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MindMatters: Follow the Science? A Peek Behind the Curtain of Institutional Science

Harrison Koehli, Adam Daniels
Sott.net
Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC

How many scientists engage in unethical behavior? Does peer review even work? What is the reproducibility crisis? The "white hat" bias? Science has acquired a reputation of mythical proportions, but there are enough skeletons in the closet to warrant some skepticism about its many claims. At its best, science in an indispensable means of approaching truth, but at its worst it can be shortsighted and even just plain wrong.

Today on MindMatters we read some excerpts from Iain McGilchrist's recent book The Matter with Things on the nature of institutional science, with a case study on one of its worst offenders: public health.

Running Time: 00:52:51

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Adam Daniels

Adam joined the editorial team in 2014 and is a co-host of MindMatters. His particular interests include philosophy, history, exercise science, and technology. He particularly dislikes Critical Race Theory and people who're so afraid of death that they prevent others from living. He also knows kung fu.

Harrison Koehli

Harrison Koehli co-hosts SOTT Radio Network's MindMatters, and is an editor for Red Pill Press. He has been interviewed on several North American radio shows about his writings on the study of ponerology. In addition to music and books, Harrison enjoys tobacco and bacon (often at the same time) and dislikes cell phones, vegetables, and fascists (commies too).

Reader Comments

Winternights3 · 2022-02-05T03:54:24Z

It is refreshing in my opinion that science itself should be put under the spotlight.

All too recently humanity has experienced a painful lesson by being coerced by the scientific fraternity and has found itself wanting for answers.

If science is being used against humanity then humanity needs to reevaluate its relationship with science.

Patrick Donnelly · 2022-02-05T06:05:57Z

This is the kaliyuga. A time of widespread wealth and corruption.

It will be swept away in 32 years.

All animals are sensitive to the AC power that is about to reverse polarity. Expect days of Sodom and Gomorrah and a rerun of Exodus....

sass · 2022-02-05T06:23:22Z

Patrick Donnelly , nooo, please no.

codis · 2022-02-05T08:59:26Z

Follow the Science...

Not the real one, of course. You commoners are too stupid to read and comprehend it.

Stick to our Media Experts and Smooth Talkers !

HashAttack2 · 2022-02-08T15:54:45Z

codis I'll trust the generic blue check-marked Twatter commentator's "science" over that of leading experts in their field such as Dr Malone

ПКостов · 2022-02-05T09:27:20Z

Dr David Martin Exposes The Entire Plandemic, A Criminal Conspiracy To Harm, Maim & Kill Humans? [Link]

parzival ·

ПКостов

· 2022-02-05T11:06:25Z

ПКостов · 2022-02-05T12:54:05Z

ПКостов DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ - WANTED FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY [Link]

sass · 2022-02-05T13:08:16Z

ПКостов , wow, interesting: a felon, a criminal, one of the most sociopathic people on the planet.

Act of war.

Eugenics and CRISPR.

MORE PEOPLE HAVE to KNOW THIS. It's not about the vaccines, or the truckers.

Dwoods44 · 2022-02-08T16:01:59Z

ПКостов Important link.

alexal60 · 2022-02-05T09:36:41Z

Between a lie and the other I have been trying to make a mental representation of what is happening in the world for two years now, but framing the Covidian madness and the geopolitical situation in a fundamental, understandable and coherent strategy, does not seem easy at all, there always remains a contradictory remnant, something that does not seem to agree with the general picture.

Even if you just think about this: a government requires the inoculation of ALL its population, including the police and the army, of an experimental drug whose short-term and especially long-term effects are not known. What's more, he goes to great lengths not to leave even a control group of uninoculated. Isn't this, by itself, an incomprehensible and potentially suicidal gesture?

Sure, they tell me, but governments can be controlled by an external power: the Italian government, for example, is certainly controlled by Americans who may very well want to destroy or damage Italy for their own reasons. Probably, but the problem is that Americans adopt the same strategy even in their own homes, they use the same treatment to their own people, to their own army, to their own police. Moreover, at the same time, they carry out rash provocations towards their geopolitical enemies trusting precisely on that military power that (perhaps) they are undermining from within, on that economic power and national cohesion that they are certainly undermining through confinements, the artificial division of people between vaccinated and unvaccinated, through mass immigration and through an incredibly stupid and defeatist ideology.

