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 tex...| Brownstone Institute
Study 329: The Big Fraud Is Finally Under Review by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute It began with a lie. In 2001, the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) published a paper declaring that the antidepressant paroxetine (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 ...| Brownstone Institute
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...| Brownstone Institute
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, an...| Brownstone Institute
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 announce...| Brownstone Institute
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, ...| Brownstone Institute
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. ...| Brownstone Institute
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 ...| Brownstone Institute
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 loca...| Brownstone Institute
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 Iberi...| Brownstone Institute
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 been ...| Brownstone Institute
A Doctor in Full by Aaron Kheriaty at Brownstone Institute Physician Ronald Dworkin, a very fine writer, has published at Civitas a review of Making the Cut that 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. R...| Brownstone Institute
Why the Healers Had to Rebel by 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 befor...| Brownstone Institute
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 forg...| Brownstone Institute
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 re...| Brownstone Institute
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 ...| Brownstone Institute
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...| Brownstone Institute
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 wil...| Brownstone Institute
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 to...| Brownstone Institute
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 who...| Brownstone Institute
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...| Brownstone Institute
To Reclaim Our Nature by Rev. John F. Naugle at Brownstone Institute On May 8th, the pastor and I gathered in the living room of our rectory to await the announcement of a new pope. After what seemed like forever, the cardinal protodeacon announced the words we had been waiting for: Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum; habemus papam: Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum Robertum Franciscum, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem Prevost, qui sibi nomen imposuit Leonem Decimum Quartum. M...| Brownstone Institute
FDA’s Bizarre Decisions about Nicotine Pouches Lead to the Wrong Products on Shelves by Roger Bate at Brownstone Institute A walk through a dozen convenience stores in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, says a lot about how US nicotine policy actually works. Only about one in eight nicotine-pouch products for sale is legal. The rest are unauthorized—but they’re not all the same. Some are brightly branded, with uncertain ingredients, not approved by any Western regulator, and clearly aimed...| Brownstone Institute
The Hidden Cost of Mental Health Parity by Randall Bock at Brownstone Institute Washington is locked in another shutdown standoff over two Democrat demands Republicans will not accept: continued Affordable Care Act subsidies and (separately but related) federal healthcare benefits for illegal immigrants. Those fights are real, but they miss the larger cost driver. ACA subsidies alone amount to only about half of what the nation would save if we returned to pre-1990 levels of mental health ins...| Brownstone Institute
This, in our opinion, is the case for the study “Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19”.| Brownstone Institute
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Global health governance requires mechanisms that check virtue with evidence and remind bureaucracies that legitimacy derives from results.| Brownstone Institute
Autism has long been untouchable subject in American politics. Federal agencies tiptoed around it, steering research toward genetics.| Brownstone Institute
The America of 1960 was healthier than the America of 2025 because they lived in environment that did not conspire against physiology.| Brownstone Institute
A study of nursing homes showed use of hand sanitizer among staff was associated with higher rates of infection, which causes flu.| Brownstone Institute
Dr. Redfield should be commended for speaking with more candor, but I wish he had made these points four years ago.| Brownstone Institute
Unless we act now, public health crisis will expose weaker, more distrusted CDC — one that Americans may simply ignore from the outset.| Brownstone Institute
We have heard slogan “safe and effective” ad nauseum in relation to vaccines — repeated by health agencies, media, pharmaceutical companies.| Brownstone Institute
Nobel Prize narrative is not harmless compliment. It is calculated effort to sanctify one pillar, while the others collapse beneath evidence.| Brownstone Institute
If you have a mental health issue, don’t see a psychiatrist. It might turn out to be the biggest error you made in your entire life.| Brownstone Institute
Antidepressants are being used in children and adolescents, although they drive some of them to commit suicide and don’t work for them.| Brownstone Institute
All mRNA products on the market and in development today became available as a result of the declared Covid pandemic, emergencies.| Brownstone Institute
The vaccine may appear 80% effective! Still, we are not aware of any vaccine effectiveness studies that tried to correct for this huge HVE.| Brownstone Institute
People have no awareness that Woodstock occurred in the middle of an massive American flu pandemic in 1968.| Brownstone Institute
The consolidation of advertising and its control by states strikes at the heart of what free economies are supposed to be about.| Brownstone Institute
Every candidate should be asked to explain their answer to: what is the role of government? Practices need to be assessed in light of that.| Brownstone Institute
Overtreatment with drugs kills many people, and the death rate is increasing. It is therefore strange that we have allowed this long-lasting drug pandemic to continue, and even more so because most of the drug deaths are easily preventable.| Brownstone Institute
The “winter of death” never came to pass and neither did the spring or fall of death, but healthcare students all around the country have no choice; take updated Covid vaccines or withdraw from your program as if these seasons of death might still come to pass.| Brownstone Institute
Society articles at Brownstone Institute feature analysis and opinion about social policy, ethics, entertainment, philosophy, and more.| Brownstone Institute
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Bert Olivier works at the Department of Philosophy, University of the Free State. Bert does research in Psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, ecological philosophy and the philosophy of technology, Literature, cinema, architecture and Aesthetics. His current project is 'Understanding the subject in relation to the hegemony of neoliberalism.'| Brownstone Institute
CDC has systematically misclassified covid as UCoD on death certificates that clearly list different conditions as Underlying Cause of Death| Brownstone Institute
This governor’s quarantine camp regulation puts the power at the highest levels of the state government – centrally controlled.| Brownstone Institute
If there were any remaining doubts about the federal government’s censorship activities, this new evidence should settle every question.| Brownstone Institute
