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Twitter YANKS doctor's fierce defense of HCQ as Covid-19 'cure' after Trump's retweet, as skeptics question her credentials


RT
Tue, 28 Jul 2020 05:57 UTC
Doctor Stella Immanuel
© YouTube/ Breitbart NewsDoctor Stella Immanuel



Comment: For the story about the video of the America's Frontline Doctors press conference being taken down from multiple social media platforms, see: Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter censor viral video of doctors' Capitol Hill coronavirus press conference


A Texan doctor's full-blown onslaught of what she called "fixed" science promoted by Big Pharma that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) does not work has earned her praise and scorn online, with critics delving deep into her background.


Comment: It's rather unsurprising that social media would go into overdrive trying to dig up dirt on any doctors appearing in the high profile press conference that has since been removed from the big social media platforms. Anything to detract from the information being conveyed about the effectiveness of HCQ against Covid-19. Keep in mind that the press conference was 6 hours long and contained testimony from multiple doctors. That everyone is focusing on this particular doctor, who admittedly may be a little nutty, is quite telling. It's all about distraction.

Also from RT:
'Demon sperm' and 'Alien DNA' trend, inducing eye-rolls following media dive into doctor touting HCQ as Covid-19 cure
28 Jul, 2020 19:10

Dr Stella Immanuel, one of the doctors filmed touting hydroxychloroquine as a "cure" for Covid-19, has a history of unorthodox statements about health - including that visits from demons in our dreams can cause fertility issues.

It was only a matter of time before a mainstream media outlet did a deep dive on the doctor involved in the much-shared video claiming masks are not needed to stop the spread of coronavirus because HCQ is the "cure."

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Immanuel, a licensed pediatrician in Texas who claims to have treated many Covid-19 patients with HCQ, is also the head of the Fire Power Ministries Christian Resource Center. Some of her previous speeches tied to this ministry present some rather odd views.

In one video, she claims "demonic sex after demon dream sex" can cause "gynecological problems." According to Immanuel, people can be visited by "spirit wives" and "spirit husbands" in their dreams, and then suffer medical issues afterward.

"We call them all kinds of names - endometriosis, we call them molar pregnancies, we call them fibroids, we call them cysts, but most of them are evil deposits from the spirit husband," she said in 2013. "They are responsible for miscarriages, impotence - men that can't get it up."

This act, Immanuel claims, is how demons continuously reproduce themselves.

"They turn into a woman and then they sleep with the man and collect his sperm," she said. "Then they turn into the man and they sleep with a man and deposit the sperm and reproduce more of themselves."

Her beliefs go beyond the spirit world, though. Immanuel has also spoken of alien DNA being used in modern medicine, as well as toys, like the magic 8-ball, being used to seduce people into "witchcraft."

Following the revelation of Immanuel's past comments, "demon sperm" and "alien DNA" began trending on Twitter, inspiring thousands to join in, with many using the quotes to predictably attack her Covid-19 claims, as well as the president's retweet of that HCQ video. Others, however, just found the two terms trending in the same year that brought us coronavirus, murder hornets, and Kanye West's maybe-presidential campaign, to be too much.

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Best of the Web: Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter censor viral video of doctors' Capitol Hill coronavirus press conference

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC
America's Frontline Doctors
Facebook has removed a video posted by Breitbart News earlier today, which was the top-performing Facebook post in the world Monday afternoon, of a press conference in D.C. held by the group America's Frontline Doctors and organized and sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots. The press conference featured Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and frontline doctors sharing their views and opinions on coronavirus and the medical response to the pandemic. YouTube (which is owned by Google) and Twitter subsequently removed footage of the press conference as well.

The video accumulated over 17 million views during the eight hours it was hosted on Facebook, with over 185,000 concurrent viewers.

Comment: This level of censorship is truly without precedent. Taking down a press conference, unarguably a news event, hosted by a Republican Senator, of board certified doctors, and similarly taking down a communication by the President of the United States is both brash and dangerous. Big Tech has gone well beyond being too big for their britches.

