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Requiem for the Cochrane Collaboration

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2025/07/18

Requiem for the Cochrane Collaboration by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute The Cochrane Collaboration publishes systematic reviews of healthcare interventions. This once magnificent organisation has now reached a point of no return from which it will disappear into oblivion because of excessive bureaucracy, protection of guild and financial interests, inefficiency, incompetence, censorship, and political expediency.1 This is a great shame because Cochrane was very much needed. On Sir

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: Why Do Researchers Keep...

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2025/07/17

Antidepressant Withdrawal: Why Do Researchers Keep Downplaying It? by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute When a majorstudyappears inJAMA Psychiatry—a high-profile journal that shapes headlines and clinical decisions—its findings carry weight. So when Kalfas and colleagues released what they billed as the most comprehensive analysis of antidepressant withdrawal to date, it drew immediate attention. The study concluded that symptoms were generally “mild,” short-lived, and possibly

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The Paradox of Autism Causation Studies

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2025/07/17

The Paradox of Autism Causation Studies by Toby Rogers at Brownstone Institute (Editor’s note: This is yet another look at autism causation studies. We’re in such a strange moment. The stakes could not be higher, and yet, as I explain below, the available studies are flawed and unlikely to get better. I don’t believe that the presence of a few reformers inside the administration changes this calculus much at all. I think we are much better taking matters into our own hands.) The paradox of

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NIH Director Details Crackdown on Fees Monopoly...

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2025/07/16

NIH Director Details Crackdown on Fees Monopoly Publishers Charge by Paul Thacker at Brownstone Institute In an exclusive interview with The DisInformation Chronicle, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya explains his latest policy to control monopoly science publishers now raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers, while sometimes playing partisan politics and pushing fake narratives. The NIH announced yesterday thatthey will soon cap the “article processing

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The Exoneration of Kirk Moore and the Trial of Pam Bondi

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2025/07/16

The Exoneration of Kirk Moore and the Trial of Pam Bondi by Clayton J. Baker, MD at Brownstone Institute An unjust law is no law at all. -St. Augustine If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. -Thomas Jefferson Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law. -Henry David Thoreau One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.-Martin Luther King, Jr. When the originator of natural law

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The Problem Is Not Pluralism but Imposition

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2025/07/15

The Problem Is Not Pluralism but Imposition by James Lyons-Weiler at Brownstone Institute Rachael Bedard’s New York Magazine article, “Why Calling RFK Jr. ‘Anti-Science’ Misses the Point,” is one of the most conceptually sophisticated treatments to appear in legacy media regarding the Kennedy-era shift in public health governance. We commend the author for recognizing what many political and media figures have either denied or dismissed: that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. does not reject science, but

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Why Are Taxpayers Still Funding These Injection...

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2025/07/15

Why Are Taxpayers Still Funding These Injection Mandates? by Lucia Sinatra at Brownstone Institute It was nerve wracking, to say the least; having a high school student who had gotten into his dream college in mid-December 2020 but was uncertain if he could attend the following fall due to Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Those harrowing days and nights we spent focusing on little else as we scoured college websites to eventually find what we pretty much expected would come to pass. It started in

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The Betrayal of the People

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2025/07/14

The Betrayal of the People by Trish Dennis at Brownstone Institute The fog of the Covid era is lifting, and what remains is stark. Only after the storm does the damage reveal itself in full. I reflect not just on what happened, but how it happened, how an entire population was brought to heel, how critical thought was sidelined, and how something so obviously destructive was sold as public health. Above all, I see how pernicious the role of the mainstream media truly was. They didn’t merely echo

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The Priest Who Kept His Church Open

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2025/07/14

The Priest Who Kept His Church Open by Trish Dennis at Brownstone Institute On 15 November 2020, in a small parish church in County Cavan, Father PJ Hughes did the unthinkable: he held a Sunday mass with around 50 of his parishioners. Speaking later on RTÉ Radio 1’s Today with Claire Byrne programme, Father Hughes said that the Gardaí phoned him just five minutes before the service was due to begin, warning him he was in breach of regulations and should instruct the congregation to leave. Father

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The Systematic Unraveling of the Administrative State

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2025/07/13

The Systematic Unraveling of the Administrative State by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute In 1883, when the Pendleton Act was passed, creating the US civil service, it must have seemed like no big deal. The forgotten Chester A. Arthur was the president. The fear of being assassinated like his predecessor James Garfield convinced him to back the legislation. The case for passage: government needs professionals with institutional knowledge. Technicians were changing the world, so why not

