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1.16.2023 The best of Rational Ground, Team Reality and many others...
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What you can find in this collection (these are my headlines, not the authors’):
Universities’ Obsession With DEI by John Sailer
SARS-CoV-2 Similar To MS Proteins by Jessica Rose
Purity Tests For Future Leaders by Michael P Senger
Fake Tripledemic By Vinay Prasad
Limited Hangouts by CJ Hopkins
“Nudging” Borris Johnson by Naked Emperor
Changing Definitions by Mr Law, Health and Technology
Ivermectin: 72% Effectiveness by Igor Chudov
Justin Hart’s Myo List by Justin Hart
UK Vax Mortality Using ASMR by el gato malo
Secondary Attack Rate: 48.27% by James Cintolo
FDA Angry at Moderna by Igor Chudov
AUS Cancer Acceleration by Aussie17
England’s Excess Death by Joel Smalley
Qatar Vax Death Study by Naked Emperor
Climate Bonanza by John Leake
Defending RCTs by Vinay Prasad
Going After the Children by Dr. Robert Malone
Flu vs Covid by Kelley K
Normalizing EUA Drugs by Meryl Nass
IgG4 & the Infection-Naive by Igor Chudov
Japan’s Over 65 Deaths by Guy Gin
Academic Freedom is Dying by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Appropriate Limited Use by Medical Nemesis
Universities’ Obsession With DEI by John Sailer
Klein, the author of a textbook on ethics in accounting, was up for a merit raise. For the first time in his 40 years at UCLA, Klein told me he had to submit a statement on equity, diversity, and inclusion. UCLA had adopted this as a promotion requirement in 2019, and now demands that all faculty members express how they will advance these principles in their work, and how their mentoring and advising helps those “from underrepresented and underserved populations.”
Many American college students are now required to take DEI, anti-racism, or social justice courses.
DEI is also becoming a de facto academic discipline. In 2021, Bentley University in Massachusetts created a DEI major.
Last year, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, along with several other university accrediting bodies, adopted its own DEI statement, proclaiming that “the rich values of diversity, equity and inclusion are inextricably linked to quality assurance in higher education.” These accreditors, in turn, pressure universities and schools into adopting DEI measures.
SARS-CoV-2 Similar To MS Proteins by Jessica Rose
MS involves demyelination of nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord and is thought to be the result of immune system dysfunction induced by viral infections, gut dysbiosis, enhanced gut permeability or epigenetic triggers - all which can lead to autoimmunity against the myelin sheath and central nervous system (CNS) proteins.
Molecular mimicry is implicated in the development of autoimmune disease and is linked to vaccines as well
Now, it is very important to remember here that these homologous sequences they discovered are for the nucleocapsid (N) protein (and replicase polyprotein1ab) of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, so if the template for the COVID-19 mRNA injectable products encodes the spike protein alone, then people can rest assured they won’t have molecular mimicry insults due to shared epitopes from the N protein to CNS proteins.
Purity Tests For Future Leaders by Michael P Senger
How important is it for any given individual—and for political leaders especially—to have opposed these policies at the earliest possible date?
But for those who may retain or be given positions of leadership, the standard must be higher. By virtue of their station, their personal judgment and moral courage have a considerable impact on the wellbeing of the public. Thus, the judgment and courage, or lack thereof, that they demonstrated during COVID is of considerable significance, irrespective of what they may have subjectively believed at the time.
our civilization is faced with much the same once-in-many-decades moral conundrum that the Allies faced at Nuremberg: How to obtain justice when an entire population has been manipulated to bring out their most evil—even their most criminal—tendencies? The answer the Allies came to is that it simply isn’t possible to evaluate the morality of a person’s actions under such extraordinary circumstances
Fake Tripledemic By Vinay Prasad
The message is clear: fear winter respiratory viruses, and take every possible precaution you can. It’s time to slap on those N95s once more, avoid crowds, and socialize outdoors if possible.
But the best available evidence contradicts the narrative from the media and many public health officials. The precautions being recommended are essentially unproven—akin to burning an incense stick, or wearing garlic to ward off vampires.
There are three important points to make about the tripledemic:
There is limited evidence that it exists.
There is no avoiding respiratory viruses.
There is no evidence that prolonged precautions delay the inevitable.
