“We live in a civilization that’s so pervasively steeped in lies and manipulations that the only way to have a truth-based relationship with reality is to drop all your assumptions and premises about what’s true and begin examining everything from the very beginning with fresh eyes.”
– Caitlin Johnstone
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
– Mark Twain
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”
– Mark Twain
“I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.”
– Mark Twain
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
– Richard Feynman, Physicist
Buddha told us that the world we perceive is an illusion (Maya). Rene Descartes declared, “I think, therefore I am,” or, in other words, the only thing you can know with absolute certainty is that you exist. Have we forgotten these warnings?
A modern-day prophet, Julian Assange, tells us much the same thing:
“We can all write about our political issues, we can all push for particular things we believe in, we can all have particular brands of politics, but I say actually it’s all bankrupt. And the reason it’s all bankrupt, and all current political theories are bankrupt and particular lines of political thought, is because actually we don’t know what the hell is going on. And until we know the basic structures of our institutions — how they operate in practice, these titanic organizations, how they behave inside, not just through stories but through vast amounts of internal documentations — until we know that, how can we possibly make a diagnosis? How can we set the direction to go until we know where we are? We don’t even have a map of where we are.”0
Do you find that hard to agree with? Do you believe you know what is going on? Perhaps you have great confidence in science and medicine, believing we are in the good hands of caring, compassionate, and highly-educated people whose only goal is the pursuit of knowledge for the benefit of mankind.
Consider, though, during the early days of Covid it was revealed that a single organization – the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – gave $319 million to large media outlets. That is a lot of media leverage from one organization, an organization that gave grants to and was invested in Moderna, one of the “vaccine” companies. Perhaps, what you believe about Covid and the “vaccines” is more aligned with the Gates Foundation and what it would like for you to believe than with reality. Even some scientists are warning us that confidence in published science is unwarranted. A recent paper What did COVID-19 really teach us about science, evidence and society?1 warns that:
“The COVID-19 experience makes clear that today’s medical science enterprise is not an autonomous, self-correcting global public good, but a component and product of global, national and regional political economies within which science and societal needs may be poorly aligned. Commodification of science, predicted half a century ago, has reached unprecedented levels.”
Could this be true? Has science been commodified? You can follow the references in the article mentioned above and decide for yourself. Here are some other sources that make the case as well:
1) “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”
– Dr. Marcia Angell2
2) “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.”
– Dr. Richard Horton3
3) A recent paper in The Epoch Times mentions 300 papers related to Covid that have been withdrawn for not meeting scientific standards. A Retraction Watch article discusses “peer review rings” that degrade the peer review process, resulting in publishers retracting over 500 papers.
– Over 300 COVID-19 Papers Withdrawn for Not Meeting Standards of Scientific Soundness4
4) The Lancet retracted a paper that concluded that Hydroxychloroquine was not a useful treatment for Covid-19 (because the authors would not share the underlying data for others to analyze). An article about the scandal calls this “politicized science,” as the article was published without meeting the journal’s own standards.5
Scientists are smarter than average and, therefore, likely to be above-average at deception. Such deception is difficult to spot for those unable to penetrate the jargon of science. Remember, “two weeks to flatten the curve”? Remember being told “your mask is for me, my mask is for you” and “the vaccine is safe and effective”? It was just high-octane deception – BS – as many have come to learn.
John Ioannidis, epidemiologist, and one of the author’s of the paper cited earlier, published another paper several years ago claiming that over 50% of published scientific papers are wrong. In his paper he explained that the more money that was in a field, the more likely that a paper was wrong. Also, the hotter a field is, the more likely that a paper is wrong. One only hopes that the authors appreciated the irony of writing a paper claiming that most papers are wrong!
Should we be surprised by any of this? Probably not. Squirrels will pretend to bury food to fool other animals that are observing them. Chameleons will change color to blend in with their environment. It’s deception. Humans, though, have elevated the practice of deception to an art form.
The film Trace Amounts documents nearly 100 years of lies related to thimerosal (which contains mercury) a preservative used in vaccines. In 1929, during an epidemic of meningococcal meningitis, researchers administered thimerosal to twenty-two ill patients. All the patients died, seven of them within one day of thimerosal administration. Officially, however, the deaths were not attributed to thimerosal, and the obfuscation about the danger of mercury continues to this day.6
Humans once lived in clans of about 150 individuals with whom there was a level of trust. But other clans were competitors who were not trusted because they were competing for limited resources. It’s not so different now. Making matters worse, the least trustworthy people are drawn to positions of power … and they are harder to spot in the large bureaucracies of the day.
We recently saw many public health authorities revel in exercising power over people. Ordinary people could not bring themselves to believe that those in power were lying about the danger of a virus. The concept of “mirror-imaging” explains this: good people assume that those they meet are also good people and, therefore, act as honorably as they themselves would. But this was a bad assumption, even a fatal assumption, for some of those who were jabbed.
The following video is a shocking compilation showing numerous scientists, authorities and influencers scaring, scolding and manipulating people during the Covid era.
There are many synonyms I could have used in this article for the word “bullshit,” one of them being “propaganda.” Mark Crispin Miller, once a professor teaching about propaganda at NYU, writes:
“I have called the period from 2020 to the present a propaganda masterpiece….This is the most frightening thing of all: This one has succeeded by making people do it willingly…What the Covid crisis did as propaganda is make millions of people desperate to get a ‘vaccination.’ I mean it’s like getting people to elbow each other out of the way to get on board the cattle cars.”
The next crisis could be manufactured at any time. Our best defense is to develop an internalized BS detector. Keep in mind that AI will have access to your personal data and will soon be customizing messages designed to manipulate you! (Yuval Harrari has publicly bragged that humans are “hackable animals.”) When in doubt, assume what you are being told is wrong until you can prove to yourself otherwise.
It’s a tall order to come to terms with the idea that we are surrounded by falsehoods. But, perhaps, this is the price of personal development, as indicated by Friedrich Nietzsche in his book Beyond Good and Evil:
“The strength of a person’s spirit would then be measured by how much truth he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.”
Sources Cited:
0 The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange
1 What did COVID-19 really teach us about science, evidence and society? (Ioannidis)
2 Medical Propaganda and its Damaging Capture of the Healthcare and Consumer Health Culture.
4 Over 300 COVID-19 Papers Withdrawn for Not Meeting Standards of Scientific Soundness
5 Politicized Science: Lancet, NEJM retract studies on HCQ
6 Historical Development of the Mercury Based Preservative Thimerosal
Other Sources:
Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets
Fifteen Useful Facts (Caitlin Johnstone)
Most Important Medical History Lesson We Must Never Forget
Exclusive: Hindawi and Wiley to retract over 500 papers linked to peer review rings
Cognitive traps for intelligence analysis
Trace Amounts (The Movie)