Dr. Jordan Peterson in conversation with Dr. Niall Ferguson. There is a surprise waiting at the end of the 1 h 6 m podcast.
A further 15 minutes of this conversation covering “The German Problem“.
Dr. Jordan Peterson in conversation with Dr. Niall Ferguson. There is a surprise waiting at the end of the 1 h 6 m podcast.
A further 15 minutes of this conversation covering “The German Problem“.
Writes Tom Woods in his latest newsletter:
Last week I noted the “shut up — you’re not an expert” problem.
One person who’s had to endure that is the controversial Steve Kirsch, who’s not a medical professional but who can interpret numbers the way any intelligent person can, and who has suggested that the numbers when it comes to the Covid shots are, to say the least, not favorable.
I have this crazy idea that people on both sides should be able to speak, and that people can decide what to do. I don’t think some people should be silenced because they might be wrong and might influence some people to make bad decisions. I don’t trust whoever would be in charge of telling us which side is allowed to speak.
At any rate, Kirsch (whom I’ve tried without success to interview on the Tom Woods Show) has been talking lately about the situation in New Zealand. Remember when it was held up to us as a great success story? If only we’d erected a totalitarian state we might have done as well as New Zealand!
Well, now New Zealand isn’t looking too good. Data has just been leaked that cast the shots in a particularly bad light in terms of excess deaths in that country, that people had not known about.
The usual suspects are telling him that he’s not an expert, that he should shut up, etc.
(He may not be an “expert” on the strictly medical side, but in order simply to interpret data why would he have to be?)
Well, Harvey Risch of the Yale School of Public Health has suddenly jumped in on Kirsch’s side.
Risch says: “I think that you’ve made a very strong case that the Covid genetic vaccines are associated with appreciably increased mortality rates for 6-12 months after each dose. This is particularly compelling in people over age 65. I am not aware of actual evidence that the increased post-vaccine mortality that you’ve shown has a different cause.”
Risch’s remark doesn’t make Kirsch correct; Kirsch’s analysis stands or falls on its own. But now that Risch has weighed in — and Risch is a major scholar at a major program — it’s harder to dismiss it as the ravings of a dummy who’s commenting in an area outside his proper lane.
Likewise, it doesn’t hurt that my book Diary of a Psychosis, released last week, contains a foreword by Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, of Stanford University.
I followed Jay from the beginning, when he was reporting the good news that whatever it was that was circulating, it wasn’t nearly as deadly as the authorities were saying.
You’d think that would have made people happy. Trust me, it didn’t.
Jay wound up being targeted by name by the Biden White House, which urged social media platforms to suppress his voice.
Jay never aspired to be anyone’s hero. “I just want to do science,” he told me in his most recent appearance on the Tom Woods Show.
To have someone with Jay’s courage and integrity — and yes, “medical credentials” — write the foreword to my book has been a huge boon for me.
Not to mention: the state surgeon general the New York Times hates, Florida’s Joseph Ladapo, wrote a generous endorsement of the book.
As did Matt Ridley, recently retired from the UK’s House of Lords.
Article by Dr. Joseph Mercola.
Jordan Peterson speaks with Dr. Sarah Hill.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down in-person with researcher, professor, and author, Dr. Sarah Hill. They break down sex-based differences in regret, competition, and academia; the balance between life exposure and safeguarding when raising a child; the practice of “mate-choice copying” among women; and why our hormones are a foundational part not just of our physical makeup, but also of who we are and who we have the potential to become.
Dr. Sarah E. Hill is a researcher and professor at TCU and author of “This is your brain on birth control: the surprising science of women, hormones, and the law of unintended consequences”. In addition to being at the forefront of research on women’s sexual psychology, Sarah is also a sought-after speaker, consultant, and media expert in the area of women’s hormones and sexual psychology.
46 minute talk here.
Basically a summary of his book “Is Atheism Dead?”
Jimmy Dore interviews Steve Kirsch (40 minutes)
Whistleblower to be arrested (5 minutes)
Here the whistleblower himself speaks (9 min)
How the NZ mainstream media reacts (2.32 min)
The Vigilant Fox has a substack summarizing the case so far.
Paul Craig Roberts has a take on it.
Four NZ doctors discuss the issue (18 min)
Tess Lawrie has some wise words to say (3 min), her text is below:
Events of the past week in relation to the New Zealand population data share have been confusing to say the least. With so much contradictory information and intrigue, people have been left wondering what to believe and who to trust.
How do we check and verify the integrity of these NZ data and, for that matter, of any other data and events occurring around the world in the name of health, freedom and sovereignty?
Just as we can be sure that academic science has been infiltrated and corrupted, one can be certain that truth and freedom movements have too.
With unprecedented excess deaths being recorded on official databases and witnessed by ordinary people in most countries, do these NZ data add to what we already know about the Covid vaccines? That they are harming and killing people worldwide?
No it doesn’t.
So the answer to the question, whom can we trust is simple. We must trust ourselves, we must trust our own intuition, and we must trust our own hearts.
The old world with its non-sensical, corrupt, and anti-human rules and regulations is crumbling fast. We are in the process of creating the new. A new healthy, sovereign and equitable world where we all have what we need to thrive is not for everyone, especially the minority interest groups that have captured our governments and are dead-set on owning us.
It has been said that civilisations progress through the following sequence:
‘From bondage to spiritual faith,
From spiritual faith to great courage,
From courage to liberty,
From liberty to abundance,
From abundance to complacency,
From complacency to apathy,
From apathy to dependence,
From dependence back into bondage.’**
We are at the end of this sequence. We are in bondage. A civilisation is on its way out, thrashing and destroying as it goes. So let’s be careful, let’s step back. Let it thrash and crumble, and let’s avoid getting caught in the rubble.
