COVID: The Wrecking Ball to Scientific Integrity
Most Americans have at least until now maintained faith in the integrity of our scientific establishment. But COVID-19 and the scientific malfeasance it has spawned may be the wrecking ball that tears down even that pillar of faith.
The litany of scientific sins committed in the name of COVID-19 fear-mongering includes but is not limited to the publishing of false data in a leading medical journal, the publication of intentionally misleading articles masking the laboratory origins of the SARS-2 coronavirus and the subsequent deliberate withholding of evidence to the contrary, the smearing of lauded scientists who have questioned the severity of COVID-19 and/or the treatability of the disease, and the arrogance of medical authorities such as Robert Fauci that now-validated criticism of him and the official COVID-19 narrative is “anti-science”.
The end result of all this is not merely academic, for hundreds of thousands of lives may have been lost and children not been born due to the scientific malfeasance.
One of the most egregious scientific acts was the article in Lancet in May of 2020—just when COVID-19 was ramping up—that argued that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ, sold as Plaquenil) was both ineffective and dangerous in treating COVID-19 symptoms.[1]
This contradicted the fact that HCQ had been sold safely for decades to millions of people over-the-counter in many nations for anti-malarial and other purposes and that leading virologists were already using it effectively to treat early COVID-19 symptoms.
By the time the bogus study was retracted, its results had already been trumpeted by the mainstream media and by leading health officials in their attacks on HCQ. Despite later meta-analyses indicating some treatment efficacy in the early stages of COVID,[2] the damage had already been inflicted.
HCQ was pulled off the market in many nations and is still banned for treating COIVD-19 in many, such as Australia.
Equally damaging were the outrageous predictions of over 500,000 dead Britons and two million Americans due to COVID-19 by epidemiologist Neil Ferguson of Imperial College in London, who back-pedaled his predictions after his conclusion led to the draconian lockdowns that have so greatly damaged Western society.[3]
By contrast, an important study disputing the official COVID-19 narrative, such as Briand’s epidemiological one in the Johns Hopkins News-Letter that questioned the lethality and accuracy of COVID-19 statistics[4], was retracted by the university in an unprecedented act of scientific censorship.
Lancet later figured in another important repugnant scientific action—the publication of a letter signed by over two dozen scientists condemning speculation that the Wuhan version of the SARS coronavirus might have been created in a laboratory.[5] It was surreptitiously written by Peter Daszak, the very scientist conducting dangerous gain-of-function viral research that was banned in the United States and who was attempting to create synthetically souped-up versions of the coronavirus—in Wuhan itself.
It is now widely accepted that the SARS-COVID-2 coronavirus was unnaturally cleaved at a furin site, but what is equally shocking is that many virologists knew this but refused to report it because they deemed it would support President Trump’s statements on the origins of the virus.[6]
Some scientists have expressed regret at their actions, such as those behavioral scientists who collaborated with the British government to scare the public into accepting the COVID-19 lockdowns.[7] But the hit to the credibility of the scientific research community had already been taken.
Contrary to what much of the Western public believes, a large number of top medical professionals have questioned the severity of COVID-19, the advisability of lockdowns and masks, the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines, and restrictions on drugs such as HCQ and Ivermectin as treatments.
Almost 60,000 medical practitioners and researchers have signed the Great Barrington Declaration, which rejects lockdowns and masks in favor tried-and-true herd immunity.[8]
Some of the medical experts who have challenged the COVID-19 orthodoxy include:
Didier Raoult (the most well-funded virologist in Europe) and Harvey Risch (a prominent epidemiologist from Yale), who both argued for the benefits of HCQ;
Rodger Hodkinson (former president of the Alberta Society of Laboratory Physicians and head of a company producing the COVID-19 PCR diagnostic test) and John Ioannidis (a widely respected epidemiologist from Stanford), who both argued on the basis of multiple sources of evidence that COVID-19 is akin to the seasonal flu in terms of lethality;
Knut Wittkowski (former professor of epidemiology at Rockefeller University) who questioned the value of lockdowns and masks and has personally refused to wear a mask or be locked down; and Robert Malone (the inventor of the mRNA technique used in Pfizer and Moderna vaccines),
Luc Montagnier (a Nobel prize-winner who discovered the HIV virus), and Michael Yeadon (a former top scientist and vice-president at Pfizer) who warned of the dangers of the mRNA vaccines, particularly in terms of infertility.
These prominent scientists and many others have been subjected to a litany of slanders and smears including monikers such as “witch-doctors” and “pseudoscientists”, removal from YouTube and other social media, misleading “fact-checking”, and attacks on Wikipedia sites in some cases. Some scientists have come to their defense,[9] but even some of those who rallied in public defense of these individuals have been smeared.
