CHD Conference and Vacation Report
CHD Conference and Vacation Report
The Healthcare Wars, Part 4
After eight days and 1,800 driving miles, my wife and I are back in Dallas. Last Saturday we drove the 862 miles to Knoxville, Tennessee in one day in order to make the most of the very first Children's Health Defense Conference. Tennessee is a pretty state—particularly at this time of year. I'm one of those people who greatly appreciates slightly chilled mornings and pleasant afternoons when the sweater or jacket can come off.
Thoughts and Observations
The CHD team did a great job of running a conference for the first time. Their hardest task on site was likely registration as many additional people hoped to cram into the event.
The talks were minute-per-minute excellent. The speakers were well chosen.
The event was an excellent place to have much needed meetings and conversations.
The whole thing was too short.
On the last point…the CHD event was scheduled on the heels of the Weston A. Price Foundation's Wise Traditions Conference (which I attended for a day in Dallas last year), so I understand the strategy. But I felt like there was not enough time to meet everyone I wanted to talk with, learn from, and bond with.
I did have several mind blowing conversations. Two were with women who helped their sons recover from autism. I had not heard these stories before, and I hope to have them or others on the RTE podcast sometime.
I ran into several RTE readers, including one who introduced me to the Weston A Price Foundation. It still feels surreal that I'm writing for 23,000 readers. It started with a few dozen, and I fully expected that to reach a few hundred in the middle of last year, as it did. The primary goal was to give people with the intuitive sense that something was very wrong article drops to fight back against the organized BS machine plastering social media. From there, RTE continued to evolve with my participation in events.
I ran into Charles Rixey again, and I’ve very glad to see that he’s working closely with the CHD team.
One of the highlights of the event for me was getting to know my friend J.J. Couey in person. We've been sharing ideas for over a year now, and that has grown more and more productive as we've mixed our domain knowledge. I also met Mark Kulacz who runs Housatonic whose work I'd just started to become familiar with and learn from. He is another intelligent man with whom I think it will be productive to spend time sharing thoughts and research. I was glad to find out that we share similar views on using wikis as open source intelligence.
My wife and I had lunch with the Malones on Monday, then I later joined a meeting with them and others about what I'll call "chaos agents" infiltrating the Medical Freedom Movement. This is a topic I plan to write and talk much more about in the near future. It has taken substantial time and investigative work by numerous people to compile information.
Quick piece of advice at this stage of World War E: be discerning in whom you trust. Nobody is perfect or without goals and agendas. Stop once in a while and question all sources (me included, obviously) both on the basis of how trustworthy they can be and whether they've moved in positions/opinions over time with new information (I certainly have on a few fronts, and I can't imagine many intelligent people not seeing more clearly on challenging topics today than 2.5 years ago).
We also met CHD Senior Science Advisor (probably got that title wrong) Madhava Setty, whom I'd corresponded with a great deal. I plan to invite him on RTE sometime. At the end of the conference, we got to sit down with Brook Jackson for an hour and talk about her suit and legal maneuvering going on.
We ran into Robert Barnes Tuesday morning after the conference. Fortuitously, we picked the same crepery for brunch. Perhaps mostly because I don't have a great deal of slack in my schedule, his locals.com channel is my only current paid subscription there. He is as much a people person as you would expect from hearing him talk, and a wealth of historical information about law and other topics. He is a native of Tennessee.
J.J. and I hoped to talk with Whitney Webb about stories and evidence we have that relates to her Jeffrey Epstein research, and connects to the pandemic. We are working on setting up an interview via Jessica Rose, so hopefully we can fit all that in at that time. But Whitney was pretty well mobbed by media and everyone else before and after her talk. It was her first trip to the U.S. in eight years, slowed by traveling with a toddler who needed visa work. Similarly, I didn't get a chance to meet Catherine Austin Fitts for more than a few seconds.
Vacation Also
I always enjoy driving across any Mississippi River bridge. Bridges are cool. Large rivers are cool. Our route through Memphis was a new one for me, however. Upon crossing into Tennessee, we were met with what must be a historic landmark: the Great Pyramid of Bass Pro Shop.
Though I haven't had the chance to enjoy fishing much since around the age of ten, Tennessee seems like a good place to do it. You don't have to drive long from anywhere to find some good country land, rivers, and lakes.
My wife and I did take the opportunity to rent a cozy little cabin outside of Nashville for a couple of nights. We tromped through the woods a bit, shopped for antiques, and took in a hockey game.
Warning – Hockey Talk Gets Ugly
If you're a hockey fan, understand that Nashville is a great city in so many ways, but it will take at least a generation before it understands hockey well. In particular, the fans don't understand the well-honed art of hockey insults, which are supposed to get dirty and borderline personal (or at least fish for it). After each home team goal, the crowd yells, "You suck!" in unison, which is a step up from, "Bless your hearts," and then a country singer swings a catfish on the big screen. Granted, the NHL has moved closer to "family sports", but in most NHL arenas, you're still going to hear variations on,
"At least you still lead the league in giving STDs to single mothers in the parking lot!"
"Time to start saving for college, rookie."
"Behind every fourth liner there's an all-star waiting to break out. So get out of his way, will ya?"
"Does your coach know you're out there?"
"Shut up, whiner. It was a clean hit. Relax and go take a bubble bath."
"Get off the ice and take your participation trophy with you."
"That hit definitely improved your looks. You got that Steve Buscemi face now, but without all the teeth."
"Your defense is leaking like your daddy's condom."
"That's a dive, ref. He just forgot to wear his speedo."
These days, you only hear more creative, personal, and dirtier chirping at the minor league games. But somehow that's part of the entertainment. It's not like anyone there is pretending the price of admission doesn't include a good scrum.
Don't get me wrong—I'm glad to see all hockey leagues putting rules in place to curtail concussions. But I insist on the full range of amusing trash talk creativity. It's not as if we get much of that from late night comedians anymore.
Catching Up
I have a ton of work to catch up on over the next few days including posts about interviews I've conducted or helped conduct, with several important interviews on the way. Tomorrow I talk with Richard Gage, the architect behind Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. We will livestream on Rumble and possibly other platforms. I'm also working to set a time with Alex Washburne about a paper he recently co-authored on the likely lab origins of SARS-CoV-2.
Also in the works is a takedown of the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) system. After several months of work on county level U.S. data, I realized that VSD is a system for enshrining bias in a way that makes all vaccines look better. I want to lay out a strong case before publishing. I want this to be a strong point in the case for the state of pharmacovigilance nihilism.
Looking forward to your VSD takedown data. Let's also wake up to brainwashing in the name VSD. Over and over, we see the words "vaccine" and "safety" together. Is that just a coincidence? "Vaccine safety signals," in CDC-speak, is a euphemism and a lie. It is meant to lull you into believing that the words "safety" and "vaccine" go together. The real term needs to be, "Vaccine danger signals" or "Death signals." Vaccine Safety Data should be called "Vaccine Risk Data." There is no such thing as a medical intervention that is safe, with zero risks. Intervention always entails risk, sometimes tiny, sometimes huge, as does the option to do nothing. But consumers have been taught by Pharma to have a false expectation of safety, so that the lack of vaccine manufacturer liability doesn't trouble us. Risk/benefit ratio is a useful, rational term. "Safety" and "safe" and "stay safe" are the most overused, useless, emotionally manipulative words of the past two years. Be aware of how language is used to manipulate your perception. Thanks for the conference description - wish I could have been there- time to start planning for Fall 2023.
I look forward to your exploration with the women who cured their children of autism. This is of particular interest to my sister and, to a lesser although significant extent, me too.