“Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry”, wrote Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, in March 2004 [1]. In the same year, Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, lambasted the industry for becoming “primarily a marketing machine” and co-opting “every institution that might stand in its way” —https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020138
You could hook the revolving door between the CDC/FDA and the corporations they govern up to a turbine and light up the Vegas strip...
I used to work in regulated medical devices. Spent about 17 years including stints in design and development and system validation. I took a buy-out from Kodak/Johnson & Johnson in 1996. Even BACK THEN, I thought there was too much of a revolving door between FDA regulators and industry leaders. Suffice it to say it has only gotten worse. Or better, depending upon your point of view. I had a close colleague back then, who actually worked in regulatory affairs, who thought the revolving door was a good thing, particularly for business. Apparently, she was correct!
Regulatory Affairs, particularly for a Fortune 500 company, is an object lesson in where government bureaucracy inevitably leads. The regulatory set-up that the FDA creates means that a company simply CANNOT get a new assay to market without a dedicated regulatory affairs staff. There is just too much paperwork. This effectively raises a barrier to entry for small firms who might innovate, and makes big companies, the ones who can afford both a department and to grease government functionaries, the ONLY ones who can offer new products. Nice racket!
Yes. They love us all equally. They replicate like mushrooms on a moist dark patch.
"Bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair mindedness, impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity."
Ryan alludes to "bureaucrat requires consulting five other bureaucrats" is really the meat of this issue: There's no Engineer or Accountant or PM so they discount all evidence but that which seems most sensible to them, Those Who Do Not Produce.
It gets to the point where you presume people know, but I guess they don't (yet). One of the best evidence-based medicine sites I know of is earthclinic.com
If a disease isn't on there it's probably had a name change (eg.'muscular rheumatism' was changed to fibromyalgia, and 'hysteria' was changed to depression).
Yuri, Ackman is no hero and Gay wasn’t fired , not really. The only thing that can bring down institutions like Harvard and these “respected” journals is collective shame and dishonor from the people. IOW: Stop feeding them....money. Same with our government. Tax revolt, cut off the food, and that will bring them to their knees. Everything else we do including electing Trump, is just window dressing...rearrangement of deck chairs on the Titanic.
Until that happens...they will continue to do business as usual.
If BigThey can get CBDC to be _THE_ Thing, it's pretty much "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever" Time.
“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
What i want to know, is who Gato is working for. Based on the subjects he is willing to speak on, i'd imagine its wall st or some sort of "rightwing" organization. Perhaps a think tank
Señor Gato defies Spectral Analysis, to my mind. But if by 'right-wing' you mean Opines Within the Bounds of Fiscal Sanity, them sure. Right wing.*shrug*
I once thought he might be Hernando de Soto but it feels like he's much younger. He sure seems economist-y, though. He's good with stats but easily meshes _vox populi_ into his conclusions.
And he refers to The Boss Guy at Brownstone casually as "Jeffrey."
Meh, his creds don't matter. He's good at distilling ideas down to some simple conclusions, and presents them brilliantly.
He's good at pointing out common sense to the choir, is what i've gathered over the past few years. He believes in push back on "social" issues but doesn't address the same make believe bullshit with regards to economics (0% rates, QE). He's like substacks version of rush limbaugh or glenn beck.
So you think dismantling the government but leaving mega corporations in place would be a good thing? How are they different? I'm under the belief that they arent. Also i don't think you could dismantle one and keep the other. One goes, they both go.
See how you can get your boot soles stamped with your likeness at my Etsy Store for 19.99 plus shipping. We will ship you a box to put your boots in. Or you can buy from array of available boots, all in drab gray and in one size because that's the way Big Brother does it.
Good point, House, but I would count that as just a variation on a theme. Or is that 100% inflation we are all experiencing right now just a mirage?? (gov says it’s only 10% as long as you don’t count things people actually buy)
Doesn't Harvard have a $50. Billion Endowment? And Biden thinks taxpayers should forgive student loans! Administrators live like kings and build out campuses like their own fiefdom.
Yes. I have read between $40-50-Billion. And it may also interest you to know that Harvard has invested quite a bit of their endowment money buying farmland in California where I live. Not for the crops or the value of owning productive farmland, mind you; but for the water rights of that land as spelled out in the laws out here.
The answer is easy, stop funding them. Make the Universities gamble with their own money and this all ends overnight.
Biden already took money paid as taxes by middle class taxpayers that would never consider going into debt to buy useless degrees from the Education Industrial Complex, and just used it to pay rich kids' debt off who blew it inflating the salaries of low IQ incompetent administrators like Claudine Gay.
