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5.6.2023 The best of Rational Ground, Team Reality and many others...
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Note: I read a lot of Substacks each day. The Basket is intended to be a collection of the money quotes from the best of what I read. My goal is that you enjoy this service because it saves you time and quickly informs you. And my hope is that you find one or two articles that you click into because you want more.What you can find in this collection (these are my headlines, not the authors’):
Pfizer Clinical Trial Gaps by JOSH GUETZKOW & OPENVAET
In Defense Of VAERS by Steve Kirsch
Natto Vs Recurrent Covid Infections by Dr. Peter McCullough
AI Will Not Kill 300M Jobs by el gato malo
Fighting DEI In Medicine By Stanley Goldfarb
Wordsmithing Lab Leaks by Paul D. Thacker
1,145 Days To Flatten The Curve by Justin Hart
England & Wales Excess Death by Naked Emperor
War Hawks Want Crimea by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
Covid-Vaxed Moms Pass IgG4 To Babies by Brian Mowrey
Heart Attacks Up During Pandemic by Steve Kirsch
CIA Covid Cover-Up by Michael P. Senger
The Killing Is Intentional by KATHERINE WATT
Waking Up The Middle by el gato malo
Spike & Chronic Stress by WALTER M CHESNUT
The Left’s Economic Dystopia by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
Foreign-Domestic Switcheroo by Matt Taibbi
Vax Causes Eye Problems by JOSH GUETZKOW
Ending Emotional Abortion Responses by ZEPHARETH LEDBETTER
Consensus Or Capture? by RAV ARORA & JAY BHATTACHARYA
Pfizer Clinical Trial Gaps by JOSH GUETZKOW & OPENVAET
There are 301 subject IDs missing from the data without explanation.
Cases of suspected but not confirmed COVID-19 were not to be counted in adverse events…the study sponsor (BioNTech) called the site to ask them to reclassify an adverse event as Suspected COVID-19…creates a mechanism for adverse events to be swept under a rug as the study was still going.
There is evidence of widespread lack of blinding due to imbalances in protocol deviations.
The large imbalance in the number of treatment and placebo subjects who were excluded from the efficacy analysis due to important protocol deviations is almost entirely due to problems with the storage or preparation of the vaccine leading to treatment subjects being excluded.
There are significant imbalances between treatment and placebo subjects in rates of central and local PCR testing after reporting COVID symptoms.
Treatment subjects who had a positive local PCR test were significantly more likely to have a negative or missing central PCR test than placebo subjects.
In Defense Of VAERS by Steve Kirsch
The single most devastating piece of evidence showing that the COVID vaccines have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans is the data in the VAERS system. Why? Because it’s the ground zero reporting system for adverse events for vaccines in the US.
They will claim this is just over-reporting of “background events” caused by a rule change and social media exposure in combination with more people getting vaccinated and a shift to older people who are more likely to die.
It sounds plausible, but they never provide the math to “check” that their explanation can explain the data. The key word is NEVER.
They basically hope that everyone buys the hand-waving argument and nobody actually checks the math.
Natto Vs Recurrent Covid Infections by Dr. Peter McCullough
Nattokinase is a proteolytic enzyme used as an oral supplement by the Japanese for the chronic treatment of atherothrombotic cardiovascular disease.
Oba and colleagues performed a series of experiments with various concentrations of nattokinase in preclinical models. They found: 1) nattokinase effectively stopped infection of human cells in culture from SARS-CoV-2 and bovine herpes virus type 1, 2) the proteolytic effect of nattokinase was heat sensitive.
While it is too early to make therapeutic claims, there is no doubt that data on nattokinase is the most promising we have seen among all solutions reviewed to end the final stages of the pandemic crisis—long COVID, vaccine injury syndromes, and recurrent Omicron infections.
