Economic data is highly suspect as well. Massive Tech and finance layoffs happening, yet we are supposed to believe it’s the lowest unemployment ever? Eggs are $10 per dozen in some cities, yet we are supposed to believe inflation is coming down?
We had dinner with liberal friends last night. I have no family so I am loath to cut anyone out of my life at this point - but…..
They have every Covid shot that has come out, they still got Covid but proudly bragged on taking Paxstupid and then asked us if we had taken the latest ‘bi-valent (nightmare) shot’. When we said ‘no, and given we have had Covid and survived quite nicely - we aren’t taking another, not even a Flu shot’. After sputtering several statements masquerading as questions about ‘the science’ and not liking our simple refutations, we got: ‘well, then wallow in your ignorance!’.
And you as well my friends.
PS: we did not bring this topic up. They did through telling us about how a major gathering they sponsor had provided masks (occurred September 2022) and no one would wear them. They had to spend hours of volunteer time picking them up off the streets and in the venue plus - the waste of money.
You've written some important pieces, Gato, but this might be the most important one of all. This corruption of the source data by unknown and unaccountable sources cuts to the heart of every issue that confronts us.
One of the best pieces you have ever written. Thank you. I stumbled over this data "issue" more than 10 years ago when I tried to make sense of these "climate models". You are absolutey right, it has got worse ever since, and is the very root cause how the powers that be manage to present the public with whatever "reality" they whish to be "real".
I've come to the conclusion that this process is going on in literally every single field: vaccines, environment, medicine, construction, the economy, the deficit, food/nutrition, etc., etc., etc.
They control the levers of information and the broadcasting/publishing of the same.
Why would gangsters be honest about they're doing?
I heard a story this morning on the radio -- on a supposedly "conservative" station -- about coffee pods, and one of the reasons these were stated as being so excellent was because it would supposedly reduce coffee production, which would be good for "climate change".
Now, the radio yapper didn't know what the hell he was talking about. He read the "news" blurb because that's his job ... and someone wrote that crap because that was his job. The ubiquity of this garbage, however, is because a lie repeated a million times becomes completely accepted by the populace.
There is an agenda being pushed, and NO amount of evidence of fraud or error will be allowed to make a bit of difference. It's a top-down indoctrination, and no one will be allowed to change it. It's just that simple.
I saw the news from the UK yesterday, it seems they have one of the worst winters I can remember. Some scientists now say that Europe is cooling instead of heating up. HM. Climate change LOL. Does anyone remember 2 days that the climate was exactly the same? Climate is changing all the time. Thankfully!
Having the data won’t matter. We had the data, you could easily prove that the public health recommendations were based on flawed conclusions, and yet nothing changed. More data would mean that you would just waste more time showing that the conclusions were flawed. The main problem is that the conclusions are provided before the data is collected and analyzed. Somehow, the technocrats providing the conclusions need to be removed from power.
Even with the warm bias in station data, they still can't squeeze enough warming out of the surface datasets to match the 'catastrophic' global warming projections of the climate models, so they're having to dial down the global warming alarmism and switch to trying to scare people with extreme weather instead, which they attribute to global warming using 'science' which puts even the Covid fraudsters to shame. The problem is, they are coming up against 'statistically impossible' temperatures - which are most likely due to land use changes, increasing urbanisation (poorly sited stations) and physical changes in weather patterns, which their simplistic attribution analyses based on long term global warming trends fail to account for. But rather than admit that these factors are primarily responsible for the observed 'impossible' temperatures during heatwaves, they torture the data to make these impossible temperatures fit into a new distribution, thus allowing them to claim that it was 'climate change wot dunnit' every time we get an alleged 'record-breaking' heatwave.
I love this Substack. However, anytime I’ve shared it with a “narrative follower” the first comment is usually “it’s all in lowercase...how can I take this seriously?”
Empire Building in Government 101 - delay, obfuscate, classify and don't collect any data that might adversely impact your message or next year's budget.
