Brownstone Institute

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The Brownstone Institute is a think tank publishing essays that criticize the Covid response, including lockdowns, masks and vaccines.

What HN saysCommenters treat it skeptically, noting it was founded to oppose the Covid response and pushes anti-vaccine claims, while others cite it on masks and immunity.
65HN people shared it
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    They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now
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    How Could We Have Been So Naive about Big Tech?
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    The Meaning of the FDA Resignations
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    Homepage
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    For whom do the Covid “fact checkers” work?
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    Why No One Wants to Talk About Sweden
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    Follow the Data, They Said, and Then Hid It
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    The Mask Distraction
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    The Candy Shortage Is but a Sign of Much Worse
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freedude · 2023-07-19
Because of Covid science has proven masking is a waste of effort and resources. If you disagree you should really research the latest studies. Here is a great starting point from 2021. https://brownstone.org/articles/studies-and-articles-on-mask-ineffecti… They are a failure. Globally. https://www.amazon.com/Unmasked-Global-Failure-COVID-Mandates/dp/16375… One of the largest peer-reviewed European studies says... "These findings indicate that countries with high levels of mask compliance did not perform better than those with low mask usage." https://www.cureus.com/articles/93826-correlation-between-mask-complia… Why? Because they are ineffective and were only introduced as a way to busy or "pacify" the masses.
croes · 2022-09-16
Are you sure they are a valid source? They "proved" that mRNA don't prevent deaths at all https://brownstone.org/articles/have-people-been-given-the-wrong-vacci… and are linked to the Great Barrington Declaration https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/95601
walterbell · 2022-08-31
12 August 2022, https://brownstone.org/articles/cdc-quietly-ends-differentiation-on-co… > US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly ended its policy of differentiating within COVID-19 prevention guidance between those who have received Covid vaccines and those who have not: Unvaccinated people now have the same guidance as vaccinated people. > CDC’s COVID-19 prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person’s vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur, though they are generally mild, and persons who have had COVID-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection.
zumu · 2022-05-25
Looks like the author is a contributor to this: https://brownstone.org/ which was founded to be critical of the global COVID response and generally push anti-vaxx theories.
angelzen · 2021-11-24
Probably the OP refers to a large scale Israeli study from late summer. https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers… https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1 Edit. While googling around on this topic, I stumbled upon a decent comparison between the Israeli study and a CDC study that claims the opposite, specifically that covid recovered are five times more likely to be hospitalized for covid than the vaccinated. https://brownstone.org/articles/a-review-and-autopsy-of-two-covid-immu…
tamimio · 2023-08-07
>The irony here is palpable. Is it? There’s a big difference between misunderstanding a picture location -where I admit I was wrong- and someone is willing to shoot because big pharma said so and still willing to do so if it would happen again, not knowing their mistake, this goes without mentioning the dozens of examples and proven evidence how it was dealt with there, from the quarantine camps [1], to people denied food because they are not vaccinated [2], or how police used drones and other tech invading people basic privacy and liberties [3], and I’m not even going with post-vaccine injuries. I’m not talking about vaccination policies or itself was effective or not, I’m talking about basic human decency among each other, it’s ok if you do a mistake, admit it, and learn from it especially if you were “just following orders”, just like how I admit that pic was wrong, the least can be done is admitting a lot of covid shenanigans were wrong,it’s time to fix that, and hold some people accountable for ordering others to do such atrocities. [1] https://brownstone.org/articles/inside-an-australian-quarantine-camp/ [2] https://rebekahbarnett.substack.com/p/good-australians-and-the-banalit… [3] https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-australia/co…
halfjoking · 2022-11-28
>So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease. I'm one of those people. I didn't want the vaccine after having long covid, because I believed natural immunity was much better than training my immune system on an earlier version of the virus. I was right.[1] Not only that - but unvaccinated were shown to have the same viral load even if they did get infected.[2] So why are you blaming the unvaccinated? Right now there are more excess deaths than any time during the pandemic.[3] Even people who were provaxx are questioning why it's happening now.[4] If the vaxx was so great less people should be dying or was that not the point? [1] https://brownstone.org/articles/how-the-cdc-buries-the-truth-about-nat… [2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)006… [3] https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1593840089544679425 [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZJfVR9-wo
sojournerc · 2021-11-10
