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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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Follow the Scientism

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2025/08/28

Follow the Scientism by Aaron Kheriaty at Brownstone Institute The following was originallypublishedinHumanumand is reprinted here with permission. Because we would all prefer to forget the Covid crisis and move on, the following may have already faded from our collective memory. Only a few years ago, Australia rounded up citizens exposed to Covid, including asymptomatic people, and shipped them involuntarily to detention facilities against their will. Videos of

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Covid mRNA Vaccines Are Unregulated Military...

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2025/08/28

Covid mRNA Vaccines Are Unregulated Military Countermeasures by Debbie Lerman at Brownstone Institute mRNA Vaccines DID NOT UNDERGO a legally regulated drug approval or manufacturing process It is important to recognize that an EUA is not part of the development pathway; it is an entirely separate entity that is used only during emergency situations and is not part of the drug approval process. (2009 Institute of Medicine of the National Academies publication, p. 28) All mRNA products on the

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Did the CDC Mislead Its Advisers on the RSV Antibody...

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2025/08/27

Did the CDC Mislead Its Advisers on the RSV Antibody for Babies? by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute In June 2025, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine advisory panelmetfor the first time since being overhauled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy had promised that his new appointees would demand full transparency and scrutinise the evidence before making recommendations. He charged the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)

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Dr Reiner Fuellmich: A Persecuted Hero of the Resistance

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2025/08/27

Dr Reiner Fuellmich: A Persecuted Hero of the Resistance by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute On a flight back to South Africa from attending a conference in South Korea recently, I watched the gripping biographical film, Lee (2023; directed by Ellen Kuras), with Kate Winslet in the title role of Lee Miller, intrepid Vogue magazine photographer, who photographed some of the most harrowing scenes of the Second World War, and has been hailed for her courage to do so under life-threatening

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The Problem Is Solved by Art, Not Science

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2025/08/26

The Problem Is Solved by Art, Not Science by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute So much of what is considered science today is really just art. It’s a subjective interpretation of the meaning of data. Data does not speak for itself. It does not tell you cause and effect. It provides no predictive map for the future. It’s often incorrect or merely a proximate rendering of the full reality. Even the best and most experienced experts and invested stakeholders cannot overcome this

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Trump’s Art of the Deal Collides with Modi’s ‘India...

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2025/08/26

Trump’s Art of the Deal Collides with Modi’s ‘India First’ Policy by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute For the purposes of containing China’s influence and aggressive behaviour across the Indo-Pacific theatre, there is no more important partner for the US than India. And vice versa. Unfortunately, that strategic partnership is under threat from an explosive combination of American arrogance and unilateralism and Indian hubris and prickliness. There is no future in attempts to ground the

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How the American Academy of Pediatrics Betrayed...

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2025/08/25

How the American Academy of Pediatrics Betrayed Children Everywhere by Clayton J. Baker, MD at Brownstone Institute The prime directive of Western medicine, its golden rule, is expressed by the Latin maxim primum non nocere – first, do no harm. Unfortunately, the Covid era taught us that from the patient’s point of view, a better motto for our times might be caveat emptor – let the buyer beware. Every medical student is taught that, first and foremost, they should not cause harm to their

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Weaponized “Misinformation” to Bury Safety Concerns:...

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2025/08/25

Weaponized “Misinformation” to Bury Safety Concerns: The Case of RSV Monoclonal Antibodies by Yaffa Shir-Raz at Brownstone Institute A recent critique raises a number of claims regarding my article. This response addresses the substantive points directly, focusing solely on the evidence. When evaluating new interventions for healthy newborns, presenting the full safety record – including every death – is not optional; it is a fundamental obligation. This is always true, but in the

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