Searching Databases
Lloyd wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 6:13 pm
JP, what about scientific papers? Where do you find the best scientific info? Is there anything besides PubMed?
Searching databases is an art in itself. I find it easier to find a voice on the topic of interest and trawl their footnotes and chase the rabbit trail from there. These days most digital science and medical papers are hotlinked to the DOI database, so commencing a rabbit trail is as simple as a single click. When you see the same names or papers keep coming up, those are the trails to start following. The issue is knowing what is useful for what you're trying to research, and what isn't.
For example, early on in the COVID hoax I was looking at Adeno-Associated Virus vector (AAV) technologies (this tech is used in AstraZeneca, Sputnik-V and J&J). I wanted to discern whether or not AAV could really permanently change the host DNA. Sure enough, one name kept coming up: R.J. Samulski. Turns out to be a father-son team who have been researching the tech for more than 50 years (Hastie & Samulski, 2015). They assert that the older AAV tech was specifically used to undertake targeted integration of viral DNA/RNA into human chromosome 19 (Samulski et al., 1991). A later paper demonstrated that newer tech did not have to integrate the AAV 'payload' into the host cell chromosomes; one could regulate various genomic expressions without chromosomal DNA integration (Li & Samulski, 2020). Thus, when the mainstream media says that these DNA/RNA vaccines do not (have to) alter human DNA sequences, it is
technically correct. But the frightening thing is that the older tech, the stuff that's been around for at least 50 years,
could. There's no reason to suppose that, if a DNA/RNA vaccine developer had an ulterior motive, they
could introduce synthetic DNA/RNA to a human host and reprogram their chromosomal DNA via integration, turning that host into a fully GMO God-knows-what. And that is something you will never see in the media in discussion of these novel DNA/RNA vaccine technologies. It also shifts the debate from science (what can be done) to motive/morality (should it be done).
Critiquing Methodologies
What can be more difficult is discerning methodological problems.
How someone answers a question can be just as important as the supposed answers themselves. For example, there is quite the public stir about
how the SARS-CoV-2 virus has or has not been 'isolated'. This is a question of method: how do we answer the question, "Has the SARS-CoV-2 virus been isolated?" So the mainstream will assert, "Yes, it was isolated: this is how..." and cite the handful of publications demonstrating virus isolation (e.g.
here). But there have been not a few criticisms of the method of 'isolation' used, namely, that it is actually the opposite of 'isolation' in the normal sense of the word (e.g. see
here). To 'isolate' a virus, a sample is taken from the suspected diseased
human host. The suspected viral sample is grown in a culture of
green-monkey kidney cells (vero).
Bovine calf serum must be added to this cellular culture or else the host vero cells will die. Antibiotics and antifungals must also be added to this culture, or else the host vero cells will die. Eventually all the cells 'die' and 'virus' abounds in the sample. This is then centrifuged by a process called pelletisation, and the resulting pellet(s) is/are the 'isolated' virus. An amalgam of 3 biologicals (human-monkey-bovine) and 2 chemicals + centrifuge = 'isolation' in modern virology.
Some researchers have called out this methodology of 'isolation' as seriously flawed (see link above for examples, and
Andrew Kaufman). Firstly, River's Postulates (1937) require the 'virus' to be cultured on
host cells (i.e. human, not monkey). Yet many cases of virus isolation since ~1951 has used animal cells, not human cells, for culturing; or if they do use human cells, they do not use cells obtained from the diseased host but various 'immortal' (cancerous) human cell lines. Secondly, under no circumstances was 'pure' virus ever extracted from a sample (this is all viruses, not just SARS-CoV-2). The centrifugation process could have been done by gradient-diffusion to actually separate and isolate particles by density, but instead they use pelletisation. The process of culturing itself was a series of additions of biologicals and chemicals; it is Stefan Lanka's particular contention that there is no control test demonstrating that this process itself did not result in 'cell death' and the production of 'virus'. In fact, when he ran such control tests for his
2016 measles court case [PDF], using sterilised, virus-free sample instead of a viral sample, the same outcome resulted - the cells died and produced 'virus', even though the sample had never been exposed to 'virus'. Thirdly, there are other methods available for the complete
isolation of viral-sized particles (20-140 nm) from a biological sample that do not require culturing on vero cells, or additions of antibiotics or antifungals. Virology has availed itself of none of these techniques to isolate a 'virus' from a sample. Why not? Wouldn't it forever put to bed claims to the contrary, that SARS-CoV-2 (or viruses generally) cannot be isolated from an infected human? Hence the suspicion remains that virology's claims of viral 'isolation' do not accomplish what they say it does. There are serious methodological flaws with their isolation process that need redress, and no-one wants to touch this bomb because, if true, it potentially destroys the entire edifice of virology, epidemiology and modern anti-viral pharmacy. Do you really think Big Pharma is going to allow science to make them forfeit billions in profits for unnecessary anti-viral therapies if 'viruses' don't actually cause contagious illness in humans but are actually the result of other processes of cell death?
So, just because a paper claims to answer a question, it doesn't mean the manner of answering that question is valid. It takes discernment and methodological expertise to understand such issues, which requires exposure to the relevant fields, methodologies, and critiques thereof.
Controlled Opposition: Everyone?
Lloyd wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 6:13 pm
Miles Mathis mentions James Corbett in a couple of his papers and considers him controlled opposition.
And how do you know Miles Mathis isn't controlled opposition, a dispensary of fake news and misinformation? How do I know you or I are not controlled opposition of such a definition? This is lazy argument that can be slung at anyone one disagrees with. What criteria does Miles use to identify "controlled opposition," and does he himself qualify under those criteria?
While I do not doubt the concept of controlled opposition (CIA Handbook standard procedure), how does one discern that a certain person or group is one, and can those criteria be used against the proponent? An example is a recent article by ABC Australia:
"Can a 'Psychological Vaccine' Protect against Fake News and COVID Disinformation?" This article identifies six core critera of 'disinformation':
ABC wrote:Polarisation — amplifying existing grievances and tensions between different groups
Invoking emotions — such as fear, anger, or empathy
Spreading conspiracy theories — creating or amplifying alternative explanations for news events which assume that these events are controlled by a small, usually malicious, secret elite group of people
Trolling people online —deliberately inciting a reaction from a target audience by using bait
Discrediting others — typically to deflect blame and accusations of bias
Impersonating more credible sources — such as setting up a fake Twitter account
If I were to judge a mainstream media source by these criteria (such as the ABC itself), what would I discover? Their articles exhibit polarisation (Antifa riots and 'white racism' wholeheartedly sponsored by MSM, etc), invoke emotions (do i need to cite examples? "Grandma will catch COVID, ACT LIKE YOU HAVE IT NOW!" "Save the NIH" etc), spread conspiracy theories (like the idea that 'science', a small and elite group of people, should control the COVID narrative; tech companies should ban all dissent), troll people online, discredit others ("Fact-check," banning/smearing dissenters) and impersonate credible sources (fake experts like front-man Fauci, or here in Aus, Norman Swan). In other words, they condemn themselves as the peddlers of fake news and disinformation. They are controlled opposition. ABC has slain itself by its own sword. I suspect if these criteria were used to judge Miles Mathis, he too would be found as a peddler of fake news and disinformation; he is controlled opposition. Pretty much anything anyone says would fall into one of these categories at some point (including this polarising generalisation), thus anyone can be labelled at any time with anything and we're no closer at the truth than we were when we started.
The solution, then, is a better definition and categorisation of "controlled opposition." Got any suggestions by which you do not implicate yourself?
