Thank you for the Campfire Wiki and the Stacker Reader info! Wow, very cool and extremely helpful. Stack seems to now be where I get most of my in depth information. Blessings to all.
Thank you for everything you do. The main issue I see is that Substack's subscription model first of all relies on Substack continuing to be a free speech platform for the foreseeable future (which is why it is worrisome to me that they chose a pro-mainstream covid narrative "scientist" as their writer in residence)...and also, those of us who are new and/or have smaller audiences simply cannot survive based on paying subscribers alone.
I was pleasantly surprised (shocked, actually) when I got my first paying subscriber without even requiring payment to read my posts. But at my current readership and level of paid subscriptions, I'm making less than $1,000 in an entire year, which is certainly not something you can live off of. Someone like Alex Berenson, on the other hand, could be making $10,000/month or more on volume.
Substack requires our minimum monthly subscription to be $5/month, which adds up if you want to support more than one person. I did knock my yearly subscription down to $30 to make it more affordable but it would be nice to have a $1 or $2 per month option. Or have a way for writers to join some sort of collective group where we can share audience and revenues.
People have only so much bandwidth. Right now, I have a list of Substack writers I'd like to support, but given my current investment of time and energy (which is definitely taking away from other things I could be doing to make money)...I don't want Substack to just be a time and money sink, so I'm holding off until I can make it quote "profitable" (i.e., justifiable in terms of expenses).
I certainly hope I'm making some sort of positive impact but who knows. I have yet to write any sort of viral post, so I wonder if I am just not good enough at what I do or not resonating enough. So I keep slogging away for 7, 8, 9 or (if I'm having a good day) 10 likes and an occasional paying subscriber.
So, we risk another problem in the future - only the big influencers will be given the resources and eyeballs, which could lead to a new establishment of sorts. Now, so far, I'm liking the new establishment. But I hope we can expand beyond the current Substack model in some way so smaller fry can also thrive.
Medium at least had a possibility for that with their revenue model...but they also suffered from biased moderators who would choose what gets promoted...and worse, they now actively censor.
Synergy is my most favorite word in the universe btw. Just like the best athletes never made it to the pro's because they couldn't keep it together. So to the brightest minds never received a "degree". Like one of my heroes (Pancho Villa) once said, "We don't need no stinking badges...!" Necessity is the mother on invention. The Road to hell is paved in good intentions. You come strong or you don't come at all! The last one is from my Pop Warner coach Craig Connelly a local legend in Santa Clara. The sun don't shine on the same dogs ass forever! author UNK. So there I was knee deep in the Congo, looking for the golden goblet. (wte88). My next book - How I won the lotto before I won the lotto, by WTE88. Book is finished, I just need to win the lotto. lol God Bless
Miles Mathis is a classically trained artist and a portrait painter, and is perhaps the most prolific scientist of any and all. He has written thousands of papers on physics and mathematics, usually correcting mainstream "science" - http://milesmathis.com/
This was wonderful your synergy is infectious. You capture the dynamic of crowd-sourced intelligence launching a new era and it is such an exciting phenomena to witness in real time. Gotta feel like the rebels of the Renaissance would be in the Substack brigade today! :~)
This is great that more people are waking up to the fact that "healthcare" is a marketing term that for most, is disconnected to the implied meaning of "health" and "care."
There have been a number of physicians and citizen scientists who've been questioning the mainstream narrative from healthcare and "nutrition science" for decades. You won't find many beating the drum regarding vaccines or the virus as they have already been subjected to the intimidation of the beast (Prof. Tim Noakes, Drs. Gary Fettke and Shawn Baker) at great financial cost.
What's happening now (doctors being reported to medical boards) has been the beasts primary playbook for decades. Hopefully the cost of their brutality will be significant loss of reputation and future earnings as more people take charge of their diet and health, and remove themselves from the sick-care system.
If you wish to become more proactive with your health (and avoiding modern pharmaceutical interventions) there are many sources of good information.
