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i have lost complete faith in medicine

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Rebuild institutions locally and have faith in yourself.

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Individual states must have total control over Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement (CMS). That way, if my state is corrupt, I can move to Florida.

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Separation of medicine and health and state. We need a new constitutional amendment

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Absolutely . The bigger and more powerful, centralized the bureacracy is the more corruptible it is. Washington DC is a monopoly. Monopolies lead to poor quality and high prices

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Hard to do when most hospitals are owned by huge corporations.

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Apr 25, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

There are actually two kinds of medicine. One, called AR or emergency medicine, is great. If you get into a car crash or fall out of a tree, you're much better off visiting a modern healthcare facility. For everything else, though, infectious diseases, lifestyle diseases, progressive diseases, etc, modern medicine is a lethal cult.

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Apr 25, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

I am coming around to that point of view. Acute care is good; chronic care is a racket.

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Amen, brother. Anyone that reads both TRAF and "Inventing the AIDS Virus" will never take another shot of any kind.

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Apr 24, 2022·edited Apr 24, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Is the J&J trial's randomization credible when 96 placebo recipients "terminated prematurely", but only 49 vaccine recipients did (Fig. S3)? https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2101544/suppl_file/nejmoa2101544_appendix.pdf

Oddly, these are almost the same numbers as the people who withdrew from the Pfizer trial after dose 2 (95 vs 48, see Fig. 1). https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577

Edit: As Tom suggests below, unblinding errors probably explain the imbalance. I've heard elsewhere that trial participants sometimes figure out which group they are in, and placebo recipients are more likely to withdraw. The odd coincidence of Pfizer and J&J withdrawal numbers (one less per study arm) remains.

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Ding ding ding. You win the prize.

I cannot endorse any of the vaccines until I see these lopsided terminations and data exclusions explained.

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It's almost as if the FDA had told the companies that this large of an imbalance was permissible.

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These are not the worst imbalances, even. It was the data exclusion groups that were in a 6:1 ratio that are still unexplained that totally corrupt the trials.

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Absolute numbers in lopsided imbalances matters. If 6 cases of one an1 case of the other, then chance could explain the difference. If 600 cases v. 100 cases, nwih would chance explain that.

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What could be a plausible reason twice as many placebo patients drop out of both trials?

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The people running the trial dumped them.

The trials were unblinded in breach of rules.

Short version: deliberate fraud.

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N=lunatics who handed over their health and safety to pHarma, in exchange for a first crack at the shots to protect them from the weakest pandemic ever conceived. The "blinding" was very sloppy and they probably figured out they were getting placebo and insisted on the real thing. OR they were shifted over to the experimental group to cover up the poor shot-danaged souls who had to drop out or were killed. Just my guesses.

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They cannot be explained - well, cannot be explained rationally anyway. Early termination is ... what is the national security expression? ... oh, yes: it is tradecraft. If you read TRAF you will learn that early termination of clinical trials is something that Tony Fauci has brought to a high art.

Closing out trials early is, you see, the only ethical choice when the benefits of the medicine under review are so overwhelming. That this also obscures any safety signals that would manifest with lengthier trials is entirely beside the point.

Happily, what was true of AZT in times past is also true for remdesivir and our new 'vaccines' in the age of Covid.

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unblinding mistakes?

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We know from Bree Dressen's story that she was excluded due to injury, and that's the real worry. If those are categorized as Type 2 Covid or counted into risk benefit calculations, then there is nonreason to vaccinate.

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Yes, that's probably the explanation for the imbalance.

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Very strange, exactly the same ratio. What are the chances this was organic?

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Perhaps it was "organic" in the sense that that's the number required by nature to cheat your way out of it, for all of those similar products.

Gee, who would expect a product to be not very effective that aims at producing antibodies of a type hardly present where it counts*, in the first place. And on top of it, design it in a way that begs for escape mutants in cases where the pathogen does get in deep enough for those antibodies to play a role.

