I have been thinking about the word "anecdotal". (definition: (of an account) not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research.). Anecdotal thus is a pejorative. It serves the same function as "anti-vax". It doesn't describe neutrally and serves to belittle the thing it is ascribed to.
Now take a minute and think about the many things that run on "anecdote" in our society. In law, we call this eye witness testimony and rely heavily upon it. It is treated with respect and sought after in crime cases.
In liberal arts academia we call it oral history. It is considered a basic pillar in historical research and so important that there are projects like Stephen Spielberg's Shoah(holocaust) Foundation that took video oral witness reports to document the atrocities of the holocaust. Do we call these reports anecdotes?
In medicine, on the whole, and excluding vaccination, doctors rely upon their patients as the primary source of information about themselves. If I go to see a new doctor I have sheets of history about myself to fill out. The doctor takes them as true. These are all anecdotes.
When we discuss vaccine injury Pharma has successfully turned any report of injury into a game of "that's just anecdotal" even if the information is an eyewitness, first person account. It helps them that most reports are made by mothers, because there is already a built in societal bias against mothers. We lose our brains apparently when we have children. We lose our ability to think rationally. We lose our powers of observation.
If I tell a friend my daughter sprained her ankle in a fall, saw a doctor, was treated and eventually recovered, there is only one response I get. Oh, I am so glad she is feeling better. This would be true of ANY illness or surgery or accident, that I would tell my friend about, she would encounter except vaccine injury.
As scientism has risen, the use of “anecdotal” has replaced “heresy”. It has marginalized parents of injured children who in the past would have been believed like they are in every other circumstance.
This issue with VAERS and “anecdotal” is at the heart of the problem. Most of the reports are first person/eyewitness reports. Without an independent body examining the actual VAERS database for the reports that are causal, we will have an insurmountable issue to address.
I like this polling thing because it reverses the dynamic. It takes first person, eye-witness accounts and turns them into a science based argument.
The terrified begged their masters to keep them safe. The masters gave them safe, and effective. When the terrified started dying the masters said "We gave you exactly what you asked for. You did not ask for any proof."
Gell-Mann amnesia is an important part of any discussion about judging the trustworthiness of the news media. The following is quoted from epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know." – Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
Thank you, Doctor. The polling confirming increasing numbers of people now acknowledge that the C 19 "vaccines" are causing vast numbers of injuries, is encouraging. For those following the plasmid DNA contamination issue, Dr Philip Buckhaults, self described 'genome jock' from SC, has begun asking for samples of tissues (tumours etc) from those who believe they are vaccine injured. ( Or in the case of those deceased, from pathologists.) He intends to qPCR sequence these tissues to look for integration of the foreign plasmid DNA, which I firmly believe he is going to find, even on just an odds basis: millions of DNA fragments per injection, into billions of arms, 2 or more times each. This would/ will be seismic. Is the world ready to accept billions of people were injected , many by coercion, with something which has integrated foreign DNA into their genome and is causing disease and injury? 2024 will continue to be a very interesting year.
Pharma's "safe and effective" mantra is propaganda, i.e. misinformation. They are following the teachings of Sigmund Freud's nephew (Bernays) to promote their "golden geese"...vaccines and xeno-biologicals. The 5th horseman of the apocalypse can be described "misinformation". If you repeat a lie often enough, the public will eventually believe it to be true.
Dec 2022. A paper proved how the World Economic Forum is the information gate-keeper of The Lancet and almost all high impact journals, prostituted by Big Pharma and globalist entities. “Elsevier is owned by WEF partner RELX Group. John Wiley & Sons published Schwab‟s Stakeholder Capitalism. Springer Nature is owned by WEF partner Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Frontiers was founded by WEF-affiliated Henry Markram.” This explains why the zoonotic COVID origins article had not been retracted by 2024, in spite of the overwhelming evidence for the lab Gain-of-function creation and hundreds of scientists demanding the retraction for lying and scientific misconduct.
