The Limits of Science

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In this video we would like to introduce Project Immanuel, which critically examines the scientific background of the so-called "Corona Crisis." With the help of the natural scientist and virologist Dr. Stefan Lanka, all fundamental publications on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 are closely scrutinised and scientifically examined in a series of posts.
Our main objective is to make science understandable to everyone. All the necessary technical terms and scientific procedures of virology and microbiology that one needs to know and understand are explained in a way that is easy for everyone to comprehend and illustrated with many examples.

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LIST OF REFERENCES:
(1) "A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China”
PUBLICATION: "A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China" [English]
AUTHORS: Fan Wu, Su Zhao, Bin Yu, Yan-Mei Chen et al.
MAGAZINE: "Nature" - ISSUE: Vol. 579, (published online February 03, 2020) March 12, 2020 (S. 265-269)
SOURCE: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2008-3

LOCATION: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2008-3

(2) "A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019"
PUBLICATION: "A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019" [English]
AUTHORS: Na Zhu, Ph.D., Dingyu Zhang, M.D., Wenling Wang, Ph.D., Xingwang Li, M.D. et al.
MAGAZINE: "New England Journal of Medicine" - ISSUE: No. 8, Vol. 382, Jan. 24, 2020 [updated Jan. 29, 2020] (pp. 727-733)
SOURCE: "N Engl J Med 2020;382:727-33. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2001017"
LOCATION: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001017

(3) "Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR"
PUBLICATION: "Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR" [English]
AUTHORS: Christian Drosten, Olfert Landt et al.
MAGAZINE: "Eurosurveillance" - ISSUE: No. 3, Vol. 25, January 23, 2020 (pp. 727-733)
SOURCE: "Euro Surveill. 2020;25(3):pii=2000045. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000045
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LOCATION: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/conten ... .3.2000045


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Immanuel Project - O.R.I., No. 01: bioweapons - the myth of man-made pathogens

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August 30th, 2021
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"ON RELATED ISSUES"
The first of our extra, contributory posts "ON RELATED ISSUES" examines explosive, critical questions, rumours and theories surrounding the topic of "Corona" and everything connected with it. When new reports do the rounds in public that have the potential to fuel (additional) fear, hatred and violence, and which above all spread dangerous misinformation from the field of medicine and science, we would like to publish a special feature on this.
In contrast to our main programme, this series offers first and foremost a statement. In order to be able to publish a comment relatively quickly, we do not go into great detail and refer you to our main programme for precise evidence of our statements, where we publish a detailed list of sources for every contribution.
Since all the topics we deal with in Project Immanuel are directly related, all the contents of our special formats can also be substantiated with the sources from the main programme.

O.R.I., No. 01: "Bioweapons - the myth of the man-made pathogen"
In the first episode of our special format "On Related Issues" we deal with the topic of biological warfare/bioweapons. Due to the latest rumours surrounding the alleged "Wuhan virus" from the laboratory, we specifically address the issue of artificial "pathogens", i.e. those modified or created in a laboratory, and explain why these are and will continue to remain, a myth.

Project Immanuel is a non-profit project. Our contributions shall be freely accessible and are intended for all people. Provided that absolutely NOTHING is changed in our publications, any of our videos and documents may be downloaded, shared and re-uploaded on your own channels. For our videos, the complete video description must also be included!
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FURTHER LINKS
Ludwik Fleck - "Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact" (Translated by Frederick Bradley and Thaddeus J. Trenn)
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo ... 76016.html

‎Publisher: University of Chicago Press (August 15, 1981)

Thomas Schnelle: "Ludwig Fleck - Leben und Denken. Zur Entstehung und Entwicklung des wissenschaftlichen Denkstils in der Wissenschaftsphilosophie",[Ludwig Fleck - Life and Thought. On the Origin and Development of the Scientific Style of Thinking in the Philosophy of Science] January 1982 (in German) https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... iburg_1982

published on ResearchGate

The Ludwik Fleck Centre for Scientific Theory
https://www.fleckzentrum.ethz.ch/en/med ... k-archive/
"Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research into Behavioral Modification - Joint Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United State Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session", 03 August 1977
https://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/na ... KULTRA.pdf

published on the website of the New York Times
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Re: The Limits of Science

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The Science for Profit Model—How and why corporations influence science and the use of science in policy and practice

Abstract

Science has been at the centre of attempts by major industries, including tobacco, chemical, and pharmaceutical, to delay progress in tackling threats to human and planetary health by, inter alia, obscuring industry harms, and opposing regulation. Some aspects of this influence are well documented, others remain poorly understood, and similarities between industries remain underexplored. This study, therefore, aims to synthesise the literature to develop an evidence-based typology and model of corporate influence on science in order to provide an overview of this multi-faceted phenomenon. We obtained literature examining corporate attempts to influence science and the use of science in policy and practice from: database searches, bibliographies, expert recommendations, and web alerts; using a modified scoping review methodology (n = 68). Through interpretive analysis we developed the Science for Profit Typology and Model. We identified eight corporate sectors repeatedly engaging in activities to influence science, including: manipulation of scientific methods; reshaping of criteria for establishing scientific “proof”; threats against scientists; and clandestine promotion of policy reforms that increase reliance on industry evidence. The typology identifies five macro-level strategies used consistently across the eight industries, comprising 19 meso-level strategies. The model shows how these strategies work to maximise the volume, credibility, reach, and use of industry-favourable science, while minimising these same aspects of industry-unfavourable science. This creates doubt about harms of industry products/practices or efficacy of policies affecting industry; promotes industry-favoured policy responses and industry products as solutions; and legitimises industry’s role as scientific stakeholder. These efforts ultimately serve to weaken policy, prevent litigation, and maximise use of industry products/practices—maximising corporate profitability. We provide an accessible way to understand how and why corporations influence science, demonstrate the need for collective solutions, and discuss changes needed to ensure science works in the public interest.

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There is, therefore, a pressing need to comprehensively map corporate influence on science. Such an overview can inform decision-making concerning whether collective science-based solutions are justified, and if so, which might be most impactful. In 2010, White and Bero began this cross-industry categorisation process, analysing documents—mostly made available through litigation—from five industry sectors (tobacco, pharmaceutical, vinyl chloride, lead and silicosis-generating industries), developing six high-level categories of science manipulation [3]. Additional evidence identifying both further aspects of scientific influence [21–23] and the use of similar strategies by other industry sectors [24–26] indicates that corporate influence on science is even more complex, multifaceted, and widespread. However, despite the growing evidence base showing wider-ranging strategies and synergies between industry approaches, there has been little attempt to collate and make sense of the literature on corporate influence on science in its entirety.

