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I guess, if we were to zoom out our telescope, we'd understand that what we're seeing in the absolute corruption and rent seeking in the public health bureaucracy is endemic (see what I did there?) to all agencies and function of federal and local governments. In my industries, the corruption of officials by and with real estate developers and builders is almost laughable and not even hidden, and as well, the amount of corruption by and for the agriculture industry is also well documented, beginning with the food pyramid and the "get big or get out" policies and extending even to today.

As a retired soldier, I am well aware of it in the defense industry. It may be the most corrupt and certainly has led to more lives lost (with no sense of shame or responsibility) than the medical corruption.

It's only surprising because we naively believed that health practitioners were true to their oaths--we've always trusted our family doctor. Now, we see the truth, even our doctors are complicit in the rape of our country, it's good people, and it's idealism. The same with the great universities. And, our religious leaders have emaciated themselves, not even relying on government to do it.

Where do we turn now? Did our founders foresee this phenomenon like they did so many others? Did they give us a way and prescribe the tool to fight it? Is there any trustworthy field left? Where do we stand that has solid footing for us to begin to rebuild?

There are good people among us. I just pray there are enough.

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Part of what gets under-taught about the founders is that they weren't just interested in independence from England, but of the British East India Company. They were wary of corporations, and for the first century of the existence of the United States of America, hardly any corporate charters were granted. But they did not manage to successfully craft a Constitution that could keep that system of kunlangeta hierarchy out permanently, so here we are again, looking for a way out from under it.

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I'm an old Beltway Bandit well versed in Federal corruption that pushed me to walk away when Bush Sr was elected. My familiarity with the problems in the medical community by virtue of having a medically involved family and being blessed to have had experience with both brilliant researchers and some pompous practitioners of routine care.

In my view the problem is not lack of morality among the doctors, nurses etc but misplaced trust in their education and information being unbiased focus on health. In fact what modern medicine teaches is heavily skewed toward treatment of symptoms with Rx options and ignore any questions of cause. Their text books misinform, their professional journals are biased and this leads to doing the wrong thing with all the right motivations.

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The problems with incentives and training explain 90%, but not all.

These problems are similar, but different among the intelligensia as well. Many of the scientists and statisticians who could help better guide them do not. And once halfway down the track of acceptance of their methodologies, it's hard to take a stand that needs taking. For instance, almost all of the statistical tools and training are incorrect and misguided, but there is nobody there to tell a busy doctor working 60 hours a week [who often only got out of debt at the age of 35] that this is the case.

I suspect these problems are also related to the high rates of drug abuse and suicide we see associated with with medical professions. It's a tough situation.

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Steve's persistence and tenacity inspire me. This is how you win a fight, even if you lose a battle, occasionally. So my mom was right. This weekend, when we finally solved the issue with her kitchen faucet, she said: "This is how you make things happen: with persistence." The plumber had to come back three times to replace a wall-mounted faucet with a new one (because the first one was positioned too low) and again with a new one (because the second one was faulty and leaked). Finally, the new shining faucet was done as a result of her grit to not let minor issues slip through the cracks. We are with you, Steve, your grit is our grit!

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Nov 1, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Yes he is amazing and I am so grateful for him ... and Mathew!

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Nice Freudian slip: the vaccine manufacturers are the public health ministers.

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Wow. I think I'll just leave it.

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It's true, so why not? The FDA --> Pfizer promotion process is disgusting.

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Did you happen to catch the Russell Brand clip with the "Brought to You by Pfizer" compilation? funny but scary!!

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No but I did see a compilation of news shows sponsored by them, maybe it was the same thing.

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Nov 1, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Gorski is a genetic dead end sociopath. He’s also a male who enjoys lecturing women that males are aCkSHULLy women. Ask the “skeptic” if men can get pregnant 🤡

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Nov 1, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Jesus told a parable about a widow that kept entreating a corrupt and heartless judge for justice. Eventually, he did provide justice, in order for her to go away.

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lol

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Thanks, Mathew. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ;)

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LOL. I appreciate the beauty of the exploration. It's other people who look at the nice typesetting of the Pfizer report and think, "Must have been a very well run RCT. Tip top."

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This level of intellectual dishonesty is astonishing wherever you find it, but for it to be exhibited by people of their "status"... professors and such, I guess it's indicative of the decline, entire fields stooping the level of junior high sophistry. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." and such.

It's time to burn it all down and start over, but the real way, not the "build back better" way.

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Slow down. Start from first principles. Build Back Better is not bad. Why would it be? Don't let them take something good from your because you know that they're not.

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Building back better is not literally bad, but the new world order/net-zero/global governance/"you'll own nothing, have no privacy, and be happy" which the slogan represents is the epitome of evil.

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Do what Johnny Cash did and own it back.

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Call it

"Build back better, hold the WEF!"

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I don't like "build back better" for the simple reason that it's a cheesy, non-specific slogan that just sounds like cringe dialed up to a zillion to me. I have no idea what it exactly means or why they are pushing it, much less why anyone would find that slogan appealing in anyway.

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Do you want to know what it means and why they are pushing it? Then look at its origins. Go look at Klaus Schwab of the WEF. Read about his "Great Reset". Maybe have a look at Event 201, it's quite an eye-opener. Here are a couple of starting points:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset/5730652

https://plandemicseries.com

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Anything that is conceived of by partisan politicians is bad by definition. Social change that lasts and endures comes from the bottom up, not the top-down. There is no social or political change in human history that was originated by academics that has endured.