* according to S.Bhakdi, Prof. Paul Cullen, and my Immunology 101 book ;-)

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Ha ha, instead of NNT, calculate NNC for efficacy: from the raw date, Number (of exclusions) Needed to Cheat (your way to 51% efficacy).

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what was the placebo? meningitis? sepsis?

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I fear that I'll never get the answers to the most pressing questions I have- Was this all really just about the money (short term profit and collecting safety and mechanism data to unlock a new generation of mRNA products)? How did the entirety of the FDA, CDC, NIH, NHS and other foreign health authorities (seemingly) get captured, and how did they all continue to play along once the data began to come in? How did those agencies and medical professionals lose sight of basic facts about respiratory viruses, as they pertain to masks, spread and inefficacy of vaccines? How did medical professionals in Western nations go along with treatment recommendations that asked them to throw out what they know, give dangerous treatments and refuse to try safe alternatives? How did the media fall in line with these narratives so easily? The level of capture and coordination involved here defies all understanding of mankind. Western nations are free from the kind of totalitarian rule that would push everyone into lock step because their family would be killed otherwise. I can attribute some to greed, some to mass psychosis, some to incompetence, some to ass covering.... but all of them in perfect concert? Where are the whistle blowers from these agencies?

I am just rambling at this point, and I know my need for closure will (likely) never be fulfilled, but I can't stop asking these questions. I need to try and make sense of the world, or this Matrix we are in...

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My thoughts mirror yours. I don’t have the science creds to challenge much of The Narrative, yet when I read all of the arguments in support of and against the way the world has reacted to a virus, my awareness of fallacious arguments and my sense that it is greed and fear that is pandemic, tilts my brain to the conclusion that evil exists. What is most baffling to me is how few people including medical professionals have intentionally, it seems, blinded themselves to the data-backed arguments of our Crawford, Malone and so many others. Can it simply be intellectual laziness or, I suspect, fear of the truth?

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

I doubt “intellectual laziness” is driving their blind embrace of the narrative. I suspect it’s willful ignorance combined with the thought of losing one’s job ….my husband and daughter are physicians and their intellectual curiosity is stunted concerning this abomination (if they did the research and began to see the serious problems with everything being pushed as “science” their world would become much more complicated and their beloved professions diminished and perhaps relinquished all together ) ….it breaks my heart. The eternal optimism that I have always been known for has been smothered to an imperceptible ember…..

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I had my annual checkup a couple of months ago and brought along a copy of “The Real Anthony Fauci “, with the intention of giving it to my physician. I held it up and said ‘John, this is a great book.” He looked at it, smiled grimly, and said “I cannot read that.”

He is retiring at the end of the year.

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Exactly- how can they all be captured? I hadn't fully factored in the fear aspect, but that helps to account for some of the medical professionals' capture. If average folks, like you and I, sense something is wrong, perhaps evil, imagine how terrifying and paralyzing it must be to front line medical staff wondering why they are being given this non-sense. Suddenly, the broken, corruption of the healthcare system is on full display. Would people who have dedicated their careers to helping people ever want to acknowledge the truth that they were deceived and harmed people, especially themselves and their own families?

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Our image of doctors as independant entities has long been gone. They are merely employees in a corporation. That explains very neatly why the medical profession has played along. Threaten your license and living, you will cave too. Easy peasy.

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That will be when cognitive dissonance is on full display.

So tragic hoe the bifurcated reactions to The Narrative have driven a stake into the heart of so many families and friendships. Mine is one of many broken hearts but hearts broken by fear and ignorance can heal. Those inflamed by mRNA shots not so easily.

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Don’t discount the ambitions of the CCP and/ or the WEF. The CCP has been meddling in every western nation, capturing leaders via bribery and blackmail. This was going to happen at some point, but may have been accelerated because Trump threatened the plan. Timing the crisis to the 2020 election seemed very obvious to me. As to the WEF I think they are obsessed with climate change and the need to depopulate. WEF goals are not inconsistent with CCP global domination goal.

