This story is concerning the absurdity of the preposterous mandate to only “trust the science” as if it had been a non-partisan set of static truths. It can be about some humbling current discoveries exhibiting simply how little the scientists know at any given time.
The Yelling
Over the previous three years, we’ve been pounded on the pinnacle, gaslit and shamed advert nauseam for being skeptical of the science shoved down our throats by Pfizer, Blackrock, DARPA, and their varied associates. We’ve been advised repeatedly that until we obediently lock our brains within the closet and bend over in response to the tv speaking heads, we’re “anti-science.” What a logical fallacy, what an apparent psychological trick!
For giggles, here’s a cheaply made Pfizer business from three years in the past, glorifying their “science.”
I surmise, the poor pharmaceutical large should have been fighting promoting budgets after paying all their fines for fraud and earlier than the rollout of their COVID injections, both that, or the actors had been all on lockdown — however so far as I keep in mind, on the time, in New York a minimum of, each nook was buzzing with development, and 5G antennas had been going up like mushroom after a rain — so maybe, they had been simply stingy. Anyway, please meet their science:
Science is after all an thrilling and tremendously helpful area — however when the consultants wag their shaming fingers at us and demand that we mindlessly comply with no matter they are saying, they don’t apply science! They interact in blatant social engineering, propaganda, and gaslighting. It is zombie obedience — not curiosity — that they hope to impress in us. It’s like public faculty at its worst — however for adults whom they wish to management. And they comprehend it. They comprehend it. And they do it anyway.
On my finish, I don’t care if the bullies are on Blackrock’s payroll immediately or in the event that they interact of their missionary actions professional bono — both means, they’re bullies, and I’m going to proceed to do my very own analysis and belief my very own mind and nostril over the complicated phrase salad that comes out of their conceited mouths.
One thing more. As eloquently famous by Justin Hart in 2022, “it is indeed dangerous to claim to represent science. Science doesn’t need sales reps, since it is the conceptualization of physical reality itself as determined by experiment and data. What Fauci truly represented is the authoritarian State with a capital ‘S’.” Indeed.
What Is Science?
The “old normal” definition of science just isn’t one bit fancy. It’s a technique of determining how issues work by observing, forming hypotheses, testing them out, and adjusting conclusions based mostly on the outcomes. That is it.
People have been practising science since time immemorial — we’re curious beings, we’re wired to play with issues and to apply science. In truth, our ancestors within the olden days knew a ton concerning the world: medication, agriculture, astronomy, and so on. They knew much more than what at the moment’s monks of institutional science give them credit score for.
During these days, survival was more durable, and poor “science” sometimes meant a shorter life. If our ancestors from 1000’s of years in the past engaged in Neil Ferguson-like “modeling” or Fauci-like “science” — it’s not clear if we as a species would have made it to at the present time.
Oh, the reminiscences of 2020 and Neil Ferguson, the lockdown-promoting professor at Imperial College London who was caught violating the social distancing guidelines with a mistress in the midst of a lockdown …
Bullies’ Monopoly on Correctness
As a society, we’re in a messy place. There is a coordinated, well-funded marketing campaign to deliver the dignity down. Honest information is censored, and lies get rewarded with bully perks. What is thrown at us as “science” is a counterfeit. It’s an effigy made out of scraps of BlackRock speaking factors, all designed to decimate the folks and elevate the thieves. And but they speak about it as if it had been precise science!
In America, all this mad censorship feels weird to me. It’s as if I had been again within the USSR. As they lie, in addition they attempt to implement a monopoly on correctness and to play an outdated authoritarian trick. They are tossing massive phrases up and down, altering definitions as they please, and repeating lies till they stick.
What I see is a swapping of psychological frameworks. The expensive-looking, colourful model of the “western” advertising and marketing brochure is being urgently recalled — and a brand new brochure, printed on soiled paper in grey tones, is getting shipped in. Yikes.
Good ol’ Corruption
In addition to the deliberate obsoletion of dignity, good ol’ corruption reigns supreme. Two years in the past, I wrote this story about corruption within the medical institution. Since then, it solely obtained worse. A few telling quotes:
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine,” wrote Marcia Angell in 2009.
“Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness,” wrote Richard Horton, the Editor-in-Chief of the Lancet in 2015.
Speaking of Richard Horton and the Lancet, keep in mind the outlandishly fraudulent HCQ-bashing research that they revealed in 2020 after which needed to retract?
