The Collapse of the Industry/Agency Alliance
The ACIP meeting this week showed how real science works.
BY BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE
The ACIP meeting this week showed how real science works.
The Advisory Committee (the new one, not the old one) argued with industry. Industry argued back…and sometimes fell silent. Agency consultants had to defend themselves. Indeed, it was a day of argument over everything from immunization, injury, shots, risks, effects, and far more.
The media described it as chaos. No it was not. It was actual science. It’s been years since we’ve seen that. Remember how Anthony Fauci said he was “the science?” He was not. Now actual experts have the floor. The results are a wonder to behold.
Industry and agencies are panicking. This is as it should be. Their world has fallen apart.
Please join us in Salt Lake City for our annual gala. We greet old friends and meet new ones. We’ve added some new speakers including Brianne Dressen (who has led the campaign on vaccine injury), Aaron Kheriaty (who sounded the alarm on transhumanism), Nina Teicholz (first to blow the lid off the anti-meat hoax), and so many more, including Jay Bhattacharya of NIH.
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It’s impossible to describe what a dramatic week this has been. More than 100,000 people showed for the incredible funeral of Charlie Kirk, who was a friend of Brownstone in every way. The young people of his movement were the primary victims of Covid policies and they learned from what they saw and experienced.
Trust in official institutions is gone. The proprietors of the system just don’t want to believe it.
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Registration for the fifth annual Brownstone conference and gala is now live with early-bird pricing. This is your last chance for early bird pricing. It ends very soon.
The dates: Oct 31 - Nov 2. The place: Salt Lake City, Utah. All the luminaries who have led the way for these years will be there, discussing all the crucial subjects. It will be the first year of the Brownstone Prize, which will be awarded at the Saturday Gala dinner. If this follows recent events, it will sell out completely. Now is the time to move and get your tickets.
Jeffrey Tucker’s new book is available. Kindle is available and physical is already selling well. “A blueprint for psychological resistance disguised as cultural commentary,” says the first review. It’s short but inspiring with 15 original pen-and-ink drawings, which is why the physical book is the way to go.
On Wednesday, September 24th, the West Hartford Brownstone Supper Club welcomes Operations Management Group at MIT Sloan member Retsef Levi, a curious and scrupulous scientist with a humane outlook on solutions in these troubled times. He will share insights on the matter of AI systems. When AI systems break down, can anyone fix them? This event is sold out (weeks ago) but you can get on the waiting list here.
On Tuesday, October 7th, the Greater Boston Supper Club welcomes Kevin McKernan and Jessica Rose. Kevin will cover the radical mutagenesis that has occurred in bioethics as it pertains to the incarcerated CRISPR baby Scientist to mandated gene therapies that appeared only a few years later. Jessica will have a great conversation with Kevin about their new paper’s data. It’s all about DNA contamination/SV40. Get tickets here.
On Thursday, October 16th, the Chicago Brownstone Supper Club welcomes Brownstone Institute Founder and President Jeffrey Tucker. Jeffrey will talk about the social meaning of the loss of trust. The commanding heights of society have betrayed the public trust, making serious institutional rebuilding necessary. Jeffrey and Brownstone Institute look to guide the rebuilding by generating new ideas in public health, philosophy, scientific discourse, economics, and social theory. Get tickets here.
Here is some content since our last email.
Homesteading: The Little Piggy By Robert Malone. Jill and I visited the uniquely experimental Polyface farm here in Virginia. It’s a long-standing, successful older farm where its owner and operator, Joel Salatin, has developed regenerative farming methods grounded in the pragmatic realities of the small farm and homestead.
The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake – It Was Just Wrong By David Bell. Whatever the underlying issues, it is time everyone stopped pretending the Covid response was anything but a mess, or that we did not know it would be. There is still a place for truth.
Was Jimmy Kimmel Censored? By Brownstone Institute. Kirk was the antithesis of Kimmel. Kirk was tremendously influential with the youth while Kimmel’s sanctimony is reserved for a dwindling audience of the blue-state elderly among coastal elites. Kirk sought good-faith debate while Kimmel relied on monologues of smears.
How to Protect Patients and Medical Professionals By Brooke Miller. The future of medicine depends on our willingness to defend these principles, even when doing so requires sacrifice. The doctor-patient relationship is sacred, and it is our responsibility to protect it for future generations of physicians and the patients we serve.
The Moral Hazard of Anesthesia By Sarah Thompson. In this era of controlled drug trials, there is a pretense of attempting to determine whether a drug works and is safe before it is given to patients. However, the definitions of “control,” “efficacy,” and “safety” are loose in practice.
The Food Emancipation Proclamation By Joel Salatin. May all your carrots grow long and straight. May tomato blossom end rot affect your Monsanto neighbor’s tomatoes. May the coyotes be struck blind at your pasture chickens. May all of your culinary experiments be delectably palatable.
The Pandemic of Fake Psychiatric Diagnoses By Peter C. Gotzsche. Like me, Sami is a member of the Critical Psychiatry Network based in England. My experience with lecturing for psychiatrists has led me to believe that over 99% of psychiatrists are uncritical towards their practice.
The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees By Robin Koerner. In other times and places, political assassinations have occurred as cultural anomalies, not reflective of the zeitgeist or historical moment, and certainly not approved of by some significant minority of the population. But Charlie’s murder does not feel like that.
The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned to Pretend Obesity Is Normal By Joseph Varon. The America of 1960 was metabolically healthier than the America of 2025, not because our grandparents had better genes, but because they lived in an environment that did not constantly conspire against their physiology.
5 Reasons Pfizer’s Reply to President Trump Is Complete Rubbish By Clayton J. Baker. Pfizer’s reply to President Trump’s very reasonable call for transparency of data regarding their latest edition of their modified-mRNA Covid injections is nothing less than an insult to the intelligence of every reader, including the President himself.
The Spirit of Pioneering By Jeffrey Tucker. Americans refuse to be demoralized. We want to have good lives, and we believe that this is the country to do it in. That’s the spirit of pioneering. It is not lost. It has just ebbed and flowed.
Germophobia Doesn’t Pay, But It Does Sell By Steve Templeton. A 2011 study of nursing homes showed preferential use of hand sanitizer among the staff was associated with a significantly higher rate of norovirus infection, which causes the stomach flu, when compared to facilities that more often used soap and water.