To date, overviews of the literature that investigate multiple industries have offered rich narrative syntheses of industries’ scientific strategies [1, 2, 27]; synthesised literature on discrete parts of this influence on science, such as on research agendas [28]; and mapped relationships through which health research may be affected by corporate interests [29]. However, no scholarly work has systematically categorised industry strategies to give a comprehensive yet detailed picture of the entire phenomenon. Further, while existing overviews document the longstanding evidence on industries such as tobacco and pharmaceuticals, knowledge concerning sectors such as alcohol [30], gambling [25] and mining [31] often remains absent, since this evidence has only more recently emerged.

To address this knowledge gap, this study aimed to synthesise the large and methodologically diverse literature on industry attempts to influence science, to develop an evidence-based typology and model of corporate influence on science and use of science in policy and practice. We used an unpublished rapid scoping review, “The Use of Science in Policy” (Ulucanlar, 2015) and White and Bero’s 2010 paper [3] to develop the following research questions:

Which industries attempt to influence science and its use in policy and practice?
What strategies do these industries use to influence science and its use in policy and practice, and for what intended purpose?
Are there similarities in the strategies used by different industries (and their intended impacts) that would enable the creation of collective solutions?
Our typology and model build on previous research by expanding the breadth of industries investigated (inductively identifying corporate sectors from the literature), expanding the breadth and depth with which industry strategies are examined (including by identifying strategies not included in previous cross-sector analyses), and illustrating the desired effects and outcomes of these corporate scientific strategies.

Methods
To obtain literature investigating corporate influence on science and its use in policy and practice we conducted a modified scoping review based on a procedure proposed by Arksey and O’Malley [32] and subsequently refined [33, 34]. Scoping reviews are useful when mapping methodologically and substantively diverse literature, especially where theoretical frameworks have not been established, and we followed the five proposed stages with some modifications and additions.

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Within this literature, we identified eight corporate sectors (alcohol; chemicals and manufacturing; extractive; food and drink; fossil fuels; gambling; pharmaceuticals and medical technologies; and tobacco) engaging in activities to influence science and/or its use in policy and practice. These sectors contained diverse, often multi-national, corporations. For example, within the food and drink industry, evidence related to corporations manufacturing products including confectionary, sugar-sweetened beverages, breakfast cereals, meat, infant formula, food additives and dietary supplements. A detailed breakdown of industry sectors, number of included studies investigating each sector, and sectors excluded due to insufficient data is provided in S2 Appendix.

We found corporations engaged in five macro strategies to influence science and the use of science in policy and practice. These macro strategies in turn comprise 19 meso strategies and 64 micro strategies. All strategies—macro, meso and micro—shown in the Science for Profit Typology (Table 1), are mutually reinforcing and often used in conjunction with each other. The macro and meso strategies are outlined briefly in the following section, while a fuller account of each including their purposes, key examples of the micro-level detail and supporting evidence is provided in S3 Appendix.

Macro Strategy A—Influence the conduct and publication of science to skew evidence bases in industry’s favour

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Macro Strategy B—Influence the interpretation of science to undermine unfavourable science and create a distorted picture of the evidence base

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Macro Strategy C—Influence the reach of science to create an “echo chamber” for industry’s scientific messaging

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Macro Strategy D—Create industry-friendly policymaking environments which shape the use of science in policy decision-making in industry’s favour

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Macro Strategy E—Manufacture trust in industry and its scientific messaging

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Given its underpinning role, addressing industry attempts to manufacture trust in itself and its science (Macro strategy E), will be key. That industry uses its involvement in research to enable it to be seen as socially conscious and as a necessary partner in the search for solutions, often to problems it has created, is not yet typically understood as a key facet of “reputation management” [11]. As with many of the strategies identified, training in corporate influence on science as a key element of research training is an essential first step. Efforts to tackle concealment of industry involvement in science (that is, the second part of Macro strategy E) such as an author-centric database of researchers’ financial interests [80, 81] should be developed and implemented. However, since research has shown that declarations of conflicts of interest can have unanticipated impacts [82]; transparency measures are not a panacea.

Ultimately, however, addressing the underlying driver of much of this corporate influence on science is best achieved via structural changes to the way science is funded. A model for how corporate monies can be used to fund independent science has been elaborated for tobacco–essentially by mandating payments from industry which are then independently administered [83]. Such systems have been implemented in Italy, California, and Thailand, where levies on the pharmaceutical, tobacco, and alcohol industries have been used to fund independent research on their products [75, 84, 85]. Such an approach would help address all the other strategies identified and therefore likely represents the most effective and sustainable solution.
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Interview with Dr. Stefan Lanka, Dr. Tom Cowan & Dr. Andrew Kaufman
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Kate Sugak interviews Andrew Kaufman

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September 12th, 2021
The Truth Seeker

Dear friends, I am happy to inform you that I had a long-awaited conversation with the legendary Andrew Kaufman. Andrew Kaufman is an American medical doctor and researcher who has done a tremendous job to open the eyes of hundreds thousands of people around the world to the truth about viruses and the falsehood of the germ theory of disease. Topics we discussed:

Andrew’s story, how he began to notice that there is something was wrong with what he was taught in medical school about diseases and infection. How did he come to understanding that the germ theory of disease, which is the base of modern medicine is wrong, and viruses do not exist at all?
Then we talked in more detail about the germ theory and why microbes do not cause disease. What causes disease in humans and what we mistake for contagion.
We also discussed the epidemiological study in which Andrew took part, the purpose of which was to understand whether people vaccinated against Covid-19 are dangerous for the unvaccinated or not, as well as Andrew's point of view on why the "pandemic" was arranged and what way out from this he sees.


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New science blooms after star researchers die

The famed quantum physicist Max Planck had an idiosyncratic view about what spurred scientific progress: death. That is, Planck thought, new concepts generally take hold after older scientists with entrenched ideas vanish from the discipline.

"A great scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it," Planck once wrote.

