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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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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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