Like I said earlier, the way to defeat them is the same as dealing with internet trolls...stop feeding them. (Easier said than done, I am aware. Think of what our nation's founders had to give up to give us this nation. It requires principled commitment and integrity. Two things that are in short supply these days. But not in shorter supply than it was 250 years ago, I assure you)
"The answer is easy, stop funding them. Make <insert name of any group that gets government funding> gamble with their own money and this all ends overnight."
I say stop funding _everyone_.
No $ for BigSolar, none for BigOil.
Nuthin' for Single Moms, bupkis for BigFaith orgs.
BigBiz? Bzzzzt! Hot Dog Carts in the Street? Nope.
It's infuriating, no? What steps do you take to stop feeding them? I'll gladly start taking them! I don't have control over what Biden does with my tax money.
Well said. I think the devotion to Trump of so many is a substitute for direct political action. It would be so convenient if a simple act of voting could fix all that is wrong with the existing system and we could just go about our lives but that is childish belief akin to the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus.
They probably wrote a paper, called it a study and referred to it as a study in their next paper. It's probably not a double blind, peer reviewed study at all.
The CEO of Dana Farber is Laurie Glimcher. She was married to Hugh Auchincloss who replaced Anthony Fauci as head of NIAID. Their son is Jake Auchincloss represents the 4th district of Mass in US House of Reps. You think this all stinks to high heavens?
😂🤣 Ryan, you hit my funny bone! Isn't this what we learned in kindergarten? Your comment had me picturing these Harvard folks trying to do a 5 year old's craft project and failing miserably! Why would we pay attention to anything they have to say?
Our current ruling class are the kids who got caught cheating in high-school because they wrote the name of the person they were cheating from in the space they were supposed to put their name.
And what you're seeing now is what it looks like when the classroom has nobody left they can cheat from.
Ay-yi-yi! What a mess! I think what we are seeing at the university level has filtered out to the rest of society. It is one thing for academia to peddle their nonsense to each other - most of us going about our daily lives couldn't care less what these overpaid, self-important, so-called intellectuals think or talk about in their faculty lounges. However, they influence the thinking of the people who become politicians, lawyers, doctors, etc., who in turn create policies/laws/regulations that effect just about every aspect of our lives. The appeal to authority, when that authority has no legitimate basis to stand on, becomes just another form of tyranny.
True, he has his critics. At the minimum 75% of those who have ever written a research paper. Furthermore it’s been statistically proven that 68.3% of statistics are pulled out of thin air. 😉Or as I like to say, if you torture the data long enough it will confess to anything.
I have an immune system issue for which I occasionally need help from a rheumatologist, a surgeon, and a PCP. The PCP gives me the most headaches, almost literally. His method is to prescribe meds and thus create more (but different! yay?) problems. Most often I fill the Rx, read the insert, and throw the pills away. I'm fortunate in that I have "good" insurance and my out-of-pocket is affordable ($3,000). Last year due to age I was forced onto Medicare (still have secondary insurance), so now I'm figuring out how to weave through a new set of rules.
i had a plethora of health issues about 8 years a go.
i started reading about healthy eating and it led me down a path of health, i went from 6 meds a day to zero in 3 months
arthritis, asthma, diabetes, psoriasis, bad back, bad guts.
the full works restored firstly by going Keto, then i started to dig deeper and now a full carnivore and look and feel 10 years younger than i did 10 years ago
think about doctors and what they do:
do they treat the underlying cause or give you a drug for a symptom and another drug for another symptom?
they are trained from day one by pharma unfortunately
I was poisoned with e coli in 2008, which continues to cause problems. I take some supplements, watch my weight (21.5 BMI), exercise every day (I recommend getting an active dog and a small swimming pool), eat square meals, avoid alcohol and excess sugars (except between Thanksgiving and New Year's, don't want to go overboard).
Sorry to hear that. You might want to look onto the Carnivore diet. So many people with autoimmune diseases have seen great improvement and even complete remission. I will be celebrating my one year anniversary as a carnivore this Sunday. It has eliminated my Meniere’s disease, cut my thyroid antibodies from Hashimoto’s in half (and allowed me to reduce my dose of thyroid replacement in half), ended my sleep Apnea so I no longer sleep with a CPAP, and improved my arthritis, reducing the swelling and stiffness in my finger joints, and greatly improved the quality of my sleep.
Thanks for the input. I've done some reading about the carnivore diet. As an aside, my husband & I bought a smoker last fall and I'm the primary cook. I'm having fun and am getting much better results than at first.
I'm in the Suburbs of Baltimore, Jewel of the Patpsco, home of the esteemed Johns Hopkins Hospital. They've just enacted mask mandates for everyone at all medical facilities.
Johns F#@&ing Hopkins. Home of The Science™.
My PCP's in the GMBC network and they haven't announced yet but it's surely coming.