AI Will Not Kill 300M Jobs by el gato malo
the literal point of technology is to eliminate jobs.
when technology “takes jobs” plenty is increased, resources are reallocated, and the whole pool and standard of living rises.
the idea of "technology killing jobs" is luddite thinking.
the idea that it will somehow crush the “good jobs” even more so.
this plain old never happens.
instead, it creates the good life.
income rises, buying power rises, and the tide lifts all boats
Fighting DEI In Medicine By Stanley Goldfarb
For better or worse, I have had a front-row seat to the meltdown of twenty-first-century medicine. Many colleagues and I are alarmed at how the DEI agenda—which promotes people and policies based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and sexual orientation rather than merit—is undermining healthcare for all patients regardless of their status.
medical schools are engaging in racial discrimination in service to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Racially discriminatory scholarships are not the only sign of the decline of American medical schools. A colleague at Do No Harm and I examined the trend of resegregating medicine, including the idea that black physicians provide better healthcare to black patients than physicians of other races.
My advice to my colleagues, young and old, is this: fight back using every tool at your disposal. Highlight the damage that follows the lowering of standards. Call out discrimination done in the name of “equity” and “anti-racism.” Recognize that the majority of your peers may share your views, even if they stay quiet.
Wordsmithing Lab Leaks by Paul D. Thacker
Virologists began proposing that the intelligence community agreed that a leaked virus was not genetically manipulated after the Department of Energy announced, with low probability—and the FBI with moderate probability—that the pandemic began with a lab leak. Virologists’ false claim built on the prior false definition that a natural virus leaking from a lab was a “natural occurrence.”
claims that all agencies agree there was “no laboratory modification of a virus” mislead and are designed to cast a spell that silences questions over how this pandemic started
1,145 Days To Flatten The Curve by Justin Hart
On Monday, the White House announced its Covid-19 vaccine requirements for federal employees, federal contractors, and international air travelers will expire on May 11, coinciding with the end of the Covid public health emergency. The 15 Days to Flatten the Curve that began on March 16, 2020, stretched to 1,141 days.
The Biden Administration did not admit error in its policies; instead, it took great pride in its two years of forced jabs. “Our COVID-19 vaccine requirements bolstered vaccination across the nation, and our broader vaccination campaign has saved millions of lives,” the White House boasted. “While vaccination remains one of the most important tools in advancing the health and safety of employees and promoting the efficiency of workplaces, we are now in a different phase of our response when these measures are no longer necessary.”
There is no solid evidence for any of those claims. And substantial policy questions remain.
These days and for many months and years following, all the people involved in the pandemic response – not only government officials but media mouthpieces and Big Tech accomplices – will be rewriting history and hoping that everyone will forget the real history. They are trying to avoid accountability and save whatever vestiges of despotism that they can, while hoping to institutionalize the powers that made all of this possible. They cannot be allowed to win this struggle for essential rights, liberties, and truth.
England & Wales Excess Death by Naked Emperor
Excess deaths started rising again at about this time last year in England and Wales. Since then, they haven’t stopped. Things are starting to get even worse again
This week, excess deaths have risen 23% in England and 27% in Wales compared with the new 5-year average (which includes 2021 and 2022). That is an extra 2,312 people dying compared with normal.
Deaths at home are 29% above average, care homes 25% above average and hospitals 20% above average.
This is three years after a pandemic that was supposedly so deadly it killed all elderly and vulnerable people. Two years after a miracle vaccine stopped everyone from dying.
In total, in the last 12 months, there have been 56,285 excess deaths in England and Wales. Almost as many as the first year of the pandemic.
War Hawks Want Crimea by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014 without much resistance because the civilian population in Crimea has no issue living under the Russian flag.
ruling class think tankers, politicians, defense industry lobbyists, and the like are now explicitly calling for Ukraine to proceed with a military invasion into the territory of Crimea.
it’s become pretty clear that Ukraine is not winning this fight and is in no position to escalate this war beyond its current boundaries.
