Paul Joseph Watson
Summit NewsMon, 09 May 2022 23:27 UTC
© Win McNamee via Getty ImagesDr. Robert Califf, Commissioner of the FDA
During an appearance on CNN, FDA chief Dr. Robert Califf asserted that the leading cause of death in the United States is online "misinformation."
Yes, really.
Califf spoke about his remarks during an interview with CNN's Pamela Brown, which were originally made at a health conference in Texas last month when he said online misinformation was "now our leading cause of death."
After admitting that there was "no way to quantify this," before mentioning heart disease and cancer (actual killers), Califf went on to bolster the claim anyway.Claiming that there has been "an erosion of life expectancy," Califf went on to say that Americans were living an average of 5 years shorter than people in other high income countries.Califf said that anti-virals and vaccinations meant "almost no one in this country should be dying from COVID," before going on to explain that there was also a "reduction in life expectancy from common diseases like heart disease."
"But somehow ... the reliable, truthful messages are not getting across," he said, adding, "And it's being washed down by a lot of misinformation, which is leading people to make bad choices that are unfortunate for their health."
The FDA chief did not explain how 'online misinformation' was causing more deaths from heart disease, but went ahead and made the claim anyway without being challenged by the host.
As we have exhaustively highlighted, "online misinformation" is indistinguishable from information the regime doesn't like.As we previously
noted, the woman picked to head up the Department of Homeland Security's 'Ministry of Truth' said free speech makes her "shudder" while also promoting the lie that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.
Nina Jankowicz also ludicrously cited Christopher Steele as an expert on disinformation. Steele was the author of the infamous Clinton campaign-funded Trump 'peegate' dossier' that turned out to be an actual product of disinformation.
The contrived moral panic over "misinformation" has become more pronounced following Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, with CNN guests recently complaining about how it might impact their monopoly on controlling "the channels of communications."
Comment: The ironic thing is that he's probably right, but in exactly the opposite way he's suggesting. The official information put out by government bodies is exactly the misinformation that's costing lives. The FDA, the CDC, the ADA, the USDA - these are the top purveyors of misinformation that is threatening lives.
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I absolutely agree. But isn't just that they peddle misinformation. They arm twist by withholding funding to institutions that do not obey guidelines. They revoke licenses and otherwise punish providers that do not obey. This is almost like a gun being held to heads. And it isn't just orders to swallow information, but also orders to carry out actions on patients. Ordinary so called misinformation such as opinion, is harmless. It is just the free sharing of a belief. It is up to the reader to consider it, research it, and make a choice to act on it or not. Huge difference. Religions get a free pass on this sort of thing all the time.
Maybe we need to register a new religion.