For we are all precious.
Every loving man, woman and child is needed for the better world we are creating afresh.
So let’s hold onto our loving kindness and compassion for one another, including for those who wish us harm, find that great courage and spiritual faith inside each and every one of us, and keep moving steadily in the direction of our liberty. Just like the sun rises every day, our freedom and a better world are assured.
About “post-normal science”, and the decline of rational thinking in the wake of the decline of Christianity.
8-minute video here.
Video (1 h 22 min) here.
From the description:
Have you ever felt the covid story did not entirely add up? [The book] “Expired” contains multiple eye-opening revelations about covid with compelling evidence that provides a coherent, sober and clear explanation that better fits the data we have so far.
Meticulous research by pathologist Dr Clare Craig sheds light on the largely overlooked evidence of airborne virus transmission, examining twelve related beliefs on spread, lockdowns, asymptomatic infections, and masks. In addition, Expired champions the importance of Western ethical principles, damaged by pandemic actions and calls for their restoration. The covid debate has proved incredibly polarising. One side believed every intervention was saving lives, while the other emphasised the harms caused.
Biased modelling based on a worst-case scenario led to fearful assumptions presented as fact. By dint of sheer repetition these ‘facts’ became unquestionable. Those scientists who dared to question were proclaimed dangerous. Welcome to Cloud-Covid-Land. Let’s bring back nuance. It’s time to return to reality.”
Article by Brandon Smith.
Excerpts:
The 15 Minute City is more like a recipe, containing every single ingredient of the climate change and covid lockdown agendas in a single comprehensive Orwellian vision. It includes removing motor vehicles, removing private transportation and roads, smart city and AI monitoring of each person’s electricity usage, monitoring of product consumption and “carbon footprint”, biometric surveillance within a compact and stacked urban landscape, the cashless society concept, equity and inclusion cultism, population control, etc.
It is the culmination, the end game; a massive prison with no bars. A place where you are conditioned to grow accustomed to artificial limitations on privacy, no civil liberties, no private property, and no work options or mobility. You are tied to the land and the land is owned by the state (or corporation). If you want a historic comparison, the closest I can find is the feudal system of Medieval Europe.
Within these cities you are a labor mechanism, nothing more. You will never be allowed to own your own property and thus own your own labor. Everything you have is given to you by the state and can be taken away by the state if you defy them. You might be able to leave the village or community you are tied to for a time, but this will change with increasing restrictions on the public’s movement according to the dictates of climate ideology.
As long as you are productive and submissive you will be give the things you need to survive, but never to thrive. In the case of a technocratic feudal system you would not have any guarantees that the state would need your services. At least in feudal Europe a peasant was seen as valuable resource because of limited population. In a world where many people are considered “population excess”, you could easily be replaced and booted out of the city to starve and die.
Article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali on UnHerd.com.
Quotes:
Western civilisation is under threat from three different but related forces: the resurgence of great-power authoritarianism and expansionism in the forms of the Chinese Communist Party and Vladimir Putin’s Russia; the rise of global Islamism, which threatens to mobilise a vast population against the West; and the viral spread of woke ideology, which is eating into the moral fibre of the next generation.
We endeavour to fend off these threats with modern, secular tools: military, economic, diplomatic and technological efforts to defeat, bribe, persuade, appease or surveil. And yet, with every round of conflict, we find ourselves losing ground. We are either running out of money, with our national debt in the tens of trillions of dollars, or we are losing our lead in the technological race with China.
But we can’t fight off these formidable forces unless we can answer the question: what is it that unites us? The response that “God is dead!” seems insufficient. So, too, does the attempt to find solace in “the rules-based liberal international order”. The only credible answer, I believe, lies in our desire to uphold the legacy of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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To me, this freedom of conscience and speech is perhaps the greatest benefit of Western civilisation. It does not come naturally to man. It is the product of centuries of debate within Jewish and Christian communities. It was these debates that advanced science and reason, diminished cruelty, suppressed superstitions, and built institutions to order and protect life, while guaranteeing freedom to as many people as possible. Unlike Islam, Christianity outgrew its dogmatic stage. It became increasingly clear that Christ’s teaching implied not only a circumscribed role for religion as something separate from politics. It also implied compassion for the sinner and humility for the believer.
[. . .]
In this nihilistic vacuum, the challenge before us becomes civilisational. We can’t withstand China, Russia and Iran if we can’t explain to our populations why it matters that we do. We can’t fight woke ideology if we can’t defend the civilisation that it is determined to destroy. And we can’t counter Islamism with purely secular tools. To win the hearts and minds of Muslims here in the West, we have to offer them something more than videos on TikTok.
The lesson I learned from my years with the Muslim Brotherhood was the power of a unifying story, embedded in the foundational texts of Islam, to attract, engage and mobilise the Muslim masses. Unless we offer something as meaningful, I fear the erosion of our civilisation will continue. And fortunately, there is no need to look for some new-age concoction of medication and mindfulness. Christianity has it all.
That is why I no longer consider myself a Muslim apostate, but a lapsed atheist. Of course, I still have a great deal to learn about Christianity. I discover a little more at church each Sunday. But I have recognised, in my own long journey through a wilderness of fear and self-doubt, that there is a better way to manage the challenges of existence than either Islam or unbelief had to offer.