Thinking Points, 02 22, 2022

Paul Farmer, happiness research, Thomas Insel, Robert Califf, parallel narrative structures, Fire Fauci protests at NIH, Tetyana Obukhanych, Generation X, iconic photo from the revolution in Canada

Here are my latest thinking points:

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Oh FFS, they killed Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer was one of the most important thinkers in public health ever. The book about his life, Mountains Beyond Mountains, is transcendent. Dr. Farmer was a savant and a Brahmin, but he eschewed the wealth and privilege that usually go along with being a Harvard Medical School Professor so that he could live and work amongst the poor in Haiti and Rwanda. Indeed he often stuck it to those with wealth and power and showed how their approaches to public health were all wrong (and how to do things better).

Farmer "unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda," where he had been teaching for the past few weeks at the university he co-founded.

“Unexpectedly passed away in his sleep” is a euphemism for fatal vaccine adverse event. He was just 62 years old. We have already lost so much talent to the genocide. But this one hits particularly hard.

Paul Farmer was a genius and one of the most decent human beings on the planet. But he had one blind spot — he failed to properly evaluate the safety and efficacy of vaccines. And that blind spot led to his death.

I’m left with this uncomfortable realization — Farmer was at the top of his field. But I literally know a thousand people who understand vaccines better than he did. The students have become the master. And it’s time that we own the enormous responsibility that goes with that. They say that “science progresses one funeral at a time” — well, there are going to be a lot of funerals in the next few years. And we are going to lose so many people we adored.

Anyone who gets a booster at this point is an absolute idiot.

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I was skeptical of this article but it’s surprisingly good

Yale’s Happiness Professor Says Anxiety Is Destroying Her Students

There is a huge market for teaching and writing on positive psychology. But it stems from the fact that people, especially students, are so incredibly unhappy right now. I’ve read a fair number of books in this field and find that they often over-promise and under-deliver. However the replies from Yale cognitive scientist Laurie Santos in this interview were refreshingly humble and lovely:

Interviewer: I was just Googling you to find out some minor fact, and I saw a story in the Yale student paper that said you’re taking a leave of absence for burnout. So, first, I’m sorry that things were feeling difficult. And second, if the happiness professor is feeling burned out, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Laurie Santos: Back up, back up. I took a leave of absence because I’m trying not to burn out. I know the signs of burnout. It’s not like one morning you wake up, and you’re burnt. You’re noticing more emotional exhaustion. You’re noticing what researchers call depersonalization. You get annoyed with people more quickly. You immediately assume someone’s intentions are bad. You start feeling ineffective. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t noticing those things in myself. I can’t be telling my students, “Oh, take time off if you’re overwhelmed” if I’m ignoring those signals. You can’t just power through and wish things weren’t happening. From learning about the science of happiness, I treat it like any other health issue: If my blood pressure was soaring — you need to take action. So it’s not a story of Even the happiness professor isn’t happy. This is a story of, I’m making these changes now so I don’t get to that point of being burned out. I see it as a positive.

They go on to discuss the enormous pressures and anxieties experienced by students these days and the various approaches to happiness identified by researchers.

I just want to point out that there is an elephant in the room that neither the NY Times nor this professor acknowledged — the surge in mental illness among young people today (anxiety, depression, bipolar, ADHD, autism, etc.) has followed the surge in doses added to the childhood vaccine schedule. Happiness research is not going to help much if the underlying problem is actually too many toxicants.

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Even bigger elephants

The ‘Nation’s Psychiatrist’ Takes Stock, With Frustration

In a new book, Thomas Insel, who led research into psychiatric disease for 13 years, says that advances in neuroscience have yet to benefit patients.

Background and context: Thomas Insel led the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002 to 2015. In that role, he spent most of the agency’s $1.3 billion annual budget on genetics research — which has become a sort of make-work project for scientists to keep them away from studying toxicants. In his new book, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health Insel laments the fact that his 13 years leading NIMH produced almost nothing that actually benefitted patients.

The article does not mention this, but as the chair of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, Insel led the cover-up of the autism epidemic. Insel and NIH Director Francis Collins made sure that Congressional autism funding went toward the fruitless search for “a gene for autism” and they blocked nearly every attempt to understand the influence of toxicants. Countless parents have met with Insel, provided him with books and studies, and explained to him that they saw with their own eyes autistic regression in their kids following vaccinations. And he just smiled and listened and then covered it all up on behalf of the cartel.

I find it odious to see Insel engage in this wistful chin-stroking in his later years — ‘oh the brain is so complicated, I wish I could have done more’ — when in fact he knew exactly what was going on but was a coward and covered it up because he did not have the stones to take on Pharma.

If there is a hell, Insel, Collins, and Fauci will spend eternity there together.

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New FDA Commissioner Robert Califf just set up his Twitter account

He only has a few thousand followers and not very many replies to each post. If you were looking to educate him about the facts, and were hoping that he might actually see your comment, now is the time. Pharma realizes this too and they have sent their bots into the replies to demand more drugs for kids. So we need to get in there ASAP and show him what people power really looks like. Let’s roll!

https://twitter.com/DrCaliff_FDA

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Parallel narrative structures

First principles: there is no such thing as an organic “news” story these days. If a story appears in the NY Times or in the mainstream media it’s because the story was packaged and placed there by a PR firm, organized campaign, or government body.

So it’s more than a little weird that the mainstream media is now focused on the major themes that we have raised — censorship, the disenfranchisement of huge sections of the population, the rise of fascism, and the possibility of civil war — but they live in this bizarro opposite world and so they project all of the things that they are doing onto us.

For example, take a look at this recent Op Ed in the NY Times

“You Just Can’t Tell the Truth About America”

I read that headline and thought — right on! Exactly! We just cannot tell the truth about how the pharmaceutical industry has taken over all aspects of government and the mainstream media!