It is natural, healthy, and necessary for young children to be exposed to many viruses. In order for children to build immunity to common pathogens—in order for them to develop a normally functioning immune system—they must have such exposure, which will sometimes make them sick.
Limited Hangouts by CJ Hopkins
The way a “limited hangout” works is, if you’re an intelligence agency, or a global corporation, or a government, or a non-governmental organization, and you have been doing things you need to hide from the public, and those things are starting to come to light such that you can’t just deny that you are doing them anymore, what you do is, you release a limited part of the story…to distract people’s attention from the rest of the story. The part you release is the “limited hangout.”
It’s not a lie. It’s just not the whole story. You “hang it out” so that it will become the whole story, and thus stop people from pursuing the whole story.
It isn’t a story about a virus, or our governments’ reactions to a virus. It is the story of the radical restructuring of society based on lies and official propaganda, executed, globally, through sheer brute force and systematic psychological conditioning.
The “Covid Twitter Files” are not The Mother of All Limited Hangouts; they’re just one part of it. There are many more limited hangouts to come.
“Nudging” Borris Johnson by Naked Emperor
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) was set up in 2010 by the UK Cabinet Office to nudge the population into doing things they might not necessarily decide to do without prompting. Since then it has gone from strength to strength, massively expanded and its methods exported around the world.
David Halpern, a British psychologist, has been in charge of the BIT since its formation. In an astonishing admission in a recent Telegraph ‘article’, David revealed how he and his team even used their techniques on Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the UK at the time.
the behavioural scientist thought it was their jobs to push back against Boris’ leadership that saw masks as “nonsensical”.
this is the nudging he admits to, what else did he nudge Boris Johnson or other members of the government to do without them realising it?
Changing Definitions by Mr Law, Health and Technology
the CDC definition for vaccination has changed the purpose from an intention to prevent, to one which seeks to produce immunity in 2015, and more recently in 2021 at the height of the global Covid-19 vaccine rollout to one intended to produce protection.
This has allowed the public perception of vaccination in the mainstream media to become a moving feast - that during covid has seen their headline efficacy goal change from being measured as preventing infections to a less provable preventing severe illness.
Ivermectin: 72% Effictiveness by Igor Chudov
MedinCell conducted a randomized controlled trial of their version of Ivermectin and found that it reduces Covid infections by 72%!
If we are to believe official numbers, about 1,121,000 people died of Covid in the USA. Given published effectiveness estimates of Ivermectin coming from honest studies, Ivermectin could have saved eight hundred thousand of those lives.
Given a 72% reduction in infection, natural immunity with Ivermectin would likely have stopped the pandemic entirely in 2020
Justin Hart’s Myo List by Justin Hart
FDA finally admits in its own report on 65+ mRNS recipients: Risk of lung clots up 50% - Risk of heart attacks up 40%+
Jan 2022, JAMA study found myocarditis risk increased in multiple age, sex groups after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, highest in young men.
Study of VAERS data between Jan-Jun 2021 found highest rate of myocarditis in young boys 12-15 after dose 2 of mRNA COVID-19 vaccination.
Study in Nature found increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis in France after Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, particularly after 2nd dose and in age 18-24 yrs, both male and female were affected.
CDC report 2022 found 14 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis among 102,091 males aged 16-17 who received Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, significant departure from reported rates in 2021, showing concerns labeled as misinformation are real.
UK Vax Mortality Using ASMR by el gato malo
the vaxxes are associated with much higher all cause deaths rates and a simple attempt to incorporate the risk windows makes it far worse
the signals in young men are especially elevated and worrying. this may bear on the “died suddenly” athlete issue.
as can be seen, the only “full boost” series showing any benefit is in females 80-89 and that’s not material at 0.99 RRR which is well within the error bars of “no effect”.
having to run the 21 day gauntlet post jab eliminates all benefit of reaching the other side and then some.
perhaps this is why so many trials and government reports have “conveniently” ignored this interval and only considered “fully vaxxed” as dose +14-21.
Secondary Attack Rate: 48.27% by James Cintolo
study looked at secondary attack rate (SAR%) of the virus across household residents who were vaccinated and unvaccinated. Turns out, SAR was 48.27% higher in boosted individuals during BA 4/5 prevalence VS those who were unvaccinated.
That means, there was a 48.27% increased probability of infection from 1 booster compared to being unvaccinated.
