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Dec 10, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Thank you for sharing this. The more I go down the rabbit hole with this industry, the more alarmed I become. If anyone would like to hop down the trail a bit more I highly recommend this book by Ben Goldacre. He does an exquisite job of diving into the details of clinical trials and the statistical voodoo employed to obtain the result being sought after. The more I read into this the more I’m convinced that most clinical trials done by the majors are partial if not complete fabrications. It’s truly disturbing that people can be used so flippantly as cannon fodder for an industry that cares about nothing but money which bring power.

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Pharma-Companies-Mislead-Patients/dp/0865478007

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Why is everyone supposed to get a tetanus booster? Follow the money.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/do-adults-really-need-tetanus-booster-shots-2020051219786

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Interesting. Thank You!

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Unfortunately I came to the same conclusion.

One of the sadest story is from the book Children of Cure from dr. Healy about Paxil study on children.

Than there is HPV Vaccine on Trial, than excelent Dissolving Illusions, Doctoring Data, Statin Nation, Imagine you are an Aluminium Atom, The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine, The Zyprexa Papers...

Wherever you look, the same pattern.

It amazes me how much time and money do the companies invest to hide this all from public. But on the other hand I can understand that. It makes them so rich...

Justice is sometimes slow, but eventually it gets you. From outside or from inside.

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Thanks for this again, always so much to learn when you share.

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Dec 10, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Dr. David Diamond and the cholesterol con. Discusses Relative Risk v. Absolute Risk

https://youtu.be/inwfSkSGvQw

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Dec 10, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Such a wealth of evidence and such a paucity of prosecutors.

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They're busy with the greatest threat to America since Pearl Harbor and nailing the dude with the face paint and furry hat with horns using the Speaker's gavel.

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My favorite was the sign "You can lead a bureaucrat to paper but you can't make them think." These systems are less efficient than Rube Goldberg's and compartmentalizing information stops exchanges between groups and across specialty areas. Intelligence operations are built on the same model of "need to know" info sharing; it reduces the risk of anyone knowing too much when each just gets to see a slice. Great for spies not so much with public health.

"There are a lot of eye opening moments here. One of those involves the way that medicated patients are moved across ledgers inappropriately."

Enron accounting & loopholes is how Washington rolls. Periodically the horror of it is almost too much for a rational mind to assimilate. So much of the Federal, criminal activity is waste and fraud, contracting abuses and that's awful.

But in the areas of human health and the environment it still makes me a bit ill learning each new case where we are dying for profits. It's beyond belief criminal profiteers retire to their private islands with their Seychelles bank account and stockholders pay a fine.

I can't imagine coming into this cluster%$#@ cold and landing in 2021 like the Mad Hatters Tea Party is reality. At best it's a seismic event with respect to faith in regulatory authority and with luck epic enough to finally fix this. https://planetwaves.net/contents/faking_it.html

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“ There are a lot of eye opening moments here. One of those involves the way that medicated patients are moved across ledgers inappropriately."

The big boys take the MOST dangerous time for the vaccines, ( beginning day one from the moment of the shot, to about six weeks later; 14 days post shot number two) when most adverse events and crossover infections occur, and zero of that critical period are the vaccinated considered anything but unvaccinated. ( The very definition of inappropriate moving people across ledgers)

And it is a double move, as when their are only two teams at 5 and 5 and the play each other, then every loss for one an automatic gain for the other. One moves changes tge records to 6 and 4, and the other to 4 and 6. This disingenuous behavior is evil.

One should simply create a third ledger and then only deal with excess mortality morbidity, and move those into the jabbed ledger.

One could also move reduced mortality morbidity into the jabbed ledger. The unvaccinated did nothing, so they can keep all the expected morbidity mortality for their demographic. The “acted on” get all the credit, or blame, however it falls.

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Dec 10, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

The site where you can see the slides etc:

https://davidhealy.org/where-does-the-misinformation-come-from/

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Dec 10, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

At what point do you throw your hands up and give up. If the friggin smartest people in the world want to get together and use their intellectual gifts to play tricks on the rest of us what chances do we have? Trying to just live my life. I don't have time to audit every single ongoing science related to potential treatment, even if I could understand it enough to do so.

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Build a parallel society. Educate your own children. Build credentials organically through action. Take science back. Watch Moloch eat itself.

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Secede. Individually at first and then collectively.

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Dec 10, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

The system is broken. All centralized systems will be captured. We need to go to decentralized, multiple independent (non government) certification, with full financial liability and criminal liability for concealing any information about a drug or procedure.

