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Jan 18, 2021Liked by Peter R. Quiñones

I am starting to refer to them all as the "White Coats", especially as they engage in medical and public tyranny to the masses. The institutions of education in this country have created their own classist structure in the information power domain and the new clerics and bishops shall not be questioned publicly. Corner one of them away from the public megaphone and most will acknowledge the heart of the scientific method is skepticism and time is the ultimate arbiter of truth through trial and error in experimentation. But most when confronted by a group would gladly fill their role in the ministry of truth. Radicalizing the thousands of graduate students in STEM who will not get professor jobs (the ratio is something like 100 to 1 in bodies to positions) and they won't get government jobs because those will go to the social scientists who understand how to say the sermon the best. I good deal are engineer minded and would make great builders and a counter-academic force. The problem comes with the carrots and sticks, many just don't see the value in liberty because they have never experienced it so instead they turn to Marxism. Can't say I am surprised to see all the new strange bedfellows, we will see what it brings. I appreciate your writing.

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It frustrates me to have to explain ad nauseum that there are no studies demonstrating the masks are decreasing the spread of respiratory viruses going in OR out. But there is study after study PROVING unanimously that asymptomatic carriers cannot spread specifically the magic cootie in question. I am always referred to a single study from the Philippines when PRE symptomatic people are alleged to have spread the virus to 6 other people. The problem is that it is taken for granted that the virus wasn’t already circulating prior which we know now is false. With every study that comes out trying to prove efficacy of masks or the potency of asymptomatic carriers has massive fraud or false premises involved deeming it irrelevant. The one that pisses me off the most was a study that compares disease spread in a locked down state before and after wide spread mask usage. Unfortunately, though, they managed to bitch the entire date of the “before” and the total estimated amounts of people in the demographic who were wearing masks by SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT! This was pointed out to the study authors numerous time but they refused to comment OR retract and NOW that massively botched study is used to “fact check” people on social media making the accurate claim that the efficacy of masks is dubious.

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Jan 18, 2021Liked by Peter R. Quiñones

Thank you, Pete. I really enjoy and appreciate these.

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“Where is your medical degree from - Google?!” Funny stuff. You could relate the artificial sense of knowledge to an inflationary bubble. Big NGOs and corporations still have some value for this fake form of intelligence, but how detached from reality does it have to become to have no value? There’s a limit somewhere.

What you’ve been writing reminds me a lot of Bertrand Russell’s book The Impact of Science of Society (1954). To paraphrase, BR says the social psychologists of the future will be figuring out how to entirely convince children that snow is black and they will try various methods. Soon they will discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe snow is black and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray. The science of mass psychology will be confined to the governing class and the populace will not be allowed to know how their convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, government “will be able to control its subjects securely without the need for armies or policeman.”

It feels a little hopeless because when highly educated liberals get acquainted with propaganda techniques, all they do is apply it to the way Trump voters have been duped. But many of these types, knee-deep in psychotherapy and self-help books, will admit to lack of self esteem. Anyway, John Taylor Gatto has a term provisional self esteem that is worth looking up, spreading,and popularizing.

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