UPDATE: The censorship continues. From RT:
Trump Jr. locked out of Twitter account for sharing controversial video defending HCQ as Covid-19 cure
28 Jul, 2020 15:01

Donald Trump Jr has been given a "temporary lockout" from his Twitter account after violating the social media company's "misinformation policy" by sharing a video defending hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a Covid-19 "cure."

"This is a must watch!! So different from the narrative everyone is running with!" Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, originally wrote when sharing the video. The clip has been removed repeatedly from social media sites.

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President Donald Trump tweeted the very same video - he has spoken of the antimalarial's benefits in the past, though studies have shown varying results - and the tweet was removed, but he appears to have not been suspended like his son was, as he has tweeted since then.

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Twitter said through a spokesperson that this is not a "suspension," but instead a "temporary lockout." To end the "lockout," Trump Jr. must willingly delete the tweet himself. It has been replaced on his page with a message that simply reads: "this tweet is no longer available." The same message can be found on the president's Twitter page in place of his own tweet that shared the video.

The video itself was originally streamed by conservative news outlet Breitbart and featured doctors, proclaiming themselves to be 'America's Frontline Doctors,' talking about the benefits of HCQ and claiming masks are not needed to stop the spread of coronavirus. The credentials of some in the video have since come into question, and the video has been actively purged from social media pages for spreading "misinformation" about the current pandemic.

Trump Jr's Twitter lockout has only added fuel to the fire for people already accusing social media companies of bias against conservatives.

"If you don't think this is about CONTROL, YOU AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION," Blaze TV host Sara Gonzalez tweeted in reaction.

"Despicable,"wrote political pundit and strategist Bryan Dean Wright.

Last month, US Attorney General William Barr announced a broad antitrust investigation into big tech companies, including an examination of their online practices, with potential actions likely dropping before the summer is up.


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Best of the Web: The myth of pervasive misogyny

Cory Clark and Bo Winegard
Quillette
Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:56 UTC
mannequins
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Many feminists and progressives argue that the West is plagued by pervasive misogyny. In fact, this claim is made with such frequency, and is so rarely challenged, that it has become part of the Left's catechism of victimhood, repeated by rote without a second thought. The only real question is how powerful and pernicious the misogyny is. Real-world data, however, suggest a different narrative, complicated by the fact that men have worse outcomes in many domains. For example, they are much more likely to be incarcerated, to be shot by the police, to be a victim of violent crime, to be homeless, to commit suicide, and to die on the job or in combat than women. Furthermore, they have a shorter life expectancy and are less likely to be college educated than women. Although these (and similar) data can be reconciled with the pervasive misogyny theory, they should at least give pause to the open-minded. The best data from contemporary social science tell a rather different story and suggest that the very persistence of the pervasive misogyny narrative is itself a manifestation of the opposite: society is largely biased in favor of women.

The world, of course, is a messy place and disparities between men and women may have many causes. This is why carefully controlled social science is useful for examining the extent, direction, and nature of sex-related biases. Although the details can get complicated, the basic idea behind most bias studies is pretty straightforward. Researchers present participants with identical information that has some bearing on the abilities of males or females while manipulating which sex the information is about. For example, they might ask two groups of people to evaluate identical essays, telling one group that it was written by a man and the other group that it was written by a woman. If participants who believed the essay was written by a man evaluated it as more compelling, more intelligent, more insightful, and so on than participants who believed it was written by a woman, psychologists would consider that a bias in favor of men. Similarly, if one asked two groups of people to evaluate identical scientific studies that discovered that either men or women performed better on a measure of leadership, and participants who read that men outperformed women regarded the study as higher quality than participants who read that women outperformed men, psychologists would consider this a male-favoring bias (everyday people consider such patterns to be biases as well).
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Physicians for Informed Consent say infection fatality rate of covid-19 is 0.26 percent

Arjun Walia
Collective Evolution
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 06:19 UTC
Doctor
The Physicians For Informed Consent (PIC) recently published a report titled "Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) Compares COVID-19 to Previous Seasonal and Pandemic Flu Periods." In their article, they stated the following:
The public has been made aware of the number of COVID-19 deaths and reported cases that have occurred since the beginning of the current pandemic; however, the number of unreported cases has not been widely known or publicized. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that more than one-third of SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus that can lead to COVID-19) infections are asymptomatic, meaning that initial estimations of its severity were grossly overestimated. Now, for the first time, Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) has collated data from U.S. antibody studies and produced an educational document outlining how an accurate case-fatality rate (CFR) requires antibody studies in order to guide and measure medical care and public health policies.