Now a new study co-authored by MIT economist Pierre Azoulay, an expert on the dynamics of scientific research, concludes that Planck was right. In many areas of the life sciences, at least, the deaths of prominent researchers are often followed by a surge in highly cited research by newcomers to those fields.
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Postby conniption » Sat Oct 09, 2021 5:43 am

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Remdesivir and Lessons in Pandemic Drug Approvals
Michael Fumento
– September 25, 2021
Reading Time: 7 minutes

Call it the result of the Covid pandemic attitude of “Do something, anything!” That’s alongside the lockdowns, exhortations to wear ever more masks at one time, bizarre travel restrictions, and all sorts of goofy alleged remedies like wearing face shields on top of the head, alcohol mats to prevent transmission through shoe soles, and “air purifiers” that somehow through dangling around the neck kill the virus before it can enter olfactory orifices. (The blue LED seems the crucial component.)

Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir (brand name Veklury) is a potent inhibitor of viral RNA replication in the lab. It was originally investigated to treat hepatitis C, then later Ebola and Marburg virus. It failed at all of them; it was a treatment in search of a disease. Finally it has hit paydirt. Having already established that it was safe enough for use, Gilead was able to quickly conduct late-stage clinical studies for Covid, and last October, relying on three such trials, the FDA approved the intravenous drug for treatment of hospitalized Covid-positive patients aged 12 and above. Since then about 50 countries have followed suit.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, recommended its use to treat Covid-19 patients, saying it’s “proven” that it “can block this virus,” (meaning, but not saying, in the lab) that it appeared to lead to faster recovery, and there were indications the drug led to fewer deaths, while adding that this part of the analysis is still under review.

It remains the only Covid drug with full FDA approval, which has been very good for Gilead. It announced a price of $390 per vial for developed countries, with the expected course of treatment being six vials over five days for a total cost of $2,340. It would be $520 for U.S. private health insurance companies, or $3,120. The minimum production cost is about 93 cents per day so aside from the upfront costs it’s almost pure profit. Even as sales of Gilead’s other drugs are down because people have been avoiding their doctors during the pandemic, remdesivir brought in $2.8 billion in 2020 and the company is forecasting 2021 sales of up to $3 billion for the drug.

All of which would be just swell except for one problem: Studies keep showing the drug doesn’t work. In fact, they were showing that before the FDA approval.

The latest, published in the September 14th issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, enrolled people at 48 sites in five European countries who had shown symptoms for seven days and required oxygen. The 429 patients who received remdesivir in addition to standard care fared no better than the 428 patients who received standard care only. This came just a month after a meta-analysis (combination) of studies by the famed Cochrane Library, ubiquitously referred to as “the gold standard” in study reviews. It found “ . . . we are moderately certain that remdesivir probably has little or no effect on all-cause mortality at up to day 28 in hospitalized adults with” Covid infection. “We are uncertain about the effects of remdesivir on clinical improvement and worsening.”

In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) has never sanctioned use of the drug. A month after the FDA approval, the agency expressed its disapproval saying, “The evidence [from WHO’s Solidarity trial of 5,000-plus patients] suggested no important effect on mortality, need for mechanical ventilation, time to clinical improvement, and other patient-important outcomes.” Gilead’s bold rejoinder was that the study hadn’t been peer-reviewed, but it was, and it was published in America’s most prestigious medical publication, the New England Journal of Medicine.

Relying on the same WHO study, “Remdesivir is now classified as a drug you should not use routinely in Covid-19 patients,” the President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Jozef Kesecioglu, told Reuters.

Even before FDA approval, a July 2020 review in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found “The impact of remdesivir on mortality and most other outcomes is uncertain.” But given there was nothing else available, remdesivir is worth prescribing for patients with severe Covid-19, according to a panel of international experts convened by the BMJ. Nevertheless, they said, use of a costly drug like remdesivir may divert funds, time, attention and workforce away from other potentially worthwhile treatments.

Yet people needed hope in what was being portrayed as the worst pandemic of modern times, including people in the market. Earlier in the year the drug was given a boost by TV’s most famous stock guru. “Remdesivir sounds like something that can get people out of hospitals quickly,” Jim Cramer tweeted in April 2020. “That allows our economy to have a fighting chance…. I think that remdesivir would cut the morbidity … which would change how quickly we can open… and what we can do.” If you can’t trust the manic host of Mad Money on disease morbidity, who can you trust?

Point is, we needed something to counter the pandemic. So lots of stuff was thrown at the wall and it was (and is) generally claimed to have stuck regardless of empirical evidence. Not just lockdowns generally, but those of certain rigidity, length, and so on. Not just masking, but masking where and when, with little attention paid to the type of mask. Social distancing varied from one to several meters. Curfews were set and moved, then removed and set again. Sometimes liquor spread Covid; sometimes not. Auckland, New Zealand is currently in the midst of a terribly harsh lockdown in the apparent belief that a highly-contagious human respiratory disease can be eliminated from an island as has been done with rabies.

There’s nothing wrong with the concept of antivirals. In fact a combination of two such has converted HIV from a death sentence to more of a nuisance. Monthly injections can both prevent the disease from progressing to AIDS and prevent the recipient from transmitting the disease. Three different antivirals can reduce the number and severity of herpes outbreaks while reducing risk of transmission. A course of tablets taken for 8-12 weeks can wipe out Hepatitis C in over 90% of patients. By the standards of just a short time ago that’s miraculous. It’s a very exciting field.

But it will be difficult for any antiviral or any drug to show a strong correlation to reduced Covid mortality because despite all the hype (It’s now being claimed it killed more than the “Spanish Flu” in 1918), Covid mortality is already quite low. Even presuming dying with the virus is the same as dying from the virus, almost nobody succumbs who isn’t already near maximum life expectancy (the mean Italian age at death is 79.5) and has several comorbidities. How do you significantly lower such a low death rate?

All of this smacks of another scandal involving earlier antivirals, that of the flu neuraminidase inhibitors Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and Relenza (zanamivir). In 1999 the FDA approved Hoffmann-La Roche’s Tamiflu, while in 2002 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) followed suit. This notwithstanding a host of potentially severe side effects. Four years later, the FDA approved Roche’s Relenza not just for treatment of flu but for prophylaxis. That means you could reasonably expect some people to skip the flu vaccine, counting on Relenza to be there for them if needed.

Many countries amassed huge stockpiles of Tamiflu during the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in Southeast Asia in 2005 in preparation for a pandemic that never came. (I exposed it at the time of yet another pandemic with such articles as “Fuss & Feathers.) Nevertheless, the panic caused worldwide shortages that drove up the price of Tamiflu, with Roche reaping almost $3 billion in one year alone, not from use but from stockpiling.

