Maryanne Demasi

  • Maryanne Demasi, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is an investigative medical reporter with a PhD in rheumatology, who writes for online media and top tiered medical journals. For over a decade, she produced TV documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and has worked as a speechwriter and political advisor for the South Australian Science Minister.


Antidepressants for Everyone

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Encouraging people to diagnose their own depression and buy medication without a prescription - medication which has an unfavourable benefit:harm profile in most... Read more.

Is Paxlovid a Dud?

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Of all the antiviral drugs for Covid-19, Pfizer’s Paxlovid has been the most successful. Not for its safety and efficacy, but for its ability to earn the company... Read more.

The FDA’s Ties to the Gates Foundation

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In 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Under the MOU, the... Read more.