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I factor in those influences, as well. Particularly the fact that China was in a tough spot economically pre-pandemic and then profited off of the need for PPE all while keeping suspiciously low case and death numbers and denying mRNA vaccines. (But then what on esrth are they doing in Shanghai right now?!) Then, of course, the WEF theories carry a lot of weight, but then I suspect they may be a plant for distraction because they literally post slide shows of their 'goals' and speak openly about decreasing consumption and population. It is oddly transparent, as if to say "look over here!". I still don't see how the WEF and China could get everyone on board. Sure, they both bribe their way into influence, indoctrinate our politicians in 'young leadership programs' and blatantly attempt to sow division- but why only the Western nations? Why is there no focus on overpopulated, poorer nations? The free spirit and culture of the western nations would need to be broken for these plans to come to fruition, but why would our politicians and agencies contribute to our demise? Again, down the rabbit hole of questions I fall...

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Handbooks: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, and the Book of Revelations.

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I have read that Shanghai is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, and independent minded city, where the CCP is needing to remind its population who is in charge, regardless of economic costs

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I know. It’s hard to imagine the intent of others, when we ourselves would never even consider such intent.

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You win the prize. Well said.

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Fear is a powerful motivator. These people have a LOT on the line, and they have families to support.

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Front lime medical staff have mortgages. The thought of upending their lives concentrates their desire to follow what they are told. The examples that were made by casting even world renown scientists into the a pall worked.

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Apr 25, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Great questions which any intelligent person that has carefully followed this saga shares. My tilt is that the problem exists at two levels. At the top there are sociopaths that work the levers of power to maximize some objective (money, power) in total disregard of the human consequences. I saw a reasonable amount of this when I worked on Wall Street. This level one can characterize as evil.

At lower levels there is fear and wishful thinking. Fear is the operative factor for the average physician who does not oppose the narrative, knowing that it might cost him his job if not his license. Wishful thinking (and misplaced trust) is more the purview of the average citizen, still working with the misunderstanding that the health care system prioritizes his health.

If you have the time to invest, reading RFK’s TRAF would start you on the road to answering some of your questions. They will be dark answers for most people, who have no experience with these kinds of characters.

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Don't be silly, you have plenty of company. Your questions inevitably lead to the contemplation of something so monstrous, most people's mind shrink from the logical conclusion. There really is no other explanation, except that it was planne probably for more years than we think, that, it is a war against all Western "democracies", and that there has been a "fine italian hand" behind all of this and that yes, our country, and Canada, and UK and NZ and Australia are ALL captured and have been for years...I will leave you to figure out by who. As a matter of fact, you can start unraveling the mystery when you look at WHO. And all the Foundations that support them and where those threads lead....

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Of course, Gates Foundation, WEF, IMF, Rockefeller, etc. Follow the money... I, admittedly shrinking away from acknowledging that possibility because it is heinous, have a hard time accepting that there is some round table of global elites that think they are saving the world from climate change and ruin due to overpopulation and consumption AND that they all possess the hubris that their lives, consumption and need to control are all justified even when wholly hypocritical.

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That Round Table goes back over 100 years to have OneWorldGov, League of Nations agenda by UK-Central Bankers

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Just accept it. Beilieve. It is true. All the NGO's, non profit foundations, etc. are all evil.

Your government hates you and wants you dead. Just accept that everything you thought you knew is wrong. A few nights of nightmares, and then you will get angry. Good. Stay angry.

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To what end? When the majority of the masses just bent over and took it, nothing is stopping them from doing it again.

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So you don't get fooled again. And fight back. Save yourself. Most of the masses are hypnotized. Turn off the TV. Yes the masses are dumb. But you want to live don't you? Save what is left of what you know to be true and good.

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And because you have a choice to make. Be a good german, or a badass german.

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But you know it deep inside anyway.

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Thanks for this. Keeping. True.

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This global crime was arranged in USA & spread out from there. Heavy use of 5 eyes and Echelon.

I’m guessing climate change. What they’ve been told. It’s not true. They intend to murder much of the human race.

