That’s the question Todd Zywicki is asking. If the name Zywicki doesn’t ring a bell, Zywicki is the George Mason Law professor who won a lawsuit against his university: On August 3, 2021, Zywicki sued George Mason University over the University's COVID-19 vaccine and mask requirements,
In the “are these people for real” category, I just came upon this in one of our local papers. This guy, a political columnist, has decided he’s an expert on Covid vaxxes. His syndicated column appears in 93 California papers. Have a look at the rubbish he’s putting out, much of which pits the educated against the less educated:
HIGH TIME TO SQUELCH THE ANTI-VAXX LIES
“ Here are a few of the lies Californians are being told in an effort that surely has helped sicken many:
Take a COVID-19 vaccination and your life span will be shortened. Get the shot and you will be sterilized or become impotent. Shots include insertion of tracking bots. The pandemic is a government-created conspiracy.
These are absolute falsehoods, pure shibboleths, but in the parts of California with the lowest average levels of educational attainment, they and other falsehoods are in large part responsible for holding down vaccination rates and keeping caseloads high.
They have made COVID-19 – in the age of some of history’s most effective vaccines – mostly a disease of the gullible and the fearful.
Two neighboring counties show how this plays out:"
I read the original paper this morning but didn't feel competent to summarize. It's pretty big, although in a sense confirmatory--most scientists were pretty sure of this.
It seems to me once the appropriate scrutiny is put on the high-ups in this criminal cabal, it will be very easy to sort the lying criminal fraudsters from the contemptibly compliant.
He's been a bete noire of the right forever. His moment of hate from the left is what's amusing. But we've known forever that: "All within the narrative, nothing outside the narrative, nothing against the narrative."
The willingness to re-examine past positions, admit mistakes, and formulate new positions accordingly is indicative of a mature intellect, a truly scientific approach, and humility. Although GR isn't perfect, those qualities are in short supply nowadays and we need to take them where we find them.
That's good on him. Hey, I had my hair on fire for a while, too--mostly because I thought this might be an escaped bioweapon. I still think it came from a lab, but probably as part of a vaccine research project of some sort. Possibly as an antidote. But I think he's also right that people want to move on.
"It is. And now that it’s over, we need to claw back all the power seized by various institutions in the name of emergency. And when that’s done, we need a searching inquiry into how the power was exercised — an inquiry with consequences."
In the “are these people for real” category, I just came upon this in one of our local papers. This guy, a political columnist, has decided he’s an expert on Covid vaxxes. His syndicated column appears in 93 California papers. Have a look at the rubbish he’s putting out, much of which pits the educated against the less educated:
HIGH TIME TO SQUELCH THE ANTI-VAXX LIES
“ Here are a few of the lies Californians are being told in an effort that surely has helped sicken many:
Take a COVID-19 vaccination and your life span will be shortened. Get the shot and you will be sterilized or become impotent. Shots include insertion of tracking bots. The pandemic is a government-created conspiracy.
These are absolute falsehoods, pure shibboleths, but in the parts of California with the lowest average levels of educational attainment, they and other falsehoods are in large part responsible for holding down vaccination rates and keeping caseloads high.
They have made COVID-19 – in the age of some of history’s most effective vaccines – mostly a disease of the gullible and the fearful.
Two neighboring counties show how this plays out:"
More here:
http://www.californiafocus.net
And he plays Riverside County against Orange County.
I had a hard time finding his biography. Seems degrees from Stanford. Probably has to parrot the party line so he is not cancelled.
Via kirsch. All information goes one way, all propagandist pronouncements go the other.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-bnt162b2-mrna-vaccine-against?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MDY2MTY2NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDU1MTU2OTMsIl8iOiJQOEdhZCIsImlhdCI6MTYzOTY4ODg1MCwiZXhwIjoxNjM5NjkyNDUwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTE2ODk2Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.xKcsy4nPxg0Ql-7zvKirGhpZd52IK3K36atDhupygL4
I read the original paper this morning but didn't feel competent to summarize. It's pretty big, although in a sense confirmatory--most scientists were pretty sure of this.
She does a very nice job making it intelligible.
Sounds like the real numbers are a lot worse:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2016/08/22/monmouth-university-pollster-patrick-murray-busted-manipulating-poll-data-then-lying-about-it/
What's with the D+ weightings all the time? D+14 a lot of the time for the 2016 and 2020 presidential races, give me a break!
It's entirely possible.
Here's a fun read that fits right in:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-bluechecks-really-are-this-scared/comments
We're going to have to shutdown the fear mongers. May take another visit from Jesus to do that.
It seems to me once the appropriate scrutiny is put on the high-ups in this criminal cabal, it will be very easy to sort the lying criminal fraudsters from the contemptibly compliant.
I'm about 1/3 the way through Bobby Kennedy's book. It is amazing how the sharp (defamatory) knives have come out for him on the left:
https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1471179640156786688
And on the right, too. Where Kennedy is a dirty word.
He's been a bete noire of the right forever. His moment of hate from the left is what's amusing. But we've known forever that: "All within the narrative, nothing outside the narrative, nothing against the narrative."
“Contemptibly compliant” — love that phrase. Perfect description.
The willingness to re-examine past positions, admit mistakes, and formulate new positions accordingly is indicative of a mature intellect, a truly scientific approach, and humility. Although GR isn't perfect, those qualities are in short supply nowadays and we need to take them where we find them.
That's good on him. Hey, I had my hair on fire for a while, too--mostly because I thought this might be an escaped bioweapon. I still think it came from a lab, but probably as part of a vaccine research project of some sort. Possibly as an antidote. But I think he's also right that people want to move on.
You left this key part out:
"It is. And now that it’s over, we need to claw back all the power seized by various institutions in the name of emergency. And when that’s done, we need a searching inquiry into how the power was exercised — an inquiry with consequences."
It is clear the CDC (that is, the CDC Director) trumps the FDA advisory panels these days. How and when that was legally enabled I don't know.
Left hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing? Or something?