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Hysteria Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

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2025/09/27

Hysteria Is a Force That Gives Us Meaningby Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute The following is an excerpt from Dr. Thomas Harrington’s book,Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class. Sadly, for most people today, World War I, or what some older Brits still refer to as the Great War, doesn’t mean too much. This is too bad, as it is perhaps the best mirror we have on the behavior of people and countries during the Covid era. For those who have forgotten, WWI occurred at a

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The Way Home

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2025/09/26

The Way Home by Joel Salatin at Brownstone Institute How do you find your way home when you're lost and far away?Where do you start?In wilderness survival training, it's "head downhill."That will bring you to water, and water will bring you to civilization. Let's look at the last two weeks: Charlie Kirk's assassination. Bombing alleged fentanyl boats heading to the US. Copycat (from Kirk's assassin, bullet writing) shootings at ICE. Acetaminophen (in some 500 brands, most prominently

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CDC Continues to Torture the Data

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2025/09/26

CDC Continues to Torture the Data by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute In my vaccine book, I give numerous examples that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot be trusted in relation to vaccines and infections. The CDC has claimed, for example, that influenza vaccines reduce hospitalisations and mortality even though the randomised trials did not find this. The CDC did not provide a single comment that its claims were based on deeply flawed case-control

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Poison Embedded in the Education of Doctors

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2025/09/25

Poison Embedded in the Education of Doctors by Allon Friedman at Brownstone Institute As the Trump administration expands its battle to stamp out Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ideology by targeting medical schools and hospitals, recent interactions with medical trainees highlighted just how entrenched this ideology has become in the education of doctors. I am a medical faculty member at a major Midwestern medical school and am frequently accompanied by medical students and residents during

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The Spirit of Godliness

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2025/09/25

The Spirit of Godliness by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book,Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] In my youth, we sang a hymn that went: “You ask me how I know he lives; he lives within my heart.” Honestly, I’m not sure that this line made much sense to me as a kid, at least not to an aspirational rationalist. As years have gone by, I have a better understanding. It’s a distinctly American idea. It seems to be

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Babel Moments

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2025/09/24

Babel Moments by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.] Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth. —Genesis 11:4 Oh we may have sharper tools But we don't always know how to use them After all we're only human —Matthew Barber, “Viral” About 5,000 years ago,

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Trump Blows Open Autism Debate

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2025/09/24

Trump Blows Open Autism Debate by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute Autism has long been the untouchable subject in American politics. For decades, federal agencies tiptoed around it, steering research toward genetics while carefully avoiding controversial environmental or pharmaceutical questions. That ended at the White House this morning, when President Donald Trump tore through the taboo with a blunt and sometimes incendiary performance that left even his own health chiefs scrambling

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United States Announces Revolutionary Reform in...

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2025/09/23

United States Announces Revolutionary Reform in Autism Research and Treatment by James Lyons-Weiler at Brownstone Institute The federal government just signaled a serious course correction on autism. In a joint appearance that felt less like a press conference and more like a policy pivot, President Donald J. Trump stood alongside HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, and CMS Director Mehmet Oz to outline an all-agency plan that treats

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The Nonprofit Racket

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2025/09/23

The Nonprofit Racket by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [This is the foreword to the new book by Douglas French: When Movements Become Rackets (2025)] Dante Alighieri, in his book Inferno, places those who betray benefactors in the deepest circle of hell. If that is true, the place is likely overpopulated with the managers and executives of nonprofit organizations. In recent years, such organizations have been implicated in egregious schemes to launder money and influence for every

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Democracy Dies in Adulterated Voter Rolls

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2025/09/22

Democracy Dies in Adulterated Voter Rolls by el gato malo at Brownstone Institute We can argue about just how much democracy is even desirable in a republic where the rights of the individual are supposed to stand paramount to the whims of the demos and that most oppressive of forms of governance, “tyranny of the majority,” but I suspect just about all of us can agree on a basic issue: If we are to have democracy, counting the votes is vital and, as a subset of such, determining which votes are

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New Study Shows That There Is a Lot of DNA in the...