The concern which you Suzie - may I call you Suzie Crabtree? - rightly identify is that, if our doctors are all the sudden wearing Scrubs and Masks when they used to just wear Regular People Outfits, When They're Lying, and They Know That They're Lying, and We Know That They're Lying, and They Know That We Know That They're Lying And We Know It...
Then how can we really trust them with _any_ other advice they proffer, whether diet and exercise or The Vaxx.
I feel the same way about City Cops in Green Fatigues. You're not in foliage in Nam, dude. If you want to blend in, dress like a Check Cashing Liquor Store or a Dollar General. Dress for the job you have, not the job you wish you had. We're not paying you for that.
Masking has been demonstrated to be thoroughly useless for preventing the wearer from contracting or transmitting aerosolized viruses. Worse, they've been destructive.
Young children who didn't see smile on stranger's faces, who have had their speech stunted by not seeing mouths.
Or for any of us - we stopped seeing faces. We're driven by faces. Dogs, not coincidentally, are Master Hooman Face Readers. We walked past one another, no eye contact, no shared humanity.
How many first kisses were thwarted, even when the signals are correctly interpreted, because there's [edit - durned homophones...] a cheap piece for cloth smashing all manner of mouth and nose gunk against one's lips.
I used to work in the Defense Industry in Chem-Bio Defense, literally supported the Aerosol Sciences Team.
I make no claim of Authoritative Expertise, but I knew enough to know that, while long virus chains clinging to aerosolized water vapor particles are bigger than chemical agent particles, which also glom, I was pretty confident that, if even KN95 masks would prevent the transmission of bio agents, no one would have gotten $KaBillion to make carbon-based (not HEPA/particulate) filter JSPGM masks, that are verified to fit a face and properly seal by virtue of what had been the M40 Mask Tester.
TL;DR - I was skeptical. I won't flood this comment with links but suffice to say that, the holes in mask fabric, even N95s, is _much_ larger than the particles.
NOTE that, if the infected aerosol particles were sufficiently large that they could be captured by the mask weave, then Gravity rears its Ugly head and the particles too large to stay airborne for long. They're [edit - dag, another homophobe] not 'aerosolized,' which completely obviates the mask in the first place.
Side anecdote: When the CA wildfires were raging in the summer of (I think) 2021, Masking was all the rage.
I was in the care listening to a Dr. Fauci interview on the radio and the host noted, "Well, it's a good thing we're wearing masks so much with all the smoke in the air." to which Fauci quickly replied, "Oh, no - smoke particles are much too small to be caught by masks!"
You know what kind of particles are even smaller than smoke particles? Freaking aerosolized virus particles!
You may call me Sue C ;) Yeah, Johns Hopkins threw their prestige away in 2021 by letting an employee post accurate info about the shots, then quickly remove the info from public view because it was apparently accurate. This is sometimes known as lying by omission.
There's another JH Doctor who was on the local morning radio show a couple weeks ago, even as the hosts asked "What about the Hospital's Mask Policy?" and, he would have won the Rory for The Most Proper Fisking of One's Own Employer on Radio While Somehow Confident to Avoid Impunity.
It makes it hard to know who's really in right, who's in charge, who's credible. It's hard to know whether to spend, save, invest, or go a-pillaging.
Back in the 90’s my grandfather was sent to John’s Hopkins for his spreading colon cancer. They gave him paid meds and told him to ‘take them, you’ll need them.’ In usual fashion my grandfather called my mom and told him to come pick him up, he wasn’t spending another day in there with those quacks. He went home consulted an expert on Chinese medicine, 3 months later his cancer was completely gone and never returned. He lived another 30yrs. How a man who had a 9th grade education, had such good instincts is puzzling. He also never used a paper map when he traveled, he was a walking Google map.
When I see that medline link, I no longer assume there is any real supporting evidence in it; I assume there is a foregone conclusion and a tortured justification. The RCT feels like a smokescreen.
Back when I was on the debate team, we had actual debates. There were real resolutions, and you had to do your own research.
I remember a brilliant classmate names Barsky. He had green hair before it was cool, and he had that incisive, gimlet eye for the weak spot. Once, when his opponent referenced, for the third time, the conclusions of a single paper justifying her position, he said,
“Do you anything to offer other than the rhetoric of Rhonda B Hartman?”
The debate ended in that moment. I’ve never forgotten.
This is an old story where scientific fraud is concerned; Pasteur was falsifying the results of his lab experiments and plagiarizing almost everything else and then presenting the "data" to medical academies; this was in the 1800s and historical records show that the fraud was well known at the time and yet the world reveres the name Pasteur to this day in memory of one of the greatest charlatans that medical science ever produced; of course now we have Fauci and his ilk who have outdone Pasteur many times over!
The history of medical research reveals countless examples of fraud where lies and deception were used to promote false narratives; the history of inoculations and vaccine development from its inception reveal that fake science and propaganda were widespread in promoting special interests which were more interested in accumulating money and power than promoting human health.
