Brownstone Institute

05/28/2026

We need to be asking questions about whether sending more of our collective wealth towards our healthcare system is producing good returns. We might expect that anything spent on healthcare provides good returns, but what if those investments end in losses?
~Alan Cassels
Less Is More in Medicine

We might expect that anything spent on healthcare provides good returns, but what if those investments end in losses?

05/27/2026

Now, months after the internal disputes first erupted, the FDA continues to face questions about what officials knew, when they knew it, and why the agency failed to promptly release its investigations into paediatric deaths following Covid vaccination.
~Maryanne Demasi
Inside the FDA’s ‘Cover-Up’ of Child Deaths Linked to Covid Vaccines

FDA continues to face questions about why agency failed to release its investigations into paediatric deaths following Covid vaccination.

05/26/2026

The Predictability Horizon in a Complex Adaptive System is short. It is imperative that the response of the system be carefully and frequently monitored. We can no longer bury the signals that can warn us of “something we had not anticipated.”
~Russ Gonnering
The Danger of an Unexamined Status Quo

The Predictability Horizon in a Complex Adaptive System is short. It is imperative that response of system be frequently monitored.

05/25/2026

⏰The Brownstone Show, Episode 22 - Jeffrey Tucker on the shocking death of George Washington:🩸bled to death by his own doctors. A powerful reflection on iatrogenic harm, blind trust in medical authority, and the deadly parallels to our own era. Watch & share 🔁 https://brownstone.org/the-brownstone-show

05/25/2026

Here’s the article in question. It was written and published on Dec. 5, 2025, 6:00 AM EST by Brandy Zadrozny in MS NOW. I am posting my X remarks and defense of some of the false and defamatory comments made therein.
~Jessica Rose
Article Written and Published by Libelists?

Here’s the article in question. It was written and published on Dec. 5, 2025, 6:00 AM EST by Brandy Zadrozny in MS NOW.

05/24/2026

In the normal, sane world of my childhood, this wouldn’t have been extraordinary. But this was November, 2022, and the world was just beginning to recover from the insanity of the Covid-19 response.
~Steve Templeton
Education Shrinkflation

In world of my childhood, this wouldn’t have been extraordinary. But world was beginning to recover from insanity of the Covid-19 response.

05/23/2026

While each of us are free to live by our own privately held theories regarding the actions taken by, or in the name of, Collective X or Collective Y, it is never right for the government to do so.
~Thomas Harrington
The Demonization of Men (and Everyone Else Too)

Each of us are free to live by our own theories regarding the actions taken by, or in the name of, Collective X or Collective Y.

05/22/2026

From the vaccine debate, we have learned that if government agencies truly want to promote the greater good, then best practice would be to take all of the differences among the various demographic groups in the population into consideration.
~Max Dublin
Inside the Great Vaccine Debate

From vaccine debate, if government agencies want to promote good, then best practice would be to take differences into consideration.

05/20/2026

Diseases associated with poverty—those that are endemic, predictable, and devastating—often fail to attract media attention because they don’t instil fear in the right audience or in the right way.
~Carl Heneghan & Tom Jefferson
The News-to-Death Ratio Strikes Again

Diseases associated with poverty fail to attract media attention because they don’t instill fear in the right audience or in the right way.

05/19/2026

The right-wing populist wave that broke over much of the world in 2016 barely lapped at Australia’s shores. The nation’s compulsory, preferential voting system and homogeneous, middle-management style politics formed a bulwark against the tide. Now, that bulwark is starting to crack.
~Rebekah Barnett
Australia’s Bulwark against Populism Is Cracking

The nation’s voting system and middle-management style politics formed a bulwark against the tide. Now, that bulwark is starting to crack.

05/19/2026

This is not just a political or technological battle. It is a question of what it means to remain human. For those who choose integration, that is their right. But for those who do not, that must also remain a choice.
~Sofia Karstens
The Noble Savage

This is not just a political or technological battle. It is a question of what it means to remain human.