PODCAST

Brownstone Institute

Daily Economics, Policy, Public Health, Society

All Episodes

Retsef and Malone Need Top-Secret Clearances for...

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/24

Retsef and Malone Need Top-Secret Clearances for Their Covid-19 Vaccine Review by Joe Murphy at Brownstone Institute ACIP cannot successfully do its Covid-19 vaccine review without access to Covid-19 origins intelligence. The same-day news that ACIP will investigate the Covid vaccines, paired with Emily Kopp’s expanded report on the cover-up of Covid origin intelligence, parallels the true linkage between origins and the vaccine issue. The drip-drip of origin leaks previously revealed the

en-US

Oxford Academic Says It’s Time to Start Paying People...

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/23

Oxford Academic Says It’s Time to Start Paying People to Take Vaccinesby Will Jones at Brownstone Institute [Note: this article was originally published in January 2024.] It’s time to start paying people to take vaccines to boost take-up. That’s according to Dr. Raymond Duch, an Oxford academic writing in the Financial Times. This is the lesson he’s taken from the Covid pandemic, apparently. Dr. Duch, a Director of the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences at Nuffield College, Oxford,

en-US

The Spirit of Respect

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/22

The Spirit of Respect by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker's book,Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] In 1973, as the bicentennial of the US approached, the great American essayist and illustrator Eric Sloane was commissioned to write a book commemorating what is great about America. He focused on what we once had and might be losing. He chose this theme because he was unique in understanding the American experience of the

en-US

ACIP Launches Sweeping Covid-19 Vaccine Review Under...

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/22

ACIP Launches Sweeping Covid-19 Vaccine Review Under Retsef Levi by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute MIT professor Retsef Levi has been an outspoken voice on the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) since its dramatic overhaul in June. He has pressed agency officials on uncomfortable questions,challengingthe narrow surveillance windows used to track harms and insisting that delayed effects could not simply be ruled out. He also raisedconcernsabout the safety of RSV monoclonal

en-US

The Art and Science of Storytelling

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/21

The Art and Science of Storytelling by Russ Gonnering at Brownstone Institute There was a boy named Joey… In the late 1970’s we were living in a wonderful lower duplex in a suburb of Milwaukee. We had become acquainted with a couple of about the same age, also with two children, also the same age as our two. The children got along fine, and we shared many great times together. A few years later, as our family grew, we moved a few miles away but kept up contact. Their older son, Joey, was

en-US

Beware Universal Mental Health Screening

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/21

Beware Universal Mental Health Screening by Cooper Davis at Brownstone Institute How would your child score on a common mental health screening? A mental health professional might view the results and conclude that your child has a mental health problem…that needs to be psychiatrically diagnosed and treated, even medicated. Will this help your child thrive? Or will it reshape their identity in undesirable ways? Will you be comfortable with your child taking medications that alter their

en-US

Same Excess Death Patterns in Multiple Data Sets...

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/20

Same Excess Death Patterns in Multiple Data Sets after mRNA Vaccine Rollouts by Debbie Lerman at Brownstone Institute This article is based on the painstaking and meticulous work of intrepid researcher andSubstack writer csofand. I will refer to him as “the researcher,” as he prefers to remain anonymous. I am also grateful for the assistance of citizen researcher/journalistBenjamin Marten, who generously shared his VAERS data queries and results with me. Why am I writing about excess

en-US

What ACIP Wasn’t Shown

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/20

What ACIP Wasn’t Shown by Yaffa Shir-Raz at Brownstone Institute In June 2025, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) held its first meeting under the new leadership appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The public expectation was clear: that this newly appointed committee would restore rigor, independence, and critical examination of evidence before recommending routine use of new pharmaceutical products. One of the most significant items on the agenda was

en-US

In Six Years, Have Any Healthy Alabama Students Died...

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/19

In Six Years, Have Any Healthy Alabama Students Died from Covid? by Bill Rice at Brownstone Institute The late Will Fowler overcame serious disabilities to become an honors student and band member at Cullman High School. This young man was the only named K-12 student in Alabama I can find who reportedly died “from Covid.” The lone source is a Facebook post made by his cousin, who said Will tested positive for Covid before his death in thesecond yearof Covid. I’m working on a story that will try

en-US

Geoengineering and Flights of Fancy

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/19

Geoengineering and Flights of Fancy by David Bell at Brownstone Institute Geoengineering in the form of modifying the weather happens. It can save decimation of farmer livelihoods by mitigating droughts, and it can risk the global food supply by reducing crop growth. Like nuclear fission, it’s useful in the hands of sane people working with the knowledge and assent of the wider community, or it has the potential to destroy much of what humankind has built if left in the hands of psychopaths. If we

en-US

From Fiat Everything to Real Everything

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/18

From Fiat Everything to Real Everything by Josh Stylman at Brownstone Institute The infrastructure is now visible to those willing to see it. The systematic replacement of natural systems with artificial ones has reached into every domain—money, food, health, education, information. What began as isolated changes has revealed itself as a coordinated operation: the complete substitution of reality with decree, ownership with access, competence with credentials. The mathematical engineering of

en-US

Is Modern Medicine a Sham?

