Debate is part of the scientific method, or perhaps Hotez does not practice real science? I recently asked the question, why would I want to accept health advice from someone who is clearly overweight, does not exercise and is a self-professed junk food-aholic.
It amazes how many don’t, or refuse to, understand that, just as government creates nearly all our problems to give themselves something on which to campaign, the Pharmafia creates nearly all our diseases to give them something (else) on which to profit .
I bought “The Invisible Rainbow” a few years ago. This is NOT conspiracy theory, but it’s CONSPIRACY FACT! And to think some people do not understand this yet. Amazing, actually.
I wear a Q-Link. My heart palpitations are gone. I’ve been wearing it 24/7 for months.
I had the same issue with heart palpitations for months. Then my wife said, why are you sitting right in front of the router? I moved it to another room and they mysteriously stopped.
Doping? Or as Mark Crispin Miller writes on SubStack, wireless monitors. Maybe both, but it would seem to me that doping would have caused a lot of deaths already if it were the culprit. The wireless monitoring I think is new.
My mother and aunt both spoke about electricity affecting them. I avoid electric machines (sewing machines, etc) after 9 pm or so. Even my necklaces hold some kind of charge.
It’s EVERYWHERE! We just can’t see it! I would say MANY health problems are from EMF. Even if you protect your home environment, neighbors still emit crap. If you look on your cell phone, you’ll see all the neighbors WiFi connections.
Way back my mother felt all that stuff. I didn't get it, but now I can tell. I feel an internal buzzing at times. I never had a cell and came late to having a computer (2012) and that's shortly before I started feeling it. It's all etherneted, but still.
What is a “conspiracy theory” these days? How is being concerned about wifi a “conspiracy?” Who’s it against? It’s a theory, certainly, but where’s the conspiracy? I don’t understand how questioning things is now looked down upon. Even by people like Alex who’ve built their entire career and are able to sustain their family on questioning things. Isn’t RFK Jr’s entire point that it’s valuable to question things and look for actual answers? How does anyone disagree with that premise…
If you listen to him for, say, 45 minutes, you'll see that Kennedy's expertise on vaccines and all of the "science" protocols is stunning. He's a lawyer, but I think he knows more science than all the scientists. He also looks at the big picture and connects dots that the people just focussing on one narrow subject do.
I don't think Kennedy would have to spend 10 minutes prepping for any debate and he wouldn't need any cheat-sheet notes to recall the key points he wants to make.
He's also probably right on autism and has been for years. I think he deserves one of those Kennedy "Profile in Courage" Awards for going out on a limb by himself years ago. And I'm not even mentioning his great remarks on the dangers of ever-expanding censorship and how captured the "watchdog" press has become.
There's two things I REALLY appreciate about Kennedy - he actually has working-class friends (which, ironically, is part of what makes him like Trump. He isn't pretending to speak for the working-class, he actually knows, relates to, and ingratiates himself to the working class) which separates him from basically every other big D democrat, and person in Washington for that matter, and that he just admits when he doesn't know enough about a subject to discuss it. I can't vote for him until I understand his feeling on the fed, fed policy, fractional banking, and its role in the destruction of the middle class (something he says he cares deeply about, and I want to believe him...), but that he'll go on the All In podcast with some of the leading voices in the VC world and openly admit that he doesn't know enough to speak to it intelligently is SOOOOO freaking endearing. I can't vote for him until he does know enough and has a position, but I know that I'm infinitely more inclined to vote for him once he does because he's intelligent and confident enough to admit he didn't know at the time and wanted to do more research before potentially painting himself into a corner.
I like your thought process on him. I am going through the same thing. He endears himself. I am a conservative but am really paying attention here as the Trump DeSantis feud goes on.
I am an independent and thinking of registering as Dem so I can vote for him in the primary. I too need to research his other viewpoints, but thus far I don’t think I have ever been this excited about another presidential candidate. Even if I don’t agree with some of his views, ones I find very important are spot on. And he strikes me as a good, genuine person. He is human, so we should not assign any human to a higher level than possible. I recently listened to an interview of him and he said something to the effect of re-establishing the US as a country that is respected and not feared b/c we show respect to other nations and work for peace instead of destroying and destabilizing for our own selfish interests. Yes! I love that!
Even if voters don't agree with him on points A, B and C - these are probably trivial points in the Big Picture. As you point out, He's RIGHT on the most important issues. And nobody else is highlighting these issues (well, maybe DeSantis, but, boy, he got knocked down in a hurry - for some very odd reasons IMO).
