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To Share Weights from Neural Network Training Is...

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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

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A Hidden Post-Pandemic Decline of Female Health

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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

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The Meaning of the Semiquincentennial

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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

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

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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

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Global Governance vs. Democratic Sovereignty

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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™

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Consequentialism Discredited

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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

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New Designer DNA by the Wellcome Trust

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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

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The Boomer Mirage

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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

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A Small Book About Real Life

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2025/08/12

A Small Book About Real Life by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute I’ve never been as excited and nervous about a new book of mine. The reason is that I know for certain it will be read. It is 132 pages with gorgeous illustrations at each chapter that capture the theme. The prose is about communication first. Each chapter covers an animating spirit of the historical American ethos: respect, hard work, pioneering, gratitude, patience, faith, independence, forbearance, and so on. It’s not

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Your Spouse Started Antidepressants and Became a...

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2025/08/12

Your Spouse Started Antidepressants and Became a Stranger by Roger McFillin at Brownstone Institute "I don't know who this person is anymore," James told me, his voice cracking as he described his wife of fifteen years. "She started Zoloft eight months ago for some mild anxiety about work. Now she's rewritten our entire history together. According to her new narrative, I've been emotionally abusive for years. She's filed for divorce, moved in with some guy she met at a yoga retreat, and told our

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Seven Philosophical Criticisms of Evidence-Based...

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2025/08/11

Seven Philosophical Criticisms of Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence Hierarchies by Toby Rogers at Brownstone Institute Introduction In aprevious article, I presented ten practical and material criticisms of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). But there are even larger metaphysical, ontological, and epistemological problems with EBM. Numerous authors make the case that EBM and evidence hierarchies elide important debates in the philosophy of medicine. In this article I will review seven

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What Makes a Germophobe?

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2025/08/11

What Makes a Germophobe? 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. Germophobia, also known by the more clinical term, mysophobia, isn’t generally considered a condition all by itself. Instead, it’s usually associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. Germs just happen to be one thing that people on the OCD spectrum tend to obsess about and use to

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In Plain Sight

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2025/08/10

In Plain Sight by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Julie Ponesse's book,Our Last Innocent Moment.] One of the things we have learned over the last three years is just how much regulatory capture factored into the Covid response, how economics turned vaccine technology into an industrial profit machine. One crucial piece of evidence for this came from the Pfizer report, released last year by the FDA as part of a US court order, containing what Naomi Wolf

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The Moral Cost of Modern Transplant Medicine

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2025/08/09

The Moral Cost of Modern Transplant Medicine by Joseph Varon at Brownstone Institute In a time when trust in public health is already hanging by a thread, recent revelations from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have delivered another blow—one that strikes at the very heart of medical ethics. “Our findings show that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process to begin when patients showed signs of life, and this is horrifying,” Secretary Kennedy said. “The organ

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The Ninth Circuit Rules—Court-Sanctioned...

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2025/08/08

The Ninth Circuit Rules—Court-Sanctioned Authoritarianism? by Leslie Manookian at Brownstone Institute On July 31, 2025, the Ninth Circuit issued its ruling inHealth Freedom Defense Fund et al. v. Megan K. Reilly et al.,vacating the earlier ruling of a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit in favor of plaintiffs Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF), California Educators for Medical Freedom (CAEMF), and several individual plaintiffs. The reasoning of the court in its latest ruling, as represented

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What Autism Is

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2025/08/08

What Autism Is by Sinead Murphy at Brownstone Institute Imagine that we do not know what blindness is. Imagine that we describe people as blind very often, but that we do not know what blindness is. Imagine that blindness is increasing so that, in some districts, three in ten children are diagnosed as blind. But that we do not know what blindness is. Imagine that we can name many symptoms of blindness. Disinclination to shake hands. Tendency to fall over. Timidity of posture. Slowness of

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Embracing Ambiguity and Outliers in a VUCA World

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2025/08/07

Embracing Ambiguity and Outliers in a VUCA World by Russ Gonnering at Brownstone Institute We, especially those engaged in the health professions, need to stop the relentless attempts to normalize all data to fit the nice bell-shaped distribution that we assume is how the world works. Sometimes it does, but sometimes it doesn’t. We need to understand the words “It depends.” Two decades ago, I was a Six Sigma Blackbelt deeply immersed in the applications of statistical quality control to

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Reclaiming the Beauty of the Spheres

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2025/08/07

Reclaiming the Beauty of the Spheres by David Bell at Brownstone Institute Clever people are using computer programs to produce fake humans, say how great they are, and push them for money. They are designed to be sexually suggestive or work on other human desires for self-gratification, including that of child abuse, because that is how money can be made. There can be beauty in a picture, partly through the implied care a person took to capture or produce it. Beauty is not skin deep, and

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Why the Pesticide Liability Protection Act Threatens...

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2025/08/06

Why the Pesticide Liability Protection Act Threatens Our Food Supply and the Health of a Nation by Brooke Miller at Brownstone Institute As stewards of the land and providers of our nation's food supply, farmers and ranchers carry a profound moral obligation—to produce the safest, healthiest, and most nutritious food on the planet. It is not just our livelihood; it is our responsibility to future generations. That is why I am writing today with deep concern regarding the Pesticide Liability

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The Price of Speaking Truth

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2025/08/06

The Price of Speaking Truth by Trish Dennis at Brownstone Institute In April 2023,the Irish Timespublished a quietly devastating article under the headline: The doctor who questioned Ireland’s Covid policy and lost his job: ‘We destroyed young people’s lives for what?’ This article told the story of Dr. Martin Feeley, a man who had already lived an extraordinary life before becoming a reluctant public dissenter during one of the most charged periods in Irish history. A vascular surgeon by

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