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/18

Is Modern Medicine a Sham? by Bobbie Anne Flower Cox at Brownstone Institute We are living in a point in history where so many, if not all, of the foundational pillars of our society are being questioned. In some cases, those pillars are almost wholly being cast aside. Once the cornerstones of our American backbone, we are finding ourselves doubting it all as we ask ourselves and one another…Can the government truly bethatcorrupt? Are the courts actually compromised? Are major media outlets really

en-US

To Share Weights from Neural Network Training Is...

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/17

To Share Weights from Neural Network Training Is Dangerousby Jessica Rose at Brownstone Institute Some organizations and researchers are sharing neural network weights, particularly through the open-weight model movement. These include Meta's Llama series, Mistral's models, and DeepSeek's open-weight releases, which claim to democratize access to powerful AI. But doing so raises not only security concerns, but potentially an existential threat. For background, I have written a few articles on

en-US

A Hidden Post-Pandemic Decline of Female Health

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/16

A Hidden Post-Pandemic Decline of Female Health by Carla Peeters at Brownstone Institute As women used to live longer than men even during severe famines and epidemics, a continued post-pandemic increase in female mortality and disabilities can’t stay hidden or neglected. During the Covid pandemic in many High-Income Countries, injuries, disabilities, and all-cause mortality started to rise above expectations. In 2020, the gender gap in mortality widened due to an observed increased mortality in

en-US

The Meaning of the Semiquincentennial

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/15

The Meaning of the Semiquincentennial by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker's book, Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] The word semiquincentennial is not likely to catch on – it’s too hard to say –but it means the 250th anniversary. For the USA, that happens July 4, 2026, because we count our birthday from one of the most remarkable documents issued in the history of man: the Declaration of Independence. That alone is

en-US

The Creation of New ICD-10 Codes for Post-Covid...

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/15

The Creation of New ICD-10 Codes for Post-Covid Vaccine Syndrome by Christopher Dreisbach at Brownstone Institute "If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution." ― Steve Jobs Definitions matter. In almost any context, problems left undefined inevitably remain problems left unsolved. For this reason, healthcare professionals worldwide rely upon the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), a standardized system used to categorize and code

en-US

Global Governance vs. Democratic Sovereignty

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/14

Global Governance vs. Democratic Sovereignty by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute On 27 May 2022, Carl Bildt, the former prime minister (PM) of Sweden, wrote: ‘The pandemic offers important lessons for managing future challenges, particularly climate change', which ‘warrants urgent attention.’ In chapter 12 of Our Enemy, the Government, I described ten points that climate change and pandemic management policies have in common on their respective agendas: The claim to represent The Science™

en-US

Consequentialism Discredited

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/14

Consequentialism Discredited by Rev. John F. Naugle at Brownstone Institute Over five years since the dark nightmare of lockdowns and mandates began, we are still asking the most fundamental questions. How did all of this happen? How do we prevent it from happening again? Of course, we’ve gained much clarity in the intervening years. For example, we now know that what happened wasn’t really a public health response at all, but rather that our military and intelligence agencies were using

en-US

New Designer DNA by the Wellcome Trust

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/13

New Designer DNA by the Wellcome Trust by Jessica Rose at Brownstone Institute So the next level of ruining the human being has begun. According to a recent article in the BBC, some person at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology was given £10 million by the Wellcome Trust to start making new designer DNA. Because our DNA is such a crapshoot. What does God know anyway? If you didn’t know, the Wellcome Trust “frequently collaborates with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on global health

en-US

The Boomer Mirage

Brownstone Institute ·

2025/08/13

The Boomer Mirage by Josh Stylman at Brownstone Institute I sawthis chart making the rounds on Twitterthis week, and it stopped me cold. While the specific figures combine data from multiple sources, the trend is undeniable: in 1950, over half of 30-year-olds were married homeowners. By 2025, some analysts project that number as low as 13%. That's not a societal transformation. It's not an economic fluke. It's the visible outcome of an invisible strategy—one that extracted everything it could

en-US

1,060 results