A Ukrainian invasion of Crimea would likely be met by ferocious resistance not just from Russian military forces, but from the citizens of Crimea too.
attempting such a feat would require nothing short of human tragedy on an unbelievable scale. In the miraculous event that Ukrainian forces could secure this strategically important plot of land, they would have to force their way through a civilian population that is completely hostile to Kiev rule.
Covid-Vaxed Moms Pass IgG4 To Babies by Brian Mowrey
Among 47 Covid-vaccinated mothers delivering and sampled between February, 2021 and May, 2022, a subset score for IgG4 antibodies for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, unlike any of the naturally infected mothers. These antibodies are also present in cord blood, indicating they were transferred to the newborns, and will persist for some months after birth.
Circulating IgG4 might suppress clearance of infected cells that are displaying spike protein, and this might lead to enhanced infection and severe disease, or viral persistence; so far there is no direct evidence to inform one way or the other.
Heart Attacks Up During Pandemic by Steve Kirsch
a study showing young people are disproportionately dying from heart attacks during the pandemic.
the peak of excess deaths for those aged >45 is the initial vax rollout dates for those age groups (the second interval), but the peak of death for those <45 is the third interval (4/21-9/21) which is when the 25-45 got the bulk of their first shot.
So the excess death peaks coincide with the vax rollout schedule. Isn’t that just an amazing coincidence?
it appears that “science” has been re-defined recently and scientists who publish papers today are today only allowed to consider “politically acceptable” explanations for their observations
CIA Covid Cover-Up by Michael P. Senger
intelligence about the coronavirus began to appear in November 2019
according to the House Intelligence Committee Report, the reports from ABC and NBC in 2020—each based on independent conversations with several officials saying intelligence on the new coronavirus began to appear in November 2019—are simply false.
Instead, according to the House Intelligence Committee, “Every official interviewed by the Committee—from working level analysts at NCMI to an official with relevant knowledge at the NSC—said that their first indication of a novel virus came with the publication of the ProMED notice published at 11:59 p.m. on December 30, 2019.”
This conclusion by the House Intelligence Committee is, frankly, patently absurd.
A more banal but equally important explanation is that, like the rest of the “laptop class,” intelligence officials simply didn’t mind the response to COVID very much and enjoyed being able to work from home, where little real intelligence work was done.
The Killing Is Intentional by KATHERINE WATT
The interlocking corruption of federal emergency management, public health and drug safety laws, for the purpose of mounting a covert biochemical weapons attack by the US Government on the American people under the fraudulent characterization of weapons as "Covid-19 vaccines," was deployed fully starting Jan. 27, 2020 and continues to be fully operational at the present time, more than three years later.
The products are biochemical weapons deployed by actors within the US Government and pharmaceutical/bioweapons industry manufacturing contractors, intended to injure and kill American people as targets, and exported to other countries' governments to injure and kill their people. The killing is intentional; killing is what weapons are designed and intended to do.
Waking Up The Middle by el gato malo
i think covid may have saved us from the rest of this plan.
they may have have thought they were being clever and “moving up the timetable” but they didn’t.
it was too much, too fast, and too clearly wrong. the models and interventions were testable in real time, the effects obvious, the prices widely paid and highly visible.
outside a few small factions, this did not increase the desire for “leadership by expert” it likely undermined it for a generation. they woke up silent center and they lost them.
Spike & Chronic Stress by WALTER M CHESNUT
a doctor…gave a Sympathetic Ganglion Block to two related individuals who experienced loss of taste and smell post Delta. The treatment restored 95% of function – INSTANTANEOUSLY.
confirmation that the effects of the disease (read Spike) are genetic.
the instantaneous response I believe indicates that there is a Chronic Stress Response being induced by the Spike Protein.
We MUST determine circulating Spike in those with COVID, Long COVID, Vaccinated, Unvaccinated and the Healthy. It is absolutely critical. Also, we must determine if the Spike is retrotranscribing itself. If so, we need to find effective therapeutics. At the very least, we need to find a way to clear the Spike in those that have it circulating.
