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Discussion on Covid Vaccination Should Be...

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2025/11/01

Discussion on Covid Vaccination Should Be Non-Controversial by David Bell at Brownstone Institute The Seduction of New Revelations People always seem to need something new, or at least those who consider it important to educate the public think this. Hence, we replace great children’s stories, remake movies, and desperately seek to excite people with something that seems more ‘now.’ Fashions change sometimes for good reasons, and knowledge does expand, but the danger in all this is forgetting

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What I Told Jerome Powell: Don’t Cut Rates

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2025/10/31

What I Told Jerome Powell: Don’t Cut Rates by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute We recently chanced to importune our Fed Chairman at a cocktail party in NYC. Our message to Jay Powell was that there are multiple reasons to stop cutting interest rates, but in light of the current government shutdown, one of the most compelling arguments is that the Fed’s cheap money policies have essentially destroyed any semblance of fiscal discipline in America. Specifically, we reminded him that real

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To Bear Witness after Institutional Betrayal

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2025/10/31

To Bear Witness after Institutional Betrayal by Trish Dennis at Brownstone Institute In 2020, the world I thought I knew fell away. Nothing in my life prepared me for what unfolded from March 2020 onwards. It was a rupture that left me reeling, stunned, and disoriented. I felt reborn into a world I barely recognised, one where governments and trusted institutions turned on their own people. I had always believed that, for the most part, the medical profession and public health agencies acted in

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Did President Donald Trump’s Physician Provide a Full...

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2025/10/30

Did President Donald Trump’s Physician Provide a Full Safety/Efficacy Disclosure on mRNA Covid-19 Shots? by David Gortler, Pharm. D at Brownstone Institute On Oct. 10, Trump’s physician, Dr. Sean P. Barbabella, announced that after conducting a battery of tests, he found that our president “remains in exceptional health” and that he had received “immunizations, including annual influenza and updated Covid-19 booster vaccinations.” It’s likely the president received a Pfizer mRNA shot. Listening

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The Rise and Fall of Wikipedia

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2025/10/30

The Rise and Fall of Wikipedia by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute The year was 2001 and the dot-com bust was in the rearview mirror. New ideas were in circulation among young and visionary entrepreneurs. Sure, pets.com failed and so many others but that was a temporary boom-bust. The Internet will change everything eventually, we were told. Technology, decentralization, crowd sourcing, and digital spontaneity will create an information landscape without gatekeepers. Everything will

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Universal Basic Income: Make Slavery Great Again

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2025/10/29

Universal Basic Income: Make Slavery Great Again by David Bell at Brownstone Institute The Evil of Aimlessness I once worked in communities supported mainly through a form of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Most money was received from the government for no (or token) work, or from mining royalties, where others worked digging on the communities’ lands. There were walls black and heaving with cockroaches while children slept with dogs on stained mattresses below, and babies covered head to toe in

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Connecting the Dots between the WHO and UN Security...

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2025/10/29

Connecting the Dots between the WHO and UN Security Council Reform by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute The Indian-origin parable of the six blind men describing an elephant spread to many cultures and civilisations centuries ago and is therefore a widely-known story. Upon first encountering an elephant, the men who had heard about but not actually come across it, each person projects from the particular part of the animal he explored by touch to offer a generalised description of the whole

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The Perverse Incentives in the US Healthcare System

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2025/10/28

The Perverse Incentives in the US Healthcare System by Russ Gonnering at Brownstone Institute Donald Berwick, one of the giants in the field of Medical Quality Improvement, is often credited with popularizing the phrase, “Every system is perfectly designed for the results it gets.” I am indebted to Anna Reich for exploring the history of this saying. As it turns out, as usual, the history is a bit more “complex” and is a distillation of the ideas of multiple people. This truism should not really

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To Reclaim Our Nature

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2025/10/28

To Reclaim Our Nature by Rev. John F. Naugle at Brownstone Institute On May 8th, the pastor and I gathered in the living room of our rectory to await the announcement of a new pope. After what seemed like forever, the cardinal protodeacon announced the words we had been waiting for: Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum; habemus papam: Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum Robertum Franciscum, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem Prevost, qui sibi nomen imposuit Leonem Decimum

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FDA’s Bizarre Decisions about Nicotine Pouches Lead...