In short, all these facts do not seem to want to fit together in a coherent framework. Of course, I am aware that many reconstructions try to do it with more or less credible results: the most recurrent and most important objection is always the same: it is no longer the governments of the nations that actually command, but a series of transnational economic subjects that they check. This is certainly at least partly true, above all for the minor and middle states, less so, it seems to me, for the large states, especially the USA. Besides, we're not talking about aliens. It is difficult to think that these backward entities, such as large investment funds, big pharma and big tech, do not have a precise matrix in Anglo-Saxon capitalism, that they are not closely linked with the American deep state with the Pentagon and all its agencies, that they do not control them and are in turn controlled by them: I see this as a correlated system of power. Just to give an example, think about which pharmaceutical companies were chosen for the lucrative business of "vaccines": practically only the American ones.

In short, it is difficult to get a precise and comprehensive idea of what is happening: it seems to be faced with a sort of Godel theorem: if the reconstruction of the facts is complete, then it is not coherent, if it is coherent, then it is not complete. .

How can these elites, while still rooted in the US and other Western states, think of retaining their power and indeed of increasing it, destroying the very foundations on which they are founded, the middle class and the economic, political and military power of those societies in which they were formed? And why should they do it if they are already firmly in command? Why destroy the widespread economy of the West to favor a handful of American companies? Why even depopulate by killing the living rather than preventing births? All this is reminiscent of something absurdly extremist like Mao's cultural revolution or Pol Pot's agricultural communism, something that even if by a miracle it could work, would lead to a final situation inevitably worse than the starting one.

More than a coherent plan it seems to witness an almost instinctive, automatic behavior, similar to that of a cancer that in its blind fury of expanding without limit ends up killing the organism of which it is host and with it, inevitably, itself. . We see a great display of strategy, but the final objectives seem inconsistent, foggy, inconsistent. That evil is really as trivial as the much-quoted Hanna said?

And if a good part of the explanation really lies in imbecility, is it good news or bad news?

parzival · 2022-02-05T11:07:38Z

In short...

I wish you would keep your posts short...

Reecus · 2022-02-05T13:17:19Z

parzival You could have a little fun with the AI [Link]

parzival · 2022-02-05T13:21:59Z

Reecus Thanks...I guess. Generated content only 100 words long? That's almost as bad as twitter...

Bellheezy · 2022-02-06T00:20:14Z

alexal60 A one world government that tracks and controls its obedient and mindless population is the goal. There will be no individual countries or sovereign citizens. They want vaccines to be regular updates to install into humans 2.0. They are replacing God with themselves.

Curse_of_Canaan · 2022-02-06T13:10:52Z

alexal60 "Even if you just think about this: a government requires the inoculation of ALL its population, including the police and the army, of an experimental drug whose short-term and especially long-term effects are not known. What's more, he goes to great lengths not to leave even a control group of uninoculated. Isn't this, by itself, an incomprehensible and potentially suicidal gesture?"

What seems to avoid scrutiny is the premise of using a computerized model for targetted delivery.

Everyone gets jabbed ...but not everyone recieves the same jab, while computer algorithms can target specific INDIVIDUALS because of the process and policy of foreknowledge of WHO IS ASKING to be jabbed/consenting.

Its been brushed over but I suspect useful idiots get a delayed response (think Bladerunner...incept date/longevity) and the death of both sides is mopped up eventually creating population who avoided the jab (which includes people of every walk of life and on all levels of intelligence).

Leaves a georgia guidestone population easily micromanaged and perfectly fitting the society left behind.

People accept their wages can be dealt with by computer but miss the computer model used to target individuals based on unknown to them specifics.

Dwoods44 · 2022-02-06T13:56:58Z

alexal60 Quote: "That evil is really as trivial as the much-quoted Hanna said? "'

In my view, understanding that evil is psychopathology is key. They do not have any humanity. They have their own belief system that sees mankind as useless eaters and hackable animals. They don't see the results of their beliefs. They want to continue in power to rape and torture and control. In their belief they are the chosen ones and satan is god.

slbeaudry · 2022-02-10T12:51:52Z

parzival

In short...
I wish you would keep your posts short...