While most of the slander in the media has come from nonscientists in the media, academic colleagues and medical associations have occasionally joined in, as in the case of Yale faculty condemnation of Risch for his HCQ stand.[10]
But what is most disturbing is the larger scientific community’s deafening silence in defense of the scientists who opposed the official COVID-19 narrative.
Even more insidious is the notion that anyone who disagrees with the official COVID-19 narrative and policies is somehow “anti-science”. This arrogant view has been promulgated by Anthony Fauci on several occasions,[11] yet the great founders of modern science including Galileo, Descartes, and Newton emphasized the need for skepticism and humility in scientific thought.
Genuine scientists recognize that scientific orthodoxy is constantly being revised, that theories can never be proven, and scientific debate should never be silenced.
Most of the renowned scientists being denigrated are not being done so because of faulty data—after all, who can deny the low-lethality of COVID-19 when only one sailor of ~6000 on the USS Roosevelt presumably exposed to the coronavirus died or that only 14 of over 3700 mostly elderly passengers and crew members on the Diamond Princess line died, in both cases in confined spaces with minimal treatments available.
These two examples represent to date the only controlled evidence of COVID-19 lethality, but there is additional solid evidence that Ioannides and others have marshalled to support the low mortality threat of COVID-19.
Of course, the scientific pillar that COVID-19 smashed had already been slowly crumbling. Almost every scientific field is currently riddled with controversies and criticisms. While outright fraud among scientists is officially less than 5 percent, more subtle dishonesty, misreporting of data, and deliberate over-hyping may be greater than 50 percent.[12]
Failure to replicate results is a huge concern; for example, in a study specifically designed to test this issue only 39 of 100 results in prominent psychology journals could be replicated,[13] and the replication rate for other scientific fields may be even worse.[14] The editors of two of the most “widely respected” medical journals—Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine—have even doubted the reliability of the results in their own journals.[15]
Failure has been an increasing part of modern science—failure to prevent and/or treat Alzheimer’s disease, autism, obesity, heart disease, and many cancers; failure to lift humans past low-Earth orbit, despite a half-century after Apollo; failure of fusion-energy efforts; failure to develop other truly sustainable technologies to support billions of humans; etc. Issues that plague modern science go beyond the biomedical and behavioral sciences and extend into climate research, paleontology, and even physics, the demise of which has inspired a whole genre of critical books.[16]
While many of the above scientific problems may have intractable elements, progress has also been hindered for the same reasons, listed below, that leading anti-COVID-19 narrative scientists have been isolated by the mainstream community.
The failure of most scientists to condemn the corrupt and defend the courageous in the COVID-19 debate is reminiscent of the silence fellow journalists in defense of Julian Assange. It has further precedent in the treatment of Truther scientists like Stephen Jones (who countered the official narrative on the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11) and James Tracy (who questioned the official Sandy Hook shooting narrative), who were forced out of their universities, with in some cases little outcry from fellow academics.
What explains the failure of scientists to stand up to the scientific bullying and quackery? Part of it may be timidity—after all, who dares question the grand poobahs at NIH like Dr. Fauci when to do so would almost certainly mean losing one’s scientific funding?
Part of it may be the herd mentality, with our present graduate and postgraduate training with their long mentorships failing to develop truly rebellious and revolutionary scientific thinkers.
Part of it is the effect of big money spent on science research —over $500 billion in the U.S. alone, mostly from industry with strings attached. And part of it may be that way too many scientists nowadays are simply dishonest, self-promoting, and agenda-driven—far beyond the few percent that are officially accused of fraud.
Science and the search for truth are arguably the noblest of endeavors, as they are the basis for knowledge and morality. But science as it is practiced today is far from the ideal, and the travesty that has unfolded involving COVID-19 research has tarnished scientific credibility still further. Soon modern science may merely represent one more fallen pillar of society in the eyes of the disillusioned American public.
References:
[1] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200605/lancet-retracts-hydroxychloroquine-study
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33042552
[3] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/08/so-the-real-scandal-is-why-did-anyone-ever-listen-to-this-guy
[4] https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/11/27/johns-hopkins-study-saying-covid-19-has-relatively-no-effect-on-deaths-in-u-s-deleted-after-publication-n1178930
[5] https://usrtk.org/biohazards-blog/scientists-masked-involvement-in-lancet-letter-on-covid-origin/
[6] https://populist.press/top-us-virologists-make-disturbing-admission/?utm_source=Populist&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:270744&utm_campaign=Day%2078%20Send%202
[7] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/14/scientists-admit-totalitarian-use-fear-control-behaviour-covid
[9] https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/18/one-of-the-lockdowns-greatest-casualties-could-be-science
[10] https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-the-defender-podcast-dr-harvey-risch-hydroxychloroquine-covid-treatment
[11] https://www.infowars.com/posts/people-who-criticize-me-are-actually-criticizing-science-furious-dr-fauci-doubles-down-on-controversial-claim
[12] https://reason.com/2021/07/09/how-much-scientific-research-is-actually-fraudulent
[13] Open Science Collaboration. Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science 28 Aug 2015
[14] https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-thelid-on-reproducibility-1.19970
[15] https://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/05/16/editor-in-chief-of-worlds-best-known-medical-journal-half-of-all-the-literature-is-false
[16] The most well-known of these is Jim Baggott’s Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth (Pegasus 2014)
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Saeed Qureshi
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Great article and valid view! Surprisingly role of “regulatory authorities” in promoting dis-honest science and lying is missing.