For example, here is a 2 hour discussion between Drs. Shawn Baker and Malcolm Kendrick. Dr. Kendrick is one of the early anti-statin MD's and his research into cardiac disease follows the science (literature) and physiological functions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ImChSajHik
What a good conversation among good, honest, detectives. (Although the ratio of must read substacks to time that exists in the universe is challenging, you all are favorites.) Dr Meryl Nass presented another piece of the where are the adverse events hidden puzzle - http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-40-increased-deaths-and-increased.html "Three of these 14 patients had an ICD-10 code of I51.4 “Myocarditis, Unspecified” which was overlooked by the VSD algorithm. The VSD methodology identified 11 patients who met the CDC case definition for acute myocarditis or pericarditis. Seven (64%) of the eleven patients had initial care for myopericarditis outside of a KPNW facility and their diagnosis could not be ascertained by the VSD methodology until claims were submitted (median delay of 33 days; range of 12-195 days). Among those who received a second dose of vaccine (n=146,785), we estimated a risk as 95.4 cases of myopericarditis per million second doses administered (95% CI, 52.1 to 160.0). Conclusion: We identified additional valid cases of myopericarditis following an mRNA vaccination that would be missed by the VSD’s search algorithm, which depends on select hospital discharge diagnosis codes. “
BINGO! The VSD analyses keep the numbers of cases down, in part, by failing to include all appropriate search terms from the 80,000 word Medra dictionary of medical symptoms and signs. Nicola Klein, who has been shilling for CDC and the vaccine companies since the 1990s (chief vaccine “scientist” at Kaiser) and who “analyzed the VSD for myocarditis for the VRBPAC or ACIP or both, and looked for other AEs and couldn’t find them, is exposed by other Kaiser docs with access to the data! She published her bogus, CDC-paid analysis in the Sept 3, 2021 JAMA.
I have a memory that in one old CDC study of myocarditis (maybe for smallpox vaccine) the analysts looked at about 30 search terms to identify cases. Klein used 3 or 4 search terms, listed in the supplemental material for the JAMA article, and they did not include myocarditis, unspecified. I doubt that Kaiser Oregon has identified all the cases, either—but the authors clearly call out their shilling colleague."
Mathew thanks for your continued effort to push toward solutions. Scientific debate is certainly one avenue to bring about change. I just keep on wondering if we are applying pressure at the key joints. Arguing on data and scientific methods seems to make absolutely no impact on policy that seems to have been cast in the die before the pandemic started.
Even someone like Dr Malone is pushed under the carpet. I don't know. Steve Kirsch may be onto something by trying to entice more whistle-blowers to come out from the medical-scientific community. The other dark horse is life insurance companies. I think if by the end of 2022 they have not started to make noises about excess deaths in vaccinated people, well, them just maybe we are wrong. Because for the life insurance companies, denying increased all cause mortality in the vaccinated if it does indeed exists is a business-extinction level event. I know there were some recent posts about this. Maybe Steve could try and make contact with the life insurance companies? Thanks again for your interesting work.
Hopefully Substack stays this free and open. Hopefully they’re making enough that they won’t be tempted by huge financial incentives to shut down or take a buyout.
It uses "triethylene" glycol, but ̷p̷o̷l̷y̷e̷t̷h̷y̷l̷e̷n̷e̷ p͟r͟o͟p͟y͟l͟e͟n͟e glycol works as well (non-toxic, *not* the same as antifreeze) and I suspect regular vegetable glycerine would work just as well.
I've been doing citizen science for over 50 years. But my field of expertise is so repulsive for most they are loathe to check out my views. Or even acknowledge that there is something worthwhile pursuing. On the other hand, my field of expertise has so few experts it is not difficult to climb high up on the ladder with little effort, and no degrees at all!
And don't forget your promise to read Mind & Cosmos by Thomas Nagel! I introduced it to you awhile back, saying that it was the most important philosophy ever published. It's importance surpasses mere philosophy.