I’m not persuaded that I need to know his stance on the Fed or fractional banking to support him. While those are becoming critical issues, even if he’s the same as the others, his anti-NatSec, anti-Pharmafia, anti-Ukraidiocy, anti-censorship place him far above any other candidate. I can eat cake without icing.
totally makes sense, and don't necessarily disagree. That said, I think we're past the point of nice guy RFK Jr. coming in and actually making changes. I think he's insanely important, I'm really glad he's doing this, but I look at this through the lens of my PE career. There's a point in a company's trajectory where bringing in a group of experts to pivot can be really valuable, and there's a point where a company must be imploded, file bankruptcy, blow everything up, and rebuild. We're the latter. And I don't think RFK Jr. is that guy. Donald Trump, in a second term with no future and now understand exactly how broken things are, can be that guy. But RFK Jr. being the person to come in and put the pieces back together after DJT sounds perfect to me.
1) one does not need 11 phd's in sciencing in order to pour through data and get an idea of what's actually going on.
2) those most esteeemed eksperts with household names seldom spend their precious time actually pouring through the latest data and have little idea of what's actually going on.
As in, they want you to carry a device that lowers your sperm count in your front pocket to keep western civilization population rates down and create a crisis.
Right; but that’s not what RFK Jr is saying. When he started suing businesses polluting the Hudson he wasn’t suing them because they were bored one day and decided to pollute for fun. They were trying to make money and didn’t care if they polluted. Isn’t that explanation here much more rational? That wifi is an incredible technology (it is) and people want phones in their pocket (they do) and no one is incentivized to look for potential health concerns until health concerns pop up? And then, yes, basically everyone involved is incentivized NOT to look for health issues, but those are two different things. One is saying wifi was created to pollute, and one is saying pollution is a result of business initiatives… ones a theory, and ones a conspiracy theory… RFK Jr is opining the theory, not the conspiracy theory. This shouldn’t be this hard to differentiate between
Love this. And you're totally right... which is completely antithetical to science. The entire distinction between law and science is law seeks to prove something science is intended to simply disprove something. "Science" is the verb of attempting to disprove things. Right up until COVID, and then it became a noun with a capital S that somehow meant "truth," or something. I don't know, we're getting so much dumber so fast I can barely keep up...
Great points. I agree wholeheartedly! Alex, I find it insulting that you think your questions are valid, but you can't help but demean RFKjr on his. Maybe he is not correct on WiFi or maybe he is, but either way it's a valid question. The vaccines were going to save the world until they didn't. I would rather have someone investigate everything and then we all have more knowledge then simply be forced to believe the government and Big Pharma without question. Neither have a great track record! It also makes you look small. I am less likely to believe a person who only thinks "his conspiracy theories" (which they were merely a year ago) are correct but others are foolish.
I have to give RFKjr credit, if nothing else he stood up and questioned authority long before it was fashionable. That is never easy!
Yes, however, I think going into the whys is a good idea. Not every guess or hypothesis is going to be right, but I think exploring all paths is a good approach. Of course, one needs to know when to move on.
I totally and completely agree... and that's sort of my point. What's the difference between a hypothesis (or theory) and a "conspiracy theory." As far as I can tell, absolutely everything JFK Jr. says is based on a hypothesis that he formulated based on evidence, and then (where science deviates from law) he attempted to prove (rather than disprove) that hypothesis. You can disagree with the hypothesis, you can challenge his hypothesis, you can (or can't!?!!?!?) debate him on his hypothesis, what I don't understand is why people like Berenson, of all people, would call these "conspiracy theories." The guy goes insanely out of his way NOT to do that, even when it's staring him right in the face... I just hate the ridiculous word games we play, and that elite liberals, cough cough Mr. Berenson, play into them even when they're ridiculous and create obviously false equivalences with the goal of undermining what is a complete rational question to be asking, regardless of the topic.
Agreed. Maybe Alex is so vehement because of his deep liberal core and his own labeling of us as conspiracy theorists, even now that we are his main audience (and source of income). I never used the term much and don't really mind it now because I know why people say it (fear of being criticized for thinking for themselves.)
Refusing to debate because you already "know" you are right is pure nonsense. I have as long a list of credentials as Hotez. So do McCullough, Risch, Bhattacharya and a long list of others. Many of us believe Hotez is wrong in much of what he espouses.
Having said that, I also do not agree with much of what RFK Jr. believes. But vis-à-vis covid and public health failures in addressing that debacle, RFK Jr. appears to actually have looked at the data, not the government-sponsored script.