The Left’s Economic Dystopia by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
Because our government and The Federal Reserve has decided to impose this top-down, anti-market “solution” to the banking contagion *that their policies created*, these forces have expedited the path towards an increasingly centralized economic structure modeled after the World Economic Forum’s feudalistic “stakeholder capitalism” system. Similar to the U.K’s “Britcoin” Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) project, America’s coming public-private CBDC system will bring the Big Banks into the fold as partners to its technocratic monetary tyranny.
A CBDC system will grant enormous additional power to the government and their oligarch partners. It allows for this ruling class to assert easier control over the population’s spending, saving, investing, and borrowing power. The far-left Keynesian economists and monetary theorists who populate America’s “elite” institutions believe these tyrannical and restrictive policies will help bring about economic utopia. However, reality tells us that implementation of this CBDC project will not only amount to a semi-permanent financial hellscape, but will also be disastrous for prosperity in America.
Foreign-Domestic Switcheroo by Matt Taibbi
the basic rhetorical trick of the censorship age: raise a fuss about a foreign threat, using it as a battering ram to get everyone from congress to the tech companies to submit to increased regulation and surveillance. Then, slowly, adjust your aim to domestic targets.
You can see the subtlety: the original Stanford piece tries to stick to railing against “disinformation” and information from “foreign adversaries,” but the later paper circulated by Aspen slips in, ever so slightly, a new category of dubious source: “foreign or other adversarial entities.”
if you start by focusing on Russians and only later mention as an afterthought “other adversarial entities,” you can frame things however you want, from espionage to warfare. As reader O’Neill correctly pointed out, “they are now getting close to being explicit about the fact that their motivation for suppressing news is to fight domestic political adversaries.”
Vax Causes Eye Problems by JOSH GUETZKOW
A new study published in the Nature Portfolio journal NPJ Vaccines found an increased risk of retinal vascular occlusion (RVO) after receipt of COVID-19 vaccines. An occlusion is any obstruction in blood flow, which is typically caused by a blood clot or sometimes a narrowing of the the vein or artery. RVO can cause transient or permanent blindness, as well as blurry vision, eye pain and retinal migraines.
Following vaccination, there is a prolonged (12 week) increased risk of retinal vascular occlusion in all ages. In the two years, the risk of RVO is doubled, with 1 additional case for every 300 (65+) & 1000 (18-64) vaccinated.
Ending Emotional Abortion Responses by ZEPHARETH LEDBETTER
As counterintuitive as it seems, we need to remove some of the emotion from our discussions about abortion. Though it’s obviously an inherently emotional subject, such strong emotions cause us to dig our heels in and lose sight of the fact that everyone’s reality is different. Military-grade stances only ensure that multitudes of people who think differently will be convinced that everyone else is all crazy control freaks.
Pro-choice advocates are not all soulless murderers, and pro-life advocates are not all misogynist fundamentalists. That’s all propaganda used by the extremes to rally support and funding from the majority in the middle, and it only serves to inflame our emotions. It’s past time we remove those emotions from our discourse, and start to have open-minded conversations with those on the other side.
Consensus Or Capture? by RAV ARORA & JAY BHATTACHARYA
If there is a consensus, science challenges it with new hypotheses, experiments, logic, and critical thinking. Ironically, science advances because it believes it has never arrived; consensus is the hallmark of dead science.
Principles like evidence-based medicine, informed consent, and the necessity of scientific debate serve as the bedrock on which the public can have confidence that science and public health work for the benefit of the people rather than regardless of it.
Disillusioned with the "illusion" of consensus, a growing number of Americans and Canadians are distrustful of scientific consensus and are beginning to question all things.
The project of science calls for rigor, humility, and open discussion. The pandemic has revealed the stunning magnitude of the political and institutional capture of science.
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