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Very well summarized. I’ve been glowing all day following our chat. Steve is a huge role model of mine and I’m thrilled to say James has quickly become one of the same.

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Aug 2, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Absolutely fantastic discussion by your two very knowledgeable guest. I hated for the podcast to end. I just shared it on my LinkedIn since my primary connection’s are all science or medical. Maybe they will take a listen and open their minds.

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I was there asking questions and *I* plan to rewatch it.

So far I've been blessed with great guests, and the upcoming lineup continues to look excellent.

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Aug 2, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

You are getting great guest because they are assured with your podcast the dialogue will be driven with highly intelligent questions and a true desire for facts. We as listeners are blessed to have you running the data for the last two years that brought you to the point of the podcast.

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Brilliant video and discussion! Thank you Mathew, Steven Pelech and James Lyons-Weiler!

I didn't get the jab as I was awaiting medium and long-term studies on the impact of them on my immune system. So glad I didn't! The more info we get on vaccines, how they impact our immune systems (especially innate immunity) and the more times I watch my jabbed friends and relatives repeatedly get covid, the more troubling the data and motivation not to give in to the governments sponsored mass formation "safe & effective" psychosis sweeping the globe!

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“The vaccines we have are terrific, but we can do better than terrific,” Ashish Jha. Peak Oil by the end of the 1970's. New Ice Age towards the end of the 1970's. 150,000 Covid deaths in Australia. The North pole will be ice free by xxxx. The end of polar bears. Pictures of Cov-Sars-2 when there are no actual pictures of Cov-Sars-2. And you still trust scientists? Even if you are one?

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If I had no model aside from stirring the pot of all scientists together in one soup, I'd be skeptical of everything to the exact same degree. But I think that we can model the world better with clever testing of trust and proxy trust. Information is more and less reliable. People are more and less reliable, and in different ways at different times. Intelligence is our ability to discern.

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I am no longer that optimistic. Inevitably all scientists are in the same soup - because those that are not are excluded from the soup. Take for example here is Australia, where getting a diagnosis of pericarditis after the first Pfizer shot for someone in their mid 20's did not warrant an exemption of further shots, and with a recommendation not to report it as the report would be ignored anyway. Which is to say medical doctors (who one would assume are in some sense scientists) are all in that rotten soup. I hope that people such as yourself and many others on sub stack can make a new recipe, but I no longer think it will happen.

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I think I get what you're saying, though I think your wording is too absolute.

Government and corporate funding of science took science in a terrible direction, and most scientists have a hard time maintaining agency as a result.

So, what do we do?

Honestly, I believe that the task of the next generation or two is rebuiding the world economy. We're going to be bootstrapping new economic feedback loops for many knowledge workers, such as scientists. A few, such as Steven and James, seem to be independent on that level, already. A handful will make part of their living teaching on new platforms and writing on Substacks---call it the Neo University and we'll see where that goes.

There is no hope...that it will be easy. I'm fine with a hard road because it means hope for science and humanity.

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Aug 2, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

I am glad you are hopeful and it gives me some.

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Much like processed food and the daily commute to the cubical, vaccines weaken a species' natural immunity. They make us soft. When the improbable happens our remnants may not continue on.

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Thank you so much. This discussion is a full on turn the lights on for me. I “got it “ some time into the pandemic, but never to this level. I actually got an education watching this. Some of that education isn’t great, since I can’t get my tonsils back 😂 or the vaccine out of myself. I’m double vaxed but my son got mandated into a booster & now I know why he was incredibly sick after picking up something

( tested neg on a rat ) I suspect that a number of children who have died in Aus had Covid vaccine complications with some illnesses that would normally be mild

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I mostly enjoyed this video but it is hard to fathom that highly intelligent doctors who spend a lot of time talking about how complex and amazing our immune systems are can believe that they evolved by chance over millions of years. This does not make sense to me. It is so obvious that our universe, earth, ecosystems, and bodies are intelligently designed.

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I don't know what version of intelligent design you have in mind, but any system evolves/changes. If I were a godlike watchmaker, I wouldn't be satisfied with anything that failed to change. It would be so uninteresting.

But if there are changes, and beyond those of simple clockwork action, then we should expect systems to work to self-improve. And if that is the case, we should expect those improvements to stack up over millions of years into wonderfully complex systems.

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When God created, He built in so much opportunity for variation between the different kinds and this, plus natural selection, is why we have so many interesting creatures. Check out creation.com for a plethora of articles from PhD scientists that show how science and the bible work together to show of His handiwork. You will not be disappointed.

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