Can anyone in Australia still access Substack via web browser? I hear that everyone is locked out now, unless they agree to a face scan.
If the medical practitioner knows that the patient is coerced to submit to a medical procedure, they know that the patient cannot freely consent, and thus the practitioner is still in breach the requirement for obtaining free, uncoerced consent. The situation is analogous to someone pointing a gun at you and demanding that you “consent” to donate a kidney to someone else. The surgeon who would then perform the kidney transplant in the knowledge that the patient is acting under duress, would be not only in breach of medical ethics but guilty of grievous bodily harm, aggravated assault, organ trafficking, etc
The authors who argued otherwise are misrepresenting submission to coercion as consent. The term ‘consent-receiver’ already begs the question; ‘executor under coercion’ would be a better term. https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2025/07/14/jme-2025-110950
The authors who argued otherwise are misrepresenting submission to coercion as consent. The term ‘consent-receiver’ already begs the question; ‘executor under coercion’ would be a better term. https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2025/07/14/jme-2025-110950
Journal of Medical Ethics
Do vaccine mandates impair the voluntariness of informed consent?
An ethical and legal obligation generally exists for informed consent to be obtained prior to the administration of medical interventions. This includes vaccinations. For an individual’s informed consent to be valid, it must be given voluntarily . Hence,…
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Substack removed the age verification lockout, for now. Those who didn’t blink, prevailed, but the message is that no platform is secure.
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Vaccines are not ‘preventive treatments’ because they are intended neither to diagnose a suspected illness nor to treat an illness. Preventive treatments treat minor deficiencies of health to prevent major deficiencies of health. Anything that alters what is healthy is not a medical treatment but harm (by the medical standard of health).
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Inflation is not a force of nature but a tax you pay to the banks.
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The most common paranoid delusion is probably the denial of obvious betrayals, obvious dangers, obvious abuses, which is rooted in the anxiety about losing faith in the established authority and order.
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The Parliament, by allowing any agency or person to exercise “emergency powers” that exceed the authority of the Parliament to legislate for that agency or person, is thereby renunciating its legislative authority, and consequently any delegated authority to any agency or person, including the emergency powers. By invoking emergency powers, the State abrogates itself. https://news.1rj.ru/str/NormalParty/2087
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Control presupposes a definitive identity that can be subjected to control, or else there is nothing to control. Nothing is determinate of itself or in itself, but only by conscious acquiescence to a contingent determination of ‘what’ something is. Control is presupposed and consented to by the acquiescence to the terms of identification. Those who do not question identity, acquiescence to being determined by others.
There is no way that Substack would abandon compulsory age verification without getting an OK from the regulator. They went beyond what was required and then pulled back, which looks like a globally coordinated test of compliance. It was then never meant to last, just a provocation to measure the response.
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Government/Parliament is the most corrupt entity possible: it consistently manifests the greatest potential for discrepancy between its official purpose vs the private intentions of its members.
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Truth predicates (False/True) cannot be consistently combined with the sign of negation (Not), because False is a logical equivalent of negation, but is retained as something logically distinct from negation, therefore equivalent and not equivalent (contradiction). One has to choose the type of negation-operator: True/False and no other negation operator, or the negation operator but no truth predicates. Either is fine, but propositional logic routinely conflates the two and is thus formally inconsistent. Negation operator is notationally simpler than truth predicates.
If only 3000 years ago humans routinely misidentified voices in their minds as belonging to spirits and gods, because they did not yet have the concept of mind/thought, then we must ask what else we are misconceiving today as external/real when it is only our own mental state. Is the concept of reality still only a mistake of primitive consciousness…
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Given that x=x, necessarily, then it does not make sense to say that a formula is valid ‘for all x’. There are no multiple x’s as this would violate the law of identity; there is always only one and the same x, necessarily. This applies irrespective of whether x is a member of a class or signifies a class: the class is identical to itself, and every member of the class is identical to itself, but no member of the class is identical to any other member, or to the class, or to anything else. If we wish to say that everything is identical to itself, we may define x as ‘any member of the universal class’ and then assert its identity, which already precludes exceptions. Alternatively, we may say that there is no member (x) of any class that does not satisfy identity. The quantifier ‘for all’ is logically inconsistent and functionally redundant.
Lockstep: “France moves to BAN social media for kids under 15 and smartphones in high schools starting September 2026”
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There is only one, objective standard of “health”… Emergency medicine is mostly aligned with it, but general medical advice rarely is. Public health and preventive medicine are routinely contrary to health.
https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/03/30/is-transhumanism-a-health-problem/
https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/03/30/is-transhumanism-a-health-problem/
Journal of Medical Ethics blog
Is transhumanism a health problem? - Journal of Medical Ethics blog
By Michael Kowalik. In medical sciences, health is measured by reference to our species-typical anatomy and functional integrity – the objective standard of human health. Proponents of transhumanism are committed to biomedical enhancement of human beings…
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Human health cannot be decoupled from the endemic viral challenges under which it evolved. Prevention of the natural interaction with the virome must be considered contrary to health and likely to have severe evolutionary consequences, whereas endemic infections, being statistically normal, are by definition healthy.
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Science misrepresents the object of its study as something independent of theory, then it asserts the theory (an abstraction) as the knowledge of that object, which begs the question.
Science is semantically inconsistent at every step of its operation, and is qualitatively no different to the magic of the Stone Age shaman. It only ‘works’ if you already believe it.
Science is semantically inconsistent at every step of its operation, and is qualitatively no different to the magic of the Stone Age shaman. It only ‘works’ if you already believe it.
The nominal past/history changes continuously, as a matter of logical necessity. There is no ‘true’ past, but only an idea of the etiology of the ‘present’ ideas, which we call ‘the past’ in an act of semantic inconsistency. https://philpapers.org/rec/KOWTT
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Michael Kowalik, Two-Dimensional Time - PhilPapers
Philosophical views about the logical structure of time are typically divided between proponents of A and B theories, based on McTaggart's A and B series. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology, ...
Nobody needs a permission or a mandate to do what is right, nor can a mandate create the authority to do what is wrong.
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Nothing can be inferred about the probability/risk for any specific individual from population-level statistical data, except if all individuals in the population are identical. Randomised controlled studies construct the abstraction of an ‘average individual’ and then apply that abstraction to different individuals, which is nonsense. Specifically, knowing that random selection from a given group has X probability of identifying an individual with a condition G does not imply that every individual in that group has X probability of developing G, or that all individuals have X probability of developing G. Medical doctors nevertheless routinely assert this nonsense.
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I am sure the ruling power has good reasons to tell the little people about Epstein and how corrupt the ruling power is.
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