That's why we need to rethink the scientific system in order to make sure that this doesn't ever happen again. Sciencing the rigged and corrupt health scientific system for an overdue turnaround
Unless we change it, we’re doomed to the next PLANdemic. And yet, nothing has changed, only got worse!
Then, show that every single person in the planet should be suing Pfizer for deliberately injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) into the cell nucleus of the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada !!!
If he doesn’t like the topic, I’d show this video (all you need is 10 secs in the middle, who doesn’t have 10 seconds for you):
(caveat about the beginning: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)
9/11: two "planes", yet the third tower (WTC7) imploded, free falling on its footprint like in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach, and all 7 World Trade Center towers needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to World Trade Center... and the “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, just months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work precisely on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings (they never skipped work before). The inside information about the FUTURE 9/11 event helped masons make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!
Please watch all of this! Your life depends on it, because there's a plan to murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:
- J6: The false flag operation of the fake riot was planned, incited and guided by FBI agents, who broke into the Capitol !!! The same mason-plot was copy-pasted to disband the insurrection against the stolen elections in Brazil! All intel agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) were founded by masons and are run by them for their own nefarious goals.
- At least since the 90s, vaccines are weaponized to reduce the population, for example:
1. Adding hCG to infertilize women: lab detected in 30 countries
2. Overpassing the FDA 10 ng limit to human DNA “contamination” by 2000%, thus causing neuro-damage (autism, asperger, tics, dyslexia in 29% of kids, etc.) and childhood cancer epidemic (n.b. leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas)
- Their main source of power apart from sin-empowered demons? NOT a coincidence that the USA left dollar convertibility to gold in 1971, precisely triggering the exponential government deficit coupled with the trade deficit and inflation.
This is the Achilles’ heel of all nations: masonic and satanic secret societies counterfeit paper money and launder trillions with which they buy Banks, seats in the Federal Reserve (the only private run Central Bank in the world), political careers and parties, puppeticians, listed corporations, media, healthcare corporations and organizations, universities, foundations, judges, etc.:
1. Create an easy system for real money: private currencies/warrants based on real assets, goods, services, etc. (gold, corn, oil, distance/volume/weight transportation, labor human hour/minute, etc.)
2. Ban legal tender. Let the free markets decide which real-currencies/valuables/warrants they prefer to trade with
3. Ban paper-backed currencies (unlike real-backed ones of point 1.)
4. Enforce a Legal Banking Reserve of 100% of deposits (so banks don't create money based on air) and therefore there's no excuse for a Central Bank, because there would be no risk of bank-runs since all their loans are fully backed with deposits
President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”
If you are a mason or know a mason, ask him to ask his 33° master to put in writing and sign it, who is "the great architect" and that he is not Lucifer. If he refuses, then he’ll know who he is really serving, Satan: tell him to get out of masonry NOW. Sooner or later he’ll be required to trample on a cross to get to a higher degree.
Confessions of a former mason (Serge Abad-Gallardo):
Thanks again for a fact-based article that we once again get truly informed. The polling is interesting in that many Dems still believe in the notion of safe & effective as if they were criticizing their ‘party’ to even suggest otherwise. To be so devoted even when people they know were harmed just proves how easily manipulated many people are. Covid was so badly handled by the CDC from the very beginning. Covid response was never based on long-held medical interventions but absurd rules (6 ft apart, mask everyone, stay inside, no outdoor activities). I long for the day when Fauci and his ilk are charged with crimes against humanity.
"83.62% of Democrats believe the vaccine is safe and effective. When asked if they or someone else in their household was injured by a vaccine, 32.47% of Democrats said yes."
OK, so many of the Democrats that admit someone in their house was injured still think it is safe and effective? How can you even reason with that? It is no wonder our country is a mess!
