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Study 329: The Big Fraud Is Finally Under Review

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2025/11/08

Study 329: The Big Fraud Is Finally Under Reviewby Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute It began with a lie. In 2001, theJournal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry(JAACAP) published a paper declaring that the antidepressantparoxetine (Paxil)was “generally well tolerated and effective” for adolescent depression. That conclusion was false. The manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), knew from its own data that the drug failed to outperform placebo and carried a

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The Sacramental Underpinnings of Vaccine Culture

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2025/11/07

The Sacramental Underpinnings of Vaccine Culture by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute The human capacity to sculpt the terrain that surrounds us is enormous but not without limits. While a farmer or a gardener may replace or modify the geographical and botanical features on a given piece of land, it is only quite rarely, and with the help of an enormous expenditure of very scarce resources, that he can, say, turn a sizable hill or mountain into a lake or a plain. The work of tilling the

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Who Funds the Room Where It Happens?

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2025/11/07

Who Funds the Room Where It Happens? by Roger Bate at Brownstone Institute When delegates gather in Geneva on November 17 for the 11th Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), few will ask the obvious question: who pays for the room where it happens? The FCTC is the world’s only binding treaty on tobacco control. It now shapes national law far beyond its original remit, guiding taxation, packaging, advertising,

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Who’s Afraid of the AI Boogeyman?

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2025/11/06

Who’s Afraid of the AI Boogeyman? by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute It is becoming ever more obvious that many people fear rapidly developing Artificial Intelligence (AI), for various reasons, such as its supposed superiority, compared to humans, as far as processing and manipulating information is concerned, as well as its adaptability and efficiency in the workplace, which many fear would lead to the replacement of most human beings in the employment market. Amazon recently announced that

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Why Lawsuits about Psychiatric Malpractice Are...

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2025/11/06

Why Lawsuits about Psychiatric Malpractice Are Difficult to Win by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute When people under psychiatric care commit suicide or homicide, or are killed or seriously harmed, because of medical malpractice, it is extremely rare that it has any consequences for the doctors. Psychiatry seems to be the only area in society where the law is being systematically violated all over the world. Even Ombudsman1 and Supreme Court decisions2 are being ignored. In 2003, using

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The Third Rail: Covid-19 Vaccines and Cancer

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2025/11/05

The Third Rail: Covid-19 Vaccines and Cancer by Charlotte Kuperwasser at Brownstone Institute I’m going to touch on a highly controversial subject, one that has become the third rail among cancer biologists and the broader medical community: the possible link between Covid-19 vaccination and cancer. Because my laboratory’s mission is centered on cancer prevention, I cannot in good conscience ignore the elephant in the room. As my colleague, internationally renowned cancer biologist Dr. Wafik

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A Hidden Result of the Pfizer Trial

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2025/11/05

A Hidden Result of the Pfizer Trial by Eyal Shahar at Brownstone Institute Everyone is familiar with the results of the Pfizer Covid vaccine trial, published back in December 2020. The endpoint was “confirmed Covid,” defined as at least one symptom coupled with a positive PCR test. Not very many know, however, that the famous trial had another key endpoint—asymptomatic infection. It appears in a long document titled “Final Full Clinical Study Report.” Between one-third and one-half of

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Tariffs, Tobacco, and Policy Whiplash

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2025/11/04

Tariffs, Tobacco, and Policy Whiplash by Roger Bate at Brownstone Institute When politicians talk tough on trade, they usually promise to protect American jobs. But sometimes those gestures do the opposite. The Trump administration’s proposed 100 percent tariff on large cigars imported from Nicaragua is a case in point. According to my latest research, the tariff would shrink US GDP by $1.26 billion, reduce total output by $2.06 billion, eliminate nearly 18,000 jobs, and cost state and local

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Brownstone Prize Winners 2025

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2025/11/04

Brownstone Prize Winners 2025 by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute This year, Brownstone Institute awarded its prize for outstanding achievement to three exceptional individuals who have been brilliant servants of society and truth in times of great upheaval. Thomas S. Harrington Thomas S. Harrington, a distinguished scholar of Hispanic culture and history, has dedicated his career to unraveling the intricate threads of identity, nationalism, and political upheaval in the Iberian

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The MAHA Movement: A View from Within

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2025/11/03

The MAHA Movement: A View from Within by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute Continuing on our breakneck world tour, following speaking engagements in Canada, Brussels, and Amsterdam, Jill and I have just completed the Salt Lake City Brownstone Institute retreat. Next stop, Mar-a-Lago for the CPAC MAHA kickoff, and then immediately to Rome to testify in the Italian Senate and potentially to present a report to a senior member of the Catholic Church in the Vatican. At Brownstone, I had

