Harvey Risch, Author at Brownstone Institute

The Impending US ICD Vaccine Passport and Its Unconstitutionality

Harvey Risch January 26, 2023 January 26, 2023 Technology, Vaccines 7 minute read

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The government itself—through the CDC—has determined that vaccination status is not of policy importance. There can thus be no compelling interest for the government to forcibly collect this information against the wishes of the population, even were it not stigmatizing. So much more so after the government has spent the last two years publicly demonizing unvaccinated people for their rational and legitimate personal health choices.

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Plausibility But Not Science Has Dominated Public Discussions of the Covid Pandemic

Harvey Risch November 26, 2022 November 27, 2022 Philosophy, Public Health 30 minute read

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Many other instances of plausible scientific claptrap or bad science have occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic. Medical journals routinely and uncritically publish this nonsense as long as conclusions align with government policies. This body of fake knowledge has been promulgated at the highest levels, by the NSC, FDA, CDC, NIH, WHO, Wellcome Trust, AMA, medical specialty boards, state and local public health agencies, multinational pharma companies and other organizations around the world that have violated their responsibilities to the public or have purposely chosen not to understand the fake science.

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CDC’s Ludicrous Makeover

Harvey Risch August 18, 2022 February 3, 2023 Government, Policy, Public Health 2 minute read

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The CDC’s announcement covers everything except the fundamental problem to which the director and the external reviewer are blind: industry subservience and epidemiologic incompetence.

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In Memory of Dr. Vladimir Zev Zelenko

Harvey Risch July 2, 2022 July 2, 2022 History, Philosophy 3 minute read

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In his four years of struggle with what was a terminal cancer, Dr. Zelenko looked death in the eye numerous times. He said that these experiences made him unafraid of the opinions of men. But I think that he had a strength of character that enabled him to get to that point, separate from his own illness, that surely made him unique.

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The Emergency Must Be Ended, Now

Harvey Risch,

Jayanta Bhattacharya,

Paul Elias Alexander January 23, 2022 January 27, 2022 Public Health 4 minute read

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Americans have sacrificed enough of their human rights and of their livelihoods for two years in the service of protecting the general public health. Omicron is circulating but it is not an emergency. The emergency is over. The current emergency declaration must be canceled. It is time.

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Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Fail the Jacobson Test

Harvey Risch,

Gerard Bradley November 30, 2021 November 30, 2022 History, Law, Policy, Public Health, Vaccines 18 minute read

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A careful reading of Jacobson shows that it is not just an automatic consideration allowing the government to do what it wants when a pandemic emergency has been officially declared. Covid-19 vaccine mandates do not satisfy any of the required criteria in Jacobson, let alone all of them.

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