Zombie Bioethics by Aaron Kheriaty at Brownstone Institute The following was published recently in First Things and is reprinted here with permission. --- A recent article in MIT Technology Review carries the strange title, “Ethically sourced ‘spare’ human bodies could revolutionize medicine.” Three Stanford biologists and ethicists argue for the use of so-called bodyoids in science and medicine. This infelicitous term refers to hypothetical modified human bodies created fro...| Brownstone Institute
The Perception of Reality by Russ Gonnering at Brownstone Institute Ten years ago, the internet was completely captured by “The Dress.” A photoof a dress was displayed.Was it Blue and Black? Was it White and Gold? Everybody had an opinion, and it was definite. This is distinct from other optical illusions, such as The Rubin Vase, which can be easily reversed by most people: The Dress launched a flurry of scientific inquiries in an attempt to explain the science behind this. The Journal of...| Brownstone Institute
Disturbing Secrets about Vaccines by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute The vaccine area is much more complicated than I knew when I worked at a department of infectious diseases as a young doctor. I didn’t perceive vaccines could be a problem and had taken all the recommended ones. My 2013 book, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime, hardly mentions vaccines at all because none of the major scandals in healthcare where drugs had killed thousands of patients because of drug company...| Brownstone Institute
Hysteria Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute The following is an excerpt from Dr. Thomas Harrington’s book, Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class. Sadly, for most people today, World War I, or what some older Brits still refer to as the Great War, doesn’t mean too much. This is too bad, as it is perhaps the best mirror we have on the behavior of people and countries during the Covid era. For those who have forgotten, WWI occurr...| Brownstone Institute
The Way Home by Joel Salatin at Brownstone Institute How do you find your way home when you're lost and far away? Where do you start? In wilderness survival training, it's "head downhill." That will bring you to water, and water will bring you to civilization. Let's look at the last two weeks: Charlie Kirk's assassination. Bombing alleged fentanyl boats heading to the US. Copycat (from Kirk's assassin, bullet writing) shootings at ICE. Acetaminophen (in some 500 brands, most prominently Ty...| Brownstone Institute
CDC Continues to Torture the Data by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute In my vaccine book, I give numerous examples that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot be trusted in relation to vaccines and infections. The CDC has claimed, for example, that influenza vaccines reduce hospitalisations and mortality even though the randomised trials did not find this. The CDC did not provide a single comment that its claims were based on deeply flawed case-control studie...| Brownstone Institute
Poison Embedded in the Education of Doctors by Allon Friedman at Brownstone Institute As the Trump administration expands its battle to stamp out Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ideology by targeting medical schools and hospitals, recent interactions with medical trainees highlighted just how entrenched this ideology has become in the education of doctors. I am a medical faculty member at a major Midwestern medical school and am frequently accompanied by medical students and residents duri...| Brownstone Institute
The Spirit of Godliness by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book, Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] In my youth, we sang a hymn that went: “You ask me how I know he lives; he lives within my heart.” Honestly, I’m not sure that this line made much sense to me as a kid, at least not to an aspirational rationalist. As years have gone by, I have a better understanding. It’s a distinctly American idea. It seems ...| Brownstone Institute
Babel Moments by Julie Ponesse at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.] Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth. —Genesis 11:4 Oh we may have sharper tools But we don't always know how to use them After all we're only human —Matthew Barber, “Viral” About 5,000 years ago, som...| Brownstone Institute
Autism has long been untouchable subject in American politics. Federal agencies tiptoed around it, steering research toward genetics.| Brownstone Institute
United States Announces Revolutionary Reform in Autism Research and Treatment by James Lyons-Weiler at Brownstone Institute The federal government just signaled a serious course correction on autism. In a joint appearance that felt less like a press conference and more like a policy pivot, President Donald J. Trump stood alongside HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, and CMS Director Mehmet Oz to outline an all-agency plan that tr...| Brownstone Institute
The Nonprofit Racket by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [This is the foreword to the new book by Douglas French: When Movements Become Rackets (2025)] Dante Alighieri, in his book Inferno, places those who betray benefactors in the deepest circle of hell. If that is true, the place is likely overpopulated with the managers and executives of nonprofit organizations. In recent years, such organizations have been implicated in egregious schemes to launder money and influence for ev...| Brownstone Institute
Democracy Dies in Adulterated Voter Rolls by el gato malo at Brownstone Institute We can argue about just how much democracy is even desirable in a republic where the rights of the individual are supposed to stand paramount to the whims of the demos and that most oppressive of forms of governance, “tyranny of the majority,” but I suspect just about all of us can agree on a basic issue: If we are to have democracy, counting the votes is vital and, as a subset of such, determining which vot...| Brownstone Institute
