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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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How Performative Activism Enabled Mass Persecution

How Performative Activism Enabled Mass Persecution

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Reality engineering requires three components: institutional power to create the narrative, social pressure to enforce it, and the deliberate persecution of anyone who challenges either. The Covid era revealed how performative activism serves as this machinery’s most potent enforcement mechanism.

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Science Magazine Attacks the Journal of the Academy of Public Health

Science Magazine Attacks the Journal of the Academy of Public Health

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Days after the Journal of the Academy of Public Health’s official launch, Science Magazine criticised it in a news item. A scientist wrote that the fact that Science feared our new journal suggested that we were on the right track.

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FDA Finally Stops Amyl Nitrate “Poppers” but Still Permits Illicit Nitrous Oxide Sales

FDA Finally Stops Amyl Nitrate “Poppers” but Still Permits Illicit Nitrous Oxide Sales

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While the FDA has finally taken steps to close a regulatory loophole regarding “poppers” and amyl nitrate right before Trump’s FDA commissioner has taken office, they haven’t advanced regulatory action on illicit marketing, sales, and abuse of nitrous oxide.

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Victorian Government Loses Fight to Keep Covid Health Advice Hidden

Victorian Government Loses Fight to Keep Covid Health Advice Hidden

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In the news this week, the incredible lengths taken by the Victorian government to hide the health advice on which its extremist Covid policies were supposedly based. The Victorian Government should have no qualms about releasing its top-secret health advice.

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