{"id":203795,"date":"2026-01-11T14:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203795"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:02:53","slug":"a-small-texas-think-tank-cultivated-covid-dissidents-now-theyre-running-us-health-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203795","title":{"rendered":"A Small Texas Think Tank Cultivated Covid Dissidents. Now They\u2019re Running US Health Policy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fueled by covid backlash, a libertarian author created the Brownstone Institute in 2021. In recent months, people with ties to the group have catapulted to the highest levels of U.S. government, exercising significant authority over access to vaccines and scientific research&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/brownstone-institute-vaccines-acip-cdc-jeffrey-tucker-bhattacharya-kulldorff\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fueled by covid backlash, a libertarian author created the Brownstone Institute in 2021. In recent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203795-a-small-texas-think-tank-cultivated-covid-dissidents-now-theyre-running-us-health-policy.jpg",1024,682,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203795-a-small-texas-think-tank-cultivated-covid-dissidents-now-theyre-running-us-health-policy-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203795-a-small-texas-think-tank-cultivated-covid-dissidents-now-theyre-running-us-health-policy-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203795-a-small-texas-think-tank-cultivated-covid-dissidents-now-theyre-running-us-health-policy-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203795-a-small-texas-think-tank-cultivated-covid-dissidents-now-theyre-running-us-health-policy.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203795-a-small-texas-think-tank-cultivated-covid-dissidents-now-theyre-running-us-health-policy.jpg",1024,682,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203795-a-small-texas-think-tank-cultivated-covid-dissidents-now-theyre-running-us-health-policy.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203795-a-small-texas-think-tank-cultivated-covid-dissidents-now-theyre-running-us-health-policy.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203795-a-small-texas-think-tank-cultivated-covid-dissidents-now-theyre-running-us-health-policy-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203795-a-small-texas-think-tank-cultivated-covid-dissidents-now-theyre-running-us-health-policy-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}