Junk Science from Nature

A new research paper (in the News today) submitted to Nature suggests that even mild Covid infection causes brain and cognitive degeneration. The most glaring problems with this study:

1) “Information on the vaccination status (except for those identified through lateral flow test), and how both vaccination dates might interact with the date of infection, is also currently unavailable.” Strangely, the authors do not report or analyse the effect of vaccination status even where known. It is therefore possible that only infections following vaccination were associated with the degenerative effect.

2) Another confounder is the possible presence of degenerative brain disease before infection in those who showed the degenerative effect after infection. The authors reported a pattern of lower brain volumes and cognitive abilities in those who subsequently become infected with Covid. They assert without evidence that this could not explain their findings. “While the two groups were not significantly different across major demographic and risk factor variables, we identified a subtle pattern of lower cognitive abilities in the participants who went on to be infected, but this could not explain away our longitudinal findings. The future positive cases also showed lower subcortical volume, and higher diffusion abnormalities at baseline compared with the controls, in brain regions not overlapping with our longitudinal results.“

3) Only positive cases who were unvaccinated were re-tested to confirm the positive result, therefore those who were vaccinated had a greater likelihood of being false positives. This obvious bias allows for the possibility that it was not Covid infection that produced the degenerative effect, but the vaccine, irrespective of infection.”Participants were also invited to take a home-based lateral flow (Fortress Fast COVID-19 Home test, Fortress Diagnostics and ABC-19TM Rapid Test, Abingdon Health) to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. A second kit was sent to all participants who recorded an initial positive result and who had indicated they had not yet been vaccinated, in order to reduce the number of false positives.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5

I do not understand what is happening in Ukraine. It doesn’t make sense how Russia is playing this and all the commentary in the news media is nonsense. Something else is going on, but I do not know what. I have presented some hypotheses above, but here is another one. Since Russia is not using their state of the art equipment or much of their standing force in this invasion, but more or less match the equipment and capacity of the Ukrainian defenders, it is possible that they are trying to draw out the fighting and bleed Ukraine slowly, in an even fight (while using only a small fraction of its fighting capacity), while indirectly causing maximum economic disruption to the rest of the world. At the same time they can expect to draw all the nationalistic fanatics into combat and little by little kill them off, thereby securing a more peaceful, less aggressive social mix when they will finally have to leave Ukraine. In this way Russia could mitigate the future risk of any renewed fighting, revenge terrorism, or massacres in the autonomous, Russian speaking regions. On the other side of the fence, Zelensky is enthusiastically assisting Russia to accomplish this hypothetical objective, inciting Ukrainian males and boys to fight despite zero chances of success. I would not be hugely surprised if Zelensky were a Russian agent.

The world has an inequality problem - intelligence-inequality problem. When differences in intelligence are high, the smarter people cannot be understood by the least intelligent people, they cannot come to agreement about critical issues because the conceptual resolution at which they view reality is too different. This in turn compels the smarter minority to lie to the less intelligent majority, creating a sharply demarcated, two class society. I suspect that somewhere in the logic of the Reset, this point carries great weight. They don’t know how to deal with the threat posed by the stupidity of the masses apart from a) continuous manipulation (which is unreliable and exhausting), b) mandatory, targeted medication or bio-hacking (which is unethical), or c) extermination (which is grotesque and would be psychologically damaging to the elites themselves). I suspect they agreed on b).

In 5 years, maybe 10, all the truck drivers will be retired. They wont be needed, because trucks will be self-driving; lower running costs, shorted delivery times, higher reliability and vastly improved road safety. These people can’t be reskilled to become AI programmers, they will mostly remain unemployed for the rest of their lives. I wonder whether this expected social crisis has anything to do with truckers being mobilised for protests all around the world.

On Authenticity

The concept of personal “authenticity” was invented by Stalin, so if he wished to destroy someone it didn’t matter that they did nothing wrong, because they were “inauthentic” in their right conduct. A watered down version of this term was reinvented by the Existentialists, to signify being true to your nature, acting out your true self. In both instances the same logical error is involved, the assumption that humans have some hidden, original state that cannot be changed, that we cannot change, because that would be “inauthentic”. So if you are a psychopath, being authentic entails acting like a psychopath, and if are prone to lying, you should lie. The concept of Authenticity rests on a category mistake between IS and OUGHT, between what you are and what you ought to be, and is therefore provably false, pseudo intellectual nonsense. It is also dehumanising, implying that humans lack the capacity for meaningful change, lack free will, and therefore are deterministic products of nature (for existentialists) or history (for communists), or “hackable animals” in the words of one more recent pseudo-intellectual (Klaus Schwab).

The premise of Victimhood prevents us from learning from our suffering; it arrests critical introspection. We suffer, at least in part, because we are irrational. People like Klaus Schwab merely amplify the effect of our irrationality, credulity, conceit. Instead of seeing ourselves as victims of a powerful elite we should burn in shame for allowing this situation to be even possible. We should study our suffering and oppression to improve ourselves.