👍🙏🙃

parzival · 2022-02-05T11:06:05Z

Anti-Rockefeller 'Science' in the tradition of Beauchamp; Dr. Robert Young & Dr. Andy Kaufman 'PANEL ON TERRAIN: HIDDEN SCIENCE: GREATER CAUSE OF DISEASE NOT GERMS BUT TERRAIN' [Link]
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Dwoods44 · 2022-02-05T14:07:51Z

An excellent review for the times we are in. As noted, our educational system puts science on the ivory pedestal. So the public understanding is science is their religion, the god of our times. So "follow the science" and "trust the experts" naturally follows.

My background includes time in a pharmacology PhD program. What strikes me is the dependence on the publication and grant process and the narrowness of vision of the scientists. Compartmentalism or silos of research do block scientific progress because break troughs are connections between silos. Heinlein was right. My thinking is due to multiple disciplines and interests and a goal of truth and consciousness.

Science development and research has become dogmatic and bureaucratic. This is not accidental, though corruption of values plays apart. In the age of reason scientific materialism took command of science. The ideas of the ether and intelligent design became religious superstition. This has blocked research into these areas. There are scientists who are breaking through this paradigm.

The manipulation of science for social engineering, financial gain and corruption has been occurring throughout my lifetime. A senior scientist whistleblower at CDC stated he was directed to change data requirements for a study on autism related to jabs to make autistic data for black children not be significant. Think about this. Autism is rising at an incredible rate and the CDC intentionally and fraudulently changed scientific results to make a vaccine seen as safe.

Dwoods44 · 2022-02-12T02:46:05Z

Dwoods44 There is an excellent interview with Dr Pierre Kory on the highwire with Del Bigtree. The interview follows a Canadian review by Del about how the Canadians are winning. The interview begins around 70 minutes. Dr Kory was doing research and promoting ivermectin as the treatment and how he awakened to the manipulation and corruption. Passionate and intelligent doctor. [Link]

Dwoods44 · 2022-02-12T19:03:57Z

Dwoods44 What we are talking about is corruption and manipulation. One key is understanding mass formation psychosis, the manipulation of consciousness. We are also talking about how people wake up. Dr Pierre Kory woke up.

In this Tucker Carlson interview Dr Mslone goes through his awakening to the manipulation and corruption. [Link]

alexal60 · 2022-02-05T14:37:23Z

DOCTORS WHO DON'T WANT TO SERVE BIG PHARMA JOIN, SIM IS BORN

[Link]
"We recognize Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) when it is inspired by the principles of primary prevention, prophylaxis and personalized therapy, functional to the maintenance or restoration of health, understood as respect for the physiological dynamic balance of the circadian biorhythms of the neuro-endocrine systems . We do not accept the reductionist approach of Modern Medicine, based on the evaluation of the single organ and its functions and NOT on the correlations existing between the diseased organ and any other organ and how these influence each other, thus acting on the general health of the body in its complexity and entirety. We do not consider Medicine a science, but an art which, through the study of anatomy, physiology, biology, biochemistry, anthropology, allows us to know the functional, organic, psychic and spiritual needs of the human being for stay healthy. Medicine is one and has a scientific basis, but it also requires closeness, ethics, availability for assistance, humanity, empathy, listening, competence, courage . "

"Today the doctor's training is subjected to strong economic and political influences, and his work is limited by guidelines drawn up by scientific societies that are not always free from conflicts of interest. In addition, the medical-scientific update relating to diagnostic technologies and health devices is partly funded directly by the pharmaceutical industry.The mere expression of doubts or perplexities is punished today, as if it were not an integral part of the decision-making process of care.We therefore claim the right to exercise our sacred and precious work as doctors in full freedom and independence, without conflicts of interest and without having to answer to third parties: our goal is and must always remain the protection of human health. : understood in the physical (absence of disease), psychic, social and spiritual sense.The models of health, healthcare and care that we intend to promote and develop must act on the determinants of health, including environmental, socio-economic and cultural ones, must privilege the care of the person and not just the disease, favoring an adequate lifestyle (nutrition and healthy physical activity, exposure to sunlight, pure air, healthy environments, healthy sociability) avoiding as much as possible the use of drugs, according to the ancient principle of "Primum non nocere". We will oppose the medicalization of health, the invention of diseases and denounce ineffective treatments linked to the logic of profit alone, fighting for the independence of the health system and scientific research and against all conflicts of interest."

