'Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts'

What gives me the right to write about covid?

According to Richard Feynman, who famously formulated this essay’s title, and Nobel laureate for physics, science itself gives me the right…

People ask me, why should I express scepticism about lock downs and vaccines and masks? What right do I have? Trust the experts! Or better yet, listen to the science!

But science itself is not a body of knowledge. And if it were, who speaks for it? Bill Nye the Science Guy?

So why do I presume to speak out on all this?

First of all, I do because I feel compelled to point out that we are headed towards a very dark place globally. We are jabbing kids for a disease they do not get with drugs we have not properly tested. On top of that, we now have a global apartheid system of vaccines passes.

Second, independent journalists and writers are more credible than the corporate media. If you think News24 and CNN tell it like it is, I just don't know what to tell you.

Third, if anybody who can read and write and knows some basic research skills spends time on this issue, reading what the experts say, what their beloved studies say, and what Joe Normal says as a result on Facebook, the lies, distortions and contradictions become glaringly obvious.

Here is a taster from a highlight reel of the personification of global health expertise, the 80-year-old highest paid civil servant in the US, and Time’s ‘Guardian of the Year’ for 2020, Anthony Fauci:

Justin Hart @justin_hart

Video: Fauci talking out of both sides of his mouth. The mask charade is over. What a fiasco!

Now the common rebuttal to all his flip flops is that ‘the science changed’ (which provokes the question, when do we know to trust it?) but, of course, when it comes to masks, I ask the simple question, when did the size of the virus molecule grow by a hundred times so that suddenly the masks worked?

A scientist advising the UK government recently pointed out that the virus is 5000 times smaller than a gap in a cloth mask. Yet here we are, policing kids to cover their mouths and noses. Hot off the press: Fauci is about to mandate masks again for double vaccinated Americans.

Experts shut the world down for over a year, told us not to go to the beach, ignored the evidence that lock downs would cause starvation, stopped kids playing outside, forced them onto screens, or in South Africa, out of schooling altogether, covered their faces with soggy cloths, but if I express scepticism about their sticking a needle into my family's skin, I must be some kind of superstitious conspiracy theorist? When did they earn my trust?

(They also made everybody who coughed get a test even though it has now been shown that mass testing was a massive waste of time and money. Again, a non-expert without reading a study could have told you this right at the beginning. )

Feynman was a clever guy. He knew the experts are very, very often wrong, probably because they are as susceptible to group think and political correctness as any other group of people. Every professional person has pride, ambition, and a fear of looking stupid. Scientists are no different. Their will to power is just garbed differently.

What sparked this line of thought for me was being shown a few infographics and meme advice about why it is time for dissenters to be quiet and trust the experts, how even if vaccines do not work perfectly, they are still useful, much like condoms, and that if I do not become vaccinated, I will become a factory for ‘the variants’.

All of this stuff is being shared unsuspecting by normal people out there, who, if they just spent a little time going to the scientific sources, would be shocked to discover they are likely wrong on every point, that their trust in a media-generated consensus is utterly misplaced, and that their own rhetoric is being used as cover for a burgeoning global regime that will have the power to imprison their children for health and information misdemeanors.

I have covered the masks and lockdowns at length previously.

Let me deal with the idea that the vaccines are our tickets to freedom, that we can unhesitatingly trust them, and that those who do not take them are threats to public health.

I would be much more willing to listen to the vaccine crew if they were open about the most clear-cut fact we have about immunity. If you have had covid, you do not need the vaccine. This is well-established. The vaccine is not protecting people from getting covid, despite that being the finding from the trials. Having had covid is your best defence.

Of the latest wave of covid patients in Israel, only 1% had been infected before. 40% were vaccinated. In French Guiana, there was an outbreak of covid in a gold mine where 60% of the vaccinated were infected. 0% of the previously infected were infected. A detailed study just gave the research behind these observations: covid infection gives you very long lasting immunity, with immunity that is broader than that provided by vaccines. Which is probably why a country like Switzerland has ordered 40 million shots for a 5 million population. They know these shots are more like therapeutics than vaccines.

I am sure some will say that this is negated by the stories you hear about people getting it twice, but that is exceedingly rare and could be a mistake owing to faulty pcr testing. The same anecdotal misinformation was recently spread that young people are now being hospitalised and dying. This was simply not evident in the data. For 20 to 50 year old patients in South Africa, the third wave was less dangerous relatively:

To return to the question of natural immunity, the question that emerges is why are we never told what percentage of the population has already had covid? Why is that never discussed? Why this mad pressure to assume there is no natural immunity, thus wasting vaccines on people who do not need them, when they could be distributing the vaccines to the vulnerable in the third world? By their own logic, the vaccine lobby is condemning millions of people to death.

Could it be over 60% of most populations have had covid, making the mass vaccination programme basically null and void?

The next propaganda point being spread is that non-vaccinated people will create variants. This is literally the opposite of the truth. Leaky vaccines are well-known to be variant drivers. A leaky vaccine is one which counters the virus, but only enough to allow the virus to grow stronger.

The British government, the arch vaccinators in the world, admits this. In an official document on their website, generated by their official scientists, it states:

The combination of high prevalence and high levels of vaccination creates the conditions in which an immune escape variant is most likely to emerge. The likelihood of this happening is unknown, but such a variant would present a significant risk both in the UK and internationally.

Maybe we should give the unvaccinated financial rewards for taking one for the team, instead of banning them from life. Especially as we know now the vaccines, unlike the ones you took when you were young, do not prevent transmission and infection. This is supported by the fact that another highly vaccinated country, Israel, is reporting that the Pfizer vaccine is only 39% effective, contra the 95% claimed in the trials. Could the effectiveness decline further? Well, third shots are going to be starting soon…

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The world is a strange place. Expertise can be a very good thing. I love doctors. Some of them are the best people I know. Anesthesia, antibiotics, setting broken bones, surgery. Doctors save lives all of the time with their expertise in the above.

But any expertise which does not induce a sense of humility is very dangerous. And expertise from people who are willing to exaggerate their expertise is even more dangerous. How much are all the doctors reading? Which questions are they too afraid to ask each other?

There is strange data about doctors in medical literature. When they strike, death rates often go down. (Click on the Twitter thread shown at the end of the essay which explores the study visually.) Medical error kills around 250 000 people each year in the US. This number is probably higher than the number of healthy people who have died from covid in the US. Obviously mistakes happen. But why do none of us really know about the volume of these errors?

This strangeness and limit to expertise is not confined to medicine.

Do you remember, for example, the whole vanishing insects thing the scientists told us about, an impending apocalypse because of the disappearance of honey bees? Trumpeted by the New York Times and Time magazine, who touted ‘the studies’ and the experts, the whole thing was a lie.

What about the disappearing Great Barrier Reef? Yes, wrong again.

These experts never apologize. Their media shills never retract. They just leave the public with a constant hum of panic. Which then justifies things like massive new taxes, lock downs, and probably coming bans on meat and dairy, so they can spread fields of soy all over farmland instead of ranching.

People around the world, do not abandon your common sense, especially in a time of ‘crisis’. Remember the little child who knew the emperor was naked.

I am afraid to say that the evidence is fairly clear: the experts are making it up as they go along.

Schwab @RealhumanSchwab

In Bogota - Colombia in 1970, there was a 52 days period in which doctors disappeared altogether except for emergency care. The "National Catholic Reporter" described a "string of unusual side effects" from the strike. The death rate went down 35%.