Brownstone Category
How Panic Spread: Covid in the Early Days
It was February 2020, and news accounts had been describing increasingly alarming information about a deadly new virus emanating from…
New Zealand Used Selective Science and Force to Drive High Vaccination Rates
We expect that knowledge produced and applied in a health emergency will produce information that is protective of health. But…
Things the CDC Does Not Know
There are many things the CDC does not actually know. They did not run the appropriate studies, so they do…
Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and the Future of Masking
San Diego’s nickname is “America’s Finest City.” Whether you agree with that designation or not, there are few people in…
Must We Make a Case Against Dictatorship?
Some federal officials have made startling statements in recent days. Given the times in which we live, we can no…
The Grave Dangers of Politicizing Medicine
For the past 20 years, medical practitioners (nurses and doctors) were ranked the most trusted professions by the Gallup Honesty…
Reich (and Fauci) are Wildly Wrong
Dear Correspondent, Because when you sent to me the following tweet by Robert Reich you provided no commentary, I can’t tell if…
Mask Mania: Interview with Ian Miller
Ian Miller is the author of Unmasked: The Global Failure of Mask Mandates. With the topic very much in the…
Math Proficiency Rates Show Impact of Prolonged School Closures
I was recently enlisted to help create some visuals to help convey the concerning trend in math proficiency of Middle…
Have People Been Given the Wrong Vaccine?
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…