Can you Critique Dr. Fauci without Criticizing “Science”?

Conflict of Interest

The Public Health leadership may be well-meaning, but they sometimes conflate criticism of their leadership with criticism of “Science.”

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci said: Attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science , and
  • Dr. Peter Hotez escalated this type of rhetoric, describing what he calls: anti-science aggression,

Thesis:

  • This post doesn’t criticize the science of vaccines, rather it argues that people have legitimate suspicions that American Public Health Leadership have made significant mistakes and covered them up.
  • Rather than these cover-ups serving to protect the institution of “Science,” public health leadership has protected themselves, while perpetuating the very distrust of Science and frontline medical personnel their invocation of “authority” was seeking to dispel.

The Twitter Files showed that Establishment prefers to suppress opposition via censorship. This has resulted in Liberals and “the educated” being the people slowest to learn of contrary information, as it takes time for the information to surface in establishment media, if it ever does at all.1 
I compiled this list for those who are unaware of the legitimate critiques of the American public health leadership relating to Covid-19, with the hope that sunlight is the best disinfectant. [Read more…]


  1. Establishment media is very quick to cover anything related to Trump (whether justifiied or not), but there seems to be a concern that holding the establishment accountable is unimportant, or even that it might help Trump.  In the long term, the unaccountability of the establishment creates the tinder that demagogues burn.

How to Download YouTube Videos using Python

Every once in a while I see a YouTube video that I fear is significant enough that it may be censored or deleted at a future date.

Such is the case with my recent post about Jeffrey Sach’s interview with Bloomberg :

Interview Bloomberg “Surveillance” : Jeffery Sachs:  10/03/202

Interview Starts @ 1:51:21  | Read original blog post.

 

INSTRUCTIONS:

1) IF NO TECHNICAL SKILLS:

  • If you don’t have the technical skills, YouTube’s Premium subscription gives you access to do this.

 

2) IF SOME PYTHON TECH SKILLS:

  • But if you have a little programming savvy, you can use a program that I’ve used to do my CiteIt transcripts.
  • In this example we are assuming you have Python and pip installed. (pip is included in Python 3.4+)

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Tributes to Glen Campbell: musician and guitar virtuoso, who performed publicly with Alzheimers

Yesterday, I found some really positive comments online about Glen Campbell and and saw a sad and inspiring movie about him:

 

1) Public Alzheimer’s diagnosis:

 

2) Talented Musician, admired by famous guitarists

One Quora poster said that Country music has a reputation for being “overly simplistic,” (as compared to rock) but commenters overwhelmingly replied that some of the most famous rock guitarists have been big fans of Campbell’s.

 

Here are examples of his guitar playing, including a performance in his later years.

3) Watch Documentary:

Which is more important: the bond market (inflation) or reshoring industry?

Luke Groman outlines 2 factions within the US government:

  1. Whatever is good for the bond market should be US Policy:
    • We need to fight inflation.  This is the Larry Summers view that we need high unemployment to fight inflation even if this means a deep recession/recession
  2. We need to reshore, even if this leads to high inflation.
    • A faction within the Pentagon realized the the current dollar-based system requires us to outsource our manufacturing because a strong dollar makes US exports uncompetitive.
    • This outsourcing of manufacturing weakens the military supply-chain and has prompted the military to publish on this subject in 2010 and 2018.
    • The decision to sanction Russia may have been intentionally designed to precipitate a shift away from the dollar’s status as global reserve asset (but not US dollar as global reserve currency)

 
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