Teaching medical students and being on the international lecture circuit for decades, I know what is involved in a debate, long a tradition in science. I have never turned one down with a relatively neutral moderator (including some I really, really did not want to do) and have had some of my greatest successes in laying out presentations that essentially left the other party speechless...including some of those I did not wish to do. Somehow, in covid, debate is not allowed. This looks bad for science and for Hotez and just confirms that the entire covid Scientism community insists on living in an echo chamber.
If Hotez seems threatened by RFK Jr, Rogan already offered any competent scientist representing another viewpoint. I have no doubt those that I mentioned above (and there are many others) with credentials similar to Hotez would be happy to fill in for RFK Jr. That "don't debate a crank" is just a sham excuse, and it is becoming obvious to everyone as to why.
Frankly, I find the "we won't debate anyone who does not agree with us" recitations to be repellant, unscientific, and another blow to the credibility of science.
If I was confident and knowledgeable about a subject I would jump at the chance of a good debate with a qualified person of differing viewpoints. I actually would love to corner Hotez and ask him a few questions about the failure and dangers of Covid injectables, futile Covid measures and so forth but he wouldn’t bother with me because I’ve no medical credentials. As it is, he just looks ridiculous.
My favorite excuse is "Hotez isn't a public debater". Oh, so he just went on TV endlessly during covid and TWICE YESTERDAY because he's not comfortable speaking in public? He can trash RFK and Rogan in public, but will only speak with MSNBC presstitutes like Medhi?
We haven't seen something this transparent since.......well, the covid scam.
You bring up an important and germane point. Why hasn't anyone sued RFK, Jr. for slander or libel? For example ... Anthony Fauci. In his national best-selling book, Kennedy used 440 pages to attack Fauci going back 50 years.
No lawsuit. No demand for any retractions ... and nothing has been retracted. It's what didn't happen that gives us another tell.
In the Rogan podcast, he argues for nullifying regulatory capture, limiting industry influence in our agencies to a minimum, and stopping the flow of industry cash into the pockets of regulators. Also, closing the revolving door between agencies and industry by way of lucrative private sector positions post agency service.
Regarding the explosion of food and other allergies, and other conditions including autism, aligning with the rollouts of a myriad of vaccines, he clearly states that correlation does not prove causation. But it does warrant serious study overseen by uncorrupted agencies. He also argues for cost/benefit analysis.
I have never felt the need to think twice about any medical recommendation in my life. Now, after the last 3 years of COVID madness, I’m having to question every medical narrative and suggestion, especially when it comes to vaccines. They have no one to blame but themselves for the current shit show. Science that can’t stand up to questions and debate is just dogma. I had no idea there was so much cultish behavior in modern medicine.
If you read key documents as closely as some of us have, you will see that in all of those "table-top planning exercises," a key point of focus is the need to combat "vaccine hesitancy." These people and organizations created layers of influencers and fact-checkers, and "disinformation warriors," and billion-dollar ad spends all to brainwash people into thinking Covid vaccines were "safe and effective."
Then we got the mass censorship efforts to silence and bully people who weren't sold on the new "vaccines."
The great irony is that "vaccine hesitancy" in America has never been higher. This is obviously the case with the Covid boosters, which 85 percent of the population is now taking a pass on ... but also about the ineffective "flu vaccines" and now childhood vaccines, which many more people now believe might lead to autism and SIDS.
So the Law of Opposite Effects kicks in again. The one thing they wanted to prevent - "vaccine- hesitant" Americans - they created in record numbers.
My guess is that this kind of brainwashing and propaganda have been used more frequently and for longer than many of us realized. I think the many years of practice are both good and bad for the medical industrial complex. It's good because they have the process down with years of practice with little resistance but it's bad because they don't know what to do when we take our collective heads out of the sand. Instead of taking a step back they are just on autopilot using the machine they've created over and over again actually creating the opposite effect.
And the ridiculous overreach and scaremongering by folks like Hotez helped wake people up. TX Children’s Hospital still recommends these shots! Unbelievable.
JL, I work in healthcare, and I believe it is the incentives that have corrupted it/us. There are financial incentives, power and career incentives, and reputation risk.
It is the cult of $$$, and sometimes power…the two usually go together. Was talking to a clinician just a couple weeks ago, in another state, lamenting how all the young doctors he knows their number one concern, and often only concern, is $$$.
Yes, thanks for the link. I'm familiar with the situation, it's a tragedy and it won't stop until more tragedy happens unfortunately because no one is asking the obvious questions.
