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The CDC’s $2.4M Campus Marketing Program
The DC-based marketing firm, Youth Marketing Connections (YMC), builds “brand experiences for the next generation.” “Youth is All We Do,”…
Germophobes to the Left and Right
With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic hopefully waning, it will be time for many to take a step back and assess the…
Monkeypox Was a Table-Top Simulation Only Last Year
Elite media outlets around the world are on red alert over the world’s first-ever global outbreak of Monkeypox in mid-May…
Sweden’s Strategy Once Again Proven Correct
Throughout the pandemic, Sweden has faced an enormous amount of criticism and international pressure due to their willingness to stick…
Monkeypox: The Next Big Scare
Suddenly, everyone is talking about Monkeypox, the smallpox-like disease that has surfaced in recent days in both Europe and the…
Fighting Windmills: The DOD’s Battle Against Covid
Churchill observed, “Generals are always prepared to fight the last war.” Relying on past strategy to deal with the present threat is not…
Indiana Attorney General Responds to Call for Covid Misinformation
In April 2022, the Surgeon General of the US issued a call to end covid misinformation. He further urged people…
Brownstone Institute at One Year
Twenty-six months ago, we hoped that the period of darkness would end quickly once it became obvious that pandemic policy…
A Primer on the WHO, the Treaty, and its Plans for Pandemic Preparedness
The World Health Organization (WHO), whose constitution defines health as ‘a state of physical, mental and social well-being, not merely…
The FDA’s Audacious Move to Boost Kids Aged 5-11yrs
This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised the use of a single booster of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine in children…
The WHO Changes Guidelines to Favor Lockdowns
The World Health Organisation intends to make lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions intended to curb viral spread part of official…
Elites Meet to Plan Your Health: The Role of the Council on Foreign Relations
The grisly Shanghai lockdown, now entering its eighth week, has forced a reckoning among members of Democratic America’s expert class—even…
The FDA/WIC Role in the Baby Formula Debacle
There has by now been an acute shortage of infant formula in the United States for months. Despite government claims…
What Does the Pandemic Treaty Do?
Social media has been abuzz with terrifying news about a new Pandemic Treaty (officially the “Zero draft report of the Working…
The Covid Stories Project
Finally, lawmakers in DC are right about something. Congress has realized that we need to preserve our memories of the…
Lockdowns, Closures, and the Loss of Moral Clarity
Last weekend, an 18-year-old kid slogged a powerful weapon into a Buffalo, New York, grocery store and started shooting people…
Australia: Champion Covidiot
Over the weekend, the New York Times carried a story headlined “How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While Covid Killed…
The Case Against the CDC as We Know It
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was founded in 1946 as a backwater quasi-governmental agency with a negligible budget and a handful…
Can We Now See that Economics Does Not Diverge from Public Health?
The dramatic shortage of baby formula underscores the point: a functioning economy is essential to public health. It’s the same…
Congress and the Pandemic Response: An Interview with Thomas Massie
Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky is the rare example of a statesman in the US who saw the pandemic and…
The Memo that Closed the Nation’s Schools
Early in the pandemic response, a group of intellectuals, public health officials, federal law enforcement employees, and university professionals began…
Can We Find Our Way Back to Freedom?
One of the most destabilizing aspects of the chaos of the past few years is that the pillars of society—our…
The New Rift Between WHO and China
From the beginning of the pandemic, the World Health Organization and China’s CCP have worked and spoken hand-in-glove, culminating in…
The Red Dawn Email Dump: February-March 2020
The gigantic mess of called lockdown began with an email thread called Red Dawn in early 2020, based on the…
Why Is an Entire Generation Ignorant of Cell Biology?
Twenty years ago, I changed careers from management at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals to teach science to high school students. As cliché…
The Culture of Devaluation, Destruction, and Devolution
This has been a week of spin, with every regime apologist assuring the public that inflation is getting better. Just…
Is It a Crime to Be Exposed?
Imagine you’re back in pre-school. You’re sitting on the rug, listening to the teacher read a storybook. Suddenly, the nurse…
Why the Silence on Lockdowns?
Not so long ago, those who opposed the strict Covid lockdowns that were imposed across the world in early 2020…
The Political Hierarchy of Infection
I’m writing this mostly for future historians for whom this whole period of our lives could likely appear to be…
April’s CPI Codifies the New Age of Inflation
April was the seventh straight month in which the Y/Y CPI rose by more than 6%, and on that high…