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The RFK Effect

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2025/06/24

The RFK Effect by Clayton J. Baker, MD at Brownstone Institute Over the last couple of weeks, a remarkable sequence of events involving two US Senators has unfolded that demonstrates the profound and positive influence that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is exerting on Washington, DC, which extends far beyond the halls of the CDC, FDA, and NIH. On June 12, 2025, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced a dramatic course correction. Four months after aggressively attacking Kennedy at his

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Washington’s Fiscal Doomsday

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2025/06/24

Washington’s Fiscal Doomsday by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute If you don’t think Washington is in the maws of a Fiscal Doomsday Machine, think again. And the place to start is with the 30-year CBO projections, expressed as the dollar increase from the current $29 trillion level of publicly held US Treasury debt. If Washington does nothing except leave current tax, spending, and structural deficit policies in place (i.e. baseline policy), the publicly-held debt will grow by $102

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When the War Came Home

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2025/06/23

When the War Came Home by Aaron Kheriaty at Brownstone Institute In February 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a bulletin condemning online voices and public gatherings attacking such government Covid policies as mask and vaccine mandates. Those spreading “misinformation” about the pandemic, DHS warned, were undermining “public trust in the U.S. government institutions” and could be considered a “domestic threat actor” or a “primary terrorism-related threat.” How did

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How Specialization Enables Systemic Evil

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2025/06/23

How Specialization Enables Systemic Evil by Josh Stylman at Brownstone Institute The world's a screaming match—doctors, economists, influencers, all clawing for their slice of truth. Nobody's listening, and nobody's seeing the whole damn picture. We have more information than ever, but we're dumber where it counts, stuck in a loop of shouting past each other. This isn't just politics or algorithm nonsense; it's the cult of specialization—our worship of experts who know everything about nothing

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Vindication for the Unvaccinated?

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2025/06/22

Vindication for the Unvaccinated? by David Marks at Brownstone Institute At a recent family gathering, I sat at the dinner table with a group of loved ones for the first time since the Covid-19 fiasco. Most of the cheerful discussion focused on the spectacular event of the week: my mother’s 100th birthday. I was the only person at the table who hadn’t had any form of flu for many years, while all of the guests had been ill to one degree or another. Almost everyone hadtestedpositive for Covid

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Did Covid Vaccines Really Save Millions?

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2025/06/21

Did Covid Vaccines Really Save Millions?by Yaakov Ophir at Brownstone Institute [This article was co-authored by Yaffa Shir-Raz, Shay Zakov, and Peter A. McCullough.] Two years have passed since the official end of the Covid-19 pandemic, yet the topic of vaccination remains highly sensitive in both public and scientific discourse. Attempts to question the legitimacy of the mass vaccination campaign or to raise concerns about potential harms are often met with a moral red line: the widely

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Cochrane on a Suicide Mission

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2025/06/20

Cochrane on a Suicide Mission by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute The Cochrane Collaboration publishes systematic reviews of healthcare interventions in the Cochrane Library. It was once a highly respected institution, but this has changed, and I shall tell a particularly grotesque story about Cochrane bureaucracy, protection of guild and financial interests, inefficiency, incompetence, censorship, and political expediency, which I consider the beginning of the end for Cochrane. As

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Public Health Professionals and Healthcare Providers...

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2025/06/20

Public Health Professionals and Healthcare Providers vs. DHHS by Steven Kritz at Brownstone Institute The recently installed leadership of the various agencies within the Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) is surrounded by very powerful forces seeking to derail virtually everything that the Trump administration has charged them with accomplishing. The usual suspects are well known, and consist of powerful cartels that include Big Pharma, Big Food/Agriculture, Big Chemical, Big

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The Chief Justice Prescribes Constitution-Affirming Care

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2025/06/19

The Chief Justice Prescribes Constitution-Affirming Care by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute Just five years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts expressly deferred to the “expert class” as he abandoned the Free Exercise Clause in the panic of the Covid response. On Wednesday, he authored the Court’s opinion affirming Tennessee’s ban on gender transition surgeries for minors, and his reasoning revealed a remarkable change in his jurisprudence. Most importantly, he called for a return

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Former Vaccine Committee Did Not Follow the Rules

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2025/06/19

Former Vaccine Committee Did Not Follow the Rules by James Lyons-Weiler at Brownstone Institute In the spring of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services underwent a sharp shift in leadership and oversight. With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. assuming the role of Secretary, one of the most scrutinized decisions was his removal of 17 members from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The move followed years of concern about industry entanglement and sparked immediate

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The Invisible Leash

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2025/06/18

The Invisible Leash by Josh Stylman at Brownstone Institute OpenAI's $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive's io Productsisn't just the largest deal in the company's history—it's the ritual completion of what I warned about in"Node Without Consent." Ive, thelegendary designer behind the iPhone, iPad, and Apple's most iconic products, is now building something far more insidious. If"Node Without Consent"revealed the architecture of biodigital control, this moment represents its activation—where

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Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025): A Philosopher Who...

