In this week’s episode, we discuss resistance to Make America Healthy Again, and how beliefs that were once unspeakable become speakable. It used to be impossible to speak about the risks of fluoride in the water; now it’s not. It used to be impossible to question the safety of Mercury in vaccines; now it’s not. How safe is Aluminum as an adjuvant in vaccines? Goliath assures us it’s safe; we look at the research that has been done, and find otherwise. We are betting our lives, and our children’s lives, on four rabbits and a dude.
We also discuss the polio vaccine, and GLP-1 RAs, more familiarly known as Ozempic and its chemical kin. Similar to the mRNA shots for Covid (wherein Uracil was replaced with Pseudouridine), GLP-1RAs are similar but not identical to a naturally occurring human hormone, but have been altered to be more “stable” and last longer in the body.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Secret campaign to disrupt MAHA: https://x.com/holden_culotta/status/1869206497013698823
Karstens 2024. History of Salk Inactivated Polio vaccine: https://www.malone.news/p/inconvenient-history-of-salk-inactivated
Why we should welcome the lab leak theory: https://unherd.com/2021/06/why-we-should-welcome-the-lab-leak-theory/
Rogers 2019. The Political Economy of Autism: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/20198/Rogers_T_thesis.pdf
Pharma darlings: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/pharma-darlings
Giant Herbs & Tea: http://www.giant-herbs.com
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Holding Screen
00:05:43 Welcome
00:13:02 Sponsors: Pique’s Nandaka, CrowdHealth, Brain.fm
00:28:28 RFK Jr. & The Epidemic of Hyper Novelty (MAHA)
00:33:13 Campaigns from Food, Ag, and Pharma Against Upcoming Confirmations
00:43:38 Paying the Kook Cost (ex. Being Against the Fluoridation of Water)
00:48:42 More “Metaphorically True“ Examples
00:55:48 Metaphorically False vs. Bad People Inflicting Costs on You In Order to Keep You Quiet
01:00:18 They’re Trying to Keep You Mentally Constrained
01:00:56 Vaccine Safety: Factually Incorrect, but Socially Correct
01:09:40 Get Ahead of Insane Claims, Such as “Ozempic is Safe”
01:18:40 “Inconvenient History of Salk Inactivated Polio Vaccine”
01:23:39 Polio Vaccines and Simian Virus 40 (SV40)
01:26:03 The Stories are Wrong
01:29:56 Mercury to Aluminum in Vaccines
01:34:39 Aluminum is a Safe Adjuvant based on Four Studies
01:46:59 Just Test it Properly
01:51:37 To Summarize
01:55:30 Speaking to Doctors
01:55:56 A Funny Moment in GLP-1 Research
02:01:23 Giant Herbs and Tea
02:04:05 DarkHorse Store Ships to Europe Now!
We have "cartesian blinders being put on us so that we are trying to make sense out of scraps of information and hints." - @bretweinstein
WEINSTEIN: I mean, even if you have your villains who are engaged in the behavior that motivated this war in Iran, even if that's the story, presumably most of the people in the path of these ferocious bombings that he is describing are not deserving of going back to the Stone Age.
In fact, I distinctly remember him telling us that part of what we were up to was liberating the people of Iran from their tyrannical regime.
So if it's the tyrannical regime that justifies the ferocious bombing, then it's a tragedy that other people are going to be sent back to the Stone Ages with them. Right?
HEYING: It's it's not a narrative. It's an incoherent set of talking points.
WEINSTEIN: Yeah, it's a kind of cheerleading that is completely inappropriate from the perspective of the president.
Bret Weinstein discusses the Trump administrations "back to the stone age" recent remarks in the latest episode of The Evolutionary Lens, Episode 320 "Are we back in the stone age?" on DarkHorse.
Bret Weinstein explains, "If you stop businesses from starting here, and if you drive people so that they move elsewhere—even though it's difficult to do—then the point is the tax base dries up, which then forces you to become even more predatory for the people who stayed.
And that's really the thing, right? They're setting themselves up so that they have to go after more and more people, because the people who are starting new businesses are not going to do it here."
A couple weeks ago @bretweinstein pondered if dogs actually like to chase balls or if dogs enjoy watching humans play chase with them. Lola submits one data point, herself. She enjoys tossing balls to herself, and will while no one is watching. I'm trying to get a better video, she will also grab a tennis ball by it's fluf and launch it straight up, like a lacrosse player throwing a ball. She'll drop them down stairs, drop them off the ottoman, or any other high elevation and chase them. She's also developed a sorta soccer style to nudge them back on hardwood floors. So with test subject Lola, the answer is clearly "dogs love chasing balls".
Boom Bust Cycles of Influence
How fiat audiences capture influencers
What does a massive propaganda or influence campaign actually look like? I think if you want to understand how online warfare takes place, the best model we have is the banking system.
When it comes to the internet, attention is the coin of the realm, and there’s nothing more sought after than an influencer who commands a lot of it. And just like fiat currency, attention can be used to artificially inflate audiences and engagment, essentially astroturfing (whether wittingly or unwittingly) content creators.
Tactic #1: The boom bust cycle
I think bots work as the fiat currency of the online world. Whoever controls the bots can choose to inflate an audience the same way banks inflates the money supply, by creating something out of nothing. To the influencer, it might look like natural growth along with real people too, or perhaps they are incensitivized not to notice (or care). It’s basically the housing bubble all over again.
What I think ...
Hi Folks, I saw the Alex Gibney documentary MUSK today and there is much to parse in it (timing, motivations, biases, flawed assumptions, lack of introspection on the part of the filmmakers, etc etc) but in one particular segment, Gibney claims that there were so many early covid victims in NYC that the City had to rent refrigeration trailers to store all the bodies. I had not heard that story and have zero trustworthy sources to investigate it.
Has anyone done an empirical analysis of that claim?