RA Millikan won the Nobel in Physics with data that was most certainly not presented as faithfully as it was collected. The upside for him, and us, is that it has since been reproduced repeatedly and is well accepted.
Being right shouldn't make it okay to omit or distort data to conform to one's preconceived expectations. But, again, his hypothesis meshed with reality, which is the ultimate test in Science. And there's actually some dispute amongst The Philosophers of Science as to whether what Millikan is really *in Whoopi voice* Fraud Fraud.
Most fraudulent hypotheses do not mesh with reality and the ultimate test in science should be the truth, although sometimes we may have to wait a long time for it to come out; Pasteur admitted (on his death bed and far too late) that his germ theory was wrong but still wound up being a major founder of the allopathic model of medicine , not to mention the fraudulent basis of all vaccine development.
"not to mention the fraudulent basis of all vaccine development"
Well, then that would be bad.
In Millikan's defense, his "discovery" is integral to the engineering of products such as photovoltaics and solid state amplifiers so it beats Lysenkoism, I guess.
When Dr. John Ioannidis published his 2005 paper, Why Most Published Research Findings Are False, he was not criticized because most scientists knew it to be true. In fact, NIH went on to issue an extensive report a couple years later in which policies were suggested to improve that horrible situation. I dumped all my Big Pharma investments when leaving it in 2005, because the industry was corrupt and unethical. Academic has the same perverse money incentives that caused the problems documented in 2005- expecting a reversal from Big Science is as unlikely as Diane Keaton expecting the Corleone family to go legit.
“Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry”, wrote Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, in March 2004 [1]. In the same year, Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, lambasted the industry for becoming “primarily a marketing machine” and co-opting “every institution that might stand in its way” —https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020138
You could hook the revolving door between the CDC/FDA and the corporations they govern up to a turbine and light up the Vegas strip...
"Journals have devolved into..."
Echo Chambers
Narrative enforcers. Peer review is basically a way by editors to enforce their desired views with a veneer of respectability.
3700 studies on vaccine hesitancy.
t.co/AeadUbId3e
There should be a new set of cartoons on Saturday morning...instead of Conjunction Junction we have "Consensus Census"
I really like that.
"Hooking up words and phrases and clauses."
Only in this case it would be generating notions, and narratives, mantras, and morass.
*nods* Rgr tht
I used to work in regulated medical devices. Spent about 17 years including stints in design and development and system validation. I took a buy-out from Kodak/Johnson & Johnson in 1996. Even BACK THEN, I thought there was too much of a revolving door between FDA regulators and industry leaders. Suffice it to say it has only gotten worse. Or better, depending upon your point of view. I had a close colleague back then, who actually worked in regulatory affairs, who thought the revolving door was a good thing, particularly for business. Apparently, she was correct!
Of course she thought it was a good thing.
It's like in business;
Always assume a bureaucrat requires consulting five other bureaucrats to figure out what you can provide them to tell you they need something.
They spawn like locust
Regulatory Affairs, particularly for a Fortune 500 company, is an object lesson in where government bureaucracy inevitably leads. The regulatory set-up that the FDA creates means that a company simply CANNOT get a new assay to market without a dedicated regulatory affairs staff. There is just too much paperwork. This effectively raises a barrier to entry for small firms who might innovate, and makes big companies, the ones who can afford both a department and to grease government functionaries, the ONLY ones who can offer new products. Nice racket!
"But hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat disregarded…"
~ Doug Casey
So true!
Yes. They love us all equally. They replicate like mushrooms on a moist dark patch.
"Bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair mindedness, impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity."
- Theodore Dalrymple
"The rules say _triplicate_."
I'm afraid your papers are not in order.
Go to stall 174B. There are other "customers" ahead of you.
Your wait time for servicing is approximately 92 minutes. Please have your SSN tramp stamp clearly visible.
Like some sort of bureaucrat's vision of Hell.
Ryan alludes to "bureaucrat requires consulting five other bureaucrats" is really the meat of this issue: There's no Engineer or Accountant or PM so they discount all evidence but that which seems most sensible to them, Those Who Do Not Produce.
https://drjasonfung.medium.com/the-corruption-of-evidence-based-medicine-killing-for-profit-41f2812b8704
article is 5 years old, my doctor said it was all true.
It gets to the point where you presume people know, but I guess they don't (yet). One of the best evidence-based medicine sites I know of is earthclinic.com
If a disease isn't on there it's probably had a name change (eg.'muscular rheumatism' was changed to fibromyalgia, and 'hysteria' was changed to depression).
Earthclinic looks like a great site. Thank you!
It's brilliant, saved me so much worry, money and stress. No doctors in over 15 years thanks to Deirdre Lane (founder).