I was forced to Vaxx or lose my livelihood. I was told where else are you going to go… (which was a true threat in my industry). I took the J&J based on research that for me it was the least harm option. Despite it being acceptable per the company’s policies, some wanted to make me have to take the mRNA. I am now of the conviction that I’ll quit before taking mRNA; it may be the future but I’m not a Guinea pig….
I understand that J&J is off the market now due to risk of somewhat infrequent but serious blood related complications. (Sounds like you may not have had any complications, which is really good.) One would think that would be a wake up call for some who may have been open-minded.
There were two funding cutouts between the NIH and the reckless coronavirus gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology: (1) Peter Daszak on NIH grant AI110864, and (2) Peter Hotez on NIH grant AI098775.
Hotez also called for “people from Homeland Security, the Justice Department, Commerce Department, State Department” to take action against those who questioned the then-conventional wisdom about COVID, likening the supposed threat they pose to terrorism and “nuclear proliferation.”
What is crazy to me about Hotez' tweets is that this information about his links to coronavirus studies has been in the public sphere for over a year.
It is almost like his smooth brain forgot that Twitter doesn't censor the good guys as much anymore, that he didn't realize people would bcall him on the obvious bs spewing from his tweets.
From one of your links:
"As part of his NIH grant, Hotez subcontracted funding for research on combined or “chimeric” coronaviruses..."
Pretty sure I just got nixed for a job because of vaccine questions during the interview process. So the fight is not over and I'm glad you will keep pushing.
My 27 year old son is looking to change jobs and showed me how many still require vaccine proof to interview. This is how you mandate without formally mandating. Disgusting.
They did. I was the interviewee. Asking if you've had it is permissible, you can decline to answer just like when they ask gender, race, etc. But they went a couple questions further than that.
Check everything Rfk says. It’s the truth but call it what you want. He’s not “anti-vax”, he’s pro-medical freedom and for “safe vaccines”. So sick of the media labeling him “anti vax”.
Perhaps that is what is bothering many of us the most: these fanatics believe they are so insulated and protected from their actions and words that they can demand an end to 250 years of accepted American societal norms, remove any Constitutional protections from the rest of us, and demand banishment and even imprisonment for those who don’t accept the ‘science’.
And many of us are afraid they could do what they say they want to do, given the current federal government and many state governments hold on what is and isn’t true and what is and isn’t science.
I think you have it the wrong way 'round. mRNA was not pushed as a good faith effort to fix a(n) (possibly) inadvertent crisis, rather, lockdowns, business closures, rent suspension with no eviction and the like were used to prolong and deepen various crises until mRNA was ready to be released and then "pushed" as the "way out."
"One typically doesn't debate science"
What a load of absolute nonsense. If it's not up for debate, it's not science, it's dogma.
Debate is part of the scientific method, or perhaps Hotez does not practice real science? I recently asked the question, why would I want to accept health advice from someone who is clearly overweight, does not exercise and is a self-professed junk food-aholic.
He’s relying on pharmaceutical cures for all the damage he is doing to himself. Because Science™️!
It amazes how many don’t, or refuse to, understand that, just as government creates nearly all our problems to give themselves something on which to campaign, the Pharmafia creates nearly all our diseases to give them something (else) on which to profit .
I bought “The Invisible Rainbow” a few years ago. This is NOT conspiracy theory, but it’s CONSPIRACY FACT! And to think some people do not understand this yet. Amazing, actually.
I wear a Q-Link. My heart palpitations are gone. I’ve been wearing it 24/7 for months.
I had the same issue with heart palpitations for months. Then my wife said, why are you sitting right in front of the router? I moved it to another room and they mysteriously stopped.
BINGO!💥
12 race horses dead.
Doping? Or as Mark Crispin Miller writes on SubStack, wireless monitors. Maybe both, but it would seem to me that doping would have caused a lot of deaths already if it were the culprit. The wireless monitoring I think is new.
DEFINITELY! This many horses have never died (that goes for a lot of things). Others writers have brought it up as well.
Things are starting to look quite Biblical.
Julie Hunt — what a unique SubStack you have. Makes me want to visit Tennessee!
My mother and aunt both spoke about electricity affecting them. I avoid electric machines (sewing machines, etc) after 9 pm or so. Even my necklaces hold some kind of charge.
It’s EVERYWHERE! We just can’t see it! I would say MANY health problems are from EMF. Even if you protect your home environment, neighbors still emit crap. If you look on your cell phone, you’ll see all the neighbors WiFi connections.
