Ready for some good news? We are too. Fortunately there is some: the injunction against agency intimidation is back. As a result, some of the rights we lost have been clawed back. Some. For now. But it’s good news, and we’ll take it. Brownstone Institute is now coming out of […]
CDC Now Refusing New COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports in Its V-Safe Program
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) V-safe website quietly stopped collecting adverse event reports with no reason or explanation. The V-safe website simply states: “Thank you for your participation. Data collection for COVID-19 vaccines concluded on June 30, 2023.” If you go there today, V-safe directs users to […]
Rutgers Set to Disenroll Students on August 15th if Not Compliant with COVID Vaccine Mandates
On March 25, 2021, Rutgers University became the first university in the nation to announce it would require students to take COVID vaccines for fall 2021 enrollment, retracting its January 8, 2021 announcement that “…with our stance of human liberties and our history of protecting that, the vaccine is not mandatory.” What happened […]
A Crumbling Regime: Lessons for the Social Sciences and Humanities
Recent revelations from the “Twitter Files” in the United States and the “Lockdown Files” in the United Kingdom revealed a troubling relationship between prominent scientific institutions, the state, social media companies, and traditional media that shaped our COVID-19 response. The fallout on democratic institutions will have political and social consequences […]
The Morality of Language in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The expression “artificial intelligence” seems fitting for any entity that does not take responsibility for its words. ChatGPT and the like remind us that machines are not human beings and human beings are not machines. Machines do not approve and disapprove as human being do. Machines do not have sentiments. […]
How They Convinced Trump to Lock Down
Originally Published at Brownstone Institute An enduring mystery for three years is how Donald Trump came to be the president who shut down American society for what turned out to be a manageable respiratory virus, setting off an unspeakable crisis with waves of destructive fallout that continue to this day. […]
Three Years to Slow the Spread Marked the Advent of Push-Button Tyranny
Originally Published at The Dossier This week marks the three-year anniversary of the infamous “15 Days To Slow The Spread” campaign. By March 16, yours truly was already pretty fed up with both the governmental and societal “response” to what was being baselessly categorized as the worst pandemic in 100 […]
Conspiracy Theories Become Conspiracy Facts
Originally Published at Brownstone Institute At first slowly but in recent weeks with seemingly gathering pace, two trends have emerged. On the one hand, many of the core claims behind lockdowns, masks, and vaccines are unravelling and the prevailing narrative has been in retreat on all three fronts. But there […]
Monkeypox: Same Players, Same Playbook
Is history repeating? Only recently the world has witnessed a rise in monkeypox cases outside of Africa. Health advisors who saw their influence and power rise when the world was confronted by the COVID-19 crisis, are now jumping on the monkeypox bandwagon, already calling the recent monkeypox outbreak an epidemic. […]