I don't know enough about immunology to say whether "binding more broadly" confers more immunity or not. It would certainly go against prior knowledge about human immune responses for a single spike protein (vaccine) to elicit a greater immune response than _the actual virus_. That CDC study is so bad I'm surprised they had the gall to publish it with the conclusion they did. Testing positive says nothing about severity of infection. > were about five times more likely to test positive for the infection than people who had been vaccinated Testing positive is not a very good metric. Were they hospitalized? Was it severe? Did they even get sick, or just test positive? They even admit to a sampling flaw in the discussion: > Second, persons who have been vaccinated are possibly less likely to get tested. Therefore, the association of reinfection and lack of vaccination might be overestimated. The best study on this so far is from Israel with a much larger sample in a highly vaccinated country. Here's a Harvard doctor discussing the contradictory studies. https://brownstone.org/articles/a-review-and-autopsy-of-two-covid-immu… > For a low-risk person, which includes most people with natural immunity, a 35% risk reduction is more marginal in terms of absolute risk. > Based on the solid evidence from the Israeli study, the Covid recovered have stronger and longer-lasting immunity against Covid disease than the vaccinated. Hence, there is no reason to prevent…
Npovview · 2026-06-06
https://brownstone.org/articles/since-lockdowns-a-12-gdp-loss-half-of-… here's an example of Spanish journalist using AI to analyze US inflation data properly.
alex1138 · 2025-08-19
See also: https://brownstone.org/articles/facebook-is-dead/ And I would like an explanation from HN about their censorship of covid too (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36654466) and why my posting of https://rumble.com/v28x6zk-sasha-latypova-msc.-nsa-team-enigma-covid-1… got flagged
r721 · 2023-12-27
hammock · 2023-12-05
Someone altered the link to a paywalled version of the same article (for some reason). Here is the full article for free: https://brownstone.org/articles/fda-shuts-down-enquiries-about-dna-con…
hirundo · 2022-12-01
Or about 1 in 400 people. This estimates that in the US about 1 in 4 of those deaths was from something other than Covid: https://brownstone.org/articles/deaths/
danans · 2022-08-31
> 12 August 2022, https://brownstone.org/articles/cdc-quietly-ends-differentia... > Unvaccinated people now have the same guidance as vaccinated people > Someone might want to tell the millions of workers who lost their jobs It only took 1M dead people in the US to get there, and the death rate for the unvaccinated was many multiples that of the unvaccinated [1]. 1. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination
collyw · 2022-07-13
There are 150 more studies to show what bullshit the masks are. https://brownstone.org/articles/more-than-150-comparative-studies-and-…
nradov · 2022-06-08
The disruptions were caused more by progressive politicians overreacting than by the pandemic itself. https://brownstone.org/articles/was-it-the-pandemic-or-the-response/
fn-mote · 2022-02-25
Source is pretty partisan, as are the sources cited in the article. I was hoping for better, more rigorous reporting. Quick skim - https://brownstone.org/tag/public-health/
argvargc · 2022-01-26
COVID what-ists? You mean all manner of people who have all manner of opinions and reasons for them that just so happen to differ from the views presented as scientific consensus by government, media and celebrities? Here is a summary of over 400 studies demonstrating lockdowns are ineffective or harmful: https://brownstone.org/articles/more-than-400-studies-on-the-failure-o… Prepare a sufficiently convincing argument against each and every one of them, and against the credentials of each and every author, before using the term "denialist" in application to anyone other than yourself.
miles · 2021-12-10
Here is the original from which this was apparently copied: 141 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to Covid-19: Documented, Linked, and Quoted https://brownstone.org/articles/79-research-studies-affirm-naturally-a…
8as746fd4a5df · 2021-11-20
The same author, on the same topic, writing for the Brownstone Institute: https://brownstone.org/articles/this-is-not-a-pandemic-of-the-unvaccin…
FjolsvithAase · 2021-11-01
pseudo0 · 2024-06-14
As described in the article, all that happened were subpoenas for documents. That's the very first step in any investigation. Those documents have shed significant light on the relationship between the SIO and government agencies [0]: > Led by former CIA fellow Renee DiResta, the Virality Project functioned as an intermediary for government censorship. Ties between the US government and the academic research center were extremely close. DHS had “fellows” embedded at the Stanford Internet Observatory, while SIO had interns embedded at CISA, and former DHS staff contributed to the Virality Project’s final report. > The Virality Project also had contact with the White House and the Office of the Surgeon General, described the CDC as a “partner” in its design documents, and the California Department of Public Health had a login to access the Jira content flagging system, as did CISA personnel. It sure seems like SIO was acting as a government contractor/agent here, if it was providing services to the government in exchange for funding. [0] - https://brownstone.org/articles/the-virality-projects-censorship-agend…
duckhelmet · 2023-07-06
What Happens When The Federal Government Stops Paying For Covid-19 Tests, Vaccines And Treatments? [forbes.com] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2022/09/05/what-will-happen-t… Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine authorised for use in infants and children aged 6 months to 4 years [www.gov.uk] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pfizerbiontech-covid-19-vaccine-aut… Waning of vaccine effectiveness against moderate and severe covid-19 among adults in the US from the VISION network: test negative, case-control study [bmj.com] https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-072141 CDC Altered Minnesota Death Certificates that List a Covid Vaccine as a Cause of Death [brownstone.org] https://brownstone.org/articles/cdc-altered-death-certificates/ Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says [wsj.com] https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a The evidence is becoming ever more clear that the Covid-19 virus leaked out of China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. [forbes.com] https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2023/03/30/laboratories-are-s…

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