The Last Minute Rush
There's still time but barely
Every conference organizer knows it is inevitable: people wait until two weeks before an event to register. If that is you, now is the time before time is gone.
Our annual conference and gala (only our 3rd one) is November 4, in Dallas, Texas, at the Omni Hotel. Most of our top writers will be there, and we all want to meet supporters and build Brownstone into a real community.
Aware of the crisis and determined to understand and reverse this course, people are coming from all over the world!
Among those attending will be members of our pandemic planning and censorship working groups that you made possible with your support. Most of our fellows are coming too.
Tomorrow, our supper club welcomes Joshua Stylman on October 25.
And here’s a notable landmark: Brownstone just published its 2000th article!
Here is some content since our last email:
Germophobia Therapy: Reality Check Edition By Steve Templeton. We all know people who are obsessed with the idea of keeping their food “clean.” Throwing any food away that sits out on a table longer than the time it takes to eat a meal or anything that falls on the floor have become pretty common first-world practices. There are few heuristics or shortcut rules that have become popular as a result, such as a the “two-hour rule” for leaving out food, and the “five-second rule” for eating food that has touched the floor.
Is There a Cure for the Western Public Health Catastrophe? By Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters, Michael Baker. Beyond advocating healthy eating, exercise, and robust international travel, there is the question of what role optimal public health policy has in promoting particular lifestyles. At present, the West is burdened with high and increasing levels of obesity, gaming addiction, mental health problems, and loneliness. To the health industry all this is a boon, providing a steady stream of victims to fleece.
On Broken Friendships By Mark Oshinskie. No matter what their basis or origin, friendships—and close relationships with selected kin—entail exchanging perceptions of the world and life. In so doing, friends influence each other’s thinking, even without trying to. Listening to friends or favored family members, or listening to ourselves talk to them, can also help us to figure out what’s true. Or at least what feels good to believe or say.
Is Serfdom Humanity’s Default? By Rob Jenkins. The real problem is that, as our fellow Americans wind their way blithely down the road to serfdom, they are taking the rest of us with them. Because we cannot have a country in which some are allowed to live freely, according to their own lights, assuming the concomitant risks, while others are “guaranteed” a life free only from such decisions and responsibilities.
The First Champion of Free Speech By Aaron Kheriaty. Thomas Moore’s refusal to violate his conscience cost him everything: imprisoned in the Tower of London, he was eventually beheaded by orders of the King. More was eventually canonized a Catholic saint (he is patron of lawyers and politicians—yes even politicians have a patron saint!). But he can also be considered a martyr for free speech.
Where is the Office for Human Research Protections? By Steven Kritz. If proper data and safety monitoring had been done, the vaccine would very likely have been removed from the market by the late spring of 2021, prior to being considered for children under the age of 18. While Dr. Nass informs us that EUA swept aside OHRP, I believe we need much more detail as to how that happened, and how other elements of OHRP/IRB policies and practices developed over decades were swept aside.
EcoHealth Alliance’s Wuhan-Virus Dalliances By Randall Bock. Recently, Brownstone.org received communication from EcoHealth Alliance in response to my article Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Own ‘Gain-of-Function.’ Eco-Health claims the Wuhan work on bat coronaviruses didn’t meet the definition of gain-of-function and asks that we amend the article, with any such updates credited to “an EcoHealth Alliance spokesperson.”