Taylor Lorenz and her ilk represent to me the human representation of the Obama echo chamber. They are baby birds chortling for regurgitated food to be spat into their mouths for them to print. They are the cut and paste crew. There is zero creativity or critical thinking. There are no “boots on the ground” studying the issue for them, they need to be told what to write. I’m not so naive as to think that previously newspapers didn’t print a “narrative”, but never before in our history, has a group of pseudo journalists ever been less equipped to actually write anything at all.They served no purpose, so their entire existence was based on a bottom line, at one point the money would run dry as they offered no product, just cut and paste. Now AI can take care of that. I am thankful every single day for Substack. It kept me sane during the darkest days of Covid.
Doc, I love the way you think and express big thoughts. Like this one: "One of the pillars the current monopolization of truth within medicine rests upon is having a core of ardent skeptics who will attack anything which deviates from the official narrative, which is typically done by painting the dissenting point as “un-credible” so that an uninformed bystander will assume that dissenting information should not be trusted.
"What I’ve found fascinating about interacting with these people is that while they are very good at identifying the short comings of evidence or arguments they disagree with, they simultaneously cannot recognize the identical issue when it occurs within things they support."
Replace the word "medicine" with politics, journalism, or any other discipline, and the statement is still overwhelmingly true. ("What oft was Thought, but ne'er so well Exprest; / Something, whose Truth convinc'd at Sight we find, / That gives us back the Image of our Mind." — Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Thanks for John Pilger's link. Nothing has changed since 2007. Media/political Echo Chamber still threatening war with Iran. Journalism schools are propaganda mills, objectively.
Why are so many corporate talking heads/pundits Canadians and Brits? Not just the BBC.
Who's the real poodle? Their WWI propaganda about Huns in Free Belgium, is eerily similar to Democratic Israel's atrocity porn. Both were eagerly echoed by U.S. media for the same purpose, goading Americans into war beyond our borders.
I have been thinking about the word "anecdotal". (definition: (of an account) not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research.). Anecdotal thus is a pejorative. It serves the same function as "anti-vax". It doesn't describe neutrally and serves to belittle the thing it is ascribed to.
Now take a minute and think about the many things that run on "anecdote" in our society. In law, we call this eye witness testimony and rely heavily upon it. It is treated with respect and sought after in crime cases.
In liberal arts academia we call it oral history. It is considered a basic pillar in historical research and so important that there are projects like Stephen Spielberg's Shoah(holocaust) Foundation that took video oral witness reports to document the atrocities of the holocaust. Do we call these reports anecdotes?
In medicine, on the whole, and excluding vaccination, doctors rely upon their patients as the primary source of information about themselves. If I go to see a new doctor I have sheets of history about myself to fill out. The doctor takes them as true. These are all anecdotes.
When we discuss vaccine injury Pharma has successfully turned any report of injury into a game of "that's just anecdotal" even if the information is an eyewitness, first person account. It helps them that most reports are made by mothers, because there is already a built in societal bias against mothers. We lose our brains apparently when we have children. We lose our ability to think rationally. We lose our powers of observation.
If I tell a friend my daughter sprained her ankle in a fall, saw a doctor, was treated and eventually recovered, there is only one response I get. Oh, I am so glad she is feeling better. This would be true of ANY illness or surgery or accident, that I would tell my friend about, she would encounter except vaccine injury.
As scientism has risen, the use of “anecdotal” has replaced “heresy”. It has marginalized parents of injured children who in the past would have been believed like they are in every other circumstance.
This issue with VAERS and “anecdotal” is at the heart of the problem. Most of the reports are first person/eyewitness reports. Without an independent body examining the actual VAERS database for the reports that are causal, we will have an insurmountable issue to address.
I like this polling thing because it reverses the dynamic. It takes first person, eye-witness accounts and turns them into a science based argument.
The terrified begged their masters to keep them safe. The masters gave them safe, and effective. When the terrified started dying the masters said "We gave you exactly what you asked for. You did not ask for any proof."