As referenced in a post below, I don't think many people realize that an early "case" of Covid cannot be "confirmed" (per the operative definitions of a "Covid case.) Basically, per the definitions used by public health officials, it requires a positive PCR test to "confirm" a case of Covid. Well, in America the first PCR test wasn't even administered until around Jan. 17, 2020. The only way to "confirm" an early case would be to take these PCR kits back in time via a time machine and administer them to people like Mayor Michael Melham who was sick with all the Covid symptoms in November 2019. Mayor Melham (and hundreds of other Americans) later got TWO positive antibody tests - but his obvious Covid symptoms and his two antibody tests were not enough to "confirm" he had this virus/disease two months before the first "confirmed" case in America.
Officials were also using the very few available PCR tests to test only people who had recently returned from China. That is, in the first weeks of the official pandemic, they were NOT testing any Americans with Covid symptoms who had NOT been to China. This also ensured that there could be no "early" cases that originated in America.
They control the definitions of "cases" - including what was or was NOT an early case. Because of this, I argue that MILLIONS of early cases were probably "missed." This knowledge, if acknowledged, would have changed the entire Covid narrative. Certainly, 'lockdowns" to "slow" or stop the "spread" of this virus would not have been pursued as everyone would know the virus horse had already galloped across the globe.
Here's an article I wrote about how officials in Washington will still not "confirm" two almost-certain early cases (from December). It's disturbing how easy it is to control the narrative by simply writing a few definitions.
Economic data is highly suspect as well. Massive Tech and finance layoffs happening, yet we are supposed to believe it’s the lowest unemployment ever? Eggs are $10 per dozen in some cities, yet we are supposed to believe inflation is coming down?
We had dinner with liberal friends last night. I have no family so I am loath to cut anyone out of my life at this point - but…..
They have every Covid shot that has come out, they still got Covid but proudly bragged on taking Paxstupid and then asked us if we had taken the latest ‘bi-valent (nightmare) shot’. When we said ‘no, and given we have had Covid and survived quite nicely - we aren’t taking another, not even a Flu shot’. After sputtering several statements masquerading as questions about ‘the science’ and not liking our simple refutations, we got: ‘well, then wallow in your ignorance!’.
And you as well my friends.
PS: we did not bring this topic up. They did through telling us about how a major gathering they sponsor had provided masks (occurred September 2022) and no one would wear them. They had to spend hours of volunteer time picking them up off the streets and in the venue plus - the waste of money.
Ahem: there’s your sign.
You've written some important pieces, Gato, but this might be the most important one of all. This corruption of the source data by unknown and unaccountable sources cuts to the heart of every issue that confronts us.
One of the best pieces you have ever written. Thank you. I stumbled over this data "issue" more than 10 years ago when I tried to make sense of these "climate models". You are absolutey right, it has got worse ever since, and is the very root cause how the powers that be manage to present the public with whatever "reality" they whish to be "real".
AMAZING post on climate data!
97% of climate scientists funded by Bill Gates agree with Bill Gates, so "we have a climate consensus"
This is why we need to DEMAND TRANSPARENCY.
We need to DECENTRALIZE.
We also need to collaborate better.
Everyone is doing a great job of revealing the problems, but who is talking solutions? The root problem of almost everything is this:
Our Systems are Corrupted.
How do we fix that? We form think tanks of problem solvers. For example:
https://joshketry.substack.com/p/weaponized-direct-democracy-the-kryptonite
I've come to the conclusion that this process is going on in literally every single field: vaccines, environment, medicine, construction, the economy, the deficit, food/nutrition, etc., etc., etc.
They control the levers of information and the broadcasting/publishing of the same.
Why would gangsters be honest about they're doing?
The numbers are faked because it's purposeful.
I heard a story this morning on the radio -- on a supposedly "conservative" station -- about coffee pods, and one of the reasons these were stated as being so excellent was because it would supposedly reduce coffee production, which would be good for "climate change".
