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Nov 24, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

You are so calm about this.

I am furious on your behalf.

You are doing such diligent work. There are many of us that appreciate you.

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This is post-fury. This substack was born out of the first of my four 30-day Facebook suspensions.

This is post-fury. This is war. It's a time to be calm and incisive while dropping bombs.

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Nov 24, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Why don’t people want the truth? If it supports or refutes your opinion who cares? I thought we are concerned with people dying when they shouldn’t and we all want that to stop?

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Nov 25, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

I ask myself this every single day, even before the pandemic. Vast majority of people would rather live happily with a lie than be depressed with the truth. But, in this specific case of the vaccine it seems to be some odd combination of tribal ego and virtue signaling. People who consider themselves the smartest people in the room and who have taken the vaccine will never admit it was a bad decision, they would rather risk death than admit they were wrong and the people they hate were right. Their devotion to the cause is unshakeable like any fanatic. Also, they've mentally lumped together Qanoners, 9-11 truthers, racists, homophobes, Trump supporters, Christians, rednecks etc etc into one big pile with anyone who questions these vaccines. Only those who are personally injured by the vaccine can change their mind.

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The associations you mention were engineered for purposes like this. Lump anything you want unexamined with prior dehumanized attributes, and whamo, the unthinking drones now see a new class of people as excludable from society. And they seemingly have no idea how plain their self-hatred reveals itself.

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*plainly

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The trick to living with the truth is to focus on what to do about rather than to remain mired in depression.

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Ryan, I've been thinking this very same thing as you said: "People who consider themselves the smartest people in the room and who have taken the vaccine will never admit it was a bad decision".

I think there is something about this that reminds of the Sunk Cost Fallacy (see https://toggl.com/blog/sunk-cost-fallacy for a good write-up). The "Self-Justification" part of sunk cost fallacy strikes me as particularly apropos.

It's rare to find someone like Steve Kirsch who was "all in" on the jabs, then fully flipped to "all against". Most "all in" stay all in I've seen.

I have family in fact that would now be consider "vaccine hesitant" in theory, but they were previously jabbed and so they go ahead and get the boosters because "well, why not". It makes me want to pull out my hair (except I'm bald so I don't have any).

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Nov 24, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

I wonder if anyone actually takes these professional "fact checkers" seriously.

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Sadly, plenty seem to. At least, it moves the needle of credibility, which Thalers and Sunstein would point out fattens the sales tail.

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Nov 24, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Sadly many, if not most do believe them it seems. Well at least when it favours their own confirmation bias which with the covid crisis is the majority.

I get them quoted back to me all the time.

"It can't be true it failed a fact check" etc etc

In fact the rise of fact checkers was yet another genius way of using language perceived by the public one way to do the exact opposite.

A bit like using the word vaccine for the current covid jabs. I suspect few would have had the jab if it hadn't been called a vaccine which was defined and perceived by everyone as prevention of infection not reduction in symptoms until the recent convenient redefinition!

By the way....THANK YOU Mathew.

You (and a few others) have restored my faith in humanity (well a small portion of it😉) and I appreciate your thoughtful and accurate analysis.

Your analysis regards Alex's being a point as I'd been using the UKHSA data simply as Alex did until your piece.

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However you live, do something to restore somebody else's faith in humanity---and themself.

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They do. It's happened three times that I told someone there's been more vaccination associated deaths in Taiwan than Covid associated deaths, according to official statistics and they responded by Googling 'Taiwan vaccine deaths' and sending me the first result. They see that fact check and there's nothing I can do to convince them that 1000 is actually more than 800 no matter what a fact check article says. It's like trying to convince someone that Brawndo doesn't have what plants crave. Never going to happen.

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Nov 24, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Hi Matthew, I hope you are in contact with the retired UK NHS statistician (ex Head of Clinical Audit) who calls himself John Dee? [See https://www.facebook.com/groups/johndeealmanac?sorting_setting=CHRONOLOGICAL] With his perceptive audits of a range of C-Vid data, his truths have been keeping us feeling more sane than we might otherwise, given unremitting MSM propaganda. I'm glad too that a reader of John's pointed to your interview with Steve Kirsch.

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I have been reading John Dee's work, some, but am not in contact.

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Nov 24, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Facebook has banned me forever. Not with just one account but with 4 different accounts! They didn't like me showing what is wrong with the mathematics of vaccines, what is wrong with vaers, what is wrong with spike proteins. blah blah blah. So, I left. That was a year ago.

