RTE Roundtable Talk #12: Research Censorship (and a Solution!)
Featuring Kevin McKernan, PhD and Jessica Rose, PhD
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I really enjoyed today's Roundtable Talk with Kevin and Jessica, who are on my short list of most interesting and brilliant people I've met during the plandemonium. We talk about papers each of them co-wrote with Dr. Peter McCullough that were held back from formal publication during the pandemic in different ways, corruption all over science, intellectual property, perverse economic incentives, paper mills (here and here are examples, and you might fairly wonder the extent to which they relate to setting up a medical authoritarian environment), and much more. We did not talk about the increasingly popular game of "Six Degrees of Peter McCullough" being played during lab lunch gatherings around the world.
The conversation eventually led to a proof-of-concept project in which Kevin published a genetic study of a cannabis plant onto the DASH blockchain. The entire process, including all data steps and images as well as peer review was all recorded on the blockchain, and the incentives were laid out to reward good participation at every level—the peer review process in particular. I strongly suspect that this is the seed for a larger movement. Cryptocurrency will, in some form, lay out a "trustless" environment that is transparent, and will return control of the scientific process to the scientists.
There was so much packed into today's conversation, and I feel humbled to have been a part of sharing it with the world. Please watch!
Since we spent most of the second half of our conversation talking about the blockchain approach to scientific publication, here is Kevin's fantastic presentation on that project.
I know Kevin and already really enjoyed my time talking with him, but this presentation gave me goosebumps. I watched it twice like I was watching an impactful slice of history. If this were a TED Talk, it would be in my top two along with Sir Ken Robinson's education talk, "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" (I am an educator after all). I would then throw 92% of the remainder of TED Talks into a dumpster and look around for an accelerant.
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Just throwing this out there--it would be interesting to see if a block chain model might enable everyday citizens to groupfund publication of important (underrepresented) science. It would be an incredible change of perspective where silenced research and study could find a voice, supported by a concerned public.
"I would then throw 92% of the remainder of TED Talks into a dumpster and look around for an accelerant."
I have rarely understood the hype about TED talks. So thank you for this comment.