Do not underestimate how important it is to absolutely defeat medical mandates on ethical and rational grounds. This is not going away but will ramp up again, and again, and again. Efficacy of vaccines and the magnitude of the threat are not ethically relevant. I do not see any hope of defeating vaccine mandates apart from this: https://culturalanalysisnet.wordpress.com/2022/02/26/why-vaccine-mandates-are-unethical/

The ethical argument against vaccine mandates does not depend on how infectious or lethal the pathogen is. If we have to kill one person to save 1 million people, we are still committing murder, human sacrifice. If we would give up the right to free medical consent because it serves our interest now, another government may use it to kill our children, from whom we have taken away that right by agreeing for it to be taken away in principle. If we would accept that all healthy humans are born in a defective and dangerous state that must be coercively modified for public safety, then we would agree that the government may modify us in ANY way that may improve public safety, without our free consent. If we reject the value of humanity as it is, we have no basis from which to argue how it ought to be. All these points are captured here: https://culturalanalysisnet.wordpress.com/2022/02/26/why-vaccine-mandates-are-unethical

The relative impact of vaccination momentum on COVID-19 rates of death in the USA in 2020/2021. The forgotten role of population wellness.

Abstract

It is widely accepted that individual underlying health conditions contribute to morbidity and mortality associated with COVID-19; and by inference population wellness will also contribute to COVID-19 outcomes. In addition, over the last two years the predominant pharmaceutical public health response to COVID-19 has been vaccination momentum (i.e. mass and rapid inoculation campaigns). This paper aims to compare vaccination momentum throughout 2021 and measures of population wellness to estimate the relative impact of each on deaths attributed to COVID-19 across the 50 States of America, plus Washington DC, during 2020 (i.e. the pre-vaccination period) and 2021 (i.e. the vaccination period). Our analysis shows that: (a) COVID-19 rates of death in 2020 are more important, and statistically more significant, at predicting rates of death in 2021 than vaccination momentum during 2021; (b) vaccination momentum does not predict the magnitude of change in COVID-19 rates of death between 2020 and 2021; and (c) for several underlying heath and risk factors vaccination momentum is significantly less important than population wellness at predicting COVID-19 rates of death. Of particular interest are our observations that exercise and fruit consumption are 10.1 times more significant at predicting COVID-19 deaths than vaccination momentum, obesity (BMI 30+) is 9.6 times more significant at predicting COVID-19 deaths than vaccination momentum, heart attacks are 4.37 times more significant at predicting COVID-19 deaths than vaccination momentum and smoking is 3.2 times more significant at predicting COVID-19 deaths than vaccination momentum. If medical and health regulators are to deliver a quantum decrease in COVID-19 deaths they must move beyond the overwhelming focus on COVID-19 vaccination. They must have the courage to urge governments and private organisations to mandate greater exercise, weight loss, less junk food, and better nutrition. And a concerted effort at reducing chronic adverse health conditions.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.01.22271721v1

Please make sure you understand why space-Aliens are impossible. Anything UFO is necessarily human, terrestrial technology. https://culturalanalysisnet.wordpress.com/2020/12/09/why-alien-life-forms-are-impossible/

In the sphere of disinformation, the principle of sufficient reason is paramount.

The colluding, vaccinated, enmasked masses will have to prove their loyalty again, make another lifestyle sacrifice. And nothing will appease the Gods of the Reset as much as the “blanket ban on singing and dancing”. Obedience is Freedom.. to obey again.

Dr Zelenko believes that “we are on the verge of messianic redemption”. It seems that almost every figurehead of the “freedom movement” is now also a raving Evangelist, and very superficial at that. Why? Ironically, a few days ago Dr Zelenko was calling for the death penalty for the collaborators of the Reset. Both of these propositions are unsupported by any comprehensive philosophical argument or evidence, unrelated to what the good Dr specialises in. These are articles of faith, appeals to anger and hope, incitements to (Christian) group formation. In short, cheap populism. Why?

Facebook/Meta/Instagram have just admitted that they don’t have a problem with Hate Speech as such, but with hate that is not authorised by them. They use your hate when it suits them (populism).

"Donbass - 2016. Documentary Anne-Laure Bonnel (subnoscripts EN FR SPA ITA)"
(Put CC EN subnoscripts on)
https://youtu.be/b8j0tJsKltg

Technocrats tell us that machines will make most humans unemployable and redundant. This is a lie; the technocrats themselves, who own the machines, intend to make humans unemployable and redundant, by means of machines.

United States and Ukraine were the only two member states of the UN who recently voted AGAINST “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo‑Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”. https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/ga12396.doc.htm

Any volunteer assistance for natural disaster victims ultimately serves the Government. It allows them to be just as negligent and corrupt on the next occasion, because they know they can rely on human compassion to mitigate public anger and convert the energy of outrage into the energy of collective euphoria when we have the opportunity and power to save others, and they know it. Rescue missions, food drops, the human bond in a crisis, all result in a powerful form of sedation. Charity is a drug, a biochemical high, and the government needs you on it for them to keep getting away with murder.

No Duty of Care to Protect the Public from Natural or Systemic Risks

The Full Court of the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that the government does not have the duty of care to protect people from harm due to natural or systemic phenomena, such as “climate change”. The implication is that the government does not have the duty of care to protect people from natural pathogens or other systemic health risks, removing the last leg of the rationale for discriminatory risk mitigation policies associated with Covid. In short, nobody is liable if an employee of customer would catch Covid, even if no risk mitigation policies were in place. https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/environment-minister-wins-major-climate-change-case/news-story/0cdc3a68d724e6ed94740de123b67291