The First Lady of Bad Ethics
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Christine Grady, HHS chief of bioethics (now retired, unless she chooses Alaska), and her husband, Dr. Anthony Fauci at NIAID, were central figures during the Zika... Read more.
The City That Treats Adults Like Children
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Newton’s law bans everything with nicotine—whether it burns or not. Cigarettes. Vapes. Nicotine gum. Pouches. Even options that help people quit smoking are... Read more.
The China Covid Narrative: What We Missed in 2020
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For Christakis, China’s drop in cases was “astonishing.” But beneath the awe, a question lingers for us: What was the real “virus” China was fighting—and... Read more.
ASPR and BARDA: Bureaucratic Dysfunction in Biodefense
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Unless the U.S. can streamline its biodefense system and balance security with diplomacy, we will continue to play a costly game of catch-up—spending billions... Read more.
Empowered by the State, Condemned by the Crisis: The Purdue Paradox
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Just as taxpayer-funded research paved the way for the Covid-19 pandemic through gain-of-function experiments in Wuhan, the government’s blind spot—or complicity—in... Read more.
Fauci’s ‘DNA of Caring’
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Dr. Anthony Fauci often claims a "DNA of caring” yet his actions reveal a stark contrast. Avoiding direct patient care, Dr. Fauci focused on populations. His so-called... Read more.
Methadone Maintenance Ignited America’s Opioid Crisis
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The newly adapted and widely adopted “Disease Model of Addiction” soon analogized narcotics’ methadone with diabetics’ insulin as both requiring long-term... Read more.
The Amateur Who Unraveled Wuhan
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Matthew Tye, an independent documentarian with a chronicled decade of living in (and motorcycling throughout) China, developed a profound understanding of its culture... Read more.
EcoHealth Alliance’s Wuhan-Virus Dalliances
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Recently, Brownstone.org received communication from EcoHealth Alliance in response to my article Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Own ‘Gain-of-Function.’ Eco-Health claims... Read more.
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Own “Gain-of-Function”
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This isn’t merely about the legacy of an individual but an urgent call for introspection and reckoning with the values and principles we hold dear as a society... Read more.
The Marvelous Mr. McNeil
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For nearly 50 years, the quintessential New York Times reporter, Donald G McNeil, Jr. “did it all:” from copy boy to foreign correspondent to science reporter;... Read more.
The Mysterious Case of Zika-Microcephaly’s Disappearance
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In 2015, a viral pandemic from Northeast Brazil exploded into the news, supported by breathless public health alarms that Zika -- a flavivirus acknowledged for decades... Read more.