Way back my mother felt all that stuff. I didn't get it, but now I can tell. I feel an internal buzzing at times. I never had a cell and came late to having a computer (2012) and that's shortly before I started feeling it. It's all etherneted, but still.
Bio electricity is the software of life and there is a lot we don't understand yet.
https://youtu.be/XheAMrS8Q1c
Of course he’s not a real scientist just like Facui isn’t.
As well as being certifiable.
The difference between The Science™ and science.
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Maybe nothing more unscientific has ever been said
It is more than dogma; it is dogshit
The very nature of science is that it is to be challenged.🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I believe the full quote is "One typically doesn't debate science when one has nary a leg on which to stand".
What is a “conspiracy theory” these days? How is being concerned about wifi a “conspiracy?” Who’s it against? It’s a theory, certainly, but where’s the conspiracy? I don’t understand how questioning things is now looked down upon. Even by people like Alex who’ve built their entire career and are able to sustain their family on questioning things. Isn’t RFK Jr’s entire point that it’s valuable to question things and look for actual answers? How does anyone disagree with that premise…
If you listen to him for, say, 45 minutes, you'll see that Kennedy's expertise on vaccines and all of the "science" protocols is stunning. He's a lawyer, but I think he knows more science than all the scientists. He also looks at the big picture and connects dots that the people just focussing on one narrow subject do.
I don't think Kennedy would have to spend 10 minutes prepping for any debate and he wouldn't need any cheat-sheet notes to recall the key points he wants to make.
He's also probably right on autism and has been for years. I think he deserves one of those Kennedy "Profile in Courage" Awards for going out on a limb by himself years ago. And I'm not even mentioning his great remarks on the dangers of ever-expanding censorship and how captured the "watchdog" press has become.
There's two things I REALLY appreciate about Kennedy - he actually has working-class friends (which, ironically, is part of what makes him like Trump. He isn't pretending to speak for the working-class, he actually knows, relates to, and ingratiates himself to the working class) which separates him from basically every other big D democrat, and person in Washington for that matter, and that he just admits when he doesn't know enough about a subject to discuss it. I can't vote for him until I understand his feeling on the fed, fed policy, fractional banking, and its role in the destruction of the middle class (something he says he cares deeply about, and I want to believe him...), but that he'll go on the All In podcast with some of the leading voices in the VC world and openly admit that he doesn't know enough to speak to it intelligently is SOOOOO freaking endearing. I can't vote for him until he does know enough and has a position, but I know that I'm infinitely more inclined to vote for him once he does because he's intelligent and confident enough to admit he didn't know at the time and wanted to do more research before potentially painting himself into a corner.
I like your thought process on him. I am going through the same thing. He endears himself. I am a conservative but am really paying attention here as the Trump DeSantis feud goes on.
I am an independent and thinking of registering as Dem so I can vote for him in the primary. I too need to research his other viewpoints, but thus far I don’t think I have ever been this excited about another presidential candidate. Even if I don’t agree with some of his views, ones I find very important are spot on. And he strikes me as a good, genuine person. He is human, so we should not assign any human to a higher level than possible. I recently listened to an interview of him and he said something to the effect of re-establishing the US as a country that is respected and not feared b/c we show respect to other nations and work for peace instead of destroying and destabilizing for our own selfish interests. Yes! I love that!
Even if voters don't agree with him on points A, B and C - these are probably trivial points in the Big Picture. As you point out, He's RIGHT on the most important issues. And nobody else is highlighting these issues (well, maybe DeSantis, but, boy, he got knocked down in a hurry - for some very odd reasons IMO).
I enjoyed his All In podcast interview. As well as his Russell Brand one and UnHerd’s.
I’m not persuaded that I need to know his stance on the Fed or fractional banking to support him. While those are becoming critical issues, even if he’s the same as the others, his anti-NatSec, anti-Pharmafia, anti-Ukraidiocy, anti-censorship place him far above any other candidate. I can eat cake without icing.
totally makes sense, and don't necessarily disagree. That said, I think we're past the point of nice guy RFK Jr. coming in and actually making changes. I think he's insanely important, I'm really glad he's doing this, but I look at this through the lens of my PE career. There's a point in a company's trajectory where bringing in a group of experts to pivot can be really valuable, and there's a point where a company must be imploded, file bankruptcy, blow everything up, and rebuild. We're the latter. And I don't think RFK Jr. is that guy. Donald Trump, in a second term with no future and now understand exactly how broken things are, can be that guy. But RFK Jr. being the person to come in and put the pieces back together after DJT sounds perfect to me.