It feels like we could at least have just been a little more skeptical all along.
Lol, thanks for the meme idea!
https://patrick.net/post/1225772/2013-06-13-revolving-door-summary?start=1#comment-2028828
Perfection!!!!
Inductance FTW!
Haha, that's awesome patrick! =)
"You could hook the revolving door between the CDC/FDA and the corporations they govern up to a turbine and light up the Vegas strip..."
What a great source of GREEN energy - LOL!
Haha, nice. Change the last letter of GREEN to a 'D' and you've got it!
Turtles all the way down. No one has been fired, not even Gay who still has a $900K/year salary. Will Ackman and AI bring the academia farce down?
Yuri, Ackman is no hero and Gay wasn’t fired , not really. The only thing that can bring down institutions like Harvard and these “respected” journals is collective shame and dishonor from the people. IOW: Stop feeding them....money. Same with our government. Tax revolt, cut off the food, and that will bring them to their knees. Everything else we do including electing Trump, is just window dressing...rearrangement of deck chairs on the Titanic.
Until that happens...they will continue to do business as usual.
Incorrect, nothing will change until those who rule us lose the ability to print money at will. Things will only get worse until that moment.
If BigThey can get CBDC to be _THE_ Thing, it's pretty much "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever" Time.
- George Orwell, 1984
--
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/139439-there-will-be-no-curiosity-no-enjoyment-of-the-process
“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
What i want to know, is who Gato is working for. Based on the subjects he is willing to speak on, i'd imagine its wall st or some sort of "rightwing" organization. Perhaps a think tank
Gato works for the "other" WEF:
Worldly Eternal Felines.
Señor Gato defies Spectral Analysis, to my mind. But if by 'right-wing' you mean Opines Within the Bounds of Fiscal Sanity, them sure. Right wing.*shrug*
I once thought he might be Hernando de Soto but it feels like he's much younger. He sure seems economist-y, though. He's good with stats but easily meshes _vox populi_ into his conclusions.
And he refers to The Boss Guy at Brownstone casually as "Jeffrey."
Meh, his creds don't matter. He's good at distilling ideas down to some simple conclusions, and presents them brilliantly.
He's good at pointing out common sense to the choir, is what i've gathered over the past few years. He believes in push back on "social" issues but doesn't address the same make believe bullshit with regards to economics (0% rates, QE). He's like substacks version of rush limbaugh or glenn beck.
I think he is independent and leans towards peaceful noncompliance leading to dismantling of government, but I could be wrong.
So you think dismantling the government but leaving mega corporations in place would be a good thing? How are they different? I'm under the belief that they arent. Also i don't think you could dismantle one and keep the other. One goes, they both go.
We made a saint out of the wrong "George".
See how you can get your boot soles stamped with your likeness at my Etsy Store for 19.99 plus shipping. We will ship you a box to put your boots in. Or you can buy from array of available boots, all in drab gray and in one size because that's the way Big Brother does it.
Cool.
So, like, Crocs. Or NASCAR.
Oh no, the 1984 stype boot stamp only comes in one size which is the average for the worldwide population and only in glorious gunmetal gray!
Good point, House, but I would count that as just a variation on a theme. Or is that 100% inflation we are all experiencing right now just a mirage?? (gov says it’s only 10% as long as you don’t count things people actually buy)
Doesn't Harvard have a $50. Billion Endowment? And Biden thinks taxpayers should forgive student loans! Administrators live like kings and build out campuses like their own fiefdom.
Yes. I have read between $40-50-Billion. And it may also interest you to know that Harvard has invested quite a bit of their endowment money buying farmland in California where I live. Not for the crops or the value of owning productive farmland, mind you; but for the water rights of that land as spelled out in the laws out here.
The answer is easy, stop funding them. Make the Universities gamble with their own money and this all ends overnight.
Biden already took money paid as taxes by middle class taxpayers that would never consider going into debt to buy useless degrees from the Education Industrial Complex, and just used it to pay rich kids' debt off who blew it inflating the salaries of low IQ incompetent administrators like Claudine Gay.
Like I said earlier, the way to defeat them is the same as dealing with internet trolls...stop feeding them. (Easier said than done, I am aware. Think of what our nation's founders had to give up to give us this nation. It requires principled commitment and integrity. Two things that are in short supply these days. But not in shorter supply than it was 250 years ago, I assure you)
"The answer is easy, stop funding them. Make <insert name of any group that gets government funding> gamble with their own money and this all ends overnight."
I say stop funding _everyone_.
No $ for BigSolar, none for BigOil.
Nuthin' for Single Moms, bupkis for BigFaith orgs.
BigBiz? Bzzzzt! Hot Dog Carts in the Street? Nope.
And THAT is how all this ends.