Both Tamiflu and Relenza took advantage of another scare in 2009 with H1N1 (swine flu) that again at the time I exposed as mere panic. H1N1 from the beginning appeared to be much milder than previous strains of influenza yet more contagious, so it actually saved lives. But the WHO used it to change the definition of “influenza pandemic” such that severity was no longer part of the equation. (Interestingly, my article in Forbes about this changing of definitions was selectively deleted during the current pandemic, hence the Wayback Machine link is provided.)

But neither Tamiflu nor Relenza appear to have any significant impact on the course of the flu. From 2010 to 2012, the Cochrane Library requested Roche’s full clinical study reports of their Tamiflu trials. Roche initially refused, only giving in years later and after a freedom of information request to the European Medicines Agency. Finally, Cochrane was able to publish a damning updated review in 2014.

An accompanying 2014 BMJ editorial described a “multisystem failure,” for the series of decisions based on flawed evidence made by the EMA, CDC, and WHO – though the WHO to its credit downgraded the drug’s alleged efficacy, while the CDC has not. These include “the failure to publish all available evidence, to make the data available at the individual patient level, and to recognize the limitations of observational data.”

“It was only once we looked at the whole thing that we found the benefits of Tamiflu were the shortening of the duration of illness by a few hours,” said Tom Jefferson, an epidemiologist and Cochrane reviewer who is currently suing Roche under the U.S. False Claims Act. “There was nothing credible on deaths, transmission, or hospitalization.”

Jefferson’s suit claims Hoffmann-La Roche falsified scientific conclusions and mounted a high-powered marketing and lobbying campaign to deceive the government about the effectiveness of Tamiflu, seeking to recover more than $1.4 billion of taxpayer dollars that the federal government spent on acquiring the drug.

Yet Tamiflu still had its defenders, sometimes with bizarre responses. “Given the possibility that next time things might be worse,” Professor Peter Openshaw, Director of the Center for Respiratory Infection, Imperial College in London said, “we have to ask ourselves: would we prefer to have no reserves of antivirals, when we have nothing else available with which to treat a novel pandemic flu virus?” Well then just approve crystal therapy for flu treatment and you’ll still have your precious reserves, along with a medicine that has no expiration date. And yes, Imperial College is home of “Dr. Lockdown” Neil Ferguson, not exactly renowned for requiring empirical evidence.

So Tamiflu as well as Relenza remain part of the world’s “arsenal,” though with competing generics now that the companies are no longer Scrooge McDuck rolling in his lucre.

As to remdesivir, technically the FDA can withdraw a label either for safety or efficacy reasons. But in reality it does so only for safety. Any withdrawal embarrasses the agency and it doesn’t need that. Besides, as the good Professor Openshaw said of Tamiflu, “There’s nothing else available” in the antiviral arsenal. The public won’t want to hear that.

Further, there’s the law of inertia. Everyone knows remdesivir exists, and the protocols are all in place. Just as doctors long felt pressure to write prescriptions for antibiotics to those who obviously didn’t suffer bacterial infections, there will be continued pressure to prescribe the only FDA-approved antiviral, and indeed the only fully-approved drug at all. Gilead isn’t sweating over this.

At best, this can be a lesson to us all about pandemic drug approvals. But as noted we’ve had those lessons and they didn’t stick. Don’t expect this to have any impact, either.
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Michael Fumento is a lawyer, author, and journalist who has been writing on epidemic hysterias for 35 years.
His Website is http://www.fumento.com .

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Re: The Limits of Science

Postby conniption » Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:41 am

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The Banners of the King of Hell Advance

October 16, 2021


“Vexilla regis prodeunt Inferni”
– Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno

Try to look ahead and see if you can see what’s been coming for decades. Try to climb higher and see the beautiful things that Heaven bears, where we came forth, and once more see the stars and raise a banner of resistance to the King of Hell and all his henchmen. For they are here, and working hard as usual, and indifference will only strengthen their resolve. Don’t be deceived by these digital demons. They want to make you think they don’t exist. They wish to get you to suspend your disbelief and get lost in the endless looping movie they have created to conceal their real machinations.

For we are living in a world of endless propaganda and simulacra where vast numbers of people are hypnotized and can’t determine the difference between the real world of nature, the body, etc. and digital imagery. Reality has disappeared into screens. Simulation has swallowed the distinction between the real world and its representations. Meaning has migrated to the margins of consciousness. This process is not yet complete but getting there.

This may at first seem hyperbolic, but it is not. I wish to explain this as simply as I can, which is not easy, but I will try. I will attempt to be rational, while knowing rationality and the logic of facts can barely penetrate the logic of digital simulacra within which we presently exist to such a large extent. Welcome to the New World Order and artificial intelligence which, if we do not soon wake up to their encroaching calamitous consequences, will result in a world where “we will never know” because our brains will have been reduced to mashed potatoes and nothing will make sense. The British documentary filmmaker, Adam Philips, has said in his recent film, Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World, that it’s already “pointless to try to understand the meaning of why things happen” and we will never know, but this is a nihilistic claim that leads to resigned hopelessness. We must get such sentiments “out of our heads.”

We do not, of course, live in the middle ages like Dante. Hell, purgatory, and heaven seem to be beyond our ken. Our imaginations have withered together with our grasp on reality. Up/down, good/evil, war/peace – opposites have melded into symbiotic marriages. Most people are ashamed, as the poet Czeslaw Milosz has said, to ask themselves certain questions that the seething infinity of modern relativity has bequeathed us. Space and time have lost all dimensions; the experience of the collapse of hierarchical space and time is widespread. For those who still call themselves religious believers like Dante, “when they fold their hands and lift up their eyes, ‘up’ no longer exists,” Milosz rightly says. The map and the territory are one as all metaphysics are almost lost. And with its loss go our ability to see the advancing banner of the king of hell, to grasp the nature of the battle for the soul of the world that is now underway. Or if you prefer, the struggle for political control.

One thing is certain: This war for control must be fought on both the spiritual and political levels. The centuries’ long rise of technology and capitalism has resulted in the degradation of the human spirit and its lived sense of the sacred. This must be reversed, as it has fundamentally led to the mechanistic embrace of determinism and the disbelief in freedom. Logical thought is necessary, but not mechanistic thought with the deification of reason. Scientific insight is essential, but within its limitation. The spiritual and artistic imagination that transcends materialist, machine thinking is needed now more than ever. We emphatically need to realize that the subject precedes the object and consciousness the scientific method. Only by realizing this will we be able to break free from the trap that is propaganda and digital simulacra, whose modi operandi are to dissolve the differences between truth and falsity, the imaginary and the real, facts and fiction, good and evil. To play satanic circle games, create double-binds, whose intent and result is to imprison and confuse.

