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Brownstone Journal features in-depth articles, news, research, and commentary on public health, science, economics, social theory, and related policy issues — offering critical perspectives on institutional failures, government interventions, and threats to liberty.

Explore topics like vaccine trials, post-pandemic public sentiment, cancer screening dilemmas, weight loss drugs, food systems, digital ID, antidepressants, pandemic profit motives, collapse in public trust, and paths to evidence-based reform, personal freedoms, and a healthier society.

All Brownstone Institute articles are translated into multiple languages to reach global readers, foster international dialogue, and support challenges to centralized narratives worldwide.

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A Manual for Post-Pandemic Germophobia Therapy

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The more I thought about it, the more I realized that living in the modern world has left most people, including journalists, politicians, physicians, and even many scientists, with little or no appreciation of how important their relationship with microbes is to their overall health. Not just bacteria and fungi, but also viruses, too.

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Why Have They Done This to the Children?

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In India, it is even more absurd that almost everything is normal for adults: restaurants, malls, movie theatres, crowded events, crowded buses and trains and flights, etc.; while at the same time schools are not open, and even where open, normal activities are not permitted for kids!

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How Could They Have Done This to the Children?

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Some have claimed that our policies to children reflect “following the science.” They do not. There is no science to support primary school closure. No science supported prolonged (>1 year) closure for any age. No science supported outdoor cloth mask mandates for young kids, and no science supported deviating from the WHO guidance. These policies meanwhile have devastating consequences for the well-being of children

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How Lockdowns Wrecked this Student’s Dreams

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Covid has made a mockery of our university system and I am not sure if it will ever recover. My dreams of college and life in California have died a slow, painful death since Covid shut the world down back in March 2020. I am no longer angry. Life is too short and I am going to go start living it.

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