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They’ve Learned Nothing — Because That Would Expose...

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2025/11/23

They’ve Learned Nothing — Because That Would Expose Too Muchby Roger Bate at Brownstone Institute The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has finally released the core political chapters of its long-awaited report. After nearly three years of hearings, millions of documents, and tens of millions of pounds spent on legal fees, the conclusion is now unmistakably clear. They’ve learned nothing, as I detail in my latest research. Worse, they may not want to learn. The Inquiry’s structure, its analytical frame,

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Steps Toward Fixing Health Care

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2025/11/22

Steps Toward Fixing Health Care by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute Once in a blue moon even a blind squirrel finds an acorn, or so the saying goes. But, boy, did the occupant of the office of presidency find a MOAPA (Mother Of All Policy Acorns): THE ONLY HEALTHCARE I WILL SUPPORT OR APPROVE IS SENDING THE MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE PEOPLE, WITH NOTHING GOING TO THE BIG, FAT, RICH INSURANCE COMPANIES, WHO HAVE MADE $TRILLIONS, AND RIPPED OFF AMERICA LONG ENOUGH. THE PEOPLE WILL BE

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How CDC and FDA Defrauded the American Public about...

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2025/11/21

How CDC and FDA Defrauded the American Public about Serious Vaccine Harms by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute In a fascinating book released in September, Vaccines, Amen. The Religion of Vaccines,1 lawyer Aaron Siri explains how the American public was systematically misled by the very institutions they are supposed to trust. Via numerous lawsuits, Aaron brought many deeply buried, politically inconvenient facts to light, and he is very factual, which is uncommon for vaccine books

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The UK and Canada Lead the West’s Descent into...

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2025/11/20

The UK and Canada Lead the West’s Descent into Digital Authoritarianism by Sonia Elijah at Brownstone Institute “Big Brother is watching you.” These chilling words from George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, 1984, no longer read as fiction but are becoming a bleak reality in the UK and Canada—where digital dystopian measures are unravelling the fabric of freedom in two of the West’s oldest democracies. Under the guise of safety and innovation, the UK and Canada are deploying invasive tools

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The NY Times Acknowledges That Autism Is Not...

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2025/11/19

The NY Times Acknowledges That Autism Is Not Primarily Genetic by Toby Rogers at Brownstone Institute For the last several decades, the official autism narrative was that ‘autism is genetic, aGIFT, and anyone who says otherwise is a NUTTER who must be banned from polite society.’ The mainstream media pounded this message into the public consciousness every chance they got, and this narrative was enforced through censorship and blacklisting of anyone who proposed other theories of the case. Then

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The Weaponisation of Science

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2025/11/18

The Weaponisation of Science by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute Yesterday, I took part in apanel discussionin Washington, D.C., on the weaponisation of science — specifically, how conflicts of interest, industry influence, and scientific deception have reshaped modern medicine. It was an important conversation about how the scientific process has been hollowed out by financial incentives, regulatory capture, and institutional cowardice. For me, this is not an abstract debate. I’ve

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A Novel Analysis of the Pfizer Trial: Vaccine...

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2025/11/17

A Novel Analysis of the Pfizer Trial: Vaccine Effectiveness Was Nowhere Near 95% by Eyal Shahar at Brownstone Institute Preamble The natural home for this work is a biomedical journal. There is zero chance, however, that a paper would be accepted by any conventional journal. Why? Because the results are earthshaking, as stated in the title. This post is technical, but the preamble is not. For the non-academic reader, the preamble will serve two purposes: 1) to share an interesting story about

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Why ObamaCare Is Failing and How to Replace It

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2025/11/16

Why ObamaCare Is Failing and How to Replace It by Michael Walters at Brownstone Institute Fundamentally, it had a flawed design. Its architects meant to appeal to the public, promising what the old system could not fully deliver – guaranteed access to affordable health cover and coverage for pre-existing conditions (PECs). But they were wrong about being able to keep your doctor or your old policy if you wanted. Previously individual policies had to exclude PEC coverage to be financially viable

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Was Covid Always a CIA Plot?

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2025/11/15

Was Covid Always a CIA Plot?by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute According to newly released emails, the United States Intelligence Community, led by the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, held regular meetings with Dr. Ralph Baric, one of America’s leading coronavirus experts, since at least 2015. Senator Rand Paul’s office has worked for years to obtain the documents. Baric has been accused of engineering the Covid-19 virus in his lab at the

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Administration Announces Vague Help for Ranchers

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2025/11/14

Administration Announces Vague Help for Ranchers by Meryl Nass at Brownstone Institute My next post will be a slide deck on the meat industry that I put together months ago but had not used until now. (Washington, D.C., October 22, 2025) – Today, US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced a suite of actions to strengthen the

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Murray Rothbard Unpacks the Meatpacking Myth

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2025/11/13

Murray Rothbard Unpacks the Meatpacking Myth by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute We are newly aware of the close relationship between industry and administrative agencies, a corrupting one that is building cartels and blocking serious reform of government. This is usually called agency “capture,” but what if that is not the right term? Capture implies an institution that was previously pure and independent that was later taken over. In the case of the FDA, and its predecessor agencies,

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The Grapes of Wrath

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2025/11/12

The Grapes of Wrath by Charles Eisenstein at Brownstone Institute I’ve been rereading John Steinbeck’sThe Grapes of Wrath. This passage from Chapter 5 is shockingly relevant to the farm crisis today. It describes the early stages of the consolidation and corporatization of farms that continue to accelerate. Even more relevantly, it illuminates the systemic nature of that process, which defies any attempt to locate blame. Here, agents of institutional landowners are coming to notify tenant farmers

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Exposed: The Hoax That Targeted Health Freedom

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2025/11/11

Exposed: The Hoax That Targeted Health Freedom by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute Brownstone Institute was a proud exhibitor at the huge Children's Health Defense conference, Austin, Texas, November 7-9, 2025. The event was filled with exuberance and trust among the more than 1,000 attendees, all of whom were thrilled to be with real friends at a time in which trust in nearly everything else is in free fall. At last, we were with people on the right side of history. Within this social

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The Unmasking of Vaccine Science

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2025/11/11

The Unmasking of Vaccine Science by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute I recently purchased Aaron Siri’s new bookVaccines, Amen. As I flipped through the pages, I noticed a section devoted to his now-famous deposition of Dr Stanley Plotkin, the “godfather” of vaccines. I’d seen viral clips circulating on social media, but I had never taken the time to read the full transcript — until now. Siri’s interrogation was methodical and unflinching…a masterclass in extracting uncomfortable

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Escape the Digital Purse Seine

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2025/11/10

Escape the Digital Purse Seine by Lori Weintz at Brownstone Institute purse seine - a large wall of netting deployed around an entire area or school of fish. The seine has floats along the top line with a lead line threaded through rings along the bottom. Once a school of fish is located, a skiff encircles the school with the net. The lead line is then pulled in, “pursing” the net closed on the bottom, preventing fish from escaping by swimming downward. Due to the relatively short lifespan of

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Rise and Fall of the Neuralink Society

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2025/11/09

Rise and Fall of the Neuralink Society by Mattias Desmet at Brownstone Institute At the beginning of September, I settled for a couple of weeks in the Himalayas in northern India. I was there to give a few contributions at a conference on local economies.“Where exactly in the desert sand of this life is the line drawn that separates fiction from non-fiction?”— that thought occupies me as the Airbus 320 prepares to land at the airport of Leh. I’m not quite sure why I begin this text with that

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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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