It is akin to asking what is the antonym to the word contronym, which is a word having two meanings that contradict each other, such as “cleave,” which means to cut in half or to stick together. There are many such words.

“What is the opposite of a contronym?” I asked my thirteen-year-old granddaughter, a great reader and writer raised far away from the madding crowd of flickering and looping electronic images. To which, after thinking a few minutes, she correctly replied, “The antonym to a contronym is itself, because it has two opposite meanings. It contradicts itself.”

Or as Tweedledee told Alice: “Contrariwise, if it were so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”

And that’s the logic used to trap a sleeping public in a collective hallucination of media and machines. A grand movie in which all “opposites” are integrated to tranquilize all anxieties and amuse all boredom so that the audience doesn’t realize there is a world outside the Wonderland theater.

A Place to Start

Let me begin with a little history, some fortieth anniversaries that are occurring this year. In themselves, and even in their temporal juxtapositions, they mean little, but they give us a place to anchor our reflections. A sense of time and the progression of developments that have led to widespread digital cognitive warfare and twisted simulations. Widespread unreality rooted in materialist brain research financed by intelligence agencies. Spectacles of spectacles. As Guy Debord puts it in The Society of the Spectacle:

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.


In 1981, Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the U.S. President. He was a bad actor, of course, which meant he was a good actor (or the reverse of the reverse of the reverse…) in a society that was becoming increasingly theatrical, image based, and dominated by what Daniel Boorstin in his classic book, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, had earlier termed “pseudo-events.” Reagan was the personification of a pseudo-event, a walking illusion, a “benign” Orwellian persona presented to the public to conceal an evil agenda. He was a masked man, one created by Deep-State forces to convince the public it was “morning in America again,” even as the banner of an avuncular good guy concealed, right from the start with the treacherous “October Surprise” involving the Iranian hostage crisis, an evil opening act to start the charade. Reagan received overwhelming popular support and served two terms as the acting president. The audience was enthralled. In crucial ways, his election marked the beginning of our descent into hell.

Halfway through his two terms, Gary Wills, In Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home, introduced Reagan as follows:

The geriatric ‘juvenile lead’ even as President, Ronald Reagan is old and young – an actor, but with only one role. Because he acts himself, we know he is authentic. A professional, he is always the amateur. He is the great American synecdoche, not only a part of our past but a large part of our multiple pasts. This is what makes many of the questions asked about him so pointless. Is he bright, shallow, complex, simple, instinctively shrewd, plain dumb? He is all these things and more. Synecdoche, just the Greek word for ‘sampling,’ and we all take a rich store of associations that have accumulated around the Reagan career and persona. He is just as simple, and just as mysterious, as our collective dreams and memories.


A few weeks after Reagan was sworn in, his newly named CIA Director William Casey (see Robert Parry’s book, Trick or Treason: The 1980 October Surprise Mystery), made a revealing comment at a meeting of the new cabinet appointees. Casey said, as overheard and recorded by Barbara Honegger who was present, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

Thirdly, in August of 1981, the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard published his seminal book, Simulacra and Simulation, in which he set out his theory of simulation where he claimed that a “hyperreal” simulated world was replacing the real world that once could be represented but not replaced. He argued that this simulated world was generated by models of a real world that never existed and so people were living in “hyperreality,” or a totally fabricated reality. This was a radical notion, and his claim at the time that this was already total was no doubt an exaggeration. But that was then, not now. Forty years have allowed his nightmarish theory to take on reality. I will return to this subject later.

Technology and the Trap of the Machine Mass Mind

In his classic work, Propaganda, Jacques Ellul writes that “An analysis of propaganda therefore shows that it succeeds primarily because it corresponds exactly to a need of the masses…just two aspects of this: the need for explanation and the need for values, which both spring largely, but not entirely, from the promulgation of news.” He wrote that in 1962 when news and world events were rapidly speeding up but were nowhere near as technologically frenzied as they are today. Then there were radio, many newspapers, and a handful of television stations. And yet, even in those days, as the sociologist C. Wright Mills said, the general public was confused and disoriented, liable to panic, and that information overwhelmed their capacity to assimilate it. In The Sociological Imagination he wrote:

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of people to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, people often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis. Is it any wonder that ordinary people feel they cannot cope with the larger worlds with which they are so suddenly confronted? That they cannot understand the meaning of their epoch for their own lives? That – in defense of selfhood – they become morally insensible, trying to remain altogether private individuals? Is it any wonder that they come to be possessed by a sense of the trap?


This trap has been progressively closing ever since. To say this is false nostalgia for the good old days is intellectual claptrap. The evidence is overwhelming, and honest minds can see it clearly and a bit of self-reflection would reveal the inner wounds this development has caused. There are various reasons for this: many intentional, others not: political machinations by the power elites, technological, cultural, religious developments, etc., all rooted in a similar way of thinking. Whereas the wealthy elites have always controlled society, over the recent decades the growth in technological propaganda has increased exponentially. But the machines have been built upon a technical way of thinking that Ellul describes as ‘the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency in every field of human activity.” This way of thinking is the opposite of the organic, the human. It is all about means without ends, self-generating means whose sole goal is efficiency. Everything is now subordinated to technique, especially people. He says:

From another point of view, however, the machine is deeply symptomatic: it represents the ideal toward which techniques strives.The machine is solely, exclusively technique; it is pure technique, one might say. For, wherever a technical factor exists, it results, almost inevitably, in mechanization: technique transforms everything it touches into a machine.


If only cell phones shocked the hands that touched them!

I think it is beyond dispute that this sense of entrapment and confusion with its concomitant widespread depression has increased dramatically over the decades and we have come to a dark, dark place. Lost in a dark wood would be an understatement. In the inferno would perhaps be more appropriate.

Who will be our Virgil to guide us through this hell we are creating and to show us where it is leading?

The massive use of psychotropic drugs for living problems is well known. The sense of meaninglessness is widespread. The shredding of social bonds with the journey into a vast digital dementia has resulted in panic and anxiety on a vast scale. The fear of death and disease permeates the air as religious faith wanes. People have been turned against each other as an hallucinatory cloak of propaganda has replaced reality with the black magic of digital incantations.