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2025/10/27

FDA’s Bizarre Decisions about Nicotine Pouches Lead to the Wrong Products on Shelves by Roger Bate at Brownstone Institute A walk through a dozen convenience stores in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, says a lot about how US nicotine policy actually works. Only about one in eight nicotine-pouch products for sale is legal. The rest are unauthorized—but they’re not all the same. Some are brightly branded, with uncertain ingredients, not approved by any Western regulator, and clearly aimed at impulse

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The Hidden Cost of Mental Health Parity

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2025/10/27

The Hidden Cost of Mental Health Parity by Randall Bock at Brownstone Institute Washington is locked in another shutdown standoff over two Democrat demands Republicans will not accept: continued Affordable Care Act subsidies and (separately but related) federal healthcare benefits for illegal immigrants. Those fights are real, but they miss the larger cost driver. ACA subsidies alone amount to only about half of what the nation would save if we returned to pre-1990 levels of mental health

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The Covid Re-Review Project: All Models Are Wrong,...

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2025/10/26

The Covid Re-Review Project: All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Dangerousby Tomas Fürst at Brownstone Institute I welcome Eyal Shahar’s call for a re-review of Covid vaccine papers. In fact, I started long before Eyal blew the whistle — even before the vaccines appeared. At the end of the terrible year 2020, a highly influential paper appeared in Science. It made headlines in major media outlets around the world. The paper, titled “Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against

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Don’t Bail out Soybeans

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2025/10/25

Don’t Bail out Soybeans by Joel Salatin at Brownstone Institute Question: What does a business do when nobody wants its product or services? Answer: It asks for the federal government to bail it out and pay for a product nobody wants. If this sounds silly to you, consider what’s going on with America’s soybean farmers who lost a quarter of their market when China decided to switch sourcing to Brazil and Argentina in the last couple of months. As a farmer myself, my heart breaks for the

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The Triumph of DIY

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2025/10/24

The Triumph of DIY by Eric Hussey at Brownstone Institute A local headline brought a tear to my eye recently. The warehouse that had been the home of Tormino’s Sash and Glass for decades - a couple of generations - burned in a big fire. Destroyed. The warehouse was no longer in use, had a chainlink fence around it to keep intruders out, and still, the thought is that some variety of homeless people probably are responsible for the fire. The building was scheduled to be demolished, so the major

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Does France Have Independent Media?

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2025/10/24

Does France Have Independent Media? by Renaud Beauchard at Brownstone Institute In a recent appearance on France Inter's morning show—France's rough equivalent to CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper or MSNBC's Morning Joe—American progressive thinker Yascha Mounk found himself in the awkward spot of fact-checking two prominent guests over wild distortions of US conservative figure Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination. Fellow panelist Amy Greene, a Franco-American tied to the unabashedly

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Awais Aftab: A Skilled and Dangerous Psychiatrist...

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2025/10/23

Awais Aftab: A Skilled and Dangerous Psychiatrist Manipulator by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute Some psychiatrists are highly skilled manipulators and therefore dangerous for their patients, as I shall explain below. This applies to Awais Aftab from Cleveland, Ohio. According to Robert Whitaker, Aftab has staked out a position as being open-minded to critiques of psychiatry, which is a public stance that makes him particularly valuable to his profession. He can serve as a defender of

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FDA’s War on Commonsense Nicotine Regulation

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2025/10/23

FDA’s War on Commonsense Nicotine Regulation by Roger Bate at Brownstone Institute Cigarettes kill nearly half a million Americans each year. Everyone knows it, including the Food and Drug Administration. Yet while the most lethal nicotine product remains on sale in every gas station, the FDA continues to block or delay far safer alternatives. Nicotine pouches—small, smokeless packets tucked under the lip—deliver nicotine without burning tobacco. They eliminate the tar, carbon monoxide, and

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Is the Extensive US Vaccine Schedule Harmful?

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2025/10/22

Is the Extensive US Vaccine Schedule Harmful? by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute The US childhood vaccination programme is huge, 68 vaccine doses targeting 18 different diseases versus only 17 vaccine doses for 10 diseases in Denmark.1 It is unknown if the net effect of so many vaccinations is beneficial, and in August 2025, two physicians launched a federal lawsuit2 against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for failing to study the cumulative effects of its

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Smoke, Mirrors, and the Pfizer Deal

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2025/10/22

Smoke, Mirrors, and the Pfizer Deal by Mollie Engelhart at Brownstone Institute I am a mother. I have never been vaccinated myself. I believe deeply in informed consent. And I want to say clearly that I am hopeful about Bobby’s leadership at HHS. I want to believe that he can bring real transparency and accountability to a government that has too often cozied up to the corporations it is supposed to regulate. But when I read the headlines about Trump’s “landmark” deal with Pfizer, I don’t feel

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What Is the State and Who Controls It?

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2025/10/21

What Is the State and Who Controls It? by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute What is the state, from whence does it come, and who controls it? One might suppose these questions have obvious answers. In reality the answer is elusive, not easily identified even by those who are part of the system. Trump found this out in his first term. He naturally assumed that the president would be in charge, at least as regards the executive branch. He found out otherwise when the agencies worked

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