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The Doctor Will Kill You Now

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2025/10/09

The Doctor Will Kill You Now by Clayton J. Baker, MD at Brownstone Institute Way back in the B.C. era (Before Covid), I taught Medical Humanities and Bioethics at an American medical school. One of my older colleagues – I’ll call him Dr. Quinlan – was a prominent member of the faculty and a nationally recognized proponent of physician-assisted suicide. Dr. Quinlan was a very nice man. He was soft-spoken, friendly, and intelligent. He had originally become involved in the subject of

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A Call for Peer Re-Reviews of Articles on Covid Vaccines

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2025/10/08

A Call for Peer Re-Reviews of Articles on Covid Vaccines by Eyal Shahar at Brownstone Institute In the years that I served as an associate editor (forThe American Journal of Epidemiology), I have seen the entire spectrum of “peer reviews” — from meticulous, thoughtful critiques whose authors evidently invested several hours in the task to sketchy reviews that reflected carelessness and incompetence. I have read friendly reviews by admirers of the authors and hostile reviews by their enemies. (It

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The Forgotten Dry Run for Lockdown

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2025/10/08

The Forgotten Dry Run for Lockdown by Paula Jardine at Brownstone Institute Veterinarian at cattle farm preparing to give a medicine shot injection for vaccination to the pigs at pig farm. Animals health control and care. WE SHUT our schools, we emptied our streets, we shuttered our shops not because reason demanded it, but because fear commanded it. We followed the models, not the evidence. We fought a virus by locking down the healthy. We sacrificed livelihoods on the altar of safety. And we

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The Spirit of Agronomy

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2025/10/07

The Spirit of Agronomy by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book, Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] It’s impossible to speak of American history without reference to the life of the farmer and the land. The experience shaped many generations. It formed the basis for the belief in freedom itself, the conviction that a family can provide for itself through hard work and defend its rights based on the little slice of

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Your Credibility Card Has Expired

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2025/10/07

Your Credibility Card Has Expired by Richard Kelly at Brownstone Institute This time 4 years ago, I learned to cut my own hair, with predictable results. This time 4 years ago I was prohibited from going to a barber. Yes, the two statements are connected. I could have just let my hair grow, but it would have annoyed me. As it is, despite the improvement (I think) in my skilfulness, now my haircuts annoy others. Well-meaning comments are graciously accepted, and my usual reply is, “Thanks, I did my

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Aluminium in Vaccines Is Harmful

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2025/10/06

Aluminium in Vaccines Is Harmful by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute It has been surprisingly difficult to get an answer to a simple and highly relevant question: Is aluminium in vaccines harmful? After having studied the best evidence we have, the randomised trials, in great detail, I conclude that the answer is yes. Like lead, aluminium is a highly neurotoxic metal. We will therefore expect vaccines containing aluminium adjuvants to cause neurological harms if the aluminium enters the

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A 500-Year Storm Just Hit Healthcare

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2025/10/06

A 500-Year Storm Just Hit Healthcare by Tom Markson at Brownstone Institute Last week, President Trump set in motion a transformation that will fundamentally redefine American medicine for a generation. In a single news conference, he delivered a direct and sweeping challenge to the entire structure of public health authority. As a result, the credibility of national health agencies, leading professional associations, and the corporate medical establishment has been shaken at its very core. The

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The Lost Vocation of Medicine: From Calling to Commodity

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2025/10/05

The Lost Vocation of Medicine: From Calling to Commodityby Joseph Varon at Brownstone Institute When I was a young medical student, I believed with all my heart that medicine was the highest calling a human being could answer. We were not just training to earn a degree or secure a position. We were stepping into a lineage, inheriting a tradition that stretched back to Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Osler, and countless others who saw the care of the sick as a sacred covenant. Every time I walked

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To Yearn for Sincerity Amidst Doubts

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2025/10/04

To Yearn for Sincerity Amidst Doubts by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute In the Fall semester of 2018, I was given permission to teach at my college’s campus in Barcelona, a program that I had founded nearly two decades before and visited quite frequently in my roles as its academic director and frequent leader of its summer programs. Needless to say, I was excited, as the city and its culture had been a prime focus of my research for several decades. That I would be there at a time

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Antidepressants Increase 130% for Teen Girls, Drop 7%...

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2025/10/03

Antidepressants Increase 130% for Teen Girls, Drop 7% For Boys by Roger McFillin at Brownstone Institute Let me ask you something. What are the odds that one-third of American adolescents suddenly developed a disease requiring drugs that carry a BLACK BOX WARNING for suicide? What mysterious plague swept through middle and high schools demanding 8.3 million kids be put on medications that literally more than double their risk of killing themselves? And here’s where it gets truly insane: This

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Strategy over Optics: Trump’s Most Favored Nation...