I remember how, in 1975, when I was teaching at a Massachusetts university and, sensing a vast unmet need in my students, I proposed a course called “The Sociology of Life, Death, and Meaning.” My colleagues balked at the idea and I had to convince them it was worthwhile. I sensed that the fear of death and a growing loss of meaning was increasing among young people (and the population at large) and it was my responsibility to try to address it. My colleagues considered the subject not scientific enough, having been seduced by the positivist movement in sociology. When the enrollment for the course reached 220 plus, my point was made. The need was great. But it was a small window of opportunity for such deep reflections, for by 1980 the Cowboy in the white hat had ridden into Washington and a rock star was enthroned in the Vatican and all was once again well with the world. Delusory orthodoxy reigned again. Until….

For the last forty-one years there has been a progressive dissolution of reality into a theatrical electronic spectacle, beginning with the push for computer generated globalization and continuing up to the latest cell phones. Science, neuroscience, and technology have been deified. Cognitive warfare has been waged against the public mind. The intelligence agencies, war departments, and their accomplices throughout the corporations, media, Hollywood, medicine, and the universities have united to effect this end. Neuroscience and medicine have been weaponized. The objective being to convince the public that they are machines, their brains are computers, and that their only hope is embrace that “reality.”

After the actor Reagan rode off into the sunset, his Vice-President and former Director of the CIA (therefore a supreme actor), George H. W. Bush, took the reins and declared the decade of the 1990s the decade of brain research, to be heavily financed by the federal government. In 1992, boy wonder William Clinton, straight out of the fetid fields of Arkansas politics, was elected to carry on this work, not just the brain research but the continuous bombing of Iraq and the slaughters around the world, but also the work of dismantling welfare and repealing the Glass-Steagall Act, reuniting commercial and investment banking and opening the door for the rich to get super rich and normal people to get screwed. So Clinton fulfilled the duties of the good Republican President that he was, and the right-wing played the game of ripping him for being a leftist. It’s funny except that so many believed this game in which all the players operated within the same frame (and of course still do), the play within the play whose real authors are always invisible to the fixated audience.

What is the antonym to a contronym?

When George W. Bush took over, he continued the brain research project with massive federal monies by declaring 2000-10 as the Decade of the Behavior Project.

Then under Obama, whose role model was the actor Reagan, and under Trump, whose role model was the guy he played on reality television and whose official role was playing the bad guy to Obama’s good guy, the money for the mapping of the brain and artificial intelligence continued flowing from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Science and Technology Project (OSTP).

Three decades of joint military, intelligence, and neuroscience work on how to understand brains so as to control them through mind control and computer technology might suggest something untoward was afoot, wouldn’t you say?

Create the Problem and Then the “Solution”

If you are still on this twisted path with me, you may feel an increased level of anxiety. Not that it is new, for you have probably felt it for a long time. We both know that free-floating anxiety, like depression and fear, has been a stable of life in the good old USA for decades. We didn’t create it, and, as C. Wright Mills has said, “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” For our biographies, including anxiety and meaninglessness, take place within social history and social structures, and so we must ask what are the connections. And are there solutions?

There are drugs, of course, and the caring folks at the pharmaceutical companies who want to see us with Smiley Faces, perky in mind and body, are always glad to provide them for an exorbitant price, one often well hidden in the ledgers of their insurance company partners-in-crime. But still, there is so much to fear: terrorists, viruses, bad weather, bad breath, my bad, your bad, bad death, etc.

Is there a place upon which to pin this anxiety that floats ?

Professor Mattias Desmet, a clinical psychology professor at the University of Ghent in Belgium, has some interesting thoughts about it, but they don’t necessarily lead to happy conclusions. I think he is correct in saying that for decades there has been a situation brewing that is the perfect soil for mass formation with a hypnotized public embracing a new totalitarianism, one that has now been made real through COVID 19 with the lockdowns and loss of liberties as we descend with Dante to the lowest depths of the Inferno.

These background developments are the breakdown of social bonds, the loss of meaning making, its accompanying free-floating anxiety, and the absence of ways to relieve that anxiety short of aggression. You can listen to him here.

These conditions didn’t just “happen” but were created by multiple power elite actors with long range plans. If that sounds conspiratorial, that’s because it is. That’s what the powerful do. They conspire to achieve their goals. The average person, without the awareness, will, inclination, or ability to do investigative sociological research, often falls prey to their designs, and through today’s electronic digital media is mesmerized into feeling that the media offer solutions to their anxieties. They provide answers, even when they are propaganda.

As Ellul says, “Propaganda is the true remedy for loneliness.” It draws all lost souls to its benevolent siren song. CNN’s smiling Sanjay Gupta sedates many a mind and The New York Times and CBS soothe untold numbers of Mr. and Mrs. Lonelyhearts with sweet nothings straight from the messaging centers of the World Economic Forum and Langley, Virginia. They draw on the need to obey and believe, and provide fables that give people a sense of value and belonging to the group, even though the group is unreal. These media can quite easily, but usually subtly, turn their audiences’ frenetic, agitated passivity into active aggression towards dissidents, especially when those dissidents have been blamed for endangering the lives of the “good” people.

As has occurred, censorship of dissent is necessary, and this must be done for the common good, even when it is carried out in allegedly democratic societies. In the name of freedom, freedom must be denied. Thus Biden’s declaration of war against domestic dissent.

Mattias Desmet it right; we are far down the road to totalitarianism.

Simulation and Simulacra

When I was a boy, I did certain boy things that were popular in my generation. For a short period I constructed model ships and planes from kits. It was something to do when I was constrained to the house because of bad weather. These kits were replicas of famous battle ships or planes and came with decals you could paste on them when you were done. The decals identified these historical vehicles, which were very real or had been. I knew I was making a miniature double of real objects, just as I knew a map of New York City streets corresponded to the real Bronx streets I roamed. The map and my models were simulacra, but not the real thing. The real things were outside somewhere. And I knew not to walk on the map for my wanderings.

When Baudrillard wrote Simulacra and Simulation, he was telling us that something fundamental had changed and would change far more in the future. He wrote:

Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of the territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory – precession of simulacra – that engenders the territory….


Translated into plain English (French intellectuals can be difficult to understand), he is saying that in much of modern life, reality has disappeared into its signs or models. And within these signs, these self-enclosed systems, distinctions can’t be made because these simulacra contain, like contronyms, both their positive and negative poles, so they cancel each other out while holding the believer imprisoned in amber. Once you are in them, you are trapped because there are no outside references, the simulated system of thought or machine is your universe, the only reality. There is no dialectical tension because the system has swallowed it. There is no critical negativity, no place to stand outside to rebel because the simulacrum encompasses the positive and negative in a circulatory process that makes everything equivalent but the “positivity” of the simulacrum itself. You are inside the whale: “The virtual space of the global is the space of the screen and the network, of immanence and the digital, of a dimensionless space-time.”