(1) https://principia-scientific.com/fdas-false-unscientific-deceitful-review-of-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine/
(2) https://principia-scientific.com/international-pharmaceuticals-expert-exposes-pandemic-fakery/
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sir_isO
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Btw, I just want to thank you for your articles/comments about these agendas.
I particularly liked when you mentioned how virologists essentially ignore (from a higher level abstraction) their abuse of chemistry and physics (that they often are found incapable at).
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Allan Shelton
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The only answer IMO, is to vote out the Socialist/Marxist/ Communist Politicos.
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Alan
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Vote out any that belong to a political party. George Washington understood the situation. Political parties generate division in society in their attempts to appeal to the electorate and they slowly move society towards socialism with the promises they make. We must have representatives that are independent of political parties, and we must have a voting system that does not elect any representative unless they have more than 50% of the votes of the registered electorate. This means that they must appeal to a majority. We must also reduce the size of the governments which have grown steadily as the parties take more and more control over our lives. We need freedom from the state, not control by the state. The west has been giving up its freedoms in return for welfare. This is the road to socialism and poverty.
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sir_isO
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Right, your opening statements…
How many people don’t know Hegel, or what Mencken or Goering said.
I’ll try to explain it. You have the mob ego and the ego mob (like a misspelled MEME which I should get an EMME for). The masses happen to be shit because the masses happen to support shit, Shit supports the masses. Both aspects in denial about the shit they support. “Leaders” blame supporters, supporters blame “leaders”.
Very simply, in basically every narrative projected the little uhm, factor of industrialism is conveniently avoided.
Industrialism is fundamentally stagnant. That is, it tends to homogenization, stagnation because it’s about attempted control…like you don’t want to replace a factory you just built, right? That’s why collusion is so rampant in industry, too.
But most fundamentally, it is about exploitation, such as abusing Earth.
Now if you look in society, Earth is abused, the Sun is demonized. That would be everything the world relies on. Neither the Earth or the Sun requires the world.
The insolence of a product such as the world suggesting it dictates is why every world gets destroyed.
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sir_isO
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And btw, there is no significant difference between america and china.
Both are industrial states bent on exploitation, one is frames as capitalist state, the other as state capitalism.
They are both supportive of each other as they are the same parasite.
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sir_isO
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State worship, fundamentalist, exploitative industrialism is a shared trait in both those countries’ narrative. They are aspects of the same coin. They have incredibly similar hierarchies and idolatry through submission, subjugation.
Go count the proxy wars between “communists” and “capitalists” in every other country not involving them.
Gfys. Your states are worthless. Your west, your east, they are the same invalid bullshit.
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Doug Harrison
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The nearest you can get to that ideal, Alan, is Switzerland. Though I must confess that I have never been there, it all makes so much sense in a senseless world. The arming of all and the systems of referenda to name a couple. Nothing political devised by humans will ever be perfect but I think they go close.
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sir_isO
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Switzerland is one of the most guilty areas in the world with massively inflated worth, involving exploitation through proxies, escrow, hegemony, corruption. And yet it tries to paint a picture of sort of “purity”, with the superficial niceties.
I have ZERO respect for switzerland as a country.
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sir_isO
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When I was 11 years old I knew there was nothing like scientific integrity, when I was asked if I wanted to go to winter school (that is, wasting my holidays to go be indoctrinated, simply because I had an above average IQ and that confuses them).
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Alan
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I am surprised that the article does not mention that this started with the climate fraud. The descent into the abyss of insanity is well established.
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sir_isO
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It started waaaay before that.
I could for instance tell you about Bechamp or Maxwell’s bastardized work. Maxwell’s main mistake was looking at the aether as a constant, sort of distinct factor because of his observational restrictions, from the perspective of a thing that walks but ought to crawl
The aether, as maxwell proclaimed it, is an anomaly from inherent properties of unaccounted function. Much like Onestain and his speed of light constant, both Maxwell and Onestain proving themselves incorrect, implicitly.
