Democracy dies in darkness.
Here is another dissident researcher who disputes much of what we have been told regarding how we are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. I post this not because I necessarily believe it ... but because the medical debate should not ... and cannot be one sided.
Watch it post haste before our Google masters denounce it as heresy (it might well be ... how can one possibly decide? ... but it still needs a voice) and forbid us from seeing it.
One thing however I have learned over the last three months ... epidemiologists are seldom right ... no matter how definitive and confident they sound. This “science” is far too political for my taste.
Afterward: For more on Judy Mikovitz see: Wikipedia Entry.
Another conspiracy theorist who has been denounced by everyone who has a medical brain. Stop posting garbage. Right Dennis?
ReplyDeleteThis is a great summary of why this is BS: I want to address, specifically, the first thirteen seconds of the “Plandemic Documentary” conspiracy video, because that’s all I watched. It starts by saying Dr. Judy Mikovits “has been called one of the most accomplished scientists of her generation”. Snopes did a good article on who she is: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scientist-vaccine-jailed/
ReplyDeleteBasically she had done some reasonable science at some point, some of it on HIV, and then published a paper in Science about XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome. The paper was retracted because nobody could replicate the findings, and it was concluded that the XMRV came entirely from laboratory contamination. Someone else wrote a poorly-sourced paper about how XMRV could have gotten into humans via vaccines, and the anti-vax/plague-enthusiast community jumped on this as a possible way that vaccines hurt people. Mikovits also ran into some troubles with the law for allegedly stealing lab equipment after being fired. She’s now basically off the deep end and popular in the anti-vax community. I would say that pretty much anything she says should be taken with SERIOUS skepticism.
The problem with a lot of conspiracy theories/videos usually comes down to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
It takes a lot more effort to refute and argue against false claims than it does to make them. I’m sure that somebody at some point will come up with a comprehensive point-by-point refutation of this video, it just takes a while. One of the bigger mistakes we’ve made as a scientific community (and keep making) is that we let shit like this go unchecked for too long. It can be pretty obvious to someone with a scientific background (like the Bakersfield doctors bullshit) and still spread widely in the population.
You are on the right track. Much better to refute this woman than to censor her. I am very much against the anti-fax people ... but they have caused doctors to better space out vaccinations ... a good thing in my mind. To say that there is not a grain of truth in this video is as prejudicial as you say she is. The problem, of course, is finding this truth and discarding the BS.
ReplyDeleteYour faux disclaimer that such balderdash deserves equal consideration is pathetic.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who is so lacking in a shit-detector that they cannot perceive a huge steaming pile of turd when it is right in front of them, is to be pitied.
And one who would intentionally sow disinformation should nevermore be considered a trusted source. The next Corona Virus wave is on you and the other MAGA anti-science lemmings.
It’s an ill wind that blows no good. And anyone who says that Trump always lies ... and is guilty of everything bad ... is to be ignored too. Tiresome!
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