So if that plain English (Ha!) doesn’t do it for you, here’s Baudrillard again:

It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real, that is to say of an operation of deterring every real process via its operational double, a programmatic, metastable, perfectly descriptive machine that offers all the signs of the real and short-circuits all its vicissitudes. Never again will the real have a chance to produce itself – such is the vital function of the model in a system of death, or rather of anticipated resurrection, that no longer gives the event of death a chance. [my emphases]


In the case of my model airplanes, there were real planes that my replicas were based on. I knew that. Baudrillard was announcing that the world was changing and children in the future would have a difficult time distinguishing between the real and its simulacra. Not just children but all of us have arrived at that point, thanks to digital technology, where to distinguish between the real and the imaginary is very hard. Thus the purpose of video games: To scramble brains. Thus the purpose of all the brain research funded by the Pentagon: To control brains via the interface of people with machines. This is a fundamental reason why the ruling elites, under the cover of Covid-19, have been pushing for an online digitized world through which they can amass even greater control over people’s sense of reality. Are we watching a video of the real world or a video of a model of the real world? How to tell the difference?

The weather report says that there is a 31% chance of rain tomorrow at 2 P.M., and people take that seriously, even though only a genuine blockhead would not realize that this is not based on reality but on a computer model of reality and a reality that is unreal a second degree over since it has yet to occur. Yet that everyday example is normal today. It’s a form of hypnosis. The map precedes the territory.

But it gets even weirder as a regular perusal of the news confirms. A very strange warped sense of reality unconnected to digital technology is widespread. There recently was a news report about the sale of a Mohammed Ali drawing that sold for $425,000. The drawing could have been done by a child with a marker. It depicts a stick figure Ali in a boxing ring standing with arms raised in victory over a fallen opponent. From the fallen boxer’s head a speech bubble rises with these words: “Ref, he did float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.” It is factually true that Ali knocked many opponents on their asses and raised his arms in victory. So when he drew his stick drawing he was probably remembering that. Therefore his drawing, a representation of his memory of reality and imagination, is two degrees removed from the real. For no opponent uttered those words from his back on a canvas. They are Ali’s signature words, how he liked to present himself on the world’s stage, part of his act, for he was a quintessential performer, albeit an unusual one with courage and a social conscience. Obviously his drawing is not art but a crude little sketch. Whoever spent nearly half a million dollars for it, did so either for an investment (which raises one question concerning reality and illusion) or as a form of magical appropriation, similar to getting a famous person’s signature to “capture” a bit of their immortality (the second question). Either way it’s more than weird, even though not uncommon. It is its commonness that makes it emblematic of this present era of copies and simulacra, the mumbo jumbo magic that disappears the real into simulated images.

Take the recent case of the TV actor William Shatner, who played a space ship captain named Captain Kirk on a very popular television series, Star Trek, a show filled with kitsch wisdom loved by hordes of desperadoes. All unreal but taken close to the fanatics’ hearts. He’s been in the news recently for taking a ride into earth’s sub orbit on a spacecraft owned and operated by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. Bezos gave the ninety-year-old actor a comp ride up and away supposedly because he was a big Star Trek fan. In keeping with the pseudo-spiritual theme of this business venture and PR stunt, the spacecraft was called the New Shepard, presumably to distinguish it from the Old Shepard, whom we must assume is dead as Nietzsche said a few years ago. Sometimes these billionaires are so busy making money that they forget to tune in to the latest news. Bezos was announcing his new religion, a blending of P. T. Barnum and technology. Anyway, pearls of “spiritual” wisdom, like those uttered on the old TV series, greeted the public following Shatner’s trip. Ten minutes up and down isn’t three days and nights, but he was up to the task. A guy playing an actor playing a space ship pilot playing a TV personage on a public relations business stunt flight. “Unbelievable,” as he said. Who is copying whom? Tune in.

Baudrillard offers the example of The Iconoclasts from centuries past :

…whose millennial quarrel is still with us today. This is precisely because they predicted the omnipotence of simulacra, the faculty the simulacra have of effacing God from the conscience of man, and the destructive annihilating truth that they allow to appear – that deep down God never existed, even that God himself was never anything but his own simulacrum – from this came their urge to destroy the images.


We are now awash in epiphanies of representation, as Daniel Boorstin noted in The Image in the 1960s and which everyone can notice as those little rectangular boxes are constantly raised everywhere to capture what their operators might unconsciously think of as a world they no longer think is real, so they better capture it before it fully evaporates. Such acquisitive image taking bespeaks an unspoken nihilism, secret simulations that signify the death sentence of their referents.

So let’s just say simulacra are traps wherein the real is no longer real but a hyperreal that seems realer than real, while concealing its unreality.

This goes much further than the use of digital technology. It involves the entire spectrum of techniques of mind control and propaganda. It includes politics, medicine, economics, Covid-19, the lockdowns and vaccines, etc. Everything.

Let me end with one small example. A trifle, you’ll agree. I began by noting the election of the actor Ronald Reagan in 1980. Then the quote from the CIA Director Casey: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

Then came the CIA actor George H. W. Bush, the two-faced Bill Clinton, George W. Bush the son of the CIA man, Obama, Trump, and Biden. Rather shady characters all, depending usually on your political affiliations. Suppose, however, that these seven men are an acting troupe in the same play, which is a highly sophisticated simulacrum that plays in loops, and that the object of its architects is to keep the audience engaged in the show and rooting for their favorite character. Suppose this self-generating spectacle has a name: The Contronym. And suppose that at the very heart of its ongoing run, one of the lead characters, who had been reared from birth to play a revolutionary role, one that demanded many masks and contradictory faces that could be used to reconcile the personae of the other six actors and perhaps reconcile the Rashomon-like story, suppose that character was Barack Obama, and suppose he was reared in a CIA family and later just “happened” to become President where he became known as “the intelligence president” because of his intimate relationship with the CIA. And suppose he gave the CIA everything it wanted.

Would you think you were living in a simulacrum?

Or would you say Jeremy Kuzmarov’s report, “A Company Family: The Untold History of Obama and the CIA” was a simulation of the most scurrilous kind?