More here; https://truthaddict.substack.com/p/the-psychological-war-in-your-mind
Gell-Mann amnesia is an important part of any discussion about judging the trustworthiness of the news media. The following is quoted from epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know." – Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
Thank you, Doctor. The polling confirming increasing numbers of people now acknowledge that the C 19 "vaccines" are causing vast numbers of injuries, is encouraging. For those following the plasmid DNA contamination issue, Dr Philip Buckhaults, self described 'genome jock' from SC, has begun asking for samples of tissues (tumours etc) from those who believe they are vaccine injured. ( Or in the case of those deceased, from pathologists.) He intends to qPCR sequence these tissues to look for integration of the foreign plasmid DNA, which I firmly believe he is going to find, even on just an odds basis: millions of DNA fragments per injection, into billions of arms, 2 or more times each. This would/ will be seismic. Is the world ready to accept billions of people were injected , many by coercion, with something which has integrated foreign DNA into their genome and is causing disease and injury? 2024 will continue to be a very interesting year.
If anyone knows of any polls you think I should include, please let me know.
Pharma's "safe and effective" mantra is propaganda, i.e. misinformation. They are following the teachings of Sigmund Freud's nephew (Bernays) to promote their "golden geese"...vaccines and xeno-biologicals. The 5th horseman of the apocalypse can be described "misinformation". If you repeat a lie often enough, the public will eventually believe it to be true.
Bravo. Terrific article. George Orwell would be proud of you.
Thank you for making this comprehensive perspective available to all subscribers.
Thank you, dear AMD. This was very heartening to read.
Dec 2022. A paper proved how the World Economic Forum is the information gate-keeper of The Lancet and almost all high impact journals, prostituted by Big Pharma and globalist entities. “Elsevier is owned by WEF partner RELX Group. John Wiley & Sons published Schwab‟s Stakeholder Capitalism. Springer Nature is owned by WEF partner Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Frontiers was founded by WEF-affiliated Henry Markram.” This explains why the zoonotic COVID origins article had not been retracted by 2024, in spite of the overwhelming evidence for the lab Gain-of-function creation and hundreds of scientists demanding the retraction for lying and scientific misconduct.
That's why we need to rethink the scientific system in order to make sure that this doesn't ever happen again. Sciencing the rigged and corrupt health scientific system for an overdue turnaround
Unless we change it, we’re doomed to the next PLANdemic. And yet, nothing has changed, only got worse!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/rethinking-science
What’s your best way to wake-up those who don’t want to open their eyes?
Please share your most effective wake-up strategies.
The more the awakened, the sooner this nightmare will be over!
100 wake-up videos:
Watch the first one! Only 10 min at 2x, an amazing tool to start a discussion:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/wake-up-videos
If the person doesn’t want to discuss injections, then food is a good start:
Why is food poisoning legal?
How Rumsfeld forced the approval of Aspartame.
Artificial sweeteners, MSG, PFAS, Glyphosate ... go organic!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/why-is-food-poisoning-legal
Then I’d follow with "Are you opened to see if the actual data matches your opinion?"
Then I start showing some of the shortcomings of the Pharma industry:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/system-failure-ai-exposes-zero-government
Then, show that every single person in the planet should be suing Pfizer for deliberately injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) into the cell nucleus of the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada !!!
If he doesn’t like the topic, I’d show this video (all you need is 10 secs in the middle, who doesn’t have 10 seconds for you):
https://odysee.com/@ImpossiblyWackedOutWorld:f/WTC-7-Free-Falling:8
(caveat about the beginning: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)
9/11: two "planes", yet the third tower (WTC7) imploded, free falling on its footprint like in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach, and all 7 World Trade Center towers needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to World Trade Center... and the “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, just months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work precisely on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings (they never skipped work before). The inside information about the FUTURE 9/11 event helped masons make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!
Watch amazing short and more evidence here:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/911-2-planes-3-towers
Please watch all of this! Your life depends on it, because there's a plan to murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination
- J6: The false flag operation of the fake riot was planned, incited and guided by FBI agents, who broke into the Capitol !!! The same mason-plot was copy-pasted to disband the insurrection against the stolen elections in Brazil! All intel agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) were founded by masons and are run by them for their own nefarious goals.