Then I read the first paragraph and my cheers grew even louder:

There is a dangerous censoriousness pulsing through American society. In small towns and big cities alike, would-be commissars are fighting, in the name of a distinct minority of Americans, to stifle open discussion and impose their views on the community at large. Dissenters, when they speak out, are hounded, ostracized and sometimes even forced from their jobs.

And I’m thinking to myself FINALLY someone understands what we’re going through with all of the censorship of scientific information online by social media companies who are not-so-secretly working for the cartel.

Alas, as you probably already guessed, it was not to be. The article never mentions the vast Stasi network that has been set up by the Biden administration, a wide range of astroturf nonprofits, and corrupt academics to censor anyone who criticizes the cartel. The article never once mentions the fact that hundreds of thousands of conservatives are banned from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram because they dared question the cartel. Instead the Op Ed takes issue with parents who get too involved in school board debates over textbooks about history and sex.

The headline and the emotional valence of the article were our issue — too much censorship! — flipped around, targets changed, and directed back at us.

And it’s not just that article. It’s everywhere. Take this recent article by David Remnick in the New Yorker that got a lot of attention:

Is a Civil War Ahead?

A year after the attack on the Capitol, America is suspended between democracy and autocracy.

And I’m thinking, EXACTLY! — Vaccine Apartheid in places like NY, Chicago, Boston, and SF has polarized our country; it’s causing families to have to flee Pharma slavery in blue states and move to the freedom of red states; partition seems likely, civil war is a definite possibility; Florida would have already declared independence except for the the fact that Ron DeSantis has a great chance of being elected President in 2024...

Nope, that’s not what the article is about at all. It’s all about Donald Trump, the January 6 insurrection, and how Republicans are evil.

In addition there are now heaps of stories about Republican disenfranchisement of minority voters even as Democratic mayors spent the last year setting up Vaccine Jim Crow that denied the full rights of citizenship to upwards of 75% of young Black Americans.

And there are heaps of stories about the rise in authoritarianism and fascism on the right, even as Democrats were setting up Pharma fascism and purging the police, military, education, and medical professions of their political opponents.

In all of this, even though they are stealing our themes, not once do these mainstream writers ever acknowledge that there is an equal and opposite argument on the other side where people are just as upset, if not more, and usually for valid reasons.

And if we operate from the first principles mentioned at the top of this section (that all stories are scripted to serve a larger narrative purpose) then it seems that Pharma knows exactly the issues and concerns that we are raising and they have set up a parallel narrative structure in the attempt to cancel out our voices. It’s almost like a noise cancelling machine — they are putting out the equal and opposite sound wave in the attempt to silence our message. Wild.

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There is a “Fire Fauci” Protest every Wednesday at noon at NIH!

Organized by the Organic Consumers Association, people gather with signs and hand out leaflets at the Medical Center Metro on the National Institutes of Health campus (8810 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892). More details (here). We definitely need a lot more of this! If you are anywhere close to the D.C. metro area, please find a way to join them if you can.

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The great science educator, Tetyana Obukhanych, PhD, now has a Substack!

It’s called Immunology for Daily Living. Lots of us have followed Tetyana’s writing for years on Facebook. Now with endless censorship on social media it will be good to have another way to stay in touch.

Welcome to Immunology for Daily Living!

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I’m haunted by this short tweet by Darla Shine

I read it a while back and it has stayed with me ever since.

Darla Shine @DarlaShine

Gen X has to save this country. Once we are gone, it's over.

I think she’s right.

Generation X (born 1965 to 1980) is the first vaccine-injured generation. But the schedule was smaller then and our injuries are less noticeable. We can speak normie as well as speak from the perspective of neurological injury.

After Generation X, the vaccine schedule soared (following the 1986 Act) and the Millennials (born 1981 to 1996) and Generation Z (born 1997 to 2012) are just completely screwed. They are chronically ill and they never knew a time before everyone was poisoned.

The Baby Boomers (born 1946 to 1964) have so much political power that they are going to consume as many resources as possible for as long as possible, everyone else be damned. (Yes, I know, #NotAllBabyBoomers.)

So it’s on Generation X to stop the march of Pharma fascism or there will be no United States anymore. No pressure or anything. That’s just the hand we’ve been dealt.

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Iconic

This is what we’re fighting for.

If anyone knows the photo credit please post it in the comments.

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Blessings to the warriors! 🙌

Prayers for the freedom fighters who are in jail in Canada! 🙏

Overthrow the fascists! ✊

In the comments, please let me know what’s on your mind.

(p.s. if you ever spot a typo, just let me know in the comments and I will fix it!)

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Update February 23, 2022:

One piece of the parallel narrative structure has come into view (thanks to the ever-reliable Democratic mouthpiece, The Washington Post). Democrats are getting hammered on education. School board overreach (on everything from masks to sex ed) cost Dems the governorship in Virginia.

So Democrats are running a counter narrative — about censorship — asking the generic question “Should books ever be banned for…
discussing race,
criticizing U.S. history,
depicting slavery,
political ideas you disagree with.”

The Washington Post is part of the play. Here’s the article they just wrote about it:

Opinion: A surprising poll about GOP book bans should light a fire under Democrats

To be clear, this is NOT what Republicans are doing (the Republican critique is broader and more nuanced — it’s about educators exceeding their authority and pushing certain narratives rather than teaching critical thinking.) But Dems think that this line of attack “Republicans want to ban books!” will be the judo move that saves them in November. Dems just did a big expensive poll to test this narrative (which tells us that Democratic dark money groups are driving this). It’s not going to work. But party insiders are running this play and that’s the reason why every Dem with an Op Ed column is writing about censorship this week.

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