According to the New York Times, “Dr. Horton called the paper retracted by his journal a ‘fabrication’ and ‘a monumental fraud.’ But peer review was never intended to detect outright deceit, he said, and anyone who thinks otherwise has ‘a fundamental misunderstanding of what peer review is … If you have an author who deliberately tries to mislead, it’s surprisingly easy for them to do so,’ he said.” Now we all know.
Real Science Is Never Final
If “consensus” had been a significant measure of any fact, no scientific discoveries would ever be made since always, there’s a “consensus” (actual or fabricated) on how issues work.
Funny, rising up, I believed that there have been many potential discoveries within the ocean and in house — however that the human anatomy had been exhaustively studied. Well, that, too, was fallacious! To at the present time, researchers maintain discovering new components of human anatomy and new methods these components work together. Case in level.
A New Part of the Brain
Earlier this yr, they found a brand new a part of the mind. Previously, the accepted view was that the membrane surrounding the mind consisted of three layers. In January 2023, a fourth layer was introduced. It was known as SLYM (Subarachnoid LYmphatic-like Membrane). According to Science journal:
“The central nervous system is lined by meninges, classically often called dura, arachnoid, and pia mater. We present the existence of a fourth meningeal layer that compartmentalizes the subarachnoid house within the mouse and human mind, designated the subarachnoid lymphatic-like membrane (SLYM).
SLYM is morpho- and immunophenotypically much like the mesothelial membrane lining of peripheral organs and physique cavities, and it encases blood vessels and harbors immune cells.
Functionally, the shut apposition of SLYM with the endothelial lining of the meningeal venous sinus permits direct change of small solutes between cerebrospinal fluid and venous blood, thus representing the mouse equal of the arachnoid granulations. The practical characterization of SLYM gives elementary insights into mind immune obstacles and fluid transport.”
New Salivary Glands (Maybe)
In 2020, Dutch most cancers researchers made a splash once they revealed a paper by which they described what they believed to be new salivary glands. Being a skeptical peasant, I want to high quality this discovering by saying that their dataset was very restricted (all most cancers sufferers) and really small, and their conclusion was their greatest guess based mostly on their imaging method.
To confirm their discovering, one would want to comprehensively research a bigger and extra assorted dataset — and to the most effective of my information, nobody has executed it but. Also, please see this fascinating letter to the editor in response to the unique publication. In any case, right here is Live Science:
“This nasopharynx area — behind the nostril — was not thought to host something however microscopic, diffuse, salivary glands; however the newly found set are about 1.5 inches (3.9 centimeters) in size on common.
Because of their location over a chunk of cartilage known as the torus tubarius, the discoverers of those new glands have dubbed them the tubarial salivary glands. The glands in all probability lubricate and moisten the higher throat behind the nostril and mouth, the researchers wrote … within the journal Radiotherapy and Oncology.
The discovery was unintended. Researchers on the Netherlands Cancer Institute had been utilizing a mix of CT scans and positron emission tomography (PET) scans known as PSMA PET-CT to review prostate most cancers. In PSMA PET-CT scanning, medical doctors inject a radioactive “tracer” into the affected person. This tracer binds effectively to the protein PSMA, which is elevated in prostate most cancers cells.”
Interestingly, the tentative nature of this discovery didn’t stop The Scientist from naming their article about it “Scientists Discover New Human Salivary Glands.” That alone demonstrates the truth that “the science” is a humorous beast.
Interstitium: A Significant Update
This discovery, too, requires a clarification. In 2018, Nature revealed a research titled, “Structure and Distribution of an Unrecognized Interstitium in Human Tissues.”
A lot of information articles revealed on the time, such because the Science article right here, mentioned that the interstitium itself was found. However, the interstitium had been talked about for many years (here’s a point out of from 2012, and right here is one from 1987, and anecdotally, I do know that its existence was mentioned in medical colleges in Russia a lot sooner than that).
The 2018 discovery was the truth that it was not a stable mass of connective tissue however as an alternative, it was full of fluid — and the rationale the scientists had not beforehand seen the fluid was as a result of they’d solely been dried slides (doh). Live Science:
“These fluid-filled areas had been found in connective tissues all around the physique, together with beneath the pores and skin’s floor; lining the digestive tract, lungs and urinary programs; and surrounding muscle tissues, in response to a brand new research detailing the findings, revealed … within the journal Scientific Reports.