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A Doctor in Full

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2025/11/03

A Doctor in Full by Aaron Kheriaty at Brownstone Institute Physician Ronald Dworkin, a very fine writer, has published atCivitasareviewofMaking the Cutthat is a terrific essay in its own right on the subject of doctoring. I am republishing it here with permission. While pondering their early years in medicine, some doctors, reading Dr. Aaron Kheriaty’s thoughtful and entertaining memoir of being a physician,Making the Cut, will probably think meanly of themselves. I did

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Why the Healers Had to Rebel

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2025/11/02

Why the Healers Had to Rebelby Joseph Varon at Brownstone Institute There was a time when the white coat symbolized courage. It meant that a physician stood between humanity and harm, guided not by decree but by conscience. We earned our knowledge through humility, not hierarchy; our oaths through suffering, not signatures. Somewhere along the way, that covenant was broken. Medicine ceased to be a vocation of service and became a system of obedience. The quiet transformation began long before

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Discussion on Covid Vaccination Should Be...

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2025/11/01

Discussion on Covid Vaccination Should Be Non-Controversial by David Bell at Brownstone Institute The Seduction of New Revelations People always seem to need something new, or at least those who consider it important to educate the public think this. Hence, we replace great children’s stories, remake movies, and desperately seek to excite people with something that seems more ‘now.’ Fashions change sometimes for good reasons, and knowledge does expand, but the danger in all this is forgetting

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What I Told Jerome Powell: Don’t Cut Rates

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2025/10/31

What I Told Jerome Powell: Don’t Cut Rates by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute We recently chanced to importune our Fed Chairman at a cocktail party in NYC. Our message to Jay Powell was that there are multiple reasons to stop cutting interest rates, but in light of the current government shutdown, one of the most compelling arguments is that the Fed’s cheap money policies have essentially destroyed any semblance of fiscal discipline in America. Specifically, we reminded him that real

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To Bear Witness after Institutional Betrayal

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2025/10/31

To Bear Witness after Institutional Betrayal by Trish Dennis at Brownstone Institute In 2020, the world I thought I knew fell away. Nothing in my life prepared me for what unfolded from March 2020 onwards. It was a rupture that left me reeling, stunned, and disoriented. I felt reborn into a world I barely recognised, one where governments and trusted institutions turned on their own people. I had always believed that, for the most part, the medical profession and public health agencies acted in

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Did President Donald Trump’s Physician Provide a Full...

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2025/10/30

Did President Donald Trump’s Physician Provide a Full Safety/Efficacy Disclosure on mRNA Covid-19 Shots? by David Gortler, Pharm. D at Brownstone Institute On Oct. 10, Trump’s physician, Dr. Sean P. Barbabella, announced that after conducting a battery of tests, he found that our president “remains in exceptional health” and that he had received “immunizations, including annual influenza and updated Covid-19 booster vaccinations.” It’s likely the president received a Pfizer mRNA shot. Listening

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The Rise and Fall of Wikipedia

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2025/10/30

The Rise and Fall of Wikipedia by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute The year was 2001 and the dot-com bust was in the rearview mirror. New ideas were in circulation among young and visionary entrepreneurs. Sure, pets.com failed and so many others but that was a temporary boom-bust. The Internet will change everything eventually, we were told. Technology, decentralization, crowd sourcing, and digital spontaneity will create an information landscape without gatekeepers. Everything will

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Universal Basic Income: Make Slavery Great Again

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2025/10/29

Universal Basic Income: Make Slavery Great Again by David Bell at Brownstone Institute The Evil of Aimlessness I once worked in communities supported mainly through a form of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Most money was received from the government for no (or token) work, or from mining royalties, where others worked digging on the communities’ lands. There were walls black and heaving with cockroaches while children slept with dogs on stained mattresses below, and babies covered head to toe in

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Connecting the Dots between the WHO and UN Security...

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2025/10/29

Connecting the Dots between the WHO and UN Security Council Reform by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute The Indian-origin parable of the six blind men describing an elephant spread to many cultures and civilisations centuries ago and is therefore a widely-known story. Upon first encountering an elephant, the men who had heard about but not actually come across it, each person projects from the particular part of the animal he explored by touch to offer a generalised description of the whole

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The Perverse Incentives in the US Healthcare System

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2025/10/28

The Perverse Incentives in the US Healthcare System by Russ Gonnering at Brownstone Institute Donald Berwick, one of the giants in the field of Medical Quality Improvement, is often credited with popularizing the phrase, “Every system is perfectly designed for the results it gets.” I am indebted to Anna Reich for exploring the history of this saying. As it turns out, as usual, the history is a bit more “complex” and is a distillation of the ideas of multiple people. This truism should not really

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