Important Context – Who’s Speaking At the 2024 Brownstone Institute Conference? This year’s fringe fest shows the extent of the anti-science group’s influence. Walker Bragman, Allison Neitzel, and Natalie Jonas Oct 28, 2024 The panel lineup of the 2024 Pittsburgh conference not only illustrates how wide Brownstone’s influence web has become, but how unifying—and animating—public health denialism is to the global right today. Represented by the speakers are different countries, various universities and other institutions, including not a small number of dark money groups. The vast majority of the panelists are public health contrarians who have expressed skepticism of the COVID vaccines and espoused anti-trans sentiments. Day 1 Keynote. The festivities will begin with a keynote speech delivered by Tucker himself. Tucker has worn many hats throughout his career—Bitcoin advocate; managing partner at a crypto investment fund; neo-Confederate; right-wing political operative. He has a reputation for his extreme free market beliefs, which include support for child labor and youth tobacco use, and opposition to anti-discrimination laws. Conversely, Tucker lives in the rigid world of Traditionalist Catholicism and has written for various publications with a focus on liturgical music.
TLDR: Not surprisingly there’s some overlap with the Rescue the Republic event in DC in September 2024, including Robert Malone and Bret Weinstein. 3 people from the Ron DeSantis public health committee led by the infamous anti-vax Florida Surgeon General Joe Ladapo who on the podcast of Steve Bannon said vaccines are ‘the Antichrist of all products’. Some guy from Belgium who’s been on the show with Alex Jones. The anti-vax Canadian pediatrician who sued her critics and lost, and then Elon Musk said he’d pay her legal bills. The anti-vax anti-abortion candidate that lost to VP candidate Governor Tim Walz in 2022. A colleague of Pierre Kory and Jordan Vaughn at the FLCCC. An Australian libertarian psychotherapist. Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice who recently appeared at the October 2024 Madison Square Garden MAGA fascist rally. Father John Naugle of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh who has publicly hurled anti-trans insults at former PA Health Secretary and now the U.S Health Dept. Assistant Secretary, Rachel Levine. One of the infamous punitive dubious media doctor pundits launched by Oprah Winfrey – the one who didn’t run against Senator John Fetterman and also not the one who appeared at the Madison Square Garden Trump rally, it’s the other one. And, of course, at least one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration is on the roster.