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Nov 24, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

My overall impression of the FB fact checks is that they contradict reality. I seldom log in but when I do, if I see something labeled 'false' or 'partially false', I know it's probably an unwelcome truth and I then do the digging. When I bother to read their justification for their label, it's impressive how often their sources are flawed or lame. These people are utterly desperate.

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Indeed. They have begun to make the mistake of depending too much on the fact-checks, so it's not as good a tactic as it was previously with information warfare. At best they hit some technical truths while dodging bigger picture truths (and this article is a prime example).

https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/flooding-the-zone-with-lies

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I'm not so sure it does not work. I was admin of a Covid early treatment group, 32,000 members. Not only did posts/comments get "fact checked" all the time, the group was taken down by FB 3 times, then, in the review process, restored again. I can confirm that at least on that level, there was contact with actual humans. However, there was NEVER any meaningful discussion between the FB employees and the group's admin team. About a month ago, they completely deleted the group. Zero feedback, zero review process, everything completely opaque.

The very fact that I came across your site only yesterday, although I have spent more than 18 month almost exclusively researching the same topics as you do, shows how effective their mechanisms are at curtailing your reach. Or that of anyone else who they happen to dislike.

BTW, excellent work I see here. Thank you very much. Your surgisphere story closely resembled my own; ONE day after the publication I was sending out emails to all the MDs I know to warn them of high suspicion of fraud. Will that promised 3d part of the story come anytime?

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I have heard of so many deleted groups. That's frustrating. Thank you for putting in the effort to run one.

We need better social media. We need for the cryptocurrency geniuses to find the right recipe and realize that this is the right moment.

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I did not run it. I was merely an admin and avid contributor. What pained me most about the group's demise was that we actually helped people. We tried to bridge the gap between science and the general population. Of course, with the topic being "early treatment", we DID attract also a load of people who were, friendly put, not so educated. Who then spouted nonsense and, worse, doled out their wisdom in giving personal medical advice.

We tried to combat that not by censoring (although we did delete a lot of garbage), but by explaining the science to people. Quite often even in lengthy text/voice conversations in cases of desperate people, with relatives or friends in the ICU, or heading there. That was a difficult, but also rewarding part.

Things like reddit or substack are free from oppressive oversight (AFAIK), but they have little reach. We have started a new group on FB, at the moment very tight and closed. I sent you a friend request, so I could invite you there.

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I have a mostly finished third part, but >200 partially written articles and priorities. Sigh.

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I think you mentioned wanting some help in proof-reading. I could try my hand at that, occasionally.

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For reasons hard to explain, proofreading is not a priority, but if you email OperationUpliftTeam@gmail.com, there are a lot of things to do.

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In case you haven't seen this Steve Kirsch is looking for help:

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/help-wanted-version-20

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Facebook liked to put up fact check warnings whenever I put up figures from VAERS or the UK ONS. Sick of it so left the platform.

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Nov 24, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

My guess is that Youtube and Facebook fact-checks are done by algorithms (or AI). I'm not sure they hire a lot of people to read through posts or watch to the end of videos.

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Of course. It's their excuse to sound human.

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Nov 24, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

I had similar thoughts regarding the claims of Simpson's Paradox. Prior to actually decomposing the 10-59 data, the possibility that Simpson's Paradox is in play is a decent assumption but until the data is fully scrubbed one doesn't really know if SP applies or not. Sure the younger cohorts are healthier but maybe the vaxx is doing something that overwhelms that health advantage.

You don't know until you know. Know what I mean?

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That's fair. I guess I've reviewed enough of the global data, and for months, that the idea of 2:1 all-cause mortality quickly struck me as unlikely, so I suspected the numbers would run relatively even. Though I was still slightly surprised at just how even.

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I think it would be worthwhile to further disect that data: 3 groups - Covid deaths, all cause, and all-cause MINUS Covid deaths. My hunch is that while the vaccines may prevent severe Covid, they may at the same time do damage to a large part of the pop that only shows up later. I have read a few recent papers that focus on the damage done by the S-protein alone, without viral infection/replication.

If that holds true, possible increases in deaths from the vaccines will be down the road, time-wise. Maybe a very long time, when thinking about people who are reasonably young/fit.

The real problem might not be the vaccines themselves so much, but the the mass vaccination programmes.

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Regarding the latest UK data:

What about the category "21 days or more after first dose"?

Have you looked into or can you offer any insights for why the category displays higher mortality rates than "Unvaccinated"?

