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The Rise and Fall of Scientific Journals and a Way...

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2025/10/14

The Rise and Fall of Scientific Journals and a Way Forward by Martin Kulldorff at Brownstone Institute Scientific journals have had enormous positive impact on the development of science, but in some ways, they are now hampering rather than enhancing open scientific discourse. After reviewing the history and current problems with journals, a new academic publishing model is proposed. It embraces open access and open rigorous peer review, it rewards reviewers for their important work with honoraria

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Echoes of the Great Famine in the Covid Era

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2025/10/13

Echoes of the Great Famine in the Covid Era by Robert Billard at Brownstone Institute "A Terrible Record" (John Johnson, Weekly Freeman July 2nd, 1881) In Spring 2020, supposedly “civilized” nations of the world tackled the prospects of how best to subjugate their domestic populations. At this time I was struck by seemingly obvious parallels to another sad chapter in the history of human misery: the Irish Potato Famine. There are many core similarities marking the two calamities. Both evolved

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Trump Covets the Nobel Peace Prize

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2025/10/13

Trump Covets the Nobel Peace Prize by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute Many news outlets reported the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday by saying President Donald Trump had missed out (Washington Post, Yahoo, Hindustan Times, Huffington Post), not won (USA Today), fallen short (AP News), lost (Time), etc. There is even a meme doing the rounds about ‘Trump Wine.’ ‘Made from sour grapes,’ the label explains, ‘This is a full bodied and bitter vintage guaranteed to leave a nasty

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The Theater of the Absurd Ends with a Whimper

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2025/10/12

The Theater of the Absurd Ends with a Whimper by el gato malo at Brownstone Institute This article was originally published in January 2024. Let’s start with two simple axioms: Certain sorts of the mentally ill seek power over others as they cannot control themselves.It’s a way to try to substitute regulating the world around them for self-stability by making their own internal dysregulation seem fitting or laudable; it’s environment as surrogate for self. The anxious and insecure seek out

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The Spirit of Time

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2025/10/11

The Spirit of Timeby Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book, Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] Sloane’s eighth chapter begins with an interesting observation. He was an expert on old-style covered wooden bridges. Strange passion but stick with me here. He observed that there were always signs on these bridges: “Walk your horse.” Apparently galloping across a bridge creates a rhythmic pattern that weakens the

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Can the Polyface Approach Feed the World?

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2025/10/10

Can the Polyface Approach Feed the World? by Joel Salatin at Brownstone Institute By far the most common question people ask me is, "Can the Polyface approach feed the world?" Yet another big op-ed piece in theNew York Timeson Sept 28 took this position to marginalize non-chemical agriculture, using the oft-quoted idea that we would need three times as much farmland to produce the food the world needs if we quit using glyphosate and chemical fertilizer. Let's take a walk into history and see

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Javier Milei’s Rallying Cry before the WEF

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2025/10/10

Javier Milei’s Rallying Cry before the WEF by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute [This article is a republication of a Substack post that was originally published in January 2024.] Buckle in, this is a speech for the history books. Summary quotes and the transcript are below the video. Note that “Libertarianism” as used here by Milei is synonymous with the classical liberalism of the US Founding Fathers such as Thomas Jefferson. Life, liberty, property. The term “classical

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Bootleggers and Bureaucrats Agree on Global Health

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2025/10/09

Bootleggers and Bureaucrats Agree on Global Health by Roger Bate at Brownstone Institute Introduction Global public health has long been animated by moral purpose and collective ambition. When nations join under the banner of “health for all,” it reflects both humanitarian conviction and political calculation. Yet, the architecture of global health governance often produces outcomes that diverge from its lofty ideals. The World Health Organization (WHO), its treaties, and its many partnerships

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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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