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/j6-what-you-need-to-know
It's such a mason manual that they organized the same J6 play in Brazil when it was proven that the voting machines owned by mason Soros, were rigged:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-2020-american-coup
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/dominion-over-us
- At least since the 90s, vaccines are weaponized to reduce the population, for example:
1. Adding hCG to infertilize women: lab detected in 30 countries
2. Overpassing the FDA 10 ng limit to human DNA “contamination” by 2000%, thus causing neuro-damage (autism, asperger, tics, dyslexia in 29% of kids, etc.) and childhood cancer epidemic (n.b. leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas)
Check soundchoice.org or videos at bottom after this page:
- COVID was designed as a primer for even more lethal COVID haccines:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/not-vaccine-not-gene-therapy-just
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/what-do-bioweapons-have-to-do-with
- You’ll go nowhere and you’ll be happy:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/2050-youll-go-nowhere-and-youll-be
- It's genocide for depopulation:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depop-vaccines-no-myth
- Their main source of power apart from sin-empowered demons? NOT a coincidence that the USA left dollar convertibility to gold in 1971, precisely triggering the exponential government deficit coupled with the trade deficit and inflation.
This is the Achilles’ heel of all nations: masonic and satanic secret societies counterfeit paper money and launder trillions with which they buy Banks, seats in the Federal Reserve (the only private run Central Bank in the world), political careers and parties, puppeticians, listed corporations, media, healthcare corporations and organizations, universities, foundations, judges, etc.:
Depopulation or EXTERMINATION? (finest quotes):
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination
Confessions of illuminati, David Rockefeller (finest quotes):
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/david-rockefeller-illuminati
Ex illuminati Ronald Bernard: how the world REALLY works
22 Aug 2017 Original in Dutch with English subs:
https://odysee.com/@QuantumRhino:9/Revelations-by-an-Insider--The-Ronald-Bernard-Interviews--Part-1-5:5
The way out of this mess:
1. Create an easy system for real money: private currencies/warrants based on real assets, goods, services, etc. (gold, corn, oil, distance/volume/weight transportation, labor human hour/minute, etc.)
2. Ban legal tender. Let the free markets decide which real-currencies/valuables/warrants they prefer to trade with
3. Ban paper-backed currencies (unlike real-backed ones of point 1.)
4. Enforce a Legal Banking Reserve of 100% of deposits (so banks don't create money based on air) and therefore there's no excuse for a Central Bank, because there would be no risk of bank-runs since all their loans are fully backed with deposits
Anything else you might think of?
Now, are you really ready for this?:
The full PLAN exposed:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-plan-revealed
16 laws we need to exit Prison Planet
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison
President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”
If you are a mason or know a mason, ask him to ask his 33° master to put in writing and sign it, who is "the great architect" and that he is not Lucifer. If he refuses, then he’ll know who he is really serving, Satan: tell him to get out of masonry NOW. Sooner or later he’ll be required to trample on a cross to get to a higher degree.