Previously, researchers had thought these tissue layers had been a dense ‘wall’ of collagen — a powerful structural protein present in connective tissue. But the brand new discovering reveals that, moderately than a ‘wall,’ this tissue is extra like an ‘open, fluid-filled highway,’ mentioned co-senior research creator Dr. Neil Theise, a professor of pathology at New York University Langone School of Medicine.
The tissue incorporates interconnected, fluid-filled areas which might be supported by a lattice of thick collagen ‘bundles,’ Theise mentioned.
The researchers mentioned these fluid-filled areas had been missed for many years as a result of they do not present up on the usual microscopic slides that researchers use to look into the mobile world.
When scientists put together tissue samples for these slides, they deal with the samples with chemical compounds, reduce them into skinny slices and dye them to focus on key options. But this fixing course of drains away fluid and causes the newfound fluid-filled areas to break down.”
Mesentery Redefined as a New Organ
In 2016, the mesentery, that had been beforehand thought-about a group of stomach tissue, attaching the intestines to the posterior stomach wall, was reclassified as a brand new organ, after the invention was first described in 2012.
This Healthline article makes me a bit nervous although. I’m very blissful that the surgeon who found it believed his personal eyes over anatomy textbooks and determined to research however … however … how did it work previous to 2012?
“Coffey, and his colleague Peter O’Leary, Ph.D., first found that the mesentery was an organ … Coffey defined his discovery to Healthline this manner, ‘I’m primarily a surgeon who operates on the big bowel and rectum. I seen that the method we use on the left colon has the identical anatomic foundation because the methods we use on the suitable.
When I checked out this nearer I seen the rationale for this was that the suitable and left colon have an connected mesentery. (In each affected person. That is, universally.)’
As a educated surgeon, Coffey is conscious that, ‘According to classic anatomic teaching, the right and left colon do not have an attached mesentery and, if a mesentery were present, then this should be considered anomalous.’ …
He went on to inform Healthline, ‘Some texts suggested that the right and left colon did have a vestigial or rudimentary mesentery, attached immediately behind them. So, what we found surgically was very different to what we were taught anatomically [emphasis mine].’”
“New Brain Cleaning System Discovered”
More concerning the mind. Up till just a few years in the past, the consensus was that there was no lymphatic system within the mind. And then all of a sudden, there was! The NIH (2012):
“Scientists have found a system that drains waste merchandise from the mind … Our our bodies take away lifeless blood cells and different waste by a community of vessels known as the lymphatic system. The mind, nonetheless, has a distinct methodology of conserving clear.
Cerebrospinal fluid cleanses mind tissue. But how the fluid strikes by the mind and clears waste wasn’t effectively understood. Until now, scientists might solely research mind tissue in animals that had been already lifeless. They thought vitamins and waste had been transported by the gradual means of diffusion.
In a brand new research, a analysis staff led by Dr. Jeffrey Iliff and Maiken Nedergaard on the University of Rochester Medical Center used a technique known as 2-photon laser scanning microscopy to investigate the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid in residing mouse brains. This new know-how allowed the scientists to review the intact mind in actual time.
To their shock, the scientists discovered that the tracer molecules flowed alongside a sequence of channels surrounding blood vessels. In the mind, blood vessels are surrounded by cells known as astrocytes. These cells have projections known as finish ft that wrap round arteries and veins like a layer of piping. It was by this pipeline that the molecules traveled.
The system makes use of stress to push fluid by the mind. It’s a a lot quicker and extra environment friendly solution to carry away waste than diffusion.”
Exosomes
I’m effectively conscious of the truth that the subject of exosomes is a heated one. On my finish, I’m not within the warmth. I really feel humble about this matter (and lots of different subjects as effectively). I consider that life is mysterious, and that there are various methods by which residing beings talk and change power. Whatever the present understanding is on both aspect of the virus / exosome debate, it’ll possible change. As of this second, I like J.J. Couey’s take.
With that out of the way in which, it’s fully fascinating to me that as necessary as exosomes are, up till just a few a long time in the past, the scientists didn’t know they existed in any respect. Today, exosomes are an in-demand space of analysis — besides, researchers are largely making guesses, and the thriller stays:
“Cells in vivo and ex vivo release membrane vesicles. These extracellular vesicles (EVs) are 50- to 100-nm-sized lipid bilayer-enclosed entities containing proteins and RNA. Not long ago, EVs were considered to be “cellular dust” or rubbish and didn’t appeal to a lot consideration. However, it has just lately been discovered that EVs can have necessary organic capabilities and that in each structural and practical points they resemble viruses.