It's infuriating, no? What steps do you take to stop feeding them? I'll gladly start taking them! I don't have control over what Biden does with my tax money.
Well said. I think the devotion to Trump of so many is a substitute for direct political action. It would be so convenient if a simple act of voting could fix all that is wrong with the existing system and we could just go about our lives but that is childish belief akin to the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus.
But don't we all like our choice between New Government™ and Government Lite™?
The Science™
Brought to you by the same people who brought you The Food Pyramid.
And Statins.
And Social Distancing.
Respond accordingly.
“The Wall Street Journal noted that Rollins the ***integrity*** officer, is also a co-author on two of the studies.“
These people. I swear to you there is no accounting for some people.
😂😅😅
Agreed. Remember Fauci's wife was at NIH ensuring ethical behavior: Christine Grady Chief of Bioethics. Nothing to see here.
Can you imagine the pillow talk??
I would rather not!:)🤣
They probably wrote a paper, called it a study and referred to it as a study in their next paper. It's probably not a double blind, peer reviewed study at all.
It happens.
Excellent. I've written all sorts of papers and shall henceforth cite them as evidence of cogency in all future arguments.
*opens folder named 'Maifestos'*
I mean, that's how this works - right?
You're a quick study!
😁
Now, you a bad cat!
The CEO of Dana Farber is Laurie Glimcher. She was married to Hugh Auchincloss who replaced Anthony Fauci as head of NIAID. Their son is Jake Auchincloss represents the 4th district of Mass in US House of Reps. You think this all stinks to high heavens?
37
i bet if we went through them it would be at least 80% of them all
Yeah Ray, its a real copy-past caper.
And to think they would've never got caught if they hadn't left their fingerprints in Elmer's glue and learned how to cut inside the lines!
😂🤣 Ryan, you hit my funny bone! Isn't this what we learned in kindergarten? Your comment had me picturing these Harvard folks trying to do a 5 year old's craft project and failing miserably! Why would we pay attention to anything they have to say?
Mrs. "the Knife"
I know it's just crazy!
Our current ruling class are the kids who got caught cheating in high-school because they wrote the name of the person they were cheating from in the space they were supposed to put their name.
And what you're seeing now is what it looks like when the classroom has nobody left they can cheat from.
Ay-yi-yi! What a mess! I think what we are seeing at the university level has filtered out to the rest of society. It is one thing for academia to peddle their nonsense to each other - most of us going about our daily lives couldn't care less what these overpaid, self-important, so-called intellectuals think or talk about in their faculty lounges. However, they influence the thinking of the people who become politicians, lawyers, doctors, etc., who in turn create policies/laws/regulations that effect just about every aspect of our lives. The appeal to authority, when that authority has no legitimate basis to stand on, becomes just another form of tyranny.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Well said. 100% agree
That's what came to my mind...37 is only the number of those that were caught.
Bunch of Own Fart Sniffers.
My partner in life was the funeral director/ coroner.id ask about what someone died of and most often his reply would be too many doctors.
Just had a confab with the cats - they decided it is time to start over..
the cats are wise
So say we all!
Not a problem! All future papers will be written by ChatGPT.
Mattias Desmet, who has studied fraud in academia, says something like 75% of research papers are flat out wrong. This may be intentional, or just shoddy research, but the fact remains. This is one of the all-time great interviews in case anybody missed it. He mentions his research in it. https://open.substack.com/pub/mattiasdesmet/p/my-interview-with-tucker-carlson?r=5xhjb&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Therefore medical "practice" and pharmakeia sorcery!!!😬 Result: Chaos Majick!!!
Yeah, including his own research!
True, he has his critics. At the minimum 75% of those who have ever written a research paper. Furthermore it’s been statistically proven that 68.3% of statistics are pulled out of thin air. 😉Or as I like to say, if you torture the data long enough it will confess to anything.
😃Good one!
This news isn't helping me make decisions about my health care... beyond refusing to take medications that have unknown consequences.
one easy decision, avoid doctors unless its a trauma
I have an immune system issue for which I occasionally need help from a rheumatologist, a surgeon, and a PCP. The PCP gives me the most headaches, almost literally. His method is to prescribe meds and thus create more (but different! yay?) problems. Most often I fill the Rx, read the insert, and throw the pills away. I'm fortunate in that I have "good" insurance and my out-of-pocket is affordable ($3,000). Last year due to age I was forced onto Medicare (still have secondary insurance), so now I'm figuring out how to weave through a new set of rules.
i had a plethora of health issues about 8 years a go.
i started reading about healthy eating and it led me down a path of health, i went from 6 meds a day to zero in 3 months
arthritis, asthma, diabetes, psoriasis, bad back, bad guts.
the full works restored firstly by going Keto, then i started to dig deeper and now a full carnivore and look and feel 10 years younger than i did 10 years ago
think about doctors and what they do:
do they treat the underlying cause or give you a drug for a symptom and another drug for another symptom?
they are trained from day one by pharma unfortunately
Have any of these doctors suggested an elimination diet to heal your immune system?