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Apr 25, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

But there is no difference really between communism and totalitarianism really, au fond, as the french say. Same thing different name. Slavery.

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Mathew, you are a master educator. Reading your work is actually thrilling. Thank you for all you do. It is critical.

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Trying to rationalize any of this has been a ridiculous task. It was Trump after all that spearheaded the warp-speed development of vaccines and within a poisonous politicization of medicine the Dems still managed to get fully behind the vaccines touted by their nemesis Trump.

That double standard: when they automatically rejected HCQ also touted by Trump tells you everything you need to know about how corrupt our healthcare systems have become.

There had never been a successful vaccine for coronavirus previously and yet we were led to believe that X number came along all at the same time and they were all highly effective. I instinctively knew the RCTs were a fraud from that point.

The biggest problem with all of this from my point of view is that is has normalized GMO in general. Previously in Europe we had been highly resistant to GMO technology in agriculture and elsewhere. Now after this global GMO vaccination project the argument will be - how can you object to GMO in agriculture and all other spheres when you willingly had the tech injected straight into you body?

The floodgates are now open to GMO 'science' which is steeped in a hubris that holds itself equivalent with the knowledge of a divine creator which can design and control everything to perfection. Such 'science' always suppresses the side effects and accidents of it Frankenstein interventions with the criminal defence of "who could ever have anticipated X happening". The answer: all those dissenters who were marginalized and cancelled in the great debate.

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They knew that was coming and let it happen as the Neocons wanted a Pearl Harbour moment to kickstart their regime change aspirations in the ME.

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"The primary weakness is that the follow-up time is short."

The short followup means that all-cause mortality will be undercounted for vaccines. This applies both to direct damage from vaccines (likely autoimmune diseases) and waning immunity to covid.

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

I loved your interview with Steve Kirsch. Thank you.

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Am I out of line to suggest America is the one country that might put up a counter-weight fight against WHO/WEF/Fauci&Co plans to get the whole world on a bi-monthly multi-booster regime? And that is why the mind phuckery is thickest here? All of it as a generalized plan to "orderly" draw down global population?

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I think that the U.S. was the strongest when the plan began. The Prussian educational model needed to be put in place, and the Fed needed to form and have time to generate economic dependences enough to knock the legs out from under the bulk of the resistors. It also took time to convince the rest of the world that America was the source of colonistic attitudes rather than the obvious East India Companies. But here we are, and it's not going to be a simple war.

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So a hybrid, global Hobbesian war for all the marbles? I think the authors of this are ignorant of the power of the chaos they have unleashed.

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I used to think we are the dumbest when it came to propaganda because we haven’t had a mass disillusion the way, say, former communist countries had to make us skeptical of our governance. And although many systems are put into place (education, politics, judicial, etc) to groom us into being easily culled, the biggest advantage we have in the States is that we are so heterogenous- a true melting pot of diverse backgrounds and ideologies. And we have lots and lots of citizens who own guns. There is no other country that has that much of an armed populace.

So, yes, if America (the people, not the government) bends the knee to the WEF, the world will lose the war. But I don’t think it’s gonna happen. They didn’t succeed in dummyfying us enough. Too many resisted. Too many woke up. And now, armed with this awareness (and some guns, just in case), the war becomes not so silent and not so easily lost.

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Having raised 4 kids through public schools I can tell you the teachers / people that try and indoctrinate aren't very efficacious. My kids knew the difference between teachers and those that just needed a job, having minimal ability in other things.

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That’s due diligence to you, as a parent. You raised critical thinkers. How many of your generation were able to do the same? Most of my friends were not ready to become parents. I would say I was the same but figured it out on the go quickly enough.

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I would love to take credit, but they are were born skeptics. My wife and I simply provided a warm caring environment.

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You also provided the genes, and it made all the difference.

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Here is one great confirmation of that with nde’er dannion brinkley (on the side), who has seen most of what transpires right now in 1975...

https://www.bitchute.com/video/uCsBROBwUmKi/

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Can you please resend the link? I’m getting a 404 error page.

