself. I offered her a

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Are Pregnant Women Being Told the Truth about...

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2025/09/07

Are Pregnant Women Being Told the Truth about Antidepressants? by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute Across the world, thousands of pregnant women are being prescribed antidepressants. Yet few are warned about the potential harms to their unborn babies. That concern came to the forefront at a 2-hourexpert panelconvened last month by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), moderated by Dr Tracy Beth Høeg, the agency’s senior adviser for clinical sciences. A lineup of doctors,

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Six Americans Died from Covid in January 2020

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2025/09/06

Six Americans Died from Covid in January 2020 by Bill Rice at Brownstone Institute Except for the grace of God and for being a Covid patient before the Covid protocols were enacted, Tim McCain of my state could have been considered the world’s first victim of Covid-19. Author’s note: While I might be considered Substack’s “early spread” author, for some inexplicable reason (until today) I’ve neglected to present powerful evidence that might further confirm that this “theory” should actually be

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The Mercenaries of Science

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2025/09/05

The Mercenaries of Science by Toby Rogers at Brownstone Institute Last week, the New York Times published a bizarre “Guest Essay” on autism by Jessica Steier, a Pharma mercenary who has at least ten financial conflicts of interest and no background in autism research. I submitted a reply to the article to correct her disinformation, and the New York Times refused to publish it. Here are the facts for anyone who wants to read them: Jessica Steier runs a science-for-hire company, “Unbiased

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The Spirit of Frugality

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2025/09/05

The Spirit of Frugality by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book,Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] Did you ever hang out at the local dump and rummage through the stuff? I certainly did. My father took me there all the time. He loved digging through things and marveling at what people threw away. I swear he saw this trash as treasure. We never took any home, but he always explained his thinking at every step. I never

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