"The protection of collective health will therefore not be able to leverage obligations and constraints, which can oppose constitutional rights and any medical decision can never harm the dignity of every single individual and his community, both during his life and in the moment of accompaniment to death.We therefore claim, together with all the other health professionals, without whom our work would be impossible, our dignity as doctors, in order to be able to operate in full freedom and independence of judgment, without any economic, political or administrative constraint, free to express the our doubts and to broaden our knowledge about treatments, with the primary objective of protecting the health of the human being.We refuse to enslave our work to the economic or social interests of industry or politics, committing ourselves instead to full respect for the freedom of choice of treatment. "

Finally, the invitation to other associations that share the manifesto to join in order to create, all together, synergistic forces and resources capable of overcoming the current pressure of institutionalized obligations and official protocols and the abuses perpetrated by professional associations:

The Society of Medicine will welcome individual operators and Associations who wish to engage in this process of change, research, training, care for individual citizens and the entire population. "

Yes, what is needed now is, precisely, TO JOIN FORCES because there is a lot to do and change and individuals and associations themselves, although rich in members, are not strong enough.In these times of authoritarian, blackmail and liberal-killing drift, we need a well-organized network of entities and individuals who are able to work in unison with concrete, clear and shared objectives.What is needed now is also THE POSSIBILITY OF A FREE AND SERENITY COMPARISON suitable for the exchange of medical-scientific knowledge, but also of culture at 360 °. In fact, only through a respectful dialogue between the different experiences in the field of medicine and the interaction with other sciences and fields of knowledge, it is possible to build a true culture of health.

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-02-05T22:59:51Z

OK, time to listen to this. I'll be back if I can be.

Thank-you sott.net and contributors for all you do.

BK

sass · 2022-02-06T01:03:03Z

Buffalo_Ken , you're welcome.

parzival · 2022-02-06T02:32:02Z

Terrain The Film is streaming live: [Link]

Curse_of_Canaan · 2022-02-06T02:36:04Z

Fun Fact: It's scientifically proven that governments endanger lives.

parzival · 2022-02-06T02:44:10Z

Fun Fact: It's scientifically proven that unaccountable governments endanger lives.

Fixed it for you...

Curse_of_Canaan · 2022-02-06T13:37:12Z

Fun Fact: It's scientifically proven that unaccountable governments endanger lives.
Fixed it for you...

Haha you make a fair point actually, I don't know if anyone will ever trust another government again while this amount of damage is being done but accountability works best in the beginning, then human nature/s take hold.

The whole premise of a hired shepherd has been tried and failed, man needs LAW of Justice now and it is his destiny.

parzival · 2022-02-07T02:45:33Z

Curse_of_Canaan Thought you might enjoy this...[Link]

sass · 2022-02-06T09:27:58Z

This is interesting. LSD has a large scene in this 40min report/doco by CBC/Radio-Canada.

The experiments were run through medical-psychiatry hospital department.

CIA's secret brainwashing experiment in Canada: Former patients sue U.S. government (1984) - The Fifth Estate - [Link]

parzival ·

sass

· 2022-02-06T09:38:45Z

codis · 2022-02-06T09:40:25Z

sass If I remember correctly, a dubious figure named Ron Hubbard had been involved in such experiments in Canada as well. Go figure ...

Dwoods44 · 2022-02-11T13:48:54Z

sass Dr Cameron. The end justifies the means.

itellsya · 2022-02-11T09:52:55Z

Eye opening show! Even the most cynical of us probably wouldn't have realised just how bad the situation is. I was certainly surprised.

Looking forward to hearing more about the book! Might have to get my hands on a copy.

SpectateSwamp · 2022-02-13T16:28:24Z

[Link]
They never ever look at Herbal cures.

They don't like Colloidal Silver, Elderberry, Marijuana, Hot toddies or any of the natural cures.

BECAUSE they can't make a ton of money. (no business model) and not scalable.

Don't ever trust them again.

HashAttack2 · 2022-02-13T17:07:13Z

SpectateSwamp Wiki's glowing description of Homeopathy

Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine

All relevant scientific knowledge about physics, chemistry, biochemistry and biology gained since at least the mid-19th century contradicts homeopathy.

The fundamental implausibility of homeopathy as well as a lack of demonstrable effectiveness has led to it being characterized within the scientific and medical communities as quackery and fraud

Spot on....and there is no going back to sleep for most of us here at SOTT.

Gator

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codis

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