Policy

Policy articles analyzing social and public policy including impacts on economics, open dialog, and social life. Articles on the topic of policy at Brownstone Institute are translated into multiple languages.

Why Governments Prefer Cigarette Revenue over Safer Alternatives

Why Governments Prefer Cigarette Revenue over Safer Alternatives

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The POUCH Act is a beginning, not an endpoint. If lawmakers are serious about improving public health, they must resist the gravitational pull of the Sinclair Trap and design a nicotine policy that rewards switching rather than punishing it.

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Justice Jackson’s History of Shilling for the Deep State

Justice Jackson’s History of Shilling for the Deep State

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Jackson’s verbose monologues reveal that she understands the importance of this struggle. She knows that her benefactors depend on her denying the President from obtaining “actual control” over the agencies that the Constitution designates to his realm.

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Cleaning the Augean Stable of University-Based Scientific Research

Cleaning the Augean Stable of University-Based Scientific Research

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Such proposed reforms do seem like legitimate recommendations that would allow for the progression of science and the continuation of worthwhile work while also serving as important first steps in cleaning the Augean stable that science in academia has become.

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ACIP Reveals: The Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccination Policy Was Built on Narrative, Not Science

ACIP Reveals: The Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccination Policy Was Built on Narrative, Not Science

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The vote on whether to continue the universal newborn hepatitis B vaccination policy was postponed, but the discussion at ACIP exposed how the directive to vaccinate infants rested on assumptions and partial data rather than on a scientific foundation.

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Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus and the Modern Medical Crisis

Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus and the Modern Medical Crisis

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Restoring trust in medicine requires a return to fundamental principles: seeing clearly without filtering evidence through institutional or political preferences; admitting what is truly seen, even when it conflicts with established narratives; protecting patients rather than defending systems.

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