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2025/09/22

New Study Shows That There Is a Lot of DNA in the Pfizer/Moderna Vials by Jessica Rose at Brownstone Institute I promised a “Jess write-up” of our newest paper that was published on 06 Sep 2025 in the journal Autoimmunity after many years of preprintage, peer review, and attacks. It is entitled: “Quantification of residual plasmid DNA and SV40 promoter-enhancer sequences in Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna modRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Ontario, Canada” and it was submitted as evidence in the

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Homesteading: The Little Piggy

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2025/09/21

Homesteading: The Little Piggyby Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute Last weekend, Jill and I visited the uniquely experimental Polyface farm here in Virginia. A long-standing, successful older farm where its owner and operator, Joel Salatin, has developed regenerative farming methods grounded in the pragmatic realities of the small farm and homestead. Jill and I were lucky enough to get a private tour of the farm and to have Joel teach us about sylvan farming and pigs. Joel has a system

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The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake – It Was Just Wrong

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2025/09/20

The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake – It Was Just Wrong by David Bell at Brownstone Institute The Covid response was not an error, and it was not the result of rushing to address a crisis due to an unknown pathogen. It was a lot of people, mostly professionals in the field, systematically and collectively doing what they knew was wrong. It is helpful when this is systematically laid out, as such facts can form a basis from which to stop it being repeated. Early in 2025, some statisticians from

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Was Jimmy Kimmel Censored?

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2025/09/19

Was Jimmy Kimmel Censored? by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute Charlie Kirk was the antithesis of Jimmy Kimmel. Kirk was tremendously influential with the youth while Kimmel’s sanctimony is reserved for a dwindling audience of the blue-state elderly among coastal elites. Kirk sought good-faith debate while Kimmel relied on monologues of smears. Kirk was fundamentally decent, while Kimmel is callous and cruel. This week’s headlines reveal another difference between the men: the

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How to Protect Patients and Medical Professionals

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2025/09/19

How to Protect Patients and Medical Professionals by Brooke Miller at Brownstone Institute The Transformation of Medicine: From Healers to Healthcare Workers I had the privilege of addressing the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons this past Friday at their annual meeting and convention. I spoke on a topic that I'd never addressed publicly before, but one in which I feel quite versed through hard-won experience. During my medical career, which spans four decades, I've witnessed

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The Moral Hazard of Anesthesia

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2025/09/18

The Moral Hazard of Anesthesia by Sarah Thompson at Brownstone Institute In the history of medicine, there have been two primary means of determining whether a substance has a medicinal application: theory and observation. The use of drugs in medicine has generally followed a pattern of trial and error, where a substance comes into use until it is determined to be harmful, at which point it is quietly removed from circulation, generally because something new has been discovered or invented to take

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The Food Emancipation Proclamation

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2025/09/18

The Food Emancipation Proclamation by Joel Salatin at Brownstone Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQfpfSAmO10 The operative word of our time is disentanglement. How many people do we run into that say, I just want to disentangle. I don't want to feel dependent on the education system. So we have a tsunami of homeschooling. I don't want to be dependent on the healthcare system. So we have a tsunami of medical quacks, many of them speaking here. We all want to go to a quack

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The Pandemic of Fake Psychiatric Diagnoses

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2025/09/17

The Pandemic of Fake Psychiatric Diagnoses by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute On 12 September, UK child and adolescent psychiatrist Sami Timimi published “When mental-health diagnoses become brands, the real drivers of our psychic pain are hidden” in the Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper. In his superb article, Sami carefully explains how he arrives at his painful conclusion: You see there is a truth that we (in the mental-health business) hope no one will notice – we literally

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The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees

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2025/09/17

The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees by Robin Koerner at Brownstone Institute “It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible.” -Donald Trump. Never did I expect to write an article about the moderation of political communication that began with a quote from Donald Trump. But

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The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to...

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2025/09/16

The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to Pretend Obesity Is Normal by Joseph Varon at Brownstone Institute Walk into any American airport today and pause. Look around at the travelers waiting at the gate, the families queuing for fast food, the crowds rushing past. You are looking at a country that our grandparents would not recognize. In less than three generations, the very shape of the American body has shifted so dramatically that what would once have been regarded as rare or

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