Lapis_29 said...
someone on reddit broke down Sen Johnson's meeting
Somebody said...
So... let's make some things clear...
It's not an official Senate committee, Ron Johnson threw it in a Senate office to make it look official in a way it wasn't, in order to continue promoting bogus claims. It is a PR stunt for an alt right senator to play to his alt right base.
What it is... an "opinion panel" gathered by Republican senator filled with a lot of questionable characters presented as respected and renowned scholars (but criticized by the larger medical and scientific community for spreading COVID disinformation) repeating a lot of claims that have already been debunked and discredited again and again by scientific consensus backed by peer review and compiled scientific data...
Let's look at some of the experts and their opinions...
keep in mind, I'm targeting the ones who get bandied about the most because they appear like experts, I'm not even tackling some of the more ridiculous members of this opinion panel, of which there were many.
The 2 hour clip from Rumble is actually from the statements of the people who look and sound like respectable experts. The full 5 hour panel, available on Ron Johnson's website, involves a whole hecka lot of the crazies that didn't make the anti vax misinformation director's cut...
Dr. Peter McCullough, former vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center, who was sued for illegitimately representing himself as a Baylor employee while promoting misinformation about COVID-19. He's been telling the world that asymptomatic people cannot transmit the disease. Which is, of course, is just super untrue. The crazy thing is, even anti vaxxers are coming around to this one...but it's his schtick and he's sticking to it.
Dr. Harvey Risch, professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine... who has already been fact checked and discredited for claiming hydroxychloroquine used as an early treatment for COVID-19, it can produce a 50% reduced risk of hospitalization and 75% reduced risk of mortality.
How does he determine that? Using early study results that DID NOT hold up after replication (which is what you need to be able to do in science) or even scrutiny (None are randomized controlled trials. One is the heavily publicized and now discredited Drench study by Didier Raolt which he almost exclusively is getting his data figures from in this panel)...hence why the FDA pulled its initial emergency approval.
Dr. Aaron Kheriarty, a former professor in the University of California-Irvine School of Medicine who was fired over his refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and other reasons.
Now you might think School of Medicine, that guy knows what he's talking about... except he's a doctor of psychology and human behavior...but if nobody mentions that part, he really sounds like an expert, right?
He said people with “natural immunity,” meaning people who have developed antibodies after contracting a virus, cannot be reinfected with COVID-19 or transmit the virus to others.
While it is true that people may develop antibodies to a virus like COVID-19, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released in September found that 36% of those with prior COVID infection did not produce any antibodies.
But my all time favorite, Dr. Christina Parks, who is a science teacher for a Christian homeschool organization (gee, I wonder why someone would want to homeschool science while being Christian... could it be she doesn't believe in evolution... she doesn't, by the way) who told the opinion panel that mRNA vaccines are experimental gene therapy (they aren't) aaaaaaand then said black people may need lower doses because of their sensitivity to mRNA treatments.
Where did she get that from, nobody knows, seriously... it's just bullcrap she made up because she knows that a number of black people have been wary about vaccines because of a history of unethical uses of "medicine" on people of color (like performing hysterectomies on people without their consent).
Don't know much about
Rep Johnson and dont care to. As much as I cant stand the draconian measures coming out of the left, I cant stand the right either. So I'm not defending this guy, and don't doubt he's not well-informed.
But when these people start talking about
credentials and disinformation, that's when my eyes glaze over. It feels like a campaign to discredit anyone who doesnt share the left's worldview.
Like how many times does team "science" need to censure someone, only to be proven wrong, before they realize that they're the ones spreading disinformation, by virtue of the fact that all of this is unsettled science in the first place? It's like some comical farce.
That's the part that gets me.
And it's the same story when you go to your Dr w/ lyme and he tells you emphatically that Lyme doesnt exist and you cant possibly have it.
And that's the reason why people end up on blogs like healingwell.com or taking Ivermectin for covid. Because modern medicine does not understand chronic illness, no matter how much they emphatically tell us they do. And because trust in the system is abysmal.
I’m so sick of hearing “ask your dr”. It feels like this campaign to paint “your dr” as this omnipotent medical know-it-all, and any layperson who tries to improve their own health as some reckless anti-science moron, is being pushed by an industry which is failing us all, and so they’re circling the wagons
This article in the NYT summed up the problem perfectly, w/ cold hard facts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/opinion/covid-pandemic-policy-trust.htmlThey annalyzed the data out of every country and made some startling conclusions.
The best predictive factor for death rate per capita was age. Most other factors werent very strong, surprisingly. They dont even mention vaccination rate.
Wanna guess what the best predictive factor for number of cases per capita? Not GDP, not lock downs, no mention of % of population vaccinated. No, it was the country's score for trust in government that correlated highest w/ lowest cases per capita. They specifically mention how in Denmark,
because there are no mandates, people willingly get vaccinated and social distance.
Lockdowns dont work for this reason. Mandates dont work for this reason. And this push to discredit anyone w/ any opinion outside of the mainstream view is doing nothing to gain anyone's trust.
As Elon musk said, "Vote them out!"
Post Edited (dcd2103) : 2/7/2022 1:50:39 PM (GMT-7)