Similar to CDC estimations, PIC's analysis results in a COVID-19 CFR of 0.26%, which is comparable to the CFRs of previous seasonal and pandemic flu periods. "Knowing the CFR of COVID-19 allows for an objective standard by which to compare both non-pharmaceutical interventions and medical countermeasures," said Dr. Shira Miller, PIC's founder and president. "For example, safety studies of any potential COVID-19 vaccine should be able to prove whether or not the risks of the vaccine are less than the risks of the infection.

"Regardless of proof of safety, however, a potential COVID-19 vaccine should only be voluntary, in order to safeguard a patient's human right to determine what will happen with his or her body," said Dr. Miller.

Comment: See also:

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Israel is ridiculous, antiquated and based on ethnic cleansing, Seth Rogen says, but he's afraid to tell other Jews

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Tue, 28 Jul 2020 21:51 UTC
seth rogen
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Writer/comedian Seth Rogen was on the Marc Maron podcast yesterday, promoting his new movie "An American Pickle," which involves Jewish life in the U.S. Maron raised the idea of Jews moving to many places in the world after the Holocaust, and not to Israel. Rogen agreed:
I think that's a better strategy. You don't keep all your Jews in one basket. I don't understand why they did that. It makes no sense whatever. I agree with that strategy... It would be nice to live somewhere that is not part of the Christian apocalyptic prophesy... Maybe live somewhere that the Christians don't think we all have to die....

There's some common vested interest in the meantime... Our ridiculous visions are temporarily parallel and allied with one another.
Maron asked, Do you want to live in Israel? Rogen exclaimed:
No!
Maron: "I'm the same way and we're going to piss off a bunch of Jews... For some reason my mother, who's not religious, her generation, they're kind of hung up on Israel and they find comfort in it. I couldn't imagine living here."
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Best of the Web: What would Shakespeare say? Rutgers takes a knee to Black Lives Matter, declares English grammar 'racist'

Robert Bridge
RT
Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:18 UTC
protesters burn flags and flag leaflets
© REUTERS/Leah MillisA group of protesters burn American flags and leaflets with the flag, Washington, U.S., July 4, 2020
The English Department at Rutgers University said it would 'stand with' BLM by focusing on 'racism in the classroom,' evidenced by the emphasis on grammar. Will colleges prove more destructive than the riots just witnessed?


Comment: Colleges have already proven themselves more destructive than the riots as it was there that the critical theories of institutional racism and white colonialist oppression were developed and disseminated to the masses of young, naive students who comprise a large portion of the current rioters. If it weren't for the large number of woke college professors indoctrinating their students with these abhorrent ideas, then the riots would quite possibly not have even taken place.


It appears that the fallout from the BLM and Antifa riots following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white cop were not only the torched and looted city center of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Today, the 'violence' continues to spread like wildfire from the manicured lawns of one of America's oldest colleges.

Last month, in an effort to demonstrate camaraderie with the BLM/Antifa movement, Rebecca Walkowitz, Chair of the English Department at Rutgers, sent a 3,000+ word email to her colleagues that addresses, among other things, "racism in the classroom." Never mind that no proof is provided that such a thing even exists. In addition to mentioning compulsory workshops for faculty and students "who do not live the experience of anti-black racism every day," as well as new hiring standards that give advantage to "people of color," the email touched upon a part of the English language that one would not normally associate with "systemic racism."

Comment: Jordan Peterson has this to say about the importance of learning to write:

With the above in mind, if teachers are not going to force their students to learn to write well then they are setting them up to be shallow and incoherent thinkers who can't communicate. Which is more harmful than whatever theoretical harm is being done by enforcing grammatical rules.

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Nature conservation is "New Colonialism" - Africa "A place for white elitists to enjoy"

P.Gosselin
NoTricksZone
Tue, 28 Jul 2020 21:19 UTC
Mordecai Ogada
© Roman Pawlowski

The ugly face of environmentalism exposed...

"Nature conservation is the new colonialism," Kenyan ecologist Mordecai Ogada told German magazine GEO.

