Brownstone Category

Building trust in institutions is vital to their success, but as we enter the third year of the pandemic, public…

Respiratory viruses are both unpredictable and commonplace. The name of the most well-known one, Influenza, originated in 15th century Italy,…

“I spent my career as an academic studying great depressions. I can tell you from history that if we don’t…

The covid crisis confused many otherwise reasonable people, bringing about some unpredictable political stances on all sides. For example, some…

It is apparently much easier to tell the truth about state action the farther away it is from home. And…

It’s always been easy to slag off Twitter. When I first joined the platform 13 years ago, if you ever…

Around the world, people are coming together to stand up for bodily autonomy, and against the widespread harm that emergency…

Brant Hadaway, the attorney who represented the Health Freedom Defense Fund in the federal district court case against the transportation…

My friend and colleague Dr. Mary Talley Bowden recently posed this important question, which has puzzled many people during the…

It is a tried-and-true tactic with effective and dastardly results. Big Pharma and other well-financed interests sponsor purportedly “impartial” medical…

It was February 2020, and news accounts had been describing increasingly alarming information about a deadly new virus emanating from…

We expect that knowledge produced and applied in a health emergency will produce information that is protective of health. But…

There are many things the CDC does not actually know. They did not run the appropriate studies, so they do…

San Diego’s nickname is “America’s Finest City.”  Whether you agree with that designation or not, there are few people in…

Some federal officials have made startling statements in recent days. Given the times in which we live, we can no…

For the past 20 years, medical practitioners (nurses and doctors) were ranked the most trusted professions by the Gallup Honesty…

Dear Correspondent, Because when you sent to me the following tweet by Robert Reich you provided no commentary, I can’t tell if…

Ian Miller is the author of Unmasked: The Global Failure of Mask Mandates. With the topic very much in the…

I was recently enlisted to help create some visuals to help convey the concerning trend in math proficiency of Middle…

Randomized controlled trials show all-cause mortality reduction from the Covid adenovirus-vector vaccines (RR=0.37, 95%CI: 0.19-0.70) but not from the mRNA…

The Vietnam War inflicted great pain: 58,220 Americans—average age, 23— were killed, along with over one million Vietnamese soldiers and…

On Monday, major US airlines suddenly dumped their mask mandates after a federal judge struck down the CDC’s national mask mandate for…

We know the wicked truth about Chairman Mao’s “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom.” He said this in 1957 while inviting…

In May of 2021, the Biden Administration began a public, coordinated campaign to combat the dissemination of “health misinformation” related…

First, a primer on the levels of the different levels of quality of research and the “Hierarchy of evidence.” Not…

Utah, Nebraska, and Vermont: A+.  Florida, South Dakota, Maine: A.  Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland: D.  California: F.  New York, New Jersey,…

One of the reasons we were told masks were essential for school kids this year was that masks would reduce…

A few decades ago, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) robots, DNA sequencers, and high-speed computers fostered and accompanied quite a scientific…

The latest index of world food prices was released by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on April 8th.…

The brutality in Shanghai is all too real. Millions of residents in China’s once-cosmopolitan financial capital have been under strict lockdown for…