Always remember two things:
1) one does not need 11 phd's in sciencing in order to pour through data and get an idea of what's actually going on.
2) those most esteeemed eksperts with household names seldom spend their precious time actually pouring through the latest data and have little idea of what's actually going on.
Conspiracy theory; also known as spoiler alert.
I need to find a tshirt that says this.
Or, I may be a conspiracy theorist but I'm just six months ahead of you. ;-)
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Rainbow-History-Electricity-Life/dp/1645020096
Simon I responded to you above...ooops!
Who is usually "they"
As in, they want you to carry a device that lowers your sperm count in your front pocket to keep western civilization population rates down and create a crisis.
Right; but that’s not what RFK Jr is saying. When he started suing businesses polluting the Hudson he wasn’t suing them because they were bored one day and decided to pollute for fun. They were trying to make money and didn’t care if they polluted. Isn’t that explanation here much more rational? That wifi is an incredible technology (it is) and people want phones in their pocket (they do) and no one is incentivized to look for potential health concerns until health concerns pop up? And then, yes, basically everyone involved is incentivized NOT to look for health issues, but those are two different things. One is saying wifi was created to pollute, and one is saying pollution is a result of business initiatives… ones a theory, and ones a conspiracy theory… RFK Jr is opining the theory, not the conspiracy theory. This shouldn’t be this hard to differentiate between
Well explained. Good distinction. Thanks!
My favorite Covid mantra is that officials will not investigate that which they do not want to "confirm." This is similar to your point, I think.
Love this. And you're totally right... which is completely antithetical to science. The entire distinction between law and science is law seeks to prove something science is intended to simply disprove something. "Science" is the verb of attempting to disprove things. Right up until COVID, and then it became a noun with a capital S that somehow meant "truth," or something. I don't know, we're getting so much dumber so fast I can barely keep up...
That's a GREAT point. Real science seeks to disprove false theories. I'm going to keep making your point in future articles.
Great points. I agree wholeheartedly! Alex, I find it insulting that you think your questions are valid, but you can't help but demean RFKjr on his. Maybe he is not correct on WiFi or maybe he is, but either way it's a valid question. The vaccines were going to save the world until they didn't. I would rather have someone investigate everything and then we all have more knowledge then simply be forced to believe the government and Big Pharma without question. Neither have a great track record! It also makes you look small. I am less likely to believe a person who only thinks "his conspiracy theories" (which they were merely a year ago) are correct but others are foolish.
I have to give RFKjr credit, if nothing else he stood up and questioned authority long before it was fashionable. That is never easy!
Yes, however, I think going into the whys is a good idea. Not every guess or hypothesis is going to be right, but I think exploring all paths is a good approach. Of course, one needs to know when to move on.
I totally and completely agree... and that's sort of my point. What's the difference between a hypothesis (or theory) and a "conspiracy theory." As far as I can tell, absolutely everything JFK Jr. says is based on a hypothesis that he formulated based on evidence, and then (where science deviates from law) he attempted to prove (rather than disprove) that hypothesis. You can disagree with the hypothesis, you can challenge his hypothesis, you can (or can't!?!!?!?) debate him on his hypothesis, what I don't understand is why people like Berenson, of all people, would call these "conspiracy theories." The guy goes insanely out of his way NOT to do that, even when it's staring him right in the face... I just hate the ridiculous word games we play, and that elite liberals, cough cough Mr. Berenson, play into them even when they're ridiculous and create obviously false equivalences with the goal of undermining what is a complete rational question to be asking, regardless of the topic.
Agreed. Maybe Alex is so vehement because of his deep liberal core and his own labeling of us as conspiracy theorists, even now that we are his main audience (and source of income). I never used the term much and don't really mind it now because I know why people say it (fear of being criticized for thinking for themselves.)
Yes!
Refusing to debate because you already "know" you are right is pure nonsense. I have as long a list of credentials as Hotez. So do McCullough, Risch, Bhattacharya and a long list of others. Many of us believe Hotez is wrong in much of what he espouses.
Having said that, I also do not agree with much of what RFK Jr. believes. But vis-à-vis covid and public health failures in addressing that debacle, RFK Jr. appears to actually have looked at the data, not the government-sponsored script.
Teaching medical students and being on the international lecture circuit for decades, I know what is involved in a debate, long a tradition in science. I have never turned one down with a relatively neutral moderator (including some I really, really did not want to do) and have had some of my greatest successes in laying out presentations that essentially left the other party speechless...including some of those I did not wish to do. Somehow, in covid, debate is not allowed. This looks bad for science and for Hotez and just confirms that the entire covid Scientism community insists on living in an echo chamber.