See blogpost by William M. Briggs: "Vax Has Slight But Waning Edge In Old But Harms The Young" https://wmbriggs.com/post/38161/

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All I can do with an analysis is take the definitions in the data source, to which I linked. In this case, there was no segregation after the second dose.

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We crossed some inflection point awhile back where the 'fact-checkers' and their echo chamber allies have become so unmoored from reality that they're no longer capable of lying competently.

A corollary is they can't speak without beclowning themselves. And, they don't even know it.

The Emperor really is naked.

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Love everything you do man. Thanks for making some sense of this Topsy-turby clownworld.

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Matthew, new subscriber thanks to a recommendation by Steve Kirsch. I’m so glad I subscribed! Between you, Steve Kirsch, Bad Cattitude, Alex Berenson, Tehno Fog, and others, my faith in humanity is bolstered significantly. When smart, thoughtful, reasoned people write the truth, more enlightenment occurs. Good luck with your move, and God Bless you and your family this Thanksgiving weekend.

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From the corrected data I think I see the vaccine happy valley, then deaths from the vaccines set in, then all that were going to die did die from the shots, and the unvaxxed (I mean, how many unvaxxed actually exist in UK at this time?) start to come out with more deaths. Maybe what the shots have done is eliminate the weakest and left only the very toughest.

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A possibility. Any data? But it could be true, and even in Pfizer's original paper there is some evidence for that. And if you only look at covid deaths (or severe disease) in such a trial, you might have "survivor bias".

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Thanks for sharing this-- the fact check makes it appear, before clicking through, that they are arguing on behalf of Alex.

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Hello Jessica Rose, Mathew Crawford and Steve Kirsch,

Thanks so much for the work you and others do.

I had trouble finding emails for Jessica and Matthew, so I am posting this as a comment on your substacks. I have an email address for Steve.

I urge you to watch these two videos put out by Craig Paardekooper and give comment. They strike me as extremely important.

https://brandnewtube.com/watch/patterns-in-the-deployment-of-toxic-covid-vaccine-batches_x3LiCNOENb23dnk.html: Patterns in the Deployment of Toxic Covid Vaccine Batches

https://brandnewtube.com/watch/variation-in-the-toxicity-of-different-covid-vaccine-batches_dL2OVVSgmx9qXII.html: Variation in the Toxicity of Different Covid Vaccine Batches

May I suggest Steve, that if Craig’s work does not seem a blind alley to you, that you put up a post about it on your substack?

I was alerted to the first of these videos by John Knowalittle. I don’t know who he is, but for some time I have been on an email list that he uses, and much of the information he sends out is worth paying attention to.

Jessica you threw a wetblanket over some of the first iterations of this line of investigation. These later iterations by Craig go much further and are particularly striking.

In our present circumstances it is important that we not get too distracted by noise. If this email turns out to be noise I beg your forgiveness, but at this point I think it too patently an important signal for me to delay distribution in order to do any further double-checking of my own.

The following is the backstory to my interest in this:

I became aware of Steve Kirsch’s perspective when he was with Robert Malone on the Brett Weinstein show. Jessica Rose and Mathew Crawford were collaborating with Steve, so I began following them, subscribing to both their substacks. Sometime around then I became aware of the pattern in VAERS drawn attention to by Karl Denninger at https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244109. Probably it was mentioned in some comment on one of Jessica’s, Mathew’s or Steve’s substacks.

I also discovered these posts on The Expose:

https://theexpose.uk/2021/11/04/88-percent-covid-19-deaths-among-fully-vaccinated/

https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/31/100-percent-of-covid-19-vaccine-deaths-caused-by-just-5-percent-of-the-batches-produced/ and then Andreas Oehler’s take on the issue here: https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/falling-into-place-like-dominoes: Falling into Place Like Dominoes.

Further searches turned up:

https://theexpose.uk/2021/11/01/dr-mike-yeadon-just-when-you-though-things-couldnt-get-any-worse/ https://sarahwestall.com/analysis-100-of-deaths-following-covid-19-shots-are-from-only-5-of-the-manufacturer-lots-according-to-vaers/

Andreas Oehler put up a further post here: https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/exposing-the-expose-in-good-way: Exposing THE EXPOSE. Notice that the explanation put forward here by Andreas is at odds with Craig’s. There needs to be a reconciliation of the differences.

