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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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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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