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Jerome V's avatar

When REDACTED wrote: "In my own experience of such things, skeptics and fence-sitters will pounce upon any inaccuracy in even the smallest detail as 'proof' that an entire story is invalid (the infamous 'deboonking') as an excuse to perform any cognitively-costly worldview reshuffling."

I think he must have meant "...as an excuse to AVOID any cognitively-costly worldview reshuffling".

I think this is a key reason it's so hard to "wake people up". Part of them sees how much work it will be to integrate the new information into their now-incorrect worldview, and decide it's too much work, and too painful to face the extent that they were mistaken, and implies that they must change too much about their lives if they embrace the consequences of facing this new evident truth. So they close their eyes and turn away.

If this is true, how ought we best work with this "feature" of our brothers and sisters?

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Mathew, one of areas I focused on early in the pandemic was the research on SARS-CoV vector vaccines. I followed a thread as far as I could that tied NIH funding to primate studies at WUHAN between 2004 and 2009. The funding for this work flowed through Tulane National Primate Research Center, which strangely received Bioterrorism Research funds during this time in amounts that exactly matched the amounts going toward the primate studies on SARS-CoV vaccines. Furthermore, I found evidence that Tulane was funded by NIH to provide support services for primate studies on SARS-CoV at Lovelace Biomedical in NM, a PRIVATE research facility that received funding from Bill Gates himself. Please, it would make me very happy if you and JJ could review this information. I have had little luck so far in getting it seen. Here's the link:

https://entropywave.wordpress.com/2021/08/05/evidence-of-nih-funding-to-support-sars-cov-vaccine-research-at-wuhan-institute-of-virology-and-a-private-u-s-research-organization-research-as-early-as-2004/

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