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THE COVID PANDEMIC BROKE ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS WHO PUT THEIR PERSONAL POLITICS AHEAD OF SCIENCE AND THE PUBLIC GOOD.
Sorry to shout, but it needs to be said: A life changing pandemic hit our planet and the learned class of people that we looked to for advice totally botched the job. Unfortunately, it wasn’t just on masks.
A recent New York Magazine investigation noted that the expert class also screwed the pooch when they clamored for lockdowns—a senseless, stupid experiment that devastated thousands of small businesses and working-class families. (“COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure. A Key Lesson of the Pandemic.”)
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There's actually a lot of engineering put into driving surfaces and there's no way plastic could replace it.
Fisman et al. (2022, 2024) concocted a parameter, which they denote Psi (the Greek letter, ψ). They applied their concocted Psi to incorrectly claim that the risk of infection with COVID-19 to the vaccinated is Psi-fold disproportionately due to the unvaccinated.
Their Psi parameter is mathematically ill-defined, artificially large by its design, and varies in directions contrary to what is physically possible. It is an absurd quantity introduced ad hoc, having no epidemiological basis.
With my co-author Joseph Hickey, PhD, we rigorously proved that the Fisman et al. parameter Psi is nonsense, and we showed that its application can cause harm in society. We made our proof and demonstration in this detailed report:
Rancourt, D.G., and Hickey, J., “Comment on ‘Impact of immune evasion, waning and boosting on dynamics of population mixing between a vaccinated majority and unvaccinated minority’ by Fisman et al. (2024): Incorrect definition and application of a parameter ψ”. CORRELATION Research in the Public Interest, Brief Report, 25 April 2024. https://correlation-canada.org/comment-on-fisman-et-al-2024/ (also available at several other websites)
Virtually all peer reviewed medical journals have been coopted and compromised, particularly those owned by the WEF partner publishing houses Elsevier and Springer/Nature (see the prior essay “Disease X and the Corrupt Lancet” for further details). Relevant to this point was the recent reveal during the Dr. Peter Daszak public testimony in the US Congress that both the Lancet (published by Elsevier) and Nature (Springer) have refused to testify in response to specific congressional requests.
So much for “peer review” — Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers
Proving that unpaid anonymous review is worth every cent, the 217 year old Wiley science publisher “peer reviewed” 11,300 papers that were fake, and didn’t even notice. It’s not just a scam, it’s an industry. Naked “gobbledygook sandwiches” got past peer review, and the expert reviewers didn’t so much as blink.
Big Government and Big Money has captured science and strangled it. The more money they pour in, the worse it gets. John Wiley and Sons is a US $2 billion dollar machine, but they got used by criminal gangs to launder fake “science” as something real.
"The PCR brain fuck and brain implantation under guise of 'medical test'.
Surprised they didn't have a swab with a lobotomy needle to enhance the Great Decortication
and Frontal Lobotomy Project."
Almost four years ago, in August 2020, Scientific American wrote an article called “Nine COVID-19 Myths That Just Won’t Go Away”.
This one article should be preserved for eternity so that our grandchildren’s grandchildren can read about the time the world fell into mass hysteria.
Perhaps the myths wouldn’t go away because the truth doesn’t disappear, however hard you try to hide it. ...
Which is your favourite ‘myth’ that turned out to be true?
The novel coronavirus was engineered in a lab in China.
Wealthy elites intentionally spread the virus to win power and profit.
COVID-19 is no worse than the flu.
You don’t need to wear a mask.
Hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment.
The Black Lives Matter protests led to increased transmission.
Spikes in cases are because of increased testing.
We can achieve herd immunity by letting the virus spread through the population.
Any vaccine will be unsafe and a bigger risk than getting COVID-19.
but then the optimizers came and publication became both doctrinaire and big business. many journals were “captured” by ideologues who turned peer review into a form of ideological purity test and this found confluence with reliance upon government grants to perform the studies in the first place to the extent that entire fields became feudal fiefdoms working backwards from forgone conclusions to find ways to “prove” them because that’s what the money wanted. discovery became dogma.
and “peer review” became a potent tool to gatekeep this phenomenon. “we, the experts will only allow publication of that which agrees with the theory we have previously put forth” is where science goes to die. it’s stultification and stagnation. but it’s also VERY politically useful to a certain sort of technocrat seeking to gin up validation for policy choices. and so of course they seek, by sleight of hand, to make “peer review” synonymous with “proof” and every time someone on the internet demands “was it peer reviewed!?!” as though anything not so sifted could not plausibly have value, it simply digs the pseudoscientific pit of guild systems defending doctrine deeper.
past a point, it essentially substitutes “have the political commissars approved this?” for “scientific method” and alas, very few people seem to notice. ...
and as the very same AI that makes it so easy to catch university presidents for plagiarism spreads, the tide is going out and quite a lot of people are turning out not to have any pants on.
... the whole industry and vocation is under fire.
good.
this is the reputation economy at work and like most things, it should be a market, not an oligopoly and certainly not a dictatorship.
science that cannot be criticized can never be sound.
how would you even know?
if the claims stand up, then challenge makes them stronger.
if they don’t, then overturn them and move on.
adversarial debate is the only way and systems that evict you or refuse to fund you if you challenge then are the antithesis of scientific method.
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