Or would you feel lost in the wood in the middle of your life with Dante? Heading down to hell?

“’I was thinking,’ said Alice very politely, ‘which is the best way out of this wood. It’s getting so dark. Would you tell me, please?’

But the fat little men [Tweedledee and Tweedledum] only looked at each other and grinned.”

Yet it is no laughing matter. If we want to get through this hell we are traversing, we had better clearly recognize those who are carrying the Banner of the King of Hell. Identify them and stop their advance. It is a real spiritual war we are engaged in, and we either fight for God or the devil.

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Postby conniption » Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:25 am

Dr. Stefan Lanka interview with Joan Shenton

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Why the Corona measures by the government are against the law.
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Postby conniption » Thu Oct 21, 2021 12:20 am

Corona committee session 74 So Help Me God

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First published at 09:48 UTC on October 16th, 2021.

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Come on now...it's only 5 hours long. I've started watching this video (all of 34 min. so far) wondering when will be our day in court? We've had evidence of wrongdoing for a long time ...wrongdoing continues. I'm thinking we need a people's court ... maybe something like what Chris Hedges attempted during occupy?
idk...need to watch more.
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"Come on now...it's only 5 hours long..."

Did it!...and here's the proof -
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This from MoA Open Thread -

When your world has turned asunder
and your plans have laid to waste
and the promises of happiness
now leave a bitter taste
Now is not the time
to give in your tears
to focus on the negative
will re enforce your fears

Just know that you are worthy
know that you are strong
square your shoulders, steel yourself
and then you soldier on
When the storm is over
and the sun shines once again
These memories that haunt you
and fill your heart with pain
will dissipate like parting clouds
and a new chapter can begin

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Postby Harvey » Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:30 pm

^ Wit, love and humour will always win.
And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing
You'll ever learn
Is just to love
And be loved
In return"


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The truth about rabies, tobacco mosaic virus, graphene and the results of the 2nd phase of control experiments.

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Detailed video about the 1st phase of control experiments for sars-cov-2 - The final refutal of virology: https://rumble.com/vhx3l1-the-final-ref ... ology.html
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Re: The Limits of Science

Postby conniption » Wed Oct 27, 2021 9:59 am

conniption » Sun Oct 24, 2021 4:39 pm wrote:
The truth about rabies, tobacco mosaic virus, graphene and the results of the 2nd phase of control experiments.

Video link >>> https://odysee.com/@katie.su:7/kateinterviewsstefan3:a
(1:10 min)
October 23rd, 2021
@katie.su
Interview number 3 with Stefan Lanka, german microbiologist and ex virologist.
Topics discussed:
⁃ The final results of the 2nd phase of control experiments for Sars-Cov-2
⁃ Tobacco mosaic virus
⁃ Rabies
⁃ Graphene in Covid vaccines

All the necessary links you can find here

Previous 2 interviews:


Disproving the concept of virology, contagion and genetic engendering https://odysee.com/@DeansDanes:1/Stefan-Dean-and-Kate:8

The measles trial, control experiments and the final refutal of the corona”virus” farce https://odysee.com/@DeansDanes:1/katein ... sstefan2:c
Stefan’s IG: @dr.stefan.lanka
Stefan’s Website: https://wissenschafftplus.de

Dean’s Odysee channel: https://odysee.com/@DeansDanes:11e650f2 ... 2ebdf27c2b

Kate’s IG: @kattie.su
Telegram: https://t.me/germtheoryisahoax
Detailed video about the 1st phase of control experiments for sars-cov-2 - The final refutal of virology: https://rumble.com/vhx3l1-the-final-ref ... ology.html


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In the comment section of the video above are links to information about Hamer and Germanische Heilkunde.

@PerfectTheDwellingLand

Dear Kate, if you have found the links to the references that Dr. Lanka mentioned here, could you please post them for us?




@SpaceIsWaterEarthIsFlat

Introduction to THE FIVE BIOLOGICAL LAWS

https://en.germanische-heilkunde-dr-hamer.com

Dear Reader,

As a human being living in times, when it is necessary that the “uncensored” truth is made available to everybody living on this planet, it is my wish that important vital information does freely circulate.

However, I have discovered that there are translations and various editions of my publications in circulation as well, the content of which is incorrect and has not been examined nor authorized by me. Manipulation carries the risk that the purely scientific Germanische Heilkunde®1 may be altered, with additional risk of an unnoticed or intentional distortion that can lead to undesirable results for the reader, who is seeking a solutionton to his/her health problems.

In publications (books or articles) which are not on this website, but on other foreign websites, there is no guarantee that they are not anonymously and intentionally manipulated. Therefore, I find it necessary to advise the reader to be sure to check that the information he/she holds in his/her hands comes from the publishing house "Amici di Dirk® - Ediciones de la Nueva Medicina S.L.".

Only by this means can I guarantee that the content you are reading really corresponds to my original, undistorted work. Your carefulness will contribute to the present and future dissemination of the authentic “GERMANISCHE”. Also the purchase of copies published by my publishing house Amici-di-Dirk will help not only to disseminate original knowledge, but also to carry out my further research work.

My sincere thanks in my name and on behalf of all patients, who will benefit from accurate knowledge through your ethical contribution.

Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer

https://odysee.com/@katie.su:7/kateinterviewsstefan3:a
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This video, in which Dr. Hamer presents the 1st edition of his book “Mein Studentenmädchen (My Student Girl), gives a summary of his findings on the healing power of his song.

Gesang von Hamer und Choir432Hz Mein Studentenmädchen Die urarchaische Zaubermelodie EMDR Bilateral

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5hNRdtN8iM
(3:38 min)
Hertz Healing

This will take a some time to digest...
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Re: The Limits of Science

Postby DrEvil » Wed Oct 27, 2021 2:44 pm

Might also want to digest the part where he thinks chemotherapy and morphine is a Jewish conspiracy to kill off the west, and that he lost his medical license due to malpractice and did a couple of stints in jail.

The best part is how he came up with his nonsense: Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy (of Propaganda Due fame, among other things) shot and killed his son. Later "Dr." Hamer developed testicular cancer and concluded the two were connected.

To explain how the stress of losing his son contributed to his developing cancer he decided the best course of action wasn't to assume the stress of losing his son contributed to his developing cancer, but to come up with an entirely new system to explain something that didn't need explaining. Which makes perfect sense. I myself come up with new, revolutionary theories of gravity every time I drop something on the floor.
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