Now, the radio yapper didn't know what the hell he was talking about. He read the "news" blurb because that's his job ... and someone wrote that crap because that was his job. The ubiquity of this garbage, however, is because a lie repeated a million times becomes completely accepted by the populace.
There is an agenda being pushed, and NO amount of evidence of fraud or error will be allowed to make a bit of difference. It's a top-down indoctrination, and no one will be allowed to change it. It's just that simple.
How do these people sleep at night. Oh I know... it is our money, not theirs, they are spending.
I saw the news from the UK yesterday, it seems they have one of the worst winters I can remember. Some scientists now say that Europe is cooling instead of heating up. HM. Climate change LOL. Does anyone remember 2 days that the climate was exactly the same? Climate is changing all the time. Thankfully!
"beginning stereo buffs get impressed by speakers and amplifiers, by wattage and weight."
Back in the 1970's we used to obsess over a turntable's wow & flutter.
Having the data won’t matter. We had the data, you could easily prove that the public health recommendations were based on flawed conclusions, and yet nothing changed. More data would mean that you would just waste more time showing that the conclusions were flawed. The main problem is that the conclusions are provided before the data is collected and analyzed. Somehow, the technocrats providing the conclusions need to be removed from power.
Even with the warm bias in station data, they still can't squeeze enough warming out of the surface datasets to match the 'catastrophic' global warming projections of the climate models, so they're having to dial down the global warming alarmism and switch to trying to scare people with extreme weather instead, which they attribute to global warming using 'science' which puts even the Covid fraudsters to shame. The problem is, they are coming up against 'statistically impossible' temperatures - which are most likely due to land use changes, increasing urbanisation (poorly sited stations) and physical changes in weather patterns, which their simplistic attribution analyses based on long term global warming trends fail to account for. But rather than admit that these factors are primarily responsible for the observed 'impossible' temperatures during heatwaves, they torture the data to make these impossible temperatures fit into a new distribution, thus allowing them to claim that it was 'climate change wot dunnit' every time we get an alleged 'record-breaking' heatwave.
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/the-evolving-pseudoscience-of-extreme
I love this Substack. However, anytime I’ve shared it with a “narrative follower” the first comment is usually “it’s all in lowercase...how can I take this seriously?”
Empire Building in Government 101 - delay, obfuscate, classify and don't collect any data that might adversely impact your message or next year's budget.
As referenced in a post below, I don't think many people realize that an early "case" of Covid cannot be "confirmed" (per the operative definitions of a "Covid case.) Basically, per the definitions used by public health officials, it requires a positive PCR test to "confirm" a case of Covid. Well, in America the first PCR test wasn't even administered until around Jan. 17, 2020. The only way to "confirm" an early case would be to take these PCR kits back in time via a time machine and administer them to people like Mayor Michael Melham who was sick with all the Covid symptoms in November 2019. Mayor Melham (and hundreds of other Americans) later got TWO positive antibody tests - but his obvious Covid symptoms and his two antibody tests were not enough to "confirm" he had this virus/disease two months before the first "confirmed" case in America.
Officials were also using the very few available PCR tests to test only people who had recently returned from China. That is, in the first weeks of the official pandemic, they were NOT testing any Americans with Covid symptoms who had NOT been to China. This also ensured that there could be no "early" cases that originated in America.
They control the definitions of "cases" - including what was or was NOT an early case. Because of this, I argue that MILLIONS of early cases were probably "missed." This knowledge, if acknowledged, would have changed the entire Covid narrative. Certainly, 'lockdowns" to "slow" or stop the "spread" of this virus would not have been pursued as everyone would know the virus horse had already galloped across the globe.
Here's an article I wrote about how officials in Washington will still not "confirm" two almost-certain early cases (from December). It's disturbing how easy it is to control the narrative by simply writing a few definitions.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/can-a-case-of-early-spread-even-be