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© nuhr.de/Germany’s Dieter Nuhr slams “McCarthy-like mood” in science after DFB German Research Foundation takes down his statement.
A message to Ramstorf, Mann, Greta, media, alarmists who declare their science as The Truth.
German, high profile satirist Dieter Nuhr, who earlier criticized Greta's hysteria, recently saw his statement taken down by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the latest wave of scientific censorship.
What follows is Nuhr's response to the DFG takedown of his statement he posted at Facebook, translated in the English (emphasis added):
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It's hard not to feel a bit sorry for social-justice warriors - it must be exhausting finding things to be offended by. The latest is an advert reading 'I ♥ JK Rowling', which was paid for by the campaign group Standing for Women. This fairly innocuous message, displayed to mark the birthday of the best-selling author, has now been removed by Network Rail following online complaints of transphobia. Despite clearly signalling support for those who identify as transgender, Rowling's expressions of concern about the loss of women-only services for victims of domestic abuse has led her to be branded a bigot. Identical 'I ♥ JK Rowling' billboards have been spotted across the United Kingdom. It remains to be seen what the wider response will be.
On 29 July, Network Rail Scotland, which sports a rainbow in its Twitter logo, tweeted: 'This advert is no longer being displayed at Edinburgh Waverley. The poster in question is against our code of acceptance for advertising in our stations owing to its political nature. We do not allow advertising that is likely to support or promote one viewpoint over another.' It seems statements in support of a children's author are now political.
Comment: See also:
- JK Rowling advert removed from Edinburgh Waverley train station for being too 'political'
- Harry Potter books prove UK lockdown hit despite JK Rowling trans rights row
- A trans woman who is also a parent and teacher says JK Rowling is absolutely right; it's child abuse to push kids towards changing sex
- How trans ideology took over
- YouTube censored my interview with Posie Parker
- Telling the truth about trans is not 'hate speech': YouTube bans interview with Posie Parker for saying trans women are men
Yale epidemiology professor Dr. Harvey Risch and CNN host John Berman bickered over hydroxychloroquine on Monday during a heated discussion about the polarizing drug, which the president has hailed as a possible treatment for COVID-19.
Risch recently wrote an op-ed in support of hydroxychloroquine, but Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx and other experts have dismissed the anti-malarial drug being used to combat coronavirus. Risch cited various studies that backed up his pro-hydroxychloroquine stance, but the host of CNN's "New Day" disagreed.
Comment: See also:
- Objective:Health - The Strange Push to Suppress Hydroxychloroquine
- The disturbing push to discredit HCQ
- Twitter YANKS doctor's fierce defense of HCQ as Covid-19 'cure' after Trump's retweet, as skeptics question her credentials
- Hydroxychloroquine should be available over the counter
- WHO halts hydroxychloroquine, HIV drugs in COVID trials after failure to reduce death
- Vindicated: Trump-touted COVID-19 drug hydroxychloroquine works, according to new study
- FDA revokes emergency use of hydroxychloroquine
- Hydroxychloroquine study which caused WHO to halt trials for Covid-19 now under scrutiny - UPDATE
In an episode entitled "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man: Part 1" — featuring former NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho and drawing its name from Acho's YouTube series of the same name — Oprah Winfrey invited several white people to discuss "racism," "white privilege," and "whiteness." Oprah praised her white guests for accusing themselves of being "racist."
Comment: Very reminiscent of the struggle sessions held in Maoist China. That people would willingly debase themselves through public humiliation and torture in order to virtue signal is disturbing to the extreme. Race relations in the US, while on an upward trend in the previous decades, are headed for the gutter.
See also:
- DC museum slammed for saying 'delayed gratification' and 'decision-making' are aspects of 'whiteness'
- City of Seattle teaches white employees to 'undo their whiteness' in bizarre 'diversity training' sessions
- Cambridge University defends professor who tweeted 'abolish whiteness'
- Endless snowflakery: Portland, Oregon county creates race-specific 'grounding space' for escaping 'whiteness' during pandemic
- UK school criticized for hosting 'resisting whiteness' event including rules of discrimination against whites
- University of Edinburgh under fire for hosting blatantly racist 'Resisting Whiteness' event
- Blinding whiteness of 'party of diversity' spawns #DemDebateSoWhite hashtag
- University of Denver offers 'Problematizing Whiteness' course
But maybe we should start asking another question as well: Will enough Americans actually get the vaccine for it to be effective?
"It's not a vaccine that will save us," says Harvard Global Health Institute director Ashish Jha. "It's vaccination."
For a COVID-19 vaccine to actually stop the pandemic, scientists estimate that at least 60 percent of the population — and probably more like 75 or 80 percent — would need to be vaccinated, a number that depends on many factors, including the efficacy of the vaccine itself and how widely the virus has already spread.
Comment: With all the monetary interests involved and the fast-tracking, there's no guarantee a safe, effective vaccine will arrive ever. They did leave out one question and it would be interesting to see the answer. That question is: "Would you take the vaccine if the companies that produce the vaccine are NOT liable for any injury or death caused by the vaccine?"
© WANA (West Asia News Agency) via ReutersFirefighters try to extinguish a fire that broke out at an Iranian industrial area near Tehran, Iran August 4, 2020.
"The fire broke out at the industrial area of the Jajrud district in the Pardis county this morning ... there were no casualties ... firefighters are trying to contain the fire," it said.
A fire department official told state TV that the cause of the fire was under investigation.
© Getty Images / Jon LovetteLocust Walk with students in fall, University of Pennsylvania, University City area, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The report titled 'Academic Freedom in the UK', by the Policy Exchange think tank, found university campuses are increasingly governed by unwritten rules, which encourage academics to hide unfashionable opinions.
It found that right-wing and pro-Brexit academics were most likely to censor their political views, in fear of being ostracised or passed over for promotion.
Miami Beach Police arrested 47-year-old Douglas Marks at the Crystal Beach Suites Hotel, along the 6900 block of Collins Avenue, Monday night.
"The guy came and started shooting," a witness said. "The son and the mom were, like, crying, and they were scared."
When officers arrived at the hotel, they found a man in the lobby holding a black pistol. They said he surrendered to them and was arrested without incident.
According to a police report, the man was enraged that a mother and child were not social distancing. Detectives said the mother and son angered the man enough for him to allegedly fire gunshots into the lobby's floor.
© RMG NewsOutside a mansion in the Beverly Crest neighborhood after a shooting wounded at least three people. Aug. 4, 2020.
The shooting occurred at around 1:15 a.m. at a home in the 13200 block of West Mulholland Drive, the Los Angeles Fire Department reports. In a video posted by one party goer to Instagram, about 20 gunshots could be heard. There appeared to be two rounds of gunfire. Following the second, there was chaos as people tried to run to safety.
Officers arrived on scene to find two women and a man with gunshot wounds, Los Angeles police Lt. Chris Ramirez said at a news briefing Tuesday morning.
All three were rushed to local hospitals, where one of the women, believed to be about 35-years-old, died. The two others were in stable condition, Ramirez said.
Comment: The woman who was killed is another unseen death connected to the lockdown. Why isn't this even a part of the conversation?
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