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If you still can’t get the link, go a little back and forth on bitchute typing dannion brinkley and maybe shut off your Ipad and restart or close down pc, defragment and restart....

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Does not even download form BC.

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Not sure what’s going on, I have no problem getting it, but as they say in the interview, they really don’t want you to see this one...I unsubscribed mariachi and discovered they were tracking my location, which is not unusual, just surprising, and of course we’re aware of that... if you’re in the States they might make it more complicated and they really don’t like bitchute....still can’t see why you can’t get it...try a library...?

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Thanks so much for the information. I feel less isolated reading what you've written. Confirmation of my own gut feelings...I too feel, as other readers of yours that I cannot trust medicine... Been a long time coming "feeling" for me. If you don't listen to the whispers, they say, you'll get the screams. Worse situations pretty much saying "GET OUT OF THIS SYSTEM!" It's so obvious all around for those who open their eyes. I find myself so aggravated when others do not... especially family....Thank you so much again for your writing and research.

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There doesn’t seem to be anything to the adenovirus all cause headline. 6 of the 8 extra placebo deaths were in the Jannsen trial. The authors declare random chance impossible because the trend is consistent (in that there are 2 extra deaths split between all non-Jannsen adenovirus placebo groups)? So the outlier is misconstrued as a trend. Pure farce.

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Your point that distribution matters is well-taken.

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Apr 25, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Not a paid subscriber, so I'll add a comment here about the Dalai Lama. Every single celebrity and politician and journalist who goes to see him HAS TO PROVIDE A GIFT. And the DL gets a lot of visitors, so his staff has a handy guide of what to buy for the DL. And it's a lot of extremely expensive watches + techno gadgets. Definitely another weird aspect to this guy and what he's supposed to be selling (enlightenment, freedom from material desires, etc).

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Canadian stats are also massaged to say that the gene jabs reduced all-cause mortality. It just does not make sense from any perspective.

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Remember when they made all those claims for the statins? They were feeding us med professionals the line of crap that they were going to be shown to reduce Alzheimers, beneficial in arthritis, boosted the immune system, reduced blood sugar, all kinds of crap, much of which has been shown to be the reverse, actual side effects!

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Apr 24, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Any chance you will be at the Better Way Conference in Bath, England May 20-22? Hosted by Dr.Tess Lawrie.

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I hadn't heard of it and I haven't flown much at, lately. I wouldn't even know if there are vaccine requirements. I've never been to the UK, but as I've given up the vast majority of my income to write this newsletter and investigate, I don't see myself traveling much any time soon.

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You belong there.

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Got it. It will be virtual as well. Hope you can watch some of it👍

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May 8, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

The lead author of the study was recently interviewed on the UnHerd Youtube channel. Interesting lady. 30 years of research into non-specific effects from vaccines. They discuss this study on the program. https://youtu.be/o_nKoybyMGg She mentioned briefly older studies on the very positive affects to all cause mortality for the measles vaccines, 50%+, which surprised the researchers, and me. Based on her read of the data, she said she wouldn't have anyone over 50 vaccinated with the mRNA vaccines. And if she had kids in their 20s, they would receive no covid vaccine.

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Do you think that based on the data that there is at least a slight beneficial effect on mortality in at risk groups. Meaning did it make sense for an elderly at risk person to get the shot.

In your opinion since the studies were clear that herd immunity was not possible with these shots and young healthy people were not at risk , why did the CDC and fauci and all the public health agencies push these things so hard . I mean i can understand these groups having strong opinions about whether they think people should take them or not. But the level of pressure and caution Reached fascist levels. I never thought in my life a 54 years as a practicing physician that I would live through something so disturbing and creepy. It’s like we went through a psychotic fascist episode

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Mathew, I really appreciate your contributions knowing you had to work through a flood crisis; the devotion you show to helping us understand the facts at hand is exceptional and highly commendable- I will make a contribution to your site in some form. So glad you shared some personal background to your story. Blessings from Oregon...

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