This resemblance turns into much more evident with EVs produced by cells productively contaminated with viruses. Such EVs include viral proteins and components of viral genetic materials … we emphasize that within the particular case of virus-infected cells, it’s virtually not possible to tell apart EVs from (noninfectious) viruses and to separate them.”
Maybe, if we’re fortunate, 100 years from now, we may have a greater readability about all this. If we’re nonetheless round, that’s!
Cocoa and the Good Bacteria within the Gut
It is tough to consider it however it looks like it was in 2014 when the American scientists first reported that cocoa supported the helpful micro organism within the intestine. As reported by the American Chemical Society [!!]:
“The well being advantages of consuming darkish chocolate have been extolled for hundreds of years, however the precise cause has remained a thriller — till now. Researchers reported … that sure micro organism within the abdomen gobble the chocolate and ferment it into anti-inflammatory compounds which might be good for the center.
The good microbes, corresponding to Bifidobacterium and lactic acid micro organism, feast on chocolate … When you eat darkish chocolate, they develop and ferment it, producing compounds which might be anti-inflammatory. The different micro organism within the intestine are related to irritation and may trigger fuel, bloating, diarrhea and constipation. These embody some Clostridia and a few E. coli.
“When these compounds are absorbed by the body, they lessen the inflammation of cardiovascular tissue, reducing the long-term risk of stroke,” mentioned John Finley, Ph.D., who led the work. He mentioned that this research is the primary to have a look at the consequences of darkish chocolate on the assorted varieties of micro organism within the abdomen.
He defined that cocoa powder, an ingredient in chocolate, incorporates a number of polyphenolic, or antioxidant, compounds corresponding to catechin and epicatechin, and a small quantity of dietary fiber. Both elements are poorly digested and absorbed, however once they attain the colon, the fascinating microbes take over.
“In our study we found that the fiber is fermented and the large polyphenolic polymers are metabolized to smaller molecules, which are more easily absorbed. These smaller polymers exhibit anti-inflammatory activity,” he mentioned.
Finley additionally famous that combining the fiber in cocoa with prebiotics is probably going to enhance an individual’s general well being and assist convert polyphenolics within the abdomen into anti-inflammatory compounds.”
On a enjoyable be aware, there may be discuss of utilizing cocoa butter (2013) and chocolate (2017) to encapsulate probiotics. Yum.
Infectious Theory of Dementia
That’s an enormous one. Personally, I’m inclined to consider that plenty of dementia-like and neurological signs are precipitated a minimum of partly by infectious brokers and the irritation that ensues once they overwhelm the mind and the CNS at massive (assisted by the environmental toxicity, the EMFs, and so on.).
I consider that we within the West have been type of embarrassed to look into it in depth and face the truth that our concept of “western cleanliness” is a delusion. Earlier this yr, I wrote concerning the infectious principle of Alzheimer’s illness. Here is the abstract:
- Until very just lately, it was thought-about official and confirmed that Alzheimer’s Disease is non-infectious and brought on by amyloid plaques
- Last yr, the information got here out that the foundational research on Alzheimer’s that had been driving the general path of analysis up to now twenty years had been based mostly on fraud
- The new rising principle proposes that Alzheimer’s Disease could also be triggered by pathogens, and amyloid plaques could type as an immune response
- However, you will need to the do not forget that even when a pathogen or a gaggle of pathogens is really concerned in triggering the signs of Alzheimer’s Disease, the mainstream narrative can be inevitably twisted in favor of pushing for extra vaccines
Conclusion
This record of recent hypotheses and discoveries goes on, and on, and on. Science is a wonderful factor. It can be a humbling factor, irrespective of how a lot we all know, there may be all the time extra that we don’t. As we are able to see from just some examples of current discoveries, fashionable scientists are infants, and fashionable science, even when trustworthy, has solely a really approximate understanding of the world.
So subsequent time a pundit tells you to “just trust the science,” ask him what number of layers there are within the membrane defending the mind. 🙂 Or, even higher, shut down the TV and take a stroll exterior. You’ll in all probability study extra.
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