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Sep 3, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

With most of society captured by the outright lies, obfuscation and fear propaganda, how can critical thinkers turn this around. Seems to be well over half the population are entirely anchored to their vaccines are the only way out position and any other measure (eat well , supplement, exercise etc) is gleefully waved away with no attempt to engage in debate, every position against the narrative is being shouted down, shadow banned, censored etc and the golden ticket holders are now happy to do the government’s bidding to shame healthy people into taking a therapeutic being marketed as a vaccine. And not a very good therapeutic judging from adverse outcome data and Israel into their third of many more shots. It is a mass psychosis now

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Sep 5, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Just FYI: Nuclear power is the safest energy technology humanity has ever devised by a wide margin. This is one of those areas where people's perception of risk is wildly disproportionate to the actual risk. Commercial nuclear power plant accidents have killed something like 50 people over the course of the entire history of commercial nuclear power.

Also, commercial nuclear power plants present less of a nuclear weapons proliferation risk than most people seem to assume. Commercial nuclear power plants are a much more time-consuming and expensive, and much less efficient means of breeding weapons grade fissile material than a simple atomic pile like the ones assembled for the Manhattan Project. This is one of the reasons why almost every nation that has both nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants developed their nuclear weapons first.

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All of these things are also alike, in the sense that no amount of precautionary testing can turn a fundamentally bad idea, into a safe and useful technology. Once we accept and normalize the idea of thousands of drones flying everywhere, it's a very short step to equip all those drones with killer weapons. And, the nuclear power plants still generate massive quantities of nuclear waste, even if well contained (for a few decades.)

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Precautionary Principle has no bearing on American regulation of food and chemicals there is an assumption of safety and harm must be shown. This is how gmo foods were added as GRAS by using Monsanto believes with nutrient measures and ignoring novel proteins. To further distort the issue of safety the testing is not done to identify potential harm. UC Davis had a Scorecard database that verified that and they pulled it offline in late 2020. Here's the verification saved at Internet Archive.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170819155507/http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-profiles/chems-profile-descriptions.tcl#basic_testing

http://web.archive.org/web/20101122021318/www.fda.gov/Food/Biotechnology/Submissions/ucm161130.htm

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“All governments lie”

Journalist I.F. Stone

Covid treatments exist. Spread the word!

https://trialsitenews.com/get-sicker-anatomy-of-a-failed-policy/

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Something to show my "health care professional" at our next meeting. Thanks.

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Thanks for the chuckle!

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It seems every crisis presents an opportunity that is also a moral hazard for those who are tasked with providing a solution. The more severe and global the crisis, the greater the moral hazard. A global codification of mandatory transparency around such things might make it a bit harder for the Kunganleta and their swarm of flying monkeys to evade the Precautionary Principle. But without the disinfecting power of sunlight, they cannot be held accountable for their crimes.

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