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The Return on Investment of Isolation

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2025/07/12

The Return on Investment of Isolationby Joel Salatin at Brownstone Institute In his iconic Brave New World, one of Aldous Huxley's recurring themes is the desire and mandate to never be alone. The whole life is taken up with working at a pre-determined vocation and otherwise being entertained in large groups. The eventual hero, The Savage, gravitated finally to an old lighthouse and hung himself when people came to gawk at him. Although we don't have the breeding centers and embryo development

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Update on International Health Regulation Amendments

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2025/07/11

Update on International Health Regulation Amendments by David Bell at Brownstone Institute Much has been written on the amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), which most countries are making themselves subject to after July 19th (next week). Many raise concerns of loss of sovereignty, censorship, corporate greed, and conflict of interest. But most are missing the main point; the sheer and outright stupidity and fallacy on which the whole pandemic agenda is based. July 19th is

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Response Rates in Psychiatric Drug Trials Are...

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2025/07/11

Response Rates in Psychiatric Drug Trials Are Statistical Nonsense by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute The outcomes used in psychiatric drug trials are not meaningful, and psychiatric diagnoses and names of drug classes are also problematic. According to DSM-5, major depression “causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.”1 It is the other way around. People become depressed because they have difficulties in their

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Laura Delano’s Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric...

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2025/07/10

Laura Delano’s Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Elisabeth Bennink at Brownstone Institute "Stay strong & courageous!" This was the message Laura Delano wrote when she signed my copy of Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance (2025) at the Brownstone Institute event in Connecticut on April 23rd. As a physician, I have spent years helping patients discontinue medication—particularly psychiatric drugs. The process is far more difficult than it should

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There Has Never Been an Effective Vaccine for a...

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2025/07/10

There Has Never Been an Effective Vaccine for a Respiratory Virus by Lori Weintz at Brownstone Institute [The following is a chapter of Lori Weintz’s book,Mechanisms of Harm: Medicine in the Time of Covid-19.] “The key to ending the pandemic has always been the immune system.” -Steve Templeton, Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, Indiana University The Covid vaccine campaign was based on the faulty premise that a respiratory virus could be controlled through human behavior,

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Ultra Processed Foods: Inflammatory and Addictive

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2025/07/09

Ultra Processed Foods: Inflammatory and Addictive by Daniel Nuccio at Brownstone Institute To quote the timeless words of America’s 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, “There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their week’s exercise.” Needless to say, if President Kennedy were alive today and stepped into a typical American fast-food establishment, he would be

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Ideological Firewalls Work Quite Well…Until They Don’t

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2025/07/09

Ideological Firewalls Work Quite Well…Until They Don’t by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute I had my first illicit sips of beer at age 14, and continued to sip from time to time on Friday nights with friends throughout high school. I’m quite sure my parents knew this was going on, though I’m not sure they knew exactly how much or how often we drank. What I do know is they never confronted me about it, demonstrating an implied trust in me that I responded to by making sure I

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Net Zero: The Mystery of the Falling Fertility

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2025/07/08

Net Zero: The Mystery of the Falling Fertility by Tomas Fürst at Brownstone Institute In January 2022, the number of children born in the Czech Republic suddenly decreased by about 10%. By the end of 2022, it had become clear that this was a signal: All the monthly numbers of newborns were mysteriously low. In April 2023, I wrote a piece for a Czech investigative platform InFakta and suggested that this unexpected phenomenon might be connected to the aggressive vaccination campaign that had

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Mapping the Entire Field of Autism Causation Studies...

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2025/07/08

Mapping the Entire Field of Autism Causation Studies in One Article by Toby Rogers at Brownstone Institute I. Introduction It seems to me that the proper way to understand the autism epidemic is to read everything that has been written on autism causation, throw out any studies that are characterized by a financial conflict of interest or fatally flawed study design, and see what patterns emerge from the papers that are left. During mydoctoral thesisI reviewed about 80 of the top studies in

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The Hippocratic Oath and the Covid Debacle

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2025/07/07

The Hippocratic Oath and the Covid Debacle by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute Is the Hippocratic Oath, which dates back to antiquity, relevant today? Most reasonably informed people would know that it is an oath pertaining to a code of conduct, formulated by Hippocrates of Kos in fifth century BCE ancient Greece, to guide medical practitioners ethically – that is, concerning their actions in the practice of their medical profession. There is a classical version, dating back to the time of

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