Confessions of a former mason (Serge Abad-Gallardo):
https://www.ncregister.com/interview/confessions-of-a-former-freemason-officer-converted-to-catholicism
Confession of 33rd degree master mason - Masons worship deities/demons
https://rumble.com/v294ksc-words-from-33rd-degree-master-mason-rare-video-masons-worship-all-sorts-of-.html
Masonry's Satanic Connection
https://odysee.com/@HiddenTruths:c/Masonry's-Satanic-Connection:4
Masonry's Satanic Doctrine | From Their Own Books
https://rumble.com/v2wg24a-masonrys-satanic-doctrine-from-their-own-books.html
Do Freemasons Worship Lucifer？ Evidence They Don't Want You To See
https://odysee.com/@John_4-14:a/Do-Freemasons-Worship-Lucifer%EF%BC%9F-Evidence-They-Don't-Want-You-To-See-%EF%BD%9C-Hidden-Agendas---Walter-Veith:0
Satanic Ritual Abuse and Secret Societies [1995] [VHS]
https://odysee.com/@thisworldworks:1/satanic-ritual-abuse-and-secret-societies-1995:3
Satanic Pedophilia Torture and Blood - Dark Satanic Secrets Revealed
https://odysee.com/@Gmail.com:52/822821884_Satanic-Pedophilia-Torture-and-Blood---Dark-Satanic-Secrets-Revealed:4
UNITED NATIONS LUCIFER AND THE LUCIFER TRUST
https://odysee.com/@dynosarus:c/UNITED-NATIONS-LUCIFER-AND-THE-LUCIFER-TRUST:4
Freemasonry: 100% incompatible with Christ
https://rumble.com/vs9mxb-heres-why-christianity-is-totally-incapatable-with-freemasonry.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nljuLLGpi3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL5BC-Xc50s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddWB4rcChhk
or rumble:
https://rumble.com/vf9zeh-freemasons-exposed.html
Obama pushing Freemasonry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn4RpgfPFn0
Blessings and appreciation from Sydney Australia. The stories I could tell ya…..
Thanks again for a fact-based article that we once again get truly informed. The polling is interesting in that many Dems still believe in the notion of safe & effective as if they were criticizing their ‘party’ to even suggest otherwise. To be so devoted even when people they know were harmed just proves how easily manipulated many people are. Covid was so badly handled by the CDC from the very beginning. Covid response was never based on long-held medical interventions but absurd rules (6 ft apart, mask everyone, stay inside, no outdoor activities). I long for the day when Fauci and his ilk are charged with crimes against humanity.
Let me get this straight:
"83.62% of Democrats believe the vaccine is safe and effective. When asked if they or someone else in their household was injured by a vaccine, 32.47% of Democrats said yes."
OK, so many of the Democrats that admit someone in their house was injured still think it is safe and effective? How can you even reason with that? It is no wonder our country is a mess!
Taylor Lorenz and her ilk represent to me the human representation of the Obama echo chamber. They are baby birds chortling for regurgitated food to be spat into their mouths for them to print. They are the cut and paste crew. There is zero creativity or critical thinking. There are no “boots on the ground” studying the issue for them, they need to be told what to write. I’m not so naive as to think that previously newspapers didn’t print a “narrative”, but never before in our history, has a group of pseudo journalists ever been less equipped to actually write anything at all.They served no purpose, so their entire existence was based on a bottom line, at one point the money would run dry as they offered no product, just cut and paste. Now AI can take care of that. I am thankful every single day for Substack. It kept me sane during the darkest days of Covid.
Doc, I love the way you think and express big thoughts. Like this one: "One of the pillars the current monopolization of truth within medicine rests upon is having a core of ardent skeptics who will attack anything which deviates from the official narrative, which is typically done by painting the dissenting point as “un-credible” so that an uninformed bystander will assume that dissenting information should not be trusted.
"What I’ve found fascinating about interacting with these people is that while they are very good at identifying the short comings of evidence or arguments they disagree with, they simultaneously cannot recognize the identical issue when it occurs within things they support."
Replace the word "medicine" with politics, journalism, or any other discipline, and the statement is still overwhelmingly true. ("What oft was Thought, but ne'er so well Exprest; / Something, whose Truth convinc'd at Sight we find, / That gives us back the Image of our Mind." — Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Thanks for John Pilger's link. Nothing has changed since 2007. Media/political Echo Chamber still threatening war with Iran. Journalism schools are propaganda mills, objectively.
Why are so many corporate talking heads/pundits Canadians and Brits? Not just the BBC.
Who's the real poodle? Their WWI propaganda about Huns in Free Belgium, is eerily similar to Democratic Israel's atrocity porn. Both were eagerly echoed by U.S. media for the same purpose, goading Americans into war beyond our borders.