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Awais Aftab: A Skilled and Dangerous Psychiatrist Manipulator by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute Some psychiatrists are highly skilled manipulators and therefore dangerous for their patients, as I shall explain below. This applies to Awais Aftab from Cleveland, Ohio. According to Robert Whitaker, Aftab has staked out a position as being open-minded to critiques of psychiatry, which is a public stance that makes him particularly valuable to his profession. He can serve as a defender...| Brownstone Institute
FDA’s War on Commonsense Nicotine Regulation by Roger Bate at Brownstone Institute Cigarettes kill nearly half a million Americans each year. Everyone knows it, including the Food and Drug Administration. Yet while the most lethal nicotine product remains on sale in every gas station, the FDA continues to block or delay far safer alternatives. Nicotine pouches—small, smokeless packets tucked under the lip—deliver nicotine without burning tobacco. They eliminate the tar, carbon monoxide,...| Brownstone Institute
Is the Extensive US Vaccine Schedule Harmful? by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute The US childhood vaccination programme is huge, 68 vaccine doses targeting 18 different diseases versus only 17 vaccine doses for 10 diseases in Denmark.1 It is unknown if the net effect of so many vaccinations is beneficial, and in August 2025, two physicians launched a federal lawsuit2 against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for failing to study the cumulative effects of its ch...| Brownstone Institute
Smoke, Mirrors, and the Pfizer Deal by Mollie Engelhart at Brownstone Institute I am a mother. I have never been vaccinated myself. I believe deeply in informed consent. And I want to say clearly that I am hopeful about Bobby’s leadership at HHS. I want to believe that he can bring real transparency and accountability to a government that has too often cozied up to the corporations it is supposed to regulate. But when I read the headlines about Trump’s “landmark” deal with Pfizer, I d...| Brownstone Institute
What Is the State and Who Controls It? by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute What is the state, from whence does it come, and who controls it? One might suppose these questions have obvious answers. In reality the answer is elusive, not easily identified even by those who are part of the system. Trump found this out in his first term. He naturally assumed that the president would be in charge, at least as regards the executive branch. He found out otherwise when the agencies worked c...| Brownstone Institute
We Stopped Practicing Capitalism by Mollie Engelhart at Brownstone Institute Nature doesn't lie. If a system isn't found in the natural world, we should question why we were trying to build it. In a world where more and more people seem to hate capitalism and clamor for socialism, I find myself wondering if we've chosen the wrong villain. Capitalism isn't the problem. Maybe it's the closest thing we have to nature. Imagine a small community. Someone opens a business, a bakery, a farm stand, a...| Brownstone Institute
Clinical Trials Did Not Show Covid Shots Were “Safe and Effective” by Lori Weintz at Brownstone Institute I was a bit familiar, not very deeply, with this mRNA class in my professional work, when these products were in development for other things—severe conditions such as cancer. I knew that these products were inherently dangerous, which isn’t unusual in pharmaceutical research and development. We frequently work on things that are risky and can be toxic, such as chemo agents. Yet, ...| Brownstone Institute
Together, Apart by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.] I have often wondered what it would have been like in Babel in the early days after its destruction. We don’t know that God actually destroyed the tower but imagination conjures images of people wandering in the dust of the ruins, living in the rubble of failed hopes and broken dreams. “What now?” they must have wondered. One interesting thing ...| Brownstone Institute
Francis Collins Accidentally Reveals His Own Incompetence by Ian Miller at Brownstone Institute [This article was originally published in December 2023.] There’s long been a debate among pandemic realists as to what levels incompetence, malice, and power-seeking played in our Covid response. We’ll never know for certain, though there are certainly strong arguments on both sides, particularly with politicians who seized their opportunity to enforce pointless, authoritarian mandates. And th...| Brownstone Institute
Fauci’s Lies Are Catching up with Him by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute [This article was originally published in January 2024.] Over the last year, it has become abundantly clear that Dr. Fauci lied and gaslit Senator Rand Paul during sworn Senate testimony during July of 2021, stating "Sen. Paul, you do not know what you're talking about, quite frankly. And I want to say that officially, you do not know what you're talking about." But it turns out that Senator Paul did know what he...| Brownstone Institute
A Helpless, Weary, and Traumatized Populace 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.] When most people hear the terms “shock and awe” and “full spectrum dominance” they probably think—if they think about them at all—of the early moments of the premeditated US destruction of Iraq and the ever-smug grin of Donald Rumsfeld. It was Rumsfeld, you will recal...| Brownstone Institute
Too Big to Fail by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.] When you read God’s response at the climax of the Babel story, it might seem like a bit of an overreaction. He spread the Babylonians across the whole earth just for building a tower in the desert? Was it really that wrong to use their ingenuity in this way? Did God feel threatened by the tower, itself, or by their resourcefulness? That’s not likel...| Brownstone Institute
Brownstone Institute’s Struggle for a Better World by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute Five years ago, Anthony Fauci warned Americans not to plan any holiday travel. Or parties. Too dangerous. You might catch Covid. You have to stay in your home. Continue living off stimulus payments, upgrading your digital technology with any extra funds. No weddings. No funerals. No Thanksgiving. No Christmas. Shopping only with store capacity limits. Arrows on the floor. Four people per eleva...| Brownstone Institute
