Category Archives: Science

FDA and ivermectin

Video with John Campbell. (15 minutes.) The FDA is finally coming clean about Ivermectin and that it does not prohibit its use against Covid. However, that’s conveniently late for the pharmaceutical industry. And inconveniently late for those who died of Covid for lack of fast, easy and cheap treatment.

Germany has fallen to green dogma

Now even discount supermarkets are hiking their prices at the behest of environmentalists.

Writes Ralph Schoellhammer:

“I have long been convinced that one of the reasons why fascism never had a chance in Britain was due to the predispositions of her people. If nothing else, the theatrics employed by Hitler and Mussolini just seemed too weird and downright ridiculous to the British.”

Continue reading here.

Scandinavia death rates

Lockdowns and masks seem to have stopped and reversed a downward trend. Except in Sweden, which didn’t lock down and didn’t impose mask mandates or social distancing. (They did, however, vaccinate as much as the others, if I remember correctly.)

Here’s the link to the charts.

Vaccine Injuries: Why Can’t We Be Honest?

Triggernometry in discussion with Rav Arora.

Description:

Rav Arora is a 22-year-old journalist and essayist based in Vancouver, Canada. Rav has recently joined with Dr Jay Bhattacharya to produce a regular Substack entitled ‘The Illusion of Consensus’ which aims to dismantle illusory consensus on scientific issues pertaining to Covid, Big Pharma, and gender-affirming care: https://www.illusionconsensus.com/. He also occasionally writes personal reflections on his Substack ‘Noble Truths with Rav Arora’: https://ravarora.substack.com/ #vaccine #covid19 #podcast

Judith Curry: How Climate “Science” Got Hijacked by Alarmists

Interview with John Stossel here.

From the video description:

Curry was a department chair at Georgia Tech when she spread alarm about climate change. The media loved her then. She claimed there was an increase in hurricane intensity. But then some researchers pointed out gaps in her research: years with low levels of hurricanes. “Like a good scientist, I went in and investigated.” When she acknowledged a lack of evidence that hurricane intensity had increased, she was ruthlessly attacked by climate alarmists. Her career suffered. Now Curry reveals nefarious ways “the science” about climate change has been corrupted.

Two Princeton, MIT Scientists Say EPA Climate Regulations Based on a ‘Hoax’

Article by Kevin Stocklin, quote:

Citing extensive data (pdf) to support their case, William Happer, professor emeritus in physics at Princeton University, and Richard Lindzen, professor emeritus of atmospheric science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), argued that the claims used by the EPA to justify the new regulations are not based on scientific facts but rather political opinions and speculative models that have consistently proven to be wrong.

Why is the West so Weak (and Russia so Strong)?

The role of human capital and western education

Article by Gaius Baltar.

I suggest that the cause of this unfolding disaster is a serious structural problem in the West – which Russia seems to have largely avoided. This structural problem is a necessary condition for the current western system and has been purposely created to bring it about and maintain it. This problem is the subject of this article – as well as the “mechanism” behind it. This is unfortunately a long article, but the subject matter demands it.

How science (doesn’t) work

Todd Hayen has written an article in Off-Guardian.org on (supposedly) “Knowing All that We Need to Know“.

Excerpt:

There is really nothing new to learn, and what we cannot explain, we will relegate to “promissory materialism”—a term invented to say that if we can’t explain now through material means, one day we will be able to—we now know the building blocks of reality, nothing is a true mystery.

Now, not all scientists are so arrogant to believe this. Some just while away in their labs with their theories, their experiments, and their reliance on the “scientific method” to prove or disprove their hypotheses. These are the true scientists. But they too have their traumas, which are always trying to get the best of them. They are constantly attacked in academia by other scientists trying to prove they are wrong—thus go the wars of falsification, a constant in the world of academic science—a necessary constant.

But this relentless battle can have its deleterious effect on those engaged in it. Trauma is trauma, and it all has negative effect in some way. These scientists get hardened, and often are unwilling to let go of treasured beliefs. They fight hard for what they hold to be truth about the mechanisms of the natural world, and the longer they hold a truth, the more difficult it becomes to pull it down from its exalted pedestal.

God forbid, then, politicians get involved. Any person of authority will grab any sort of scientific “idea” (which they will call truth) that supports their agenda, and they will run with it. They will do whatever they can to support the false idea that the “science is set” and that any contrary idea is thrown in the waste bin by vilifying the notion, the purveyor of the notion, or censoring the contrary idea altogether. “We know everything!” They spout out. “It is all figured out, follow the science!”

I would suspect that a lot of real scientists that hear this sort of thing rub their chin and say, “well, that isn’t exactly right . . .” but they want to keep their jobs at the lab, or their tenured position at the university, or their stature among their peers and instead mutter, “yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket.” Some of them are probably even unconscious that is what they are doing.