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The Rise in Severe Diseases in Children

The Rise in Severe Diseases in Children

Carla Peeters brownstone.org Carla Peeters is founder and managing director of COBALA Good Care Feels Better. Warning Long read: 1596 words Since the pandemic, young children are dealing with a mysterious increase in disease. Some may even have doubled in frequency, varying from infectious diseases, mental diseases (anxiety, depression,

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What Sense in Classing Haircuts as Illegal?

What Sense in Classing Haircuts as Illegal?

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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Your Chance to Win a signed Hardback Copy of “Nudged into Lockdown?”

Your Chance to Win a signed Hardback Copy of “Nudged into Lockdown?”

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are two signed, hardback copies of Nudged into Lockdown? Behavioral Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19 by BFD author Ananish Chaudhuri. Utilizing extensive research in economics, psychology, political science, neuroscience and evolutionary theory, Ananish Chaudhuri provides a critical perspective on

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Choice Quotes from Bill Gates’s New Book

Choice Quotes from Bill Gates’s New Book

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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NZ’s Bill of Rights Act Is Not as Strong as Some Might Wish

NZ’s Bill of Rights Act Is Not as Strong as Some Might Wish

Claire Breen University of Waikato Dr Claire Breen holds a BCL from the National University of Ireland (University College Cork). She also holds an LLM (International Law) and a PhD from the University of Nottingham. While the recent legal challenges to elements of the government’s COVID-19 response have

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The Problem With Radio New Zealand

The Problem With Radio New Zealand

Dave Witherow Dave Witherow, who was a long time columnist with the Otago Daily Times, emigrated to New Zealand from Northern Ireland in 1971. He’s an author and script writer, and worked as a scientist for Fish and Game. Information Opinion About three times a week I turn on

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michael baker

Could Michael Baker Be Any Wronger?

Newshub have been running a story that New Zealand may be over-counting deaths, and their rent-a-mouth, the Chicken Little of the talking head scientists, Michael Baker, thinks that the rest of the world is undercounting. Not yet we don’t, just wait. New Zealand is running six

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COVID-19 Emergency Powers

COVID-19 Emergency Powers

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The CDC Surveilled for Lockdown Compliance

The CDC Surveilled for Lockdown Compliance

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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The Guardian’s Useful Fool

The Guardian’s Useful Fool

Jack thecommoner.substack.com Warning Long Read. 1320 words. Information Opinion Much can be learned from the past two years of Covid policy, but if there’s one thing in recent weeks that has struck me the most, it is this: The luvvies of the left-wing journalist class cannot

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

“They’re not going to be used in the foreseeable future in the way that they were previously, for hospitality and all those sorts of things.” Is “in the foreseeable future” similar to Ardern’s “Not while I am PM“? “The new vaccine pass-type system will have to take

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They Won’t Let the Pandemic Be Over

They Won’t Let the Pandemic Be Over

Debbie Lerman brownstone.org Debbie Lerman has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA. According to the most reliable experts – those who have been correct in their interpretation of data throughout the Covid era, most prominently John Ioannidis

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When Will We Ever Get Some Truth?

When Will We Ever Get Some Truth?

One of the most vexed issues of the Covid pandemic has been vaccinations. The great pity of this all is that the political wagon-circling has hopelessly obscured any possibility of a dispassionate evaluation of the efficacy or otherwise of one of the biggest vaccinations roll-outs in history. If

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The MoH Can’t Have It Both Ways

The MoH Can’t Have It Both Ways

nzdsos.com Information Opinion The Ministry of Health (MoH) has confirmed three vaccine deaths in New Zealand while at the same time stating that 500 people had died with Covid. Are the deaths of three people simply collateral damage? The MoH has not stated how they excluded the vaccine as

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The Winners of a Copy of a Jab in the Dark are…

The Winners of a Copy of a Jab in the Dark are…

We are at the end of yet another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. Today we are giving away three copies to three lucky BFD members. Our winners were selected

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