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2025/10/03

Strategy over Optics: Trump’s Most Favored Nation Status on Drug Prices by James Lyons-Weiler at Brownstone Institute On September 30, 2025, the image of Albert Bourla standing in the White House beside President Donald J. Trump stunned large segments of the public. The moment instantly became a lightning rod, drawing condemnation and confusion from those who remembered the unresolved—and in many cases, still unaccounted for—devastations of the Covid-19 response. My inbox, and those of

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WHO Pandemic Accords Are Badly Flawed

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2025/10/02

WHO Pandemic Accords Are Badly Flawed by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute The decades-old International Health Regulations, as amended last year, came into effect on 19 September. A new Pandemic Agreement, adopted in May, will be opened for signature after a pathogens access and benefits sharing deal that is expected to be reached next year. The WHO Pandemic Accords, as the two documents are known, are a good example of the type of global governance initiatives on which there is a consensus

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A Giant in Medicine: Tribute to Drummond Rennie

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2025/10/02

A Giant in Medicine: Tribute to Drummond Rennie by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute Nephrologist Drummond Rennie died on 12 September 2025, aged 89. He was deputy editor at the New England Journal of Medicine and at JAMA, for a total of 36 years. Drummond’s key interest was to improve the quality of medical research. He made numerous outstanding contributions to science and received the 2008 Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility by the American Association for the Advancement

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The Coup, the Calamity, and the Conspiracy

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2025/10/01

The Coup, the Calamity, and the Conspiracy by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute A website specializing in data visuals offered a helpful graphic on global inflation, 2020-2025, with no other comment about how or why this happened. The results are eye-popping and amazing, and a reminder that hardly anyone has fully come to terms with what transpired over five years. Most currencies in the world took a 25-35 percent haircut, Far East excepted. That’s a technical description that

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Withheld: Real-World Infant Deaths from RSV Antibody...

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2025/10/01

Withheld: Real-World Infant Deaths from RSV Antibody Shot by Yaffa Shir-Raz at Brownstone Institute As ACIP deliberated without access to full trial data, an even more alarming pattern was already unfolding in the real world. Now, analysis of the FDA’s FAERS database reveals 37 infant deaths out of just 991 reports – a fatality signal nearly twice that of other routine vaccines. Why was this not disclosed? The warning sign was already visible in the clinical trials: infant deaths in the

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A Step Forward but Still in the Mud: The New United...

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2025/09/30

A Step Forward but Still in the Mud: The New United States Global Health Strategy by David Bell at Brownstone Institute Changing the direction of a dinosaur was, presumably, hard for any who tried. Especially when the direction of the dinosaur was highly profitable to its minders. While paleontology does not fully support the analogy, the picture describes the new Global Health Strategy just released by the US government. Someone is trying hard to return the dinosaur – the largest source of

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To Lock Death in a Dark Room

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2025/09/30

To Lock Death in a Dark Room by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Thomas Harrington’s book, The Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class.] Most of us, I suspect, have had the experience of walking into a darkened room we presume to be empty, only to find someone sitting silently in the shadows observing our movements. When this happens, it is, initially at least, an unnerving experience. Why? Because, though we don’t often speak about

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Zombie Bioethics

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2025/09/29

Zombie Bioethics by Aaron Kheriaty at Brownstone Institute The following waspublishedrecently inFirst Thingsand is reprinted here with permission. A recentarticleinMIT Technology Reviewcarries the strange title, “Ethically sourced ‘spare’ human bodies could revolutionize medicine.” Three Stanford biologists and ethicists argue for the use of so-called bodyoids in science and medicine. This infelicitous term refers to hypothetical modified human bodies created from stem

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The Perception of Reality

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2025/09/29

The Perception of Reality by Russ Gonnering at Brownstone Institute Ten years ago, the internet was completely captured by “The Dress.” A photo of a dress was displayed. Was it Blue and Black? Was it White and Gold? Everybody had an opinion, and it was definite. This is distinct from other optical illusions, such as The Rubin Vase, which can be easily reversed by most people: The Dress launched a flurry of scientific inquiries in an attempt to explain the science behind this. The

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Disturbing Secrets about Vaccines

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2025/09/28

Disturbing Secrets about Vaccines by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute The vaccine area is much more complicated than I knew when I worked at a department of infectious diseases as a young doctor. I didn’t perceive vaccines could be a problem and had taken all the recommended ones. My 2013 book, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime, hardly mentions vaccines at all because none of the major scandals in healthcare where drugs had killed thousands of patients because of drug company fraud

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