FDA Angry at Moderna by Igor Chudov
the FDA advisers are “angry” that Moderna did not present real-life data showing that bivalent-boosted people are 68% (3.2/1.9) more likely to get Covid.
The FDA approved the “Covid vaccine for babies” just TWO DAYS after receiving the submission.
Now that the public is asking pointed questions, FDA advisers are suddenly “angry” at Moderna. Are they trying to save themselves from repercussions and future prosecution?
AUS Cancer Acceleration by Aussie17
In 2020, before the COVID Vaccine Rollout, the cumulative number of cancer excess death hit over a thousand in November 2020.
In 2021, it hit a thousand in May 2021. (Vaccination campaigns started in Feb 2021)
In 2022, it hit a thousand in April 2022.
There is an acceleration in cancer deaths, and these numbers are not attributed to COVID-19.
England’s Excess Death by Joel Smalley
In the early mortality, seven months between June 2021 and Dec 2021, seasonal excess mortality was 143% higher than the lowest comparable period since 2014.
So yet, when presented with the irrefutable evidence that, in the six months after the mass injection of the population with an experimental medical treatment, the excess mortality signal is at least as high as when the deadly pathogen emerged, the government and media don’t even so much as want to talk about it but they have to shut up anyone else who dares to try.
Qatar Vax Death Study by Naked Emperor
The study found that of the 138 deaths, 8 had a high probability that they were linked to the vaccine (1.15/1,000,000 doses), 15 had intermediate probability (2.38/1,000,000 doses) and 112 had a low probability or no association (3 were indeterminate).
Looking at the supplemental data, of the 112 low probability deaths, 28 deaths are listed meaning the missing 84 are likely to have had no association at all (e.g. road traffic accident). However, many of the 28 deaths are questionable as to whether they should be low probability or not. For example a 21-30 year old with no known comorbidities suffered a cardiac arrest, 22 days after vaccination.
The study shows that over 15% of all deaths occurring within 30 days of vaccination are likely to have been caused by the vaccine. Include the ‘low possibility’ deaths and that ramps up to over 35%. And this is in relatively young people. How many more deaths can be linked to the vaccine if that time window is extended?
Climate Bonanza by John Leake
Examine any major “Climate Initiative” and you’ll see that it doesn’t square with math and the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Bill Gates could easily scratch a check for the entire palm oil industry of Borneo, thereby saving its rainforests and orangutans from incineration.
If the State of California were serious about preventing carbon from entering the atmosphere, it would start MANAGING its forests through judicious logging in order to prevent massive forrest fires.
because profligate politicians with access to unlimited debt financing have gotten in on the act, the “Renewable Energy” industry has become an absolute bonanza.
Defending RCTs by Vinay Prasad
Despite nearly a century of randomization constantly upending conventional wisdom, continually giving us insights, there remains a large group of people (some call themselves scientists) who remain opposed.
“You can’t study whether masks slow COVID19 or RSV’s spread in kids because we can’t randomize kids.”
“We can’t randomize people to bivalent boosters and measure rates of severe disease— to see if they truly have benefit”
all of these claims are lies— they are false, pure and simple.
You could have run many cluster RCTs of different masking strategies. You could easily demand RCTs measuring mortality for new cancer drugs (we proved that they would even result faster than the current uncontrolled trials), and you could run human trials of bivalent boosters measuring severe disease.
More than could— we should do these trials, we ought to do them, and we must do them. It is scientifically and morally wrong to push policies year after year with no credible data they help.
Going After the Children by Dr. Robert Malone
today's propaganda feels more dangerous and obvious than ever. For instance, the ‘body positive movement’ that, whether intentional or not, promotes obesity, poor diet, unhealthy lifestyles, and uncertainty in your identity- is slowly killing us all. That we are seeing this gender ideology become normalized in classrooms, Hollywood, and even Chinese owned Tik Tok, isn’t an accident by any means.
Ironically enough, the Chinese version of Tik Tok teaches kids science, math, and basic life skills while in the USA, Tik Tok has been weaponized by China to make our youth question the very basic fundamentals of objective reality. This is done through algorithmic control and different content and messaging is being pushed into the minds of youth different countries.
Flu vs Covid by Kelley K
Across ages 0-17, 20.3% of Covid hospitalizations during the original study period had no symptoms, while only 3.1% of flu hospitalizations had no symptoms. Additionally, 35.2% of Covid hospitalizations had no respiratory or febrile symptoms, versus only 4.4% of flu hospitalizations. Clearly, the ascertainment of Covid hospitalizations is much higher than for influenza.