"or check out this growing page of recommendations"... [yours]
I read several of those, yours is (almost) at the top of my list, just after Robert Malone, James Lyons-Weiler, and Jessica Rose.
I do hope you all can catalyze a swift end to this nonsense so we can all get back to "less serious" but more worthwhile pursuits. Such as philosophy :>)
Yes, you’ve given name (crowd-sourced science) to a phenomenon I’ve been thinking a lot about for a while now, one that has really ascended during the Covid era: an army of highly engaged, competent laymen, guided by heroic, ethical scientists and doctors, functioning together in an interconnected network of truthful discovery. The phenomenon is palpable and gaining steam.
The old model relies on balkanized epistemology of experts, separated by their respected fields with little cross-disciplinary information exchange, all guided and funded from the top down. It requires the ignorance of the common people and inspires obedience via lies and fear.
I love it. It seems to me the effort to defend and promote out of patent medicine is the most important function of bolstering the public domain that exists today. This lends itself to this grassroots scientific movement you are speaking to. Perhaps, if organized correctly, it could be corporate like in providing a pulse to the ongoing work. I wish I could be more concrete in what I'm trying to describe but for now this is the best I can do. I hope the right people will get why I'm driving at.
"Academies that are founded at the public expense are instituted not so much as to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. But in a free commonwealth arts and sciences will be better cultivated to the full if every one that asks leave is allowed to teach publicly, at his own cost and risk." -- Spinoza
The University system is beyond corrupt, the major factor which caused its corruption is the licensing system which disallows competent non-credentialed people from practicing their craft. This transforms the University system from an education system into a cartel. And of course, people are taught *by this system* to believe in it, even while it turns into a complete pile of garbage.
Thank you for the Campfire Wiki and the Stacker Reader info! Wow, very cool and extremely helpful. Stack seems to now be where I get most of my in depth information. Blessings to all.
awesome write up!
Thank you for everything you do. The main issue I see is that Substack's subscription model first of all relies on Substack continuing to be a free speech platform for the foreseeable future (which is why it is worrisome to me that they chose a pro-mainstream covid narrative "scientist" as their writer in residence)...and also, those of us who are new and/or have smaller audiences simply cannot survive based on paying subscribers alone.
I was pleasantly surprised (shocked, actually) when I got my first paying subscriber without even requiring payment to read my posts. But at my current readership and level of paid subscriptions, I'm making less than $1,000 in an entire year, which is certainly not something you can live off of. Someone like Alex Berenson, on the other hand, could be making $10,000/month or more on volume.
Substack requires our minimum monthly subscription to be $5/month, which adds up if you want to support more than one person. I did knock my yearly subscription down to $30 to make it more affordable but it would be nice to have a $1 or $2 per month option. Or have a way for writers to join some sort of collective group where we can share audience and revenues.
People have only so much bandwidth. Right now, I have a list of Substack writers I'd like to support, but given my current investment of time and energy (which is definitely taking away from other things I could be doing to make money)...I don't want Substack to just be a time and money sink, so I'm holding off until I can make it quote "profitable" (i.e., justifiable in terms of expenses).
I certainly hope I'm making some sort of positive impact but who knows. I have yet to write any sort of viral post, so I wonder if I am just not good enough at what I do or not resonating enough. So I keep slogging away for 7, 8, 9 or (if I'm having a good day) 10 likes and an occasional paying subscriber.
So, we risk another problem in the future - only the big influencers will be given the resources and eyeballs, which could lead to a new establishment of sorts. Now, so far, I'm liking the new establishment. But I hope we can expand beyond the current Substack model in some way so smaller fry can also thrive.
Medium at least had a possibility for that with their revenue model...but they also suffered from biased moderators who would choose what gets promoted...and worse, they now actively censor.