A Kenyan biologist thinks white Europeans and Americans are using "nature conservation" for "self promotion" and have created nothing but failure in Africa.

He accuses NGOs and nature conservation organizations of creating a "permanent crisis" to justify their work and transform Africa into a place for white people to enjoy.

Dr. Ogada, who is author of The Big Conservation Lie, called nature conservation in the GEO interview "elitist, violent and often racist" and that it is a "right-wing agenda enforced with money from the left".
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At first, #MeToo failed to take off in Russia - can it transcend Moscow's liberal circles at the second attempt?

Ciara Haley
RT
Tue, 28 Jul 2020 20:41 UTC
#metoo
© Getty Images / Alex Wong
While it briefly threatened to become a major issue, the so-called #MeToo movement never really got going in Russia. However, this month the agenda has been reawakened by allegations against several former and current journalists.

On Friday, the well-known playwright, journalist and Echo Moskvy radio host Victor Shenderovich was accused of sexual harassment by several women who posted their stories online via Facebook.

One of them was the journalist Lydia Mikhalchenko, who opened her statement by writing that "Until March of this year, I considered him one of the best people in this world." She went on to imply abuse towards two other women, Olga Crassac and Maria Troitskaya, who were also ready to talk publicly about their own ordeals.

Shenderovich responded to the allegations by commenting defensively that although he had "regrets" in life he did not understand these "new ethics" at play between men and women. This is the latest incident in a series in which men in prominent positions have been forced to answer accusations of sexual misconduct.
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Best of the Web: The key to defeating COVID-19 already exists. We need to start using it

Harvey A. Risch, MD, PHD
Newsweek
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:52 UTC
Hydroxychloroquine
© GEORGE FREY/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a crisis, I am fighting for a treatment that the data fully support but which, for reasons having nothing to do with a correct understanding of the science, has been pushed to the sidelines. As a result, tens of thousands of patients with COVID-19 are dying unnecessarily. Fortunately, the situation can be reversed easily and quickly.

I am referring, of course, to the medication hydroxychloroquine. When this inexpensive oral medication is given very early in the course of illness, before the virus has had time to multiply beyond control, it has shown to be highly effective, especially when given in combination with the antibiotics azithromycin or doxycycline and the nutritional supplement zinc.

On May 27, I published an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE) entitled, "Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk COVID-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis." That article, published in the world's leading epidemiology journal, analyzed five studies, demonstrating clear-cut and significant benefits to treated patients, plus other very large studies that showed the medication safety.
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Best of the Web: Time to excise exceptionalism and imperialism from American conservatism

Claes G. Ryn
The American Conservative
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:01 UTC
Statue of Lib
© Getty ImagesChild waves a flag in the crown of Liberty Enlightening the World, known as The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.
American exceptionalism fans imperial designs. We must reject it.

Reactions to globalization, the Trump presidency, and the coronavirus pandemic have turned discussions of American conservatism increasingly into discussions of "nationalism." Regrettably, terminological confusion is rampant. Both "conservatism" and "nationalism" are words of many and even contradictory meanings.

The strengths of post-World War II American intellectual conservatism have been widely heralded. As for its weaknesses, one trait stands out that has greatly impeded intellectual stringency: a deep-seated impatience with the supposedly "finer points" of philosophy. Making do with loosely defined terms has made conservatism susceptible to intellectual flabbiness, contradiction, and manipulation.

This deficiency is connected to a virtual obsession with electoral politics. William F. Buckley's path-breaking National Review was an intellectual magazine, but its primary purpose was to prepare the ground for political victories, most of all for capturing the presidency. The desire to forge a political alliance among diverse groups pushed deep intellectual fissures into the background. Having a rather narrowly political understanding of what shapes the future, most conservatives thought that the election and presidency of Ronald Reagan signified the "triumph" of conservatism; but the triumph was hollow. The reason is that in the long run politicians have less power than those who shape our view of reality, our innermost hopes and fears, and our deeper sensibilities. A crucial role is here played by "the culture" — universities, schools, churches, the arts, media, book publishing, advertising, Hollywood, and the rest of the entertainment industry — which is why America kept moving leftward.
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