Just before that last post of Andreas was put up, the following thread between Jessica and Tim Lundeen took place. It is here where you threw your wetblanket Jessica, and it caused me temporarily to avert my attention from this, but with Craig’s analysis my attention has returned. The thread is here,

https://jessicar.substack.com/p/a-report-on-myocarditis-adverse-events/comments, as follows:

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Tim LundeenNov 2

There is another safety signal, distribution of death/injury by lot number. https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244109

It would be interesting to look at distribution of death/injury by days post vaccination, for both high and low-injury lots. I wonder if the distribution of AEs for low-injury lots is random (implying the vaccine was not causal), while the high-injury lots show high rates of AEs shortly after vaccination (implying causality).

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Jessica RoseNov 5

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this isn't credible... sorry to be a wet blanket...

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Tim LundeenNov 7

More details and thoughts on this at https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244109&page=19 scroll down to "Tourist"

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Tim LundeenNov 7

Another explanation for this that makes sense: it is just suppressed reporting. https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/exposing-the-expose-in-good-way

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Jessica RoseNov 7

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no it's not nefarious (one of the only things) it's just human error and humans having too much to do and not caring too much

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Tim LundeenNov 6

No problem, I like to live in the real world, and we figure things out though discussion and analysis. So I appreciate your comment.

What do you see as the problems/issues that make it not credible? Their data analysis is easy to reproduce -- just download the data and attach the lot number to each event, sort by lot number. I know of three people who claim to have done this, and they all get the same answers.

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Jessica RoseNov 6

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and therein... lies the problem :)

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Jessica RoseNov 6

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"it appears that they used VAERS data. they wrote an 'algorithm' to count the vax lots written in that market-ticker document but again, the problems that i described previously make claims about vax lots improbable due to sparse data.

again, i backup their assessment of the 'worst lots' for Pfizer and Moderna (almost precisely with numbers) but I don't think that it's worthy of horn-blowing due to the percentage of deaths imposed by each when calculated in the context of total deaths. 30% of all VAX_LOT fields have an "NA" (not applicable) entry and for the most part for the fields with entries, these entries are filled in 'incorrectly' (a notorious problem in VAERS which is why caution/precision must be used when using this data), and thus it is very difficult to make any claims about significant patterns.

Moderna -> vax_lot 039K20A has been associated with 86 deaths (2% of all deaths)

Pfizer _> EN6201 has been associated with 85 deaths (2.2% of all deaths)

Janssen -> 1805029 has been associated with 38 deaths (4% of all deaths)

again, one third of the death data has NO VAX LOT DATA tied to the VAERS ID.

i don't mean to be a persistent wet blanket but i don't think this floats. i would have been screaming from the rooftops to announce this finding back in ... if it did. i really did think this was going to work as a way to more precisely define why certain vax lots are more dangerous than others - i mean, defining this using analyzed VAERS data - but then i realized sparse data was an ongoing problem. to solve this problem, someone needs to go in to the source VAERS data and clean these entries up (at the filling in/vetting step) and they need to be filled in properly from the start. so there are levels of clean up that need to be achieved and probably never will be. VAERS is just problematic this way.

the really annoying thing here is that certain vax lots most definitely are more problematic with regards to SAEs than others. even if simply by contamination! but, to prove this... is another story. a difficult and ongoing one."

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Tim LundeenNov 6

Thanks, very much appreciate this explanation. I'll link to this from Karl's site.

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Thanks for your attention to this.

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I think we are forgetting one of the biggest problems with all this data: selection bias. In particular, I suspect that in the under 60s crowd, MOST of the deaths come from a particular group: those who are morbidly ill. The question is: are they MORE or LESS likely to get vaccinated? They might be less likely because their morbid illness makes them think they won't be able to handle the vaccine. Even if you adjust by health, the group of the "most ill" and "most likely to die" may opt out of vaccine in greater proportions. That is likely the largest portion of deaths. That's enough to skew these results to make the data basically meaningless.

Given there is no clear BENEFIT to vaccination seeing this data, I would suggest a way forward here is to fund long term clinical trials, independent of the pharma companies.

Otherwise it's gonna be the statistics wars... where everybody can gerrymander the results to fit their narrative.

Other than that, is there really any other way to avoid the problem of selection bias in deciding to get vaccinated?

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Interesting that you post an image captioned "Funny thing about geting caught in a lie. Anything you ever said becomes questionable." You repeat the following lie in Chloroquine Wars Part LII: "every death in the VAERS dataset has COVID-19 as their primary symptom at the time of death."

Not a shred of truth. Repeating the lies of another liar as if they were true does not make you a truth-teller. Your entire bogus derivation of vaccine risk from case fatality rate is predicated on this lie.

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