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2025/06/18

Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025): A Philosopher Who Thought Against the Grain by David Thunder at Brownstone Institute Sadly, yesterday (22nd May 2025),Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the most influential moral philosophers of our times, and undoubtedly one of the most important intellectual beacons of my own life, passed away at the ripe old age of 96. Though he was not a household name for most people, he was known to anyone seriously involved in the world of moral, social, or political philosophy

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“No Kings,” Except for the Bureaucrats

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2025/06/17

“No Kings,” Except for the Bureaucrats by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute Over the weekend, thousands of anti-Trump advocates gathered for “No Kings” protests across the country, but their aims were not directed at constitutional norms; instead, they are engaged in a protest against the President’s authority over the Executive Branch. The chief issue in Washington since the second Trump inauguration is whether the commander-in-chief is empowered to control the Executive Branch,

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Why Have Any Covid-19 Vaccines, 2025?

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2025/06/17

Why Have Any Covid-19 Vaccines, 2025? by Randall Bock at Brownstone Institute Five years on, SARS–CoV–2 is a ghost. It’s not the beast it was (or was purported to be); yet (asof this last “flu season”)young medical students were still required to get the “jab.” This reads more asLOYALTY- rather thanCovid-testing. The current iteration of coronavirus, Omicron, LP.8.1–feels like a cold now, nothing more – moreover, its epitope isnot even includedin the “bivalent” Covid vaccine handed out,

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Top FDA Official Admits She Refused the Covid-19...

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2025/06/16

Top FDA Official Admits She Refused the Covid-19 Vaccine While Pregnant by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute One of the most powerful figures at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has admitted she refused the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine while pregnant—even as her agency promoted it as "safe and effective" for all pregnant women. Dr Sara Brenner’s explosive disclosure, made on 15 May 2025 at the MAHA InstituteRound Tablein Washington, DC, is as revealing as it is troubling. A

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Teachers Must Avert an AI-Facilitated Intellectual...

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2025/06/16

Teachers Must Avert an AI-Facilitated Intellectual Dark Age by David Thunder at Brownstone Institute I remember watching a YouTube interview with a highly intelligent and observant entrepreneur, who cheerfully predicted that the time would come when AI programmes would replace teachers, rendering their jobs obsolete. The commentator in question was an enthusiastic advocate of personal and economic freedom and a vocal critic of the excessive incursions of State agencies in our personal lives

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‘Globally Significant’ Covid Vaccine Study Biobank to...

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2025/06/15

‘Globally Significant’ Covid Vaccine Study Biobank to Be Destroyedby Rebekah Barnett at Brownstone Institute A ‘globally significant’ bank of biosamples from a study into the immune effects of Covid vaccines is set to be destroyed, two years after the award-winning research project was defunded by the Queensland Government. Intended “to better understand the short, medium and long-term impacts of COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines in Queensland,” the QoVAX Safety and Efficacy

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The Apex Predator of Captured Science: Dr. Robert Malone

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2025/06/14

The Apex Predator of Captured Science: Dr. Robert Malone by Sofia Karstens at Brownstone Institute The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they controlled the minds of the masses. - Malcolm X If the captured pharmaceutical-media complex recoiled in panic when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. entered the political arena, it now convulses in open terror. Kennedy didn’t just challenge

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To Tear Bodies Apart on the Altar of Science

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2025/06/13

To Tear Bodies Apart on the Altar of Science by David Bell at Brownstone Institute Ignorance is often desirable. It allows us to benefit from things our conscience might deny us. ‘Informed consent’ can be something we need to force upon ourselves. Sacrificing Others for the Greater Good Science, we prefer to think, has removed us from the dark inhumanity of human sacrifice and the historic callousness that would kill and dismember a child as insurance against starvation. The Aztecs and

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Negative-Sum Game Run Amok

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2025/06/13

Negative-Sum Game Run Amok by Toby Rogers at Brownstone Institute I traveled to Connecticut to participate in a four-day writers’ retreat hosted by Jeffrey Tucker and Brownstone Institute. It was amazing. Speakers presented on a topic or question for 15 minutes that was followed by a discussion for 15 minutes. Below are my remarks from the retreat (lightly edited): I. Introduction Over the next 15 minutes I want to talk about the crisis of Covid, the economic crisis

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