Synergy is my most favorite word in the universe btw. Just like the best athletes never made it to the pro's because they couldn't keep it together. So to the brightest minds never received a "degree". Like one of my heroes (Pancho Villa) once said, "We don't need no stinking badges...!" Necessity is the mother on invention. The Road to hell is paved in good intentions. You come strong or you don't come at all! The last one is from my Pop Warner coach Craig Connelly a local legend in Santa Clara. The sun don't shine on the same dogs ass forever! author UNK. So there I was knee deep in the Congo, looking for the golden goblet. (wte88). My next book - How I won the lotto before I won the lotto, by WTE88. Book is finished, I just need to win the lotto. lol God Bless
Miles Mathis is a classically trained artist and a portrait painter, and is perhaps the most prolific scientist of any and all. He has written thousands of papers on physics and mathematics, usually correcting mainstream "science" - http://milesmathis.com/
This was wonderful your synergy is infectious. You capture the dynamic of crowd-sourced intelligence launching a new era and it is such an exciting phenomena to witness in real time. Gotta feel like the rebels of the Renaissance would be in the Substack brigade today! :~)
This is great that more people are waking up to the fact that "healthcare" is a marketing term that for most, is disconnected to the implied meaning of "health" and "care."
There have been a number of physicians and citizen scientists who've been questioning the mainstream narrative from healthcare and "nutrition science" for decades. You won't find many beating the drum regarding vaccines or the virus as they have already been subjected to the intimidation of the beast (Prof. Tim Noakes, Drs. Gary Fettke and Shawn Baker) at great financial cost.
What's happening now (doctors being reported to medical boards) has been the beasts primary playbook for decades. Hopefully the cost of their brutality will be significant loss of reputation and future earnings as more people take charge of their diet and health, and remove themselves from the sick-care system.
If you wish to become more proactive with your health (and avoiding modern pharmaceutical interventions) there are many sources of good information.
For example, here is a 2 hour discussion between Drs. Shawn Baker and Malcolm Kendrick. Dr. Kendrick is one of the early anti-statin MD's and his research into cardiac disease follows the science (literature) and physiological functions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ImChSajHik
What a good conversation among good, honest, detectives. (Although the ratio of must read substacks to time that exists in the universe is challenging, you all are favorites.) Dr Meryl Nass presented another piece of the where are the adverse events hidden puzzle - http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-40-increased-deaths-and-increased.html "Three of these 14 patients had an ICD-10 code of I51.4 “Myocarditis, Unspecified” which was overlooked by the VSD algorithm. The VSD methodology identified 11 patients who met the CDC case definition for acute myocarditis or pericarditis. Seven (64%) of the eleven patients had initial care for myopericarditis outside of a KPNW facility and their diagnosis could not be ascertained by the VSD methodology until claims were submitted (median delay of 33 days; range of 12-195 days). Among those who received a second dose of vaccine (n=146,785), we estimated a risk as 95.4 cases of myopericarditis per million second doses administered (95% CI, 52.1 to 160.0). Conclusion: We identified additional valid cases of myopericarditis following an mRNA vaccination that would be missed by the VSD’s search algorithm, which depends on select hospital discharge diagnosis codes. “
BINGO! The VSD analyses keep the numbers of cases down, in part, by failing to include all appropriate search terms from the 80,000 word Medra dictionary of medical symptoms and signs. Nicola Klein, who has been shilling for CDC and the vaccine companies since the 1990s (chief vaccine “scientist” at Kaiser) and who “analyzed the VSD for myocarditis for the VRBPAC or ACIP or both, and looked for other AEs and couldn’t find them, is exposed by other Kaiser docs with access to the data! She published her bogus, CDC-paid analysis in the Sept 3, 2021 JAMA.
I have a memory that in one old CDC study of myocarditis (maybe for smallpox vaccine) the analysts looked at about 30 search terms to identify cases. Klein used 3 or 4 search terms, listed in the supplemental material for the JAMA article, and they did not include myocarditis, unspecified. I doubt that Kaiser Oregon has identified all the cases, either—but the authors clearly call out their shilling colleague."
Mathew thanks for your continued effort to push toward solutions. Scientific debate is certainly one avenue to bring about change. I just keep on wondering if we are applying pressure at the key joints. Arguing on data and scientific methods seems to make absolutely no impact on policy that seems to have been cast in the die before the pandemic started.