Of course not. LOL
I was poisoned with e coli in 2008, which continues to cause problems. I take some supplements, watch my weight (21.5 BMI), exercise every day (I recommend getting an active dog and a small swimming pool), eat square meals, avoid alcohol and excess sugars (except between Thanksgiving and New Year's, don't want to go overboard).
Sorry to hear that. You might want to look onto the Carnivore diet. So many people with autoimmune diseases have seen great improvement and even complete remission. I will be celebrating my one year anniversary as a carnivore this Sunday. It has eliminated my Meniere’s disease, cut my thyroid antibodies from Hashimoto’s in half (and allowed me to reduce my dose of thyroid replacement in half), ended my sleep Apnea so I no longer sleep with a CPAP, and improved my arthritis, reducing the swelling and stiffness in my finger joints, and greatly improved the quality of my sleep.
Thanks for the input. I've done some reading about the carnivore diet. As an aside, my husband & I bought a smoker last fall and I'm the primary cook. I'm having fun and am getting much better results than at first.
I feel the same way.
I'm in the Suburbs of Baltimore, Jewel of the Patpsco, home of the esteemed Johns Hopkins Hospital. They've just enacted mask mandates for everyone at all medical facilities.
Johns F#@&ing Hopkins. Home of The Science™.
My PCP's in the GMBC network and they haven't announced yet but it's surely coming.
The concern which you Suzie - may I call you Suzie Crabtree? - rightly identify is that, if our doctors are all the sudden wearing Scrubs and Masks when they used to just wear Regular People Outfits, When They're Lying, and They Know That They're Lying, and We Know That They're Lying, and They Know That We Know That They're Lying And We Know It...
Then how can we really trust them with _any_ other advice they proffer, whether diet and exercise or The Vaxx.
I feel the same way about City Cops in Green Fatigues. You're not in foliage in Nam, dude. If you want to blend in, dress like a Check Cashing Liquor Store or a Dollar General. Dress for the job you have, not the job you wish you had. We're not paying you for that.
They wear masks so you CAN'T lip-read the lies their mouthing off!!! 😬
Masking has been demonstrated to be thoroughly useless for preventing the wearer from contracting or transmitting aerosolized viruses. Worse, they've been destructive.
Young children who didn't see smile on stranger's faces, who have had their speech stunted by not seeing mouths.
Or for any of us - we stopped seeing faces. We're driven by faces. Dogs, not coincidentally, are Master Hooman Face Readers. We walked past one another, no eye contact, no shared humanity.
How many first kisses were thwarted, even when the signals are correctly interpreted, because there's [edit - durned homophones...] a cheap piece for cloth smashing all manner of mouth and nose gunk against one's lips.
Masking is One Foot in the Grave. Or something.
This was all so obvious.
They just couldn't help themselves. They had been waiting their whole lives to play "video games" with our health and wellbeing
I used to work in the Defense Industry in Chem-Bio Defense, literally supported the Aerosol Sciences Team.
I make no claim of Authoritative Expertise, but I knew enough to know that, while long virus chains clinging to aerosolized water vapor particles are bigger than chemical agent particles, which also glom, I was pretty confident that, if even KN95 masks would prevent the transmission of bio agents, no one would have gotten $KaBillion to make carbon-based (not HEPA/particulate) filter JSPGM masks, that are verified to fit a face and properly seal by virtue of what had been the M40 Mask Tester.
TL;DR - I was skeptical. I won't flood this comment with links but suffice to say that, the holes in mask fabric, even N95s, is _much_ larger than the particles.
NOTE that, if the infected aerosol particles were sufficiently large that they could be captured by the mask weave, then Gravity rears its Ugly head and the particles too large to stay airborne for long. They're [edit - dag, another homophobe] not 'aerosolized,' which completely obviates the mask in the first place.
Side anecdote: When the CA wildfires were raging in the summer of (I think) 2021, Masking was all the rage.
I was in the care listening to a Dr. Fauci interview on the radio and the host noted, "Well, it's a good thing we're wearing masks so much with all the smoke in the air." to which Fauci quickly replied, "Oh, no - smoke particles are much too small to be caught by masks!"
You know what kind of particles are even smaller than smoke particles? Freaking aerosolized virus particles!
Even if they had efficacy they would they would have to be worn at all times by everyone.
You may call me Sue C ;) Yeah, Johns Hopkins threw their prestige away in 2021 by letting an employee post accurate info about the shots, then quickly remove the info from public view because it was apparently accurate. This is sometimes known as lying by omission.
They threw it out when they accepted funding from Gates foundation.