New Study Shows That There Is a Lot of DNA in the Pfizer/Moderna Vials by Jessica Rose at Brownstone Institute I promised a “Jess write-up” of our newest paper that was published on 06 Sep 2025 in the journal Autoimmunity after many years of preprintage, peer review, and attacks. It is entitled: “Quantification of residual plasmid DNA and SV40 promoter-enhancer sequences in Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna modRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Ontario, Canada” and it was submitted as evidence in t...| Brownstone Institute
Homesteading: The Little Piggy by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute Last weekend, Jill and I visited the uniquely experimental Polyface farm here in Virginia. A long-standing, successful older farm where its owner and operator, Joel Salatin, has developed regenerative farming methods grounded in the pragmatic realities of the small farm and homestead. Jill and I were lucky enough to get a private tour of the farm and to have Joel teach us about sylvan farming and pigs. Joel has a system o...| Brownstone Institute
The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake – It Was Just Wrong by David Bell at Brownstone Institute The Covid response was not an error, and it was not the result of rushing to address a crisis due to an unknown pathogen. It was a lot of people, mostly professionals in the field, systematically and collectively doing what they knew was wrong. It is helpful when this is systematically laid out, as such facts can form a basis from which to stop it being repeated. Early in 2025, some statistician...| Brownstone Institute
Kirk was antithesis of Kimmel. Kirk was influential with the youth while Kimmel’s sanctimony is reserved for a dwindling audience.| Brownstone Institute
How to Protect Patients and Medical Professionals by Brooke Miller at Brownstone Institute The Transformation of Medicine: From Healers to Healthcare Workers I had the privilege of addressing the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons this past Friday at their annual meeting and convention. I spoke on a topic that I'd never addressed publicly before, but one in which I feel quite versed through hard-won experience. During my medical career, which spans four decades, I've witnessed pr...| Brownstone Institute
The Moral Hazard of Anesthesia by Sarah Thompson at Brownstone Institute In the history of medicine, there have been two primary means of determining whether a substance has a medicinal application: theory and observation. The use of drugs in medicine has generally followed a pattern of trial and error, where a substance comes into use until it is determined to be harmful, at which point it is quietly removed from circulation, generally because something new has been discovered or invented to...| Brownstone Institute
The Food Emancipation Proclamation by Joel Salatin at Brownstone Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQfpfSAmO10 The operative word of our time is disentanglement. How many people do we run into that say, I just want to disentangle. I don't want to feel dependent on the education system. So we have a tsunami of homeschooling. I don't want to be dependent on the healthcare system. So we have a tsunami of medical quacks, many of them speaking here. We all want to go to a quack these days....| Brownstone Institute
The Pandemic of Fake Psychiatric Diagnoses by Peter C. Gøtzsche at Brownstone Institute On 12 September, UK child and adolescent psychiatristSami Timimi published “When mental-health diagnoses become brands, the real drivers of our psychic pain are hidden” in the Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper. In his superb article, Sami carefully explains how he arrives at his painful conclusion: You see there is a truth that we (in the mental-health business) hope no one will notice – we liter...| Brownstone Institute
The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees by Robin Koerner at Brownstone Institute “It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible.” -Donald Trump. Never did I expect to write an article about the moderation of political communication that began with a quote from Donald Trump. ...| 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
5 Reasons Pfizer’s Reply to President Trump Is Complete Rubbish by Clayton J. Baker, MD at Brownstone Institute On September 1, 2025, on Truth Social, President Trump posted a demand for transparency. Specifically, he called for public release of the data he has received from pharmaceutical companies regarding the modified-mRNA-based Covid injections, calling out Pfizer specifically. He wrote: It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Man...| Brownstone Institute
The Spirit of Pioneering by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute [The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Tucker’s book, Spirits of America: On the Semiquincentennial.] Of all the chapters in Eric Sloane’s book, his fifth chapter on pioneering is the most melancholy. He reflects on the hardships of life in the 18th and 19th centuries, the strange and spectacular ways people unrooted themselves to travel for months on end to find new homes in uncharted land and make new homes for th...| 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
I changed my doctoral thesis topic to “The Political Economy of Autism” and spent years analyzing everything that has been written on autism.| 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
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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
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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
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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