I am from New Zealand, and just a few days ago, a political leader again hinted at the problem of "people doing their own research". You can see his full comments here: https://shouldispeak.com/2022/01/04/so-thrilled-ill-take-your-job/
Even someone like Dr Malone is pushed under the carpet. I don't know. Steve Kirsch may be onto something by trying to entice more whistle-blowers to come out from the medical-scientific community. The other dark horse is life insurance companies. I think if by the end of 2022 they have not started to make noises about excess deaths in vaccinated people, well, them just maybe we are wrong. Because for the life insurance companies, denying increased all cause mortality in the vaccinated if it does indeed exists is a business-extinction level event. I know there were some recent posts about this. Maybe Steve could try and make contact with the life insurance companies? Thanks again for your interesting work.
Hopefully Substack stays this free and open. Hopefully they’re making enough that they won’t be tempted by huge financial incentives to shut down or take a buyout.
With regard to a previous comment about UV light and other disinfectants - https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/who-called-uv-light-not-the-who-it/comment/3616779
One was about using a fog machine. I just found this vintage 1949 advertisement for a disinfectant fog machine (https://www.ebay.com/itm/303717978998)
Here's a direct link to the photo- https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/2jAAAOSw6aFffgnG/s-l1600.jpg
It uses "triethylene" glycol, but ̷p̷o̷l̷y̷e̷t̷h̷y̷l̷e̷n̷e̷ p͟r͟o͟p͟y͟l͟e͟n͟e glycol works as well (non-toxic, *not* the same as antifreeze) and I suspect regular vegetable glycerine would work just as well.
Interesting take, Mat,
I've been doing citizen science for over 50 years. But my field of expertise is so repulsive for most they are loathe to check out my views. Or even acknowledge that there is something worthwhile pursuing. On the other hand, my field of expertise has so few experts it is not difficult to climb high up on the ladder with little effort, and no degrees at all!
http://www.psychedelic-library.org/
And don't forget your promise to read Mind & Cosmos by Thomas Nagel! I introduced it to you awhile back, saying that it was the most important philosophy ever published. It's importance surpasses mere philosophy.
"or check out this growing page of recommendations"... [yours]
I read several of those, yours is (almost) at the top of my list, just after Robert Malone, James Lyons-Weiler, and Jessica Rose.
I do hope you all can catalyze a swift end to this nonsense so we can all get back to "less serious" but more worthwhile pursuits. Such as philosophy :>)
Yes. This is how we rebuild.
Yes, you’ve given name (crowd-sourced science) to a phenomenon I’ve been thinking a lot about for a while now, one that has really ascended during the Covid era: an army of highly engaged, competent laymen, guided by heroic, ethical scientists and doctors, functioning together in an interconnected network of truthful discovery. The phenomenon is palpable and gaining steam.
The old model relies on balkanized epistemology of experts, separated by their respected fields with little cross-disciplinary information exchange, all guided and funded from the top down. It requires the ignorance of the common people and inspires obedience via lies and fear.
I love it. It seems to me the effort to defend and promote out of patent medicine is the most important function of bolstering the public domain that exists today. This lends itself to this grassroots scientific movement you are speaking to. Perhaps, if organized correctly, it could be corporate like in providing a pulse to the ongoing work. I wish I could be more concrete in what I'm trying to describe but for now this is the best I can do. I hope the right people will get why I'm driving at.
"Academies that are founded at the public expense are instituted not so much as to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. But in a free commonwealth arts and sciences will be better cultivated to the full if every one that asks leave is allowed to teach publicly, at his own cost and risk." -- Spinoza
The University system is beyond corrupt, the major factor which caused its corruption is the licensing system which disallows competent non-credentialed people from practicing their craft. This transforms the University system from an education system into a cartel. And of course, people are taught *by this system* to believe in it, even while it turns into a complete pile of garbage.