Before I start, let me pose a question for you to ponder. How many people around the world have been helped to retain their sanity, and perhaps even to escape self-harm, by the existence of entities like Brownstone in America …
Under the Microscope: Cochrane’s Covid-19 Vaccines Review
There has been little attention paid to Cochrane’s review of Covid‐19 vaccines, in stark contrast to the worldwide media attention paid to its review of face masks.
Since Cochrane reviews have been lauded as “rigorous” and “trustworthy,” it is prudent …
The Real Scandal: Covid Inquiry’s Failure
The real Covid scandal is emerging right in front of the inquiry’s nose, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph: Britain could have escaped the horrors of lockdown, but nobody pulled apart the doom models driving it. Here’s an excerpt.
Let’s …
Questioning Lipid Nanoparticles
Despite over 13.5 billion Covid-19 doses administered worldwide, there remains a lot of fundamental information lacking. Since there isn’t a good article which 1) scientifically, 2) clinically and 3) regulatorily address Lipid Nanoparticles (LNPs) and the FDA’s role in assuring …
Banishing Ghosts after the Pandemic
My wonderful wife handles all of the Halloween planning for our family. She arranges the costumes, the candy, puts up the decorations, and manages the inevitable costume parties.
This year my wife chose a Ghostbusters theme. In our front yard, …
Vaccine Mandates and Employee Termination: Arbitrary and Capricious
I was recently engaged to develop documentation that could be used in support of unjust termination prosecution of US employers who had required COVID-19 vaccination of their employee(s) under threat of termination for non-compliance.
On October 25, 2022 (one year …
A Revealing Dialogue with a Former CDC Scientist
Note: this piece was coauthored with Martin Neil and Jonathan Engler
Dr Norman Pieniazek is a molecular biologist, geneticist, and epidemiologist with 147 publications in virology and parasitology. Before he retired, he spent 24 years working at the Center for …
Anti-Lockdown Goes Mainstream
It’s a shift worth marking. New York Magazine is featuring an article called “COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure.” The authors are two excellent journalists, Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean, who have also written a new …
How Did the Corruption of Public Health Happen?
International public health is a mess. Once seen generally as a public good, the focus of the World Health Organization (WHO) now more closely resembles a scheme for extracting private profit from the public purse. Wealthy corporations drive a ‘public-private …
A Reevaluation of the Pandemic Preparedness and Response Agenda
This is an initiative of the University of Leeds, in cooperation with Brownstone Institute, to clarify the evidence base on which history’s largest public health program is being built.
Public health serves a vital role in strengthening population resilience to …
How Medicine Lost Its Way: The Abandonment of Medical Ethics | Richard Amerling, MD
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Medicine is an ancient profession and owes its longevity to adherence to a code of ethics, best summarized by the Hippocratic Oath. The devotion to one’s patient, which implies “do not harm,” is at …
Brownstone Institute at Year Three
Brownstone Institute’s third annual conference and gala is upon us. It’s a good time to reflect on where we’ve been and where we are going.
Before we begin, this much is obvious: lots of very powerful people want this institution …
Professor Lockdown Denies Ever Calling for Lockdown
In one of the more bizarre moments at the Covid Inquiry so far, Professor Neil Ferguson, the architect of Britain’s lockdown, today denied ever calling for the first national stay-at-home order – in the latest instance of lockdown backpedalling. The Mail has more.…
Covid Amnesty: Is Mercy the Answer?
Mercy is a missing ingredient of our modern society.
As we fire 280-character social missiles, learn the necessary aim and outrage for maximum effect, update, and reload to fire again into the volley, I worry we might be forgetting about …
My Golden Retriever Confronts the Medical Juggernaut
Recently, our golden retriever, Bailey, got kennel cough. She hasn’t been in a kennel in years, but that’s what they called it: kennel cough.
Please forgive my ignorance in the matter. You see, I’m just a people-doctor. I’m not a …