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"If the friggin smartest people in the world want to get together and use their intellectual gifts to play tricks on the rest of us.."

They are far from the smartest guys in the room.. not the best and brightest but the most brazen, conspiratorial and corrupt with fables created by media about their superiority.. don't buy their fantasy.

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The Gift of Fire article recently published was clearly done by some brilliant people. I was a C student in my major at college and could tell when people were a weight class or so above me.

I will say this, there are cases where it doesn't matter. Being smarter only comes to play if the problem domain is sophisticated enough for it to matter. They may have AI that can beat a human at Go, but can't do much better than forcing a tie at Tic-Tac-Toe against a 6-year-old.

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No need to give up. Just recognize that the systems that are notionally there to protect us can no longer be relied upon, in part because of corruption but more so because large scale interventions in complex systems (like the individual and collective immune system) almost always fail. Rely on tradition, long-standing practice, good diet and most of all, nature. The first rule of complex systems: nature is divine.

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The replies here have cut into my defeatism. Thanks.

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That's wonderful!

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We have the government the masses deserve. While the average person might complain, he's also quite complicit, in a variety of mundane ways which are very easy to discover.

Ultimately most people don't want to be blamed or criticized, and this moral deficit is amplified by the size of the populace and embodied in a government.

Does this mean it's hopeless? I don't see how it's hopeless, but until individuals start their own moral revolutions we won't see a lot of progress.

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I agree in principle, however, the playing ground isn't level. People are subjected to a constant barrage of weapons-grade behavioral psychology, manipulation, 100+ years of purpose-built public education, and are kept perpetually exhausted and distracted by the need to make ends meet with an ever increasing workload and shrinking wages.

I admit, it's harder to make excuses for people when the reality becomes as obvious as it has in the last 2 years. I certainly feel my resentment building toward a populace who seems to care so little for truth and integrity.

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If we want a world where integrity succeeds then we need to foster integrity, and that means holding people to proper standards and not letting them off the hook so easy and making excuses for them.

It's not hard to understand that we should have transparency, accountability, that people in authority should answer pertinent questions. The FDA wants until 2096 to release the Pfizer safety data. The only reason that's not totally laughable is that the populace as a whole is pretty corrupt.

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"We have the government the masses deserve. While the average person might complain, he's also quite complicit, in a variety of mundane ways which are very easy to discover."

It's not a unique position but I disagree. Maybe being an old timer puts it in a very different perspective. Most Americans live on the edge of financial disaster, many have more than one job, no health insurance and less than $400 bucks in total savings. Over a lifetime they have invested trust in "reliable" news sources and that trust has been betrayed in covert nefarious ways across every sector of our society.

People have work and families and chores and do not have the hours to drill down on every story. Americans have spent a lifetime developing a view of the world and values through media.

It varies by individual but much of our identity is tied to the messaging, the music, the movies, the clothes and foods become the fabric of our lives. So do the truths we accept as delivered by our favorite writers and TV personalities. We have brand loyalty and everything rides along.

Most folks don't even know what's in their foods. It takes Sherlock Holmes skills and depth in labeling laws and allowable ingredient names to identify harm in what you literally swallow. Fun fact, there are over 120 ways corn can be listed including as Vitamin C so when a crap dink has "With Vitamin C" in bold on the label it motivates a healthful buyer and it can be a shot of gmo corn.

How much would consumer behavior shift if we had labels for KRAFT mac & cheese that stated it's sold by the Big Tobacco boys and includes Monsanto rBGH dairy and Roundup Ready, glyphosate soaked corn?

What we see depends where we stand and what we have is a system of deception that will be our fault now that we can all see our fundamental freedoms on the chopping block.

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It doesn't take a lot of effort to e.g. observe the censorship and to know that censorship is wrong. The Maddie de Garay story is sufficient to wake someone up, or the FDA requesting until 2096 to release the Pfizer safety information. There's an endless stream of really easily knowable corruptions, doesn't take Sherlock Holmes or a rocket scientist. So why pretend otherwise?

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"The Maddie de Garay story is sufficient to wake someone up, or the FDA requesting until 2096 to release the Pfizer safety information."

Given the level of manipulation by search engines and the conspiracy of silence by MSM the stories you cite never get seen by most people.

How many people know the world's most awarded journalist who ushered in a new era of transparency with publication of evidence of US war crimes in Iraq has been jailed and tortured for a decade for journalism?

How many know today UK Courts approved extradition for Assange who is locked in UK GITMO for 2010 publications along with Guardian & New York Times whose Editorial Board said the prosecution is the greatest threat to free press in our lifetime?