Inside the Henry Ford Vaccine Controversy by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute When an unpublished study from one of America’s most respected hospital networks surfaced in the US Senate last month, it reignited a fierce debate in medicine: are vaccinated children healthier than unvaccinated children? The study, titled “Impact of Childhood Vaccination on Short- and Long-Term Chronic Health Outcomes in Children,” was introduced into the Congressional Record on 9 September 2025 du...| Brownstone Institute
The Pandemic That Broke Our Faith in Modeling by Paul Thacker at Brownstone Institute Several incidents in the Covid pandemic’s first two years forced me to confront the uncomfortable reality that American society had cracked apart, fleeing the comfort and safety of accepted knowns to float untethered from logic in a foreign ether far from planet Earth. Welcome to Mars. But prior incidents had already trained and prepared my mind to expect a coming derangement. During the Persian Gulf War a...| Brownstone Institute
Charlie Kirk and Socrates by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute On the Promethean Action website Susan Kokinda has addressed the difference between the globalists driving the attempt to demolish the extant world, on the one hand, and those who are defending a value system which enshrines reason in the best sense of the word, on the other. This specific video discussion is tellingly entitled ‘Why they hated Kirk and Socrates,’ and represents a scorching critique of those who valorise the...| Brownstone Institute
Vaccine Misunderstanding…or Intentional Deception? by Lori Weintz at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Lori Weintz’s book, Mechanisms of Harm: Medicine in the Time of Covid-19.] They had a pandemic. They had a technology they couldn’t bring safely to market, and the emergency allowed them to do it…allowed them to go through emergency use authorization, to get people on board with taking it because people were so scared of Covid. It allowed them to basically push ...| Brownstone Institute
The Rise and Fall of Scientific Journals and a Way Forward by Martin Kulldorff at Brownstone Institute Scientific journals have had enormous positive impact on the development of science, but in some ways, they are now hampering rather than enhancing open scientific discourse. After reviewing the history and current problems with journals, a new academic publishing model is proposed. It embraces open access and open rigorous peer review, it rewards reviewers for their important work with hono...| Brownstone Institute
Echoes of the Great Famine in the Covid Era by Robert Billard at Brownstone Institute "A Terrible Record" (John Johnson, Weekly Freeman July 2nd, 1881) In Spring 2020, supposedly “civilized” nations of the world tackled the prospects of how best to subjugate their domestic populations. At this time I was struck by seemingly obvious parallels to another sad chapter in the history of human misery: the Irish Potato Famine. There are many core similarities marking the two calamities. Both evo...| Brownstone Institute
Trump Covets the Nobel Peace Prize by Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone Institute Many news outlets reported the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday by saying President Donald Trump had missed out (Washington Post,Yahoo, Hindustan Times, Huffington Post), not won (USA Today), fallen short (AP News), lost (Time), etc. There is even a meme doing the rounds about ‘Trump Wine.’ ‘Made from sour grapes,’ the label explains, ‘This is a full bodied and bitter vintage guaranteed to lea...| Brownstone Institute
The Theater of the Absurd Ends with a Whimper by el gato malo at Brownstone Institute This article was originally published in January 2024. Let’s start with two simple axioms: Certain sorts of the mentally ill seek power over others as they cannot control themselves. It’s a way to try to substitute regulating the world around them for self-stability by making their own internal dysregulation seem fitting or laudable; it’s environment as surrogate for self. The anxious and insecure see...| Brownstone Institute
The Spirit of Time by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book, Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] Sloane’s eighth chapter begins with an interesting observation. He was an expert on old-style covered wooden bridges. Strange passion but stick with me here. He observed that there were always signs on these bridges: “Walk your horse.” Apparently galloping across a bridge creates a rhythmic pattern that weakens the ...| Brownstone Institute
Can the Polyface Approach Feed the World? by Joel Salatin at Brownstone Institute By far the most common question people ask me is, "Can the Polyface approach feed the world?" Yet another big op-ed piece in the New York Times on Sept 28 took this position to marginalize non-chemical agriculture, using the oft-quoted idea that we would need three times as much farmland to produce the food the world needs if we quit using glyphosate and chemical fertilizer. Let's take a walk into history and ...| Brownstone Institute
Javier Milei’s Rallying Cry before the WEF by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute [This article is a republication of a Substack post that was originally published in January 2024.] Buckle in, this is a speech for the history books. Summary quotes and the transcript are below the video. Note that “Libertarianism” as used here by Milei is synonymous with the classical liberalism of the US Founding Fathers such as Thomas Jefferson. Life, liberty, property. The term “classical liberali...| Brownstone Institute
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
Aaron Kheriaty, Senior Brownstone Institute Counselor, is a Scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC| 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
History articles feature analysis of historical context in relation to censorship, policy, technology, media, economics, and social life.| Brownstone Institute
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
