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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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The Perverse Nature of the Medical Profession

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2025/09/04

The Perverse Nature of the Medical Profession by Gigi Foster at Brownstone Institute The natural business model of an army is to fight enemies, so any large army will find enemies to justify its existence. Similarly, the natural business model of a government bureaucracy is to solve problems of the population it “serves,” so a large bureaucracy should be expected to find or invent problems to justify its existence. In similar manners will a religion find or invent threats to our spirit or soul for

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My First Therapist

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2025/09/04

My First Therapist by Laura Delano at Brownstone Institute [This is chapter two from Laura Delano’s Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance (Viking, 2025). Brownstone Institute is grateful for permission to reprint.] Not long after that argument about Maine, my parents brought me to my first therapist. Her name was Emma, and they told me that she worked with families and would be helping us. She happened to live half a mile up the street, but the three of us drove to her home

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J. Crew-Anon and the Mainstreaming of Dissent

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2025/09/03

J. Crew-Anon and the Mainstreaming of Dissent by Cooper Davis at Brownstone Institute During a recent family vacation over lobster, I watched my “vote blue no matter who” aunt, herself a paragon of New England liberal sensibilities from a leafy suburb outside Boston, argue with her Fox News–watching, burn-it-all-down brother about recent goings-on at HHS. “Just because Fauci lied about Covid,” she said, “doesn’t mean all science is fake; there’s something worth saving here.” Meet J.Crew-Anon:

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Please Show Us the Trials

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2025/09/03

Please Show Us the Trials by Eyal Shahar at Brownstone Institute In a recently published study, researchers from the Czech Republic report a rare, national-level analysis of Covid vaccines and all-cause mortality. Anyone with a critical mind should at least read the exemplary summary by Tomas Fürst on Brownstone and carefully study the figure. Toward the end of the Brownstone article, Fürst writes: “Yet, in the Mirror of Erised above, you can see that the vaccine may appear to be 80%

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The Mirror

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2025/09/02

The Mirror by Laura Delano at Brownstone Institute [This is chapter one from Laura Delano’s Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance (Viking, 2025). Brownstone Institute is grateful for permission to reprint.] It happened in front of the mirror as I brushed my teeth one Thursday evening. The year was 1996, and I was thirteen. Outside, the trees were thick and verdant, still weeks away from morphing into the polychromatic splendor of fall. Eighth grade had just begun, which meant

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Silence and Sovereignty

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2025/09/02

Silence and Sovereignty by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute When persecuting his domestic political opponents, Mussolini frequently did so in what by today’s dictatorial standards was a surprising, genteel manner. He would send them to live in remote villages far from their homes, often in the poverty-stricken center and south of Italy. There, while constrained by daily check-ins with the police, and a mostly enforced ban on leaving the village, they were—depending on the humors of the

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Schools Make Kids Crazy

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2025/09/01

Schools Make Kids Crazy by James Bovard at Brownstone Institute Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will ravage many students and is a warning shot to parents across the nation. Manhattan Institute fellow

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The Dauntless Dane Exposes the Dark Side of HPV Vaccines

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2025/09/01

The Dauntless Dane Exposes the Dark Side of HPV Vaccines by Alan Cassels at Brownstone Institute [Book review of How Merck and Drug Regulators Hid Serious Harms of the HPV Vaccine by Dr. Peter Gøtzsche (Skyhorse, 2025)] Over 30 years of studying and writing about drug policy, and documenting the fascinating machinations of regulators, drug companies, medical experts, and corporate spokespeople, I have often found myself staring into the dark hole of epistemology, the branch of philosophy

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Michael Crichton’s Unheeded Warning of Biotechnology...

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2025/08/31

Michael Crichton’s Unheeded Warning of Biotechnology Catastropheby Bruce W. Davidson at Brownstone Institute With over 30,000 reader reviews on Amazon, Michael Crichton’s bestselling sci-fi novel Jurassic Park (first published in 1990) has become a cultural sensation, spawning a series of successful movies, one of which is in cinemas in Japan as I write. Yet despite this dino-disaster movie popularity, most people have failed to heed the warning Crichton makes clear in many of his novels about

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Psychiatrists Deny the Harm of Antidepressants for...

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2025/08/30

Psychiatrists Deny the Harm of Antidepressants for the Fetus by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute On 23 August 2025, award-winning science journalist Robert Whitaker, founder of the evidence-based Mad in America website, published a very important article: ”Not even the unborn are safe from psychiatric harm: Medical organizations and the media dismiss the large body of research telling of fetal harm from exposure to antidepressants during pregnancy.” I summarize here Bob’s detailed

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Enough Is Enough: What a CDC Resignation Letter Reveals

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2025/08/29

Enough Is Enough: What a CDC Resignation Letter Reveals by James Lyons-Weiler at Brownstone Institute When Demetre Daskalakis resigned as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at CDC, his letter to leadership carried a tone of finality and moral conviction. “Enough is enough,” he declared, explaining that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s leadership had made it impossible for him to continue. The letter has been praised as principled, but when read closely it

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The Mirror of Erised: The True Efficacy of Covid...

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2025/08/29

The Mirror of Erised: The True Efficacy of Covid Vaccines by Tomas Fürst at Brownstone Institute The 21st century is said to be the century of data. So, if Alice claims that Covid vaccines saved millions of lives but Bob says they killed millions, it should be really easy to decide who is right. Just get the data, right? We obtained the data for the Czech Republic. I still can’t believe we have it, but it is here. It is the official data obtained from a government agency through a FOIA request,

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