See, in the case of Maxwell, that aether is actually just the variable density between matter. Like voronoi diagrams, if you have things far apart, that density is typically less. Btw, if you did not know, any given definition of space, requires explicit quantification. That’s funny right? For instance, for the 3d version of “space” you need tetrahedra.
Einstein is provably incorrect through relatively, very ironically. Again, from framing from a limited perspective.
Also, low frequencies are the best way to propagate through varied density material. And the denser, the more effectual. I mean, Barbie is thick as a brick, and I Ken.
Sorry for my random randting.
“But COVID-19 and the scientific malfeasance it has spawned may be the wrecking ball that tears down even that pillar of faith.”
See, you people been putting faith in the wrong things. Faith has no place in science.
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sir_isO
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*relativity
Btw, I just type random things. Probably none of it is every meaningful or true.
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sir_isO
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Somewhat ironically, regarding faith, I don’t believe in people because they didn’t believe in me.
Just the way it goes.
https://wumpscut.bandcamp.com/track/capital-punishment
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sir_isO
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Oh sorry, I wanted to post “Chaining the Katechon” by Deathspell Omega.
dnomsed
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The covid-19 scandal and the legal actions that will follow, will air much of medical science’s dirty laundry. Confidence in medical research will not be regained for many, many decades – perhaps to never recover, at least in its present form.
The covid-19 saga has been extremely bad science, coupled with extreme greed, grandiousity, power plays and fraud.
The statistics underpinning determination of medical signals of benefit in the Pfizer Phase 3 trial data, lay firmly within what any sensible scientist would recognise as experimental uncertainty. To then twist statistics to predict 95% effectiveness, against a pure noise-ridden 0.74% absolute effectiveness (that too is doubtful) is pure scientific fraud. The so-called scientists behind this must have been bottom of their class at university.
If this kind of nonsense applies to other new medicines, then these amount to nothing more than expensive snake-oil and wishful thinking.
There are very simple reasons behind much of this:
1. The 98:2 rule of scientific mental horsepower.
2. The ‘Peter Principle’ .
In science, academic prowess follows not the 80:20 Pareto Principle, but rather a 98:2 principle. The 2% are the academic’ cream’, and hyper-IQ persons. In many cases, the 2% may reduce to sub 1%.
The ‘Peter Principke’ invokes the idea that when individuals are promoted above their level of maximum capability, they become utterly useless. Fauci, Collins and the other leaders of the related health agencies are clear examples of this.
The ‘cream’ generally do not become beurocrats. Fauci was probably not that intelligent in his studies, despite all the accolades. Talking down, and obfuscation instead of providing clarity, are clear signs of his low mental horsepower. He is also clearly a bully, with either sociopathic, or psychopathic tendencies. This is coupled with narcissism. He is a very, very dangerous individual.
His role in over 500,000 US preventable deaths during covid-19 will be settled at some point in the future. If the link to Wuhan laboratory,or Fort Dietrich, can be proved, then at least another few million can be added.
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sir_isO
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The “medical” institution can only gain respectability by recognizing and basically abolishing the fundamental fraud from the Rockefeller/Pasteur methodology, institutions.
And even besides that, while it is an industry for profit, it can never have respectability.
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Roslyn Ross
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Science is a global system of enquiry and its failure is not particular to the US.
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dnomsed
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Yes, very much so.
I’ve noted a major change for the worst over the past 10-15 years.
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sir_isO
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And what says “science” more than willful ignorance, shutting down skepticism, criticism, consideration, imposition, tainting with religious belief, censorship, deplatforming villification and “settled consensus”?
Don’t people even understand science is always, intrinsically flawed? Don’t people understand the very reason science can even improve is because it is always flawed?
From my understanding, it is never really about “truth” in science, it’s only about perhaps being closer approximation to truth.
The gall, for instance, of a human, using a fraction of a fraction of a fraction (sun, earth, body)…to use a fraction of a fraction of a fraction (observational tools) thinking it observes correctly is utterly retarded.
That’s like a cancerous cell in your body, looking at the rest of the body (nm even being able to contemplate or observe outside the body) with very limited perspective and being like “I totally know what’s going on. Trust me, I asked this cancer cell next to me, now that we have consensus we know just how things work and how to fix things”.
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Teresa
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Excellent, comprehensive article. Thank you.
A teeny but significant typo: it’s “Anthony” Fauci, not “Robert.”
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sir_isO
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Yeah probably thinking of Robert Redfield coz it’s associated.
There are two significantly indicted guys that I don’t see mentioned often.
One’s name is Robert…Langer. The other I d unfortunately on’t quite remember. I seem to recall it being a german name, potentially the surname starting with B…they would’ve associated so it’s probably not impossible to find that out.
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