If Hotez seems threatened by RFK Jr, Rogan already offered any competent scientist representing another viewpoint. I have no doubt those that I mentioned above (and there are many others) with credentials similar to Hotez would be happy to fill in for RFK Jr. That "don't debate a crank" is just a sham excuse, and it is becoming obvious to everyone as to why.
Peter McCullough wrote a superb piece on Hotez today. It also references a piece by A Midwestern Doctor which is definitive. https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-challenges-peter-hotez-to-7fc
Frankly, I find the "we won't debate anyone who does not agree with us" recitations to be repellant, unscientific, and another blow to the credibility of science.
Keep firing, Alex. You are over target.
If I was confident and knowledgeable about a subject I would jump at the chance of a good debate with a qualified person of differing viewpoints. I actually would love to corner Hotez and ask him a few questions about the failure and dangers of Covid injectables, futile Covid measures and so forth but he wouldn’t bother with me because I’ve no medical credentials. As it is, he just looks ridiculous.
And Hotez insists his daughter’s autism isn’t caused by jabs........right. Absolutely insane!
My favorite excuse is "Hotez isn't a public debater". Oh, so he just went on TV endlessly during covid and TWICE YESTERDAY because he's not comfortable speaking in public? He can trash RFK and Rogan in public, but will only speak with MSNBC presstitutes like Medhi?
We haven't seen something this transparent since.......well, the covid scam.
Hopefully, he'll get sued for slander, because that discovery will be a biatch.
You bring up an important and germane point. Why hasn't anyone sued RFK, Jr. for slander or libel? For example ... Anthony Fauci. In his national best-selling book, Kennedy used 440 pages to attack Fauci going back 50 years.
No lawsuit. No demand for any retractions ... and nothing has been retracted. It's what didn't happen that gives us another tell.
RFK JR,
Love him, hate him.
Agree, reject.
In the Rogan podcast, he argues for nullifying regulatory capture, limiting industry influence in our agencies to a minimum, and stopping the flow of industry cash into the pockets of regulators. Also, closing the revolving door between agencies and industry by way of lucrative private sector positions post agency service.
Regarding the explosion of food and other allergies, and other conditions including autism, aligning with the rollouts of a myriad of vaccines, he clearly states that correlation does not prove causation. But it does warrant serious study overseen by uncorrupted agencies. He also argues for cost/benefit analysis.
Where’s the issue with that game plan?
I have never felt the need to think twice about any medical recommendation in my life. Now, after the last 3 years of COVID madness, I’m having to question every medical narrative and suggestion, especially when it comes to vaccines. They have no one to blame but themselves for the current shit show. Science that can’t stand up to questions and debate is just dogma. I had no idea there was so much cultish behavior in modern medicine.
If you read key documents as closely as some of us have, you will see that in all of those "table-top planning exercises," a key point of focus is the need to combat "vaccine hesitancy." These people and organizations created layers of influencers and fact-checkers, and "disinformation warriors," and billion-dollar ad spends all to brainwash people into thinking Covid vaccines were "safe and effective."
Then we got the mass censorship efforts to silence and bully people who weren't sold on the new "vaccines."
The great irony is that "vaccine hesitancy" in America has never been higher. This is obviously the case with the Covid boosters, which 85 percent of the population is now taking a pass on ... but also about the ineffective "flu vaccines" and now childhood vaccines, which many more people now believe might lead to autism and SIDS.
So the Law of Opposite Effects kicks in again. The one thing they wanted to prevent - "vaccine- hesitant" Americans - they created in record numbers.
My guess is that this kind of brainwashing and propaganda have been used more frequently and for longer than many of us realized. I think the many years of practice are both good and bad for the medical industrial complex. It's good because they have the process down with years of practice with little resistance but it's bad because they don't know what to do when we take our collective heads out of the sand. Instead of taking a step back they are just on autopilot using the machine they've created over and over again actually creating the opposite effect.
And the ridiculous overreach and scaremongering by folks like Hotez helped wake people up. TX Children’s Hospital still recommends these shots! Unbelievable.
For every action there is a reaction. Then fool me once ....
Old canards ring true.
JL, I work in healthcare, and I believe it is the incentives that have corrupted it/us. There are financial incentives, power and career incentives, and reputation risk.