Sue it is! :)
Yeah, I'm familiar with that leak.
There's another JH Doctor who was on the local morning radio show a couple weeks ago, even as the hosts asked "What about the Hospital's Mask Policy?" and, he would have won the Rory for The Most Proper Fisking of One's Own Employer on Radio While Somehow Confident to Avoid Impunity.
It makes it hard to know who's really in right, who's in charge, who's credible. It's hard to know whether to spend, save, invest, or go a-pillaging.
This is not accidental.
<channel=Thomas Dolby>"SCIENCE!"</channel>
"She's tidied up and I can't FIND anything!"
*fist bump*
*high five*
Back in the 90’s my grandfather was sent to John’s Hopkins for his spreading colon cancer. They gave him paid meds and told him to ‘take them, you’ll need them.’ In usual fashion my grandfather called my mom and told him to come pick him up, he wasn’t spending another day in there with those quacks. He went home consulted an expert on Chinese medicine, 3 months later his cancer was completely gone and never returned. He lived another 30yrs. How a man who had a 9th grade education, had such good instincts is puzzling. He also never used a paper map when he traveled, he was a walking Google map.
My mom said one can educate themselves right out of common sense.
When I see that medline link, I no longer assume there is any real supporting evidence in it; I assume there is a foregone conclusion and a tortured justification. The RCT feels like a smokescreen.
Back when I was on the debate team, we had actual debates. There were real resolutions, and you had to do your own research.
I remember a brilliant classmate names Barsky. He had green hair before it was cool, and he had that incisive, gimlet eye for the weak spot. Once, when his opponent referenced, for the third time, the conclusions of a single paper justifying her position, he said,
“Do you anything to offer other than the rhetoric of Rhonda B Hartman?”
The debate ended in that moment. I’ve never forgotten.
It’s finally revealed that EVERYTHING seems to be lies....
It all started when the researchers received a trophy for playing on a youth soccer team that didn't win a single game...
I have been calling out the Fake Data since 2017 . This man should go to jail, his fake data causes more illness .
Data is the New Gold so it’s time to look at the original investors and pick out the fraudulent criminals that were willing to do anything for money .
The LAW OVERRULES SCIENCE !
This is an old story where scientific fraud is concerned; Pasteur was falsifying the results of his lab experiments and plagiarizing almost everything else and then presenting the "data" to medical academies; this was in the 1800s and historical records show that the fraud was well known at the time and yet the world reveres the name Pasteur to this day in memory of one of the greatest charlatans that medical science ever produced; of course now we have Fauci and his ilk who have outdone Pasteur many times over!
I really didn't know this; thanks for pointing it out.
It makes sense, sin is as old as we are. I'm beginning to think everything I've been taught and 'know' is fake.
Check out how the Rockefellers manipulated the Flexner report back in the early 1900’s .
The history of medical research reveals countless examples of fraud where lies and deception were used to promote false narratives; the history of inoculations and vaccine development from its inception reveal that fake science and propaganda were widespread in promoting special interests which were more interested in accumulating money and power than promoting human health.
RA Millikan won the Nobel in Physics with data that was most certainly not presented as faithfully as it was collected. The upside for him, and us, is that it has since been reproduced repeatedly and is well accepted.
Being right shouldn't make it okay to omit or distort data to conform to one's preconceived expectations. But, again, his hypothesis meshed with reality, which is the ultimate test in Science. And there's actually some dispute amongst The Philosophers of Science as to whether what Millikan is really *in Whoopi voice* Fraud Fraud.
https://onlineethics.org/cases/ethics-science-classroom/millikan-case-discrimination-versus-manipulation-data
In fact, Claudine Gay should consult with these authors and see if there are any grey areas for her reputation.
Most fraudulent hypotheses do not mesh with reality and the ultimate test in science should be the truth, although sometimes we may have to wait a long time for it to come out; Pasteur admitted (on his death bed and far too late) that his germ theory was wrong but still wound up being a major founder of the allopathic model of medicine , not to mention the fraudulent basis of all vaccine development.
"not to mention the fraudulent basis of all vaccine development"
Well, then that would be bad.
In Millikan's defense, his "discovery" is integral to the engineering of products such as photovoltaics and solid state amplifiers so it beats Lysenkoism, I guess.
When Dr. John Ioannidis published his 2005 paper, Why Most Published Research Findings Are False, he was not criticized because most scientists knew it to be true. In fact, NIH went on to issue an extensive report a couple years later in which policies were suggested to improve that horrible situation. I dumped all my Big Pharma investments when leaving it in 2005, because the industry was corrupt and unethical. Academic has the same perverse money incentives that caused the problems documented in 2005- expecting a reversal from Big Science is as unlikely as Diane Keaton expecting the Corleone family to go legit.