For children 6 months to under 12, the data show that Covid resulted in fewer hospitalizations than a typical flu season, even during the Omicron wave.
This study did show that Covid led to more hospitalizations in older children, aged 12-17, during the Delta and Omicron waves than flu normally would.
The CDC parroted the combined rate of hospitalization for ages 0-17 years, without adjusting for incidentals or breaking down further by age subgroups, in order to exaggerate the risk of Covid to children
Normalizing EUA Drugs by Meryl Nass
Between March 2020 and June 2021, more than 600 EUAs were authorized, according to Fortune.
Prior to 2020, the public health emergency that allowed the highest number of EUAs was the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, with 22 EUAs overall for personal protective equipment (PPE), antivirals, and diagnostic tests.
The only emergency-authorized vaccine prior to the 2020 pandemic was the anthrax vaccine.
As clarified in the journal Yale Medicine, “An EUA can only be granted when no adequate, approved, available alternatives exist, and when the known and potential benefits outweigh the potential risks. A EUA also only lasts as long as the public health emergency for which it was declared.”
Cardiologist Dr. Jack Askins has pointed out that the unprecedented onslaught of emergency authorizations in drugs, vaccinations, medical devices, COVID tests, and PPE has normalized EUA drugs and products as being fully FDA-approved rather than being investigational.
Dr. David Bell, formerly a medical officer with the World Health Organization, said that the overuse of EUAs during the pandemic has lowered drug safety standards put in place to protect patients.
IgG4 & the Infection-Naive by Igor Chudov
The main finding and the bad news is that mRNA vaccines induce immune tolerance, evidenced by IgG4 antibodies, even after two doses (initial “fully vaccinated” series).
It shows that for previously uninfected people, as time passes after mRNA vaccinations:
the quantity of good, disease-fighting IgG3 antibodies declines
the quantity of bad, disease-ignoring IgG4 antibodies rises
This leads to “immune tolerance,” causing multiple problems explained in my previous post.
Interestingly, the same problem does not appear after inoculation with AstraZeneca, which is viral-vector based and has no mRNA.
Another good news is that for people who had previous Covid-19 infection (before vaccination), IgG4 also does NOT rise, even after mRNA injections
Japan’s Over 65 Deaths by Guy Gin
Japanese over 65 have done their best to reduce Japan’s 612-million-dose stockpile of mRNA jabs, with 3rd, 4th, and 5th jab rates of 91%, 82.5%, and 56%, respectively.
Japan has started 2023 by reporting its highest ever daily Covid death tolls. During the booster era starting in early 2022, each wave has been noticeably higher than the last.
Japan’s elderly have been dying in higher than expected numbers in the booster era.
Although there’s no good news here for Japan’s vaxed-to-the-max elderly, there is for Japan’s medical establishment: high numbers of Covid deaths mean the publicly funded Covid gravy train will keep going.
Academic Freedom is Dying by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Read the full article HERE
Academic freedom matters most in the edge cases when a faculty member or student is pursuing an idea that others at the university find inconvenient or objectionable. If Stanford cannot protect academic freedom in these cases, it cannot protect academic freedom at all.
The same priests of public health that have the authority to distinguish heresy from orthodoxy also cast out heretics, just like the medieval Catholic Church did.
This is a critique of our best universities, which are supposed to be dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge—yet which turn out to be no different than government propagandists and private corporations in their self-seeking, amoral behavior.
Appropriate Limited Use by Medical Nemesis
Vaccination is the third rail of biopolitics. It is a symbol of modern man-made civilization that claims to have control over life and death.
It is hailed as a miracle of modern medicine that “saved lives and prevented disabling diseases”.
It exists outside of many physician-patient interactions because it can be given on demand by any trained technician in a parking lot. It is a unicorn of a drug that is good for all by default.
It exists as a myth, a lore, a magic potion, a ritual, and an ideology as much as a medication.
A vaccine as medicine is not safe just as a vitamin is not safe. Safe medicine is an oxymoron and a regulatory designation.
Any medicine may harm. We do not know whom, when, and how. If we humble ourselves and re-think our behavior, we may re-discover appropriate limited use for a vaccine. Better yet, we may re-discover that well man does not need medicine.
Thank you so much for compiling all of this!