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Dr. Martin Kulldorff Joins Brownstone Institute as Senior Scientific Director

Brownstone Institute / October 31, 2021 / Public Health / 8 minute read

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The Brownstone Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Martin Kulldorff is joining our institute as Senior Scientific Director. Having served as a professor at Harvard Medical School for the past ten years, he will guide the scientific activities of the Institute, particularly as it relates to the pandemic and the needed public health recovery and reform so that no country will repeat the terrible errors of 2020-21.

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The True Meaning of Masking

Robert Freudenthal / October 30, 2021 / Masks, Philosophy, Policy, Psychology, Public Health, Society / 9 minute read

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If we are people in a society with an authoritarian structure, where our ability to participate and do the things we wish to do every day are conditional on the approval of government, then our way of relating with power structures is no longer one of “We are all in partnership together” but one of “behavioural correction.” In such a system the mask becomes a tool for enacting that behavioural correction.

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Dr. Deborah Birx’s Failed Attempt to Flip the Script

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 29, 2021 / History, Public Health / 12 minute read

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She makes some very serious charges, while evading responsibility for her central role in the egregiously botched response. Birx not only pushed Trump to enact lockdowns. She personally called health officials in every state and demanded that they do the same. And did this for months. They complied based on her position and authority.

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This Is Not a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated

Günter Kampf / October 29, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 12 minute read

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Some politicians speak about the “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” But fully vaccinated individuals can harbour high viral loads, spread SARS-CoV-2 and cause severe and fatal Covid-19, also among other fully vaccinated individuals. Social cohesion should not be jeopardized because of an erroneous and narrow view of the epidemiological situation.

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An Interview with Gigi Foster, Warrior Against Lockdowns

Brownstone Institute / October 28, 2021 / Economics, Public Health / 49 minute read

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Gigi Foster, economic professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, is co-author of The Great Covid Panic (Brownstone Institute, 2021) and a fierce opponent of lockdowns and mandates that have caused so much damage to Australia’s economy and long-standing tradition of human rights. Jeffrey Tucker of Brownstone interview her in this detailed interview, as her book is growing in influence in Australia and around the world.

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Jab Mandates Are Both Unethical and Fail the Cost/Benefit Test

Michael Tomlinson / October 28, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 21 minute read

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Of all the unprecedented violations of human rights and individual liberty that have been inflicted on populations during the Covid-19 pandemic, the most intrusive has been the relentless campaign to coerce every last individual to be vaccinated.

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Extensive Efficacy Studies that Rebuke Vaccine Mandates

Paul Elias Alexander / October 28, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 42 minute read

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What these studies show, are that vaccines are important to reduce severe disease and death, but unable to prevent the disease from spreading and eventually infect most of us. That is, while the vaccines provide individual benefits to the vaccinee, and especially to older high-risk people, the public benefit of universal vaccination is in grave doubt. As such, Covid vaccines should not be expected to contribute to eliminating the communal spread of the virus or the reaching of herd immunity. This unravels the rationale for vaccine mandates and passports.

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Lockdowns Were An Attack on Human Life

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Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / October 26, 2021 / Public Health, Society / 14 minute read

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From a social perspective, lockdowns are like trying to get humans to act out a reprise of the hunter-gatherer period, isolated in small groups and interacting infrequently. The failures of lockdowns are all related to the impossibility of really trying to live that way again.

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The Treason of the Healers

Thomas Harrington / October 26, 2021 / History, Public Health, Society / 9 minute read

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During the middle years of the 20th century, the social privilege, deference and power previously granted to clerics, and then to writers, was bequeathed to the science-based healers. While they have done much to improve our lives with the money and authority we have given them, they have—even though they seem largely unaware of it—now fallen into a grave state of moral decadence.

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Why the CDC Ignores Natural Immunity

Aaron Kheriaty / October 24, 2021 / Public Health / 4 minute read

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There are many political reasons the CDC continues to ignore the scientific evidence on this issue. Here is a sampling of the reasons, which are neither compelling nor grounded in scientific findings.

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Your Booster Life: How Big Pharma Adopted the Subscription Model of Profitability

Julius Ruechel / October 24, 2021 / History, Pharma, Policy, Public Health, Technology / 76 minute read

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What if, by depriving us of normal life, those who stand to gain from vaccines can forever cement themselves at the center of society by providing an artificial replacement for what our immune systems used to do to protect us against common respiratory viruses back when we were still allowed to live normal lives?

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The Politicization of Immunology

Steve Templeton / October 22, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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Both immunity to vaccination and infection protect against severe disease, but the scope of immunity that develops after infection is broader, generally more durable, and more specific to lung reinfection. Stronger immunity derived from infection comes with increased risk of severe disease and a higher incidence of long-term effects, especially in older people and those with comorbidities.

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