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In theory anyway but the way

things like the Infrastructure Bill are structured these days it's all about wasting taxpayer monies, contracting shenanigans , and generating revenue for those that don't need it, I don't forsee anything getting built back better in today's environment. What we really need to address many of the Nation's ills is a compulsory national service/public works program based on the Civilian Conservation Corps model but that would unite the masses, something our government seems to abhor.

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Mathew this was an amazing article, although sadly by the time I finished it I punched a hole of frustration in my plaster (jk). Nicely done - keep up the amazing work.

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"He answered none of them and instead blocked me."

For the record, you blocked me for giving you some pretty lightweight and purely good-faith challenges to some idea or other you'd posted.

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"If these kinds of educated clowns aren't actually doing any work they'll display, and spouting so much nonsense, what conclusion can we even draw?"

Again for the record, I came nowhere close to calling you "educated clown", and yet, blocked. So if you'll block me for my mild remarks, imagine how interested these folks are in your biting criticisms of them.

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Shayne, I blocked you because after months of trying to communicate with you, you were constantly insistent and demanding that I see things your way rather than discussionary and sharing. It became oppressive.

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"For the record, you blocked me for giving you some pretty lightweight and purely good-faith challenges to some idea or other you'd posted."

"I think you mean to say is that I sincerely thought you were wrong about something of crucial import and said so."

You constantly go around telling people what they think and why they do what they do. I did not act for the reasons you state I acted. And that you would tell me why I took the actions I took is a demonstration of why I took them. That's obnoxious, irritating, and a waste of my time.

Shayne, there are a number of people who believe that you are intelligent and could be more productive, but that you'll need to humble yourself to the process of finding your own best therapy to get there.

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It appears your hero uses substack so he can both block users and delete posts.

This gives him full power to extinguish critiques of his work and shape discussion so that it feeds into his own narrative.

More that that I do not know except his 41 multiplier is simply tired old rhetoric by him and he stands alone on it and he isn't even qualified on the matter.

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Trope:

* Claim hero worship

* State actions as if they are universal and applied in negative way

* Arguments wrong. I say so.

* I am qualified to say hero is not qualified.

Yawn.

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Until anonymous trolls like you expend as much righteous energy criticizing YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook for completely unpersoning anyone from their platforms that doesn't fit a specific narrative, you'll have to excuse the rest of us for being suspicious of accounts like yours and assuming they may be astoturf, possibly paid astroturf.

To block trolling and spamming is not the same thing as massive, coordinated censorship by big tech giants on important medical topics that we need to have legitimate debates on.

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I thought Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything was 42, not 41.

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"but I imagine the only thing Gordon gets out of this is a kind of virtue signaling in his socio-political tribal circle, which is to say that with tens of billions of dollars in pharma money washing around, he didn't negotiate well enough."

This is so well put. And, is the only explanation that makes sense for the ordinary folks I encounter in my real life and/or social media life that argue so zealously on behalf of, what you call, the Kunlageta.

Do the people opposing early treatment (HCQ, IVM, zinc, etc.) have studies showing they DON'T work? Has Fauci even commissioned studies for early treatment?

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"Results for hydroxychloroquine are dominated by RECOVERY and WHO SOLIDARITY, two highly pragmatic trials, which employed relatively high doses "

Relatively high doses. Lol. Yeah, that's one way to describe toxic doses.

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When I first watched the Dark horse podcast with Bret, Robert, & Steve I guess my first impression of Steve was similar to many but after however many months now I know that Steve & Robert are well acquainted and Friends, colleagues now, and it's just Steve's mannerisms - Steve was instrumental in getting RM's Linked-In acct back up and running. His tenaciousness is well appreciated, he is yet another beacon if truth!!

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Exactly. In a stressful or tense time, you can't see easily rely on a snap judgment.

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Typo here? should understand that the first problem in the vaccine program is that there is no open channel of information between the public and either the vaccine manufacturers are the public health ministers.

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Are you surmising that the vaccines brought so many deaths forward until the 14 day window after dose 2 that it lowered excess deaths in the vaccinated group?

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My takeaway is that either the data is largely fabricated, the groups were medically gerrymandered to put healthier candidates in the vax group, or both.

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I would welcome the complete fall. I will not lie.

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I would welcome a rebuild, and we're all going to have to do it. Let us hope that they burn little to the ground before we can sew that field again.

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Rebuild is neigh impossible. Too many entrenched within the system to allow for that to occur.

We are dealing with a combination of arrogance, ignorance and fear, any one of these makes honest discussion difficult. This is equivalent to having an honest discussion with a pathological liar. It is an impossibility. They are not moral, emotionally capable or motivated.

It's one of the reasons novel technologies take-off, the entrenched are so wedded to protecting their turf that they cannot pivot fast enough. In order for a system, to overcome it's corruption/ineptitude those who foster and support the current scenario have to go -- yet they are generally the ones who have the power.

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To me rebuild simply means an upgrade of the right technologies, whereas the faux-technologies of consolidation have been overinvested to the point of necessary retrenchment.

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