It is the cult of $$$, and sometimes power…the two usually go together. Was talking to a clinician just a couple weeks ago, in another state, lamenting how all the young doctors he knows their number one concern, and often only concern, is $$$.
Alex, before you just dismiss the effects of WiFi and EMF's in general, you might want to checkout this book. https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Rainbow-History-Electricity-Life/dp/1645020096
It's a long and comprehensive study on the benefits and side effects of EMF fields on human health.
Otherwise, this is a great substack, as usual, keep up the important work!
Race horses have been dropping dead at Churchill Downs since they started wearing powerful wireless monitors called STRIDEsafe https://open.substack.com/pub/markcrispinmiller/p/why-are-all-those-racehorses-dropping?r=r9ckx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Yes, thanks for the link. I'm familiar with the situation, it's a tragedy and it won't stop until more tragedy happens unfortunately because no one is asking the obvious questions.
I was forced to Vaxx or lose my livelihood. I was told where else are you going to go… (which was a true threat in my industry). I took the J&J based on research that for me it was the least harm option. Despite it being acceptable per the company’s policies, some wanted to make me have to take the mRNA. I am now of the conviction that I’ll quit before taking mRNA; it may be the future but I’m not a Guinea pig….
I understand that J&J is off the market now due to risk of somewhat infrequent but serious blood related complications. (Sounds like you may not have had any complications, which is really good.) One would think that would be a wake up call for some who may have been open-minded.
Don’t take mRNA. Good for you. I don’t think those of us who took J&J are out of the woods either.
Bravo!
There were two funding cutouts between the NIH and the reckless coronavirus gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology: (1) Peter Daszak on NIH grant AI110864, and (2) Peter Hotez on NIH grant AI098775.
https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1670876056855756806?s=20
Hotez also called for “people from Homeland Security, the Justice Department, Commerce Department, State Department” to take action against those who questioned the then-conventional wisdom about COVID, likening the supposed threat they pose to terrorism and “nuclear proliferation.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nations-biggest-pediatrics-hospital-pushes-leftism-discredited-covid-theories-on-texas-doctors-investigation-reveals
Didn't Hotez want people who criticized his views on covid to be charged with hate crimes?
Yes.
Doesn’t he still?
What is crazy to me about Hotez' tweets is that this information about his links to coronavirus studies has been in the public sphere for over a year.
It is almost like his smooth brain forgot that Twitter doesn't censor the good guys as much anymore, that he didn't realize people would bcall him on the obvious bs spewing from his tweets.
From one of your links:
"As part of his NIH grant, Hotez subcontracted funding for research on combined or “chimeric” coronaviruses..."
See also
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/critic-of-congressional-probe-into-gain-of-function-research-helped-fund-wuhan-gain-of-function-study/
Pretty sure I just got nixed for a job because of vaccine questions during the interview process. So the fight is not over and I'm glad you will keep pushing.
My 27 year old son is looking to change jobs and showed me how many still require vaccine proof to interview. This is how you mandate without formally mandating. Disgusting.
Did you ask or did they?
They did. I was the interviewee. Asking if you've had it is permissible, you can decline to answer just like when they ask gender, race, etc. But they went a couple questions further than that.
Terrible.
Check everything Rfk says. It’s the truth but call it what you want. He’s not “anti-vax”, he’s pro-medical freedom and for “safe vaccines”. So sick of the media labeling him “anti vax”.
He’ll tell people “show me where I’m wrong” and they don’t because they can’t.
If Dr. Hotez is scared (and he is), he should say he's scared ... Forty months is long enough for ONE real debate on the evidence to occur.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/the-great-debate-that-wont-happen?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
A decent human being would stand there and get thrashed for 30 minutes.....to enrich a deserving charity. Simple.
Perhaps he doesn't have a favorite charity…
I sure liked the last couple of sentences .
Perhaps that is what is bothering many of us the most: these fanatics believe they are so insulated and protected from their actions and words that they can demand an end to 250 years of accepted American societal norms, remove any Constitutional protections from the rest of us, and demand banishment and even imprisonment for those who don’t accept the ‘science’.
And many of us are afraid they could do what they say they want to do, given the current federal government and many state governments hold on what is and isn’t true and what is and isn’t science.
People like Alex stand in the way.
Science, especially medicine, is never settled.
I think you have it the wrong way 'round. mRNA was not pushed as a good faith effort to fix a(n) (possibly) inadvertent crisis, rather, lockdowns, business closures, rent suspension with no eviction and the like were used to prolong and deepen various crises until mRNA was ready to be released and then "pushed" as the "way out."
Precisely!