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The Insularity of the Academic Elite by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute There came a point in my doctoral studies when I could no longer pretend that I could survive and be halfway happy on the $675 a month stipend my well-endowed Ivy League university was paying me to teach the department’s introductory-level language courses. The standing rationale for this system in the university and in the department was that they were offering us a valuable opportunity to gain pedagogical

The False Claims of WHO’s Pandemic Agreement by David Bell at Brownstone Institute One way to determine whether a suggestion is worth following is to look at the evidence presented to support it. If the evidence makes sense and smells real, then perhaps the program you are asked to sign up for is worthy of consideration. However, if the whole scheme is sold on fallacies that a child could poke a stick through, and its chief proponents cannot possibly believe their own rhetoric, then only a

The Great Spillover Hoaxby Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute Why precisely were Anthony Fauci and his cohorts so anxious to blame SARS-CoV-2 on bats and later pangolins in wet markets? It was not just to deflect attention from the possibility that the novel virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan doing gain-of-function research. There was a larger point: to reinforce a very important narrative concerning zoonotic spillovers. It’s a fancy phrase that speaks to a kind of granular focus that

Neurodiversity Is a Strawman by Sofia Karstens at Brownstone Institute A dear friend had a beautiful, healthy, engaged baby boy. After his first round of childhood vaccinations he went blind, non-verbal, started head banging, having seizures, lost all engagement, and fell into the abyss of autism. Today that child is 40. He is incontinent, cannot speak or feed himself, and is totally dependent upon his father to survive. Another friend had a son and a daughter. The daughter, following her

The Existential Threat of the Existential Threat by Thomas Buckley at Brownstone Institute Climate change is an existential threat. Misinformation is an existential threat. Inequality is an existential threat. The next pandemic is an existential threat. Our democracy is facing an existential threat. And everyone must be prepared for each of them and prepared to do anything to stop them. That’s the current line, at least – the line that is driving global society at all levels just up

The Assault on Substack Takes Predictable Shape by Bill Rice at Brownstone Institute Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie doesn’t look like a Nazi sympathizer to me. What he is is one of the world’s great defenders of free speech. People like him are no doubt “a threat” to the world’s shadow rulers. For a while now I’ve been worried Substack would become a major target of the Censorship Industrial Complex for the hideous and dangerous crime of allowing free speech. This story from The UK

This Pediatrician Is Fighting Back by Jordan Alexander at Brownstone Institute Once she saw the data, pediatrician Dr. Renata Moon knew she had to speak out. Over her more than 20 years of practicing medicine, including more than 17 years of treating high-risk patients, Dr. Moon had never been anti-vaccine—until she saw what was happening with the Covid-19 vaccines. In Dr. Moon’s words: “As the data rolled out on the vaccine and Covid-19, it became clear that children had basically a zero

My Heterodox Path by Alex Washburne at Brownstone Institute I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost I was born an orthodox scientist, plopped out onto a conveyer belt of conventional academic promise. My mom was a renowned molecular biologist and mentor who nurtured my scientific curiosity from a young age, who explained cells while we sat around the

Transhumanism and AI: An Ideology of Death by Aaron Kheriaty at Brownstone Institute https://youtu.be/Tg2V9WEH1ik Here’s the video link to my recent talk at Hillsdale College on AI and Transhumanism. I’m including below the text of the speech if you prefer to read rather than watch it. AI and Transhumanism Hackable Animals My friends, let me introduce you to Yuval Noah Harari, a man chock full of big ideas. He explained during the Covid crisis: “Covid is

The Curious Case of FDA’s Dr. Peter Marks by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute Peter Principle (def, Wikipedia): ThePeter principleis a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence:: employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.