Briefly noted, this article at Brownstone Institute. As you can tell from the title, it’s about the corruption of science that has been wrought by the Covid Regime. Now, it’s absolutely true that that corruption goes back further than Covid—Climate Change comes to mind immediately. On the other hand, I think an argument could be made—and the author offers a concrete example—that the Covid Regime of intentional and aggressive official disinformation has led to new levels of blatant dishonesty. Excerpt to give the general thesis:
I subscribe to a publication called MedpageToday, which is an excellent way to follow what is going on in the mainstream medical discussion, and not least to better understand what is wrong with it.
This week they published a piece on the benefits to infants from maternal vaccination, reported in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on June 22nd. In the introduction, the study authors make the following claim: “Infants younger than 6 months of age are at high risk for complications of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19)”
This came as a surprise, so I checked the source they quote in support of this statement. In short, the source tells us nothing about risk of hospitalization. All it tells us is the number of hospitalized infants over time per 100,000 in the population, which shows that early January this year, during a surge of Omicron infections, there was of course also a surge in hospitalizations; if we look at the general trends we see this in all age-groups.
This has nothing to do with hospitalization risk at all.
“… [H]igh risk for complications …”? In the general population, the probability of hospitalization following a Covid infection according to the CDC in October 2021 was around 5%; this means one in every 20 people infected was admitted to hospital.
After Omicron took over, this number went down by 50-70%, to between 1.5-2.5%. And if we look at the latest CDC estimate on relative risk between age groups, children up to 17 have the lowest risk of hospitalization, including infants. That means, for infants the risk of hospitalization is about 1/10th of the risk for the oldest age-group. It might be added that their risk of death is less than 1/330th of the oldest age-group. This is low risk, not high risk.
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That’s a pretty in your face level of dishonesty. Especially, as the author points out, in a peer reviewed article. We’re heading down a very slippery slope.
Our nation suffers from historical amnesia.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation about the dangers of the "scientific-technological elite" in his farewell address broadcast 17 JAN 1961, quoted in part:
" Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades."
" In this revolution, research has become central, it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government."
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" The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocation, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded."
" Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."
Trust Once lost, is hard to regain.
How much longer will the huge amount of lies and censorship last?
There has been a huge increase in awareness due to the overreach of the Get Trump at any cost, and by any means efforts by the uniparty. And Trump did his part by pushing back.