How many know the smears about Julian have as much fact as an anti-vax label? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to find stories of CIA assassination plots, the CIA stealing his lawyers case material and dozens of other abuses of human rights and law.

The problem is that we can't know what we don't know. Before you look for answers there must be something that causes you to ask questions. Answers may be easy to find with the right questions.

You cannot blame folks for asking about unknowns any more than expecting an ancient Eskimo community to describe a pineapple. Without reference there is a void where no line of questioning can be formed.

It pretends nothing but a reflection if reality.

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You're naysaying merely to maintain your false worldview, not presenting anything substantive.

I've interacted with people, I know how they respond when the actual facts are put in front of them. Kinda like how you interact here. "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."

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"Kinda like how you interact here. "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."

Over many decades of activism dating back to Watergate there have been a lot of accusations thrown at me but this is the first time anyone has ever gone with the preposterous claim of willfully ignoring the sources of evil. This will keep me and several who know me laughing for days. Gotta be the wildest jab of all time!!

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Agree on censorship and the FDA 2096 request. The Maddie de Garay story is tough. If your news is not of the right you simply aren't going to engage that story. I was avoiding all human interest stories about tragedy both of infection and side effects as I don't want that imagery in my head. I'm sure such stories exist for safe vaccines as well. Between the ideological divide and the conflation with anti-vaxxers which have a stigma going way back, it simply doesn't register on many on the left.

I wouldn't expect Fox viewers to be swayed by tragic stories by CNN on young parents killed by the virus.

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The pertinent issue isn't that someone took a risk on the vaccine and lost, it's that Pfizer/FDA covered up the outcome.

https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/fda-buries-data-on-seriously-injured

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Your right. That is the pertinent issue the story reveals which I'm not sure I realized in those clear terms.

You know I almost showed this story to my wife yesterday but decided not to. It felt like it would have been unfair of me. It would be like here arguing with me by pointing to awful stories of 40-year-old Dad's that died because they figured they were healthy to try to get me boosted. I don't think she knows of the story at all. Which gets back to the point that certain stories simply don't reach everybody. They are outside of their respective Overton window.

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It's a question of education. The problem is it doesn't happen in a vacuum and there is a lot of bad information and education going on.

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Adults are responsible for themselves, regardless of any past poor education.

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Walking away from Omelas is not giving up to its underlying logic and moral framework. It is harder, riskier, unknown, and likely not as rewarding as giving in to Omelas, but walking away is always an option. If there are hundreds of thousands of people willing to walk across the border illegally to find a barely legal life in its bowels, and if you are set on just living your life, you could live that life anywhere, authentically chosen, with all its outcomes and consequences, you too could find a life outside the law, outside the game of chances, a fragile but sincere life.

I don't disagree with your frustration and your perception of the rigged game. I am saying that a person has to be ready to leave everything they love (to "let it go") in order to live what is true, and just, and beautiful. The life you choose has repercussions for how you live on after this one is dead.

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may need to read that book

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A short "story" but you can listen to it read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT2QjwOO5l4

The longer Le Guin lesson, which I'm also drawing from in getting what she's getting at in that short story, is her The Dispossessed. That's a novel. I've used both in philosophy classes.

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well said.

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Dec 10, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Riveting.

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Another important element is that they failed to assign ownership of the adverse event reporting to a dedicated entity and outsourced it or left it freely floating amongst various entities who are largely disinclined to do it.

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Interesting lecture. A lot of the points he makes regarding covid vaccine trials were very close to an article I published a couple of days ago in which I look at the suppression of adverse events but also a critique of the new trials overly complicated global infrastructures and use of outsourcing to sub-contractors which have three profound effects. They diffuse responsibility and accountability across multiple parties who deflect blame between them, they make the trials impossible to properly administrate and they lastly render the trials impossible to audit. Link below.

https://communityoperatingsystem.wordpress.com/2021/12/05/pfizers-rct-administrative-nightmare/

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Yikes, YouTube says the video is no longer available. I watched it but did not back it up, and now I seek help finding a backup of this video. In the meantime, we have the slides and Dr. Healy's blog post.

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The video of the talk has been of course banished from YouTube, is there another source?

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I wrote about the background of Covid the year before it all started in my book Butchered by “Healthcare” on sale on amazon kindle now for $4.00.

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It's sad that things not only haven't improved but seems to have gotten worse after a decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7rbUdp_XIE

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(Prof. Healy's interview from a decade ago)

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