This story is in regards to the absurdity of the preposterous mandate to simply “trust the science” as if it had been a non-partisan set of static truths. Additionally it is 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 instructed repeatedly that except 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 industrial from three years in the past, glorifying their “science.”
I surmise, the poor pharmaceutical big 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 at the very least, each nook was buzzing with building, 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 discipline — 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 observe science! They have interaction in blatant social engineering, propaganda, and gaslighting. It’s zombie obedience — not curiosity — that they hope to impress in us. It’s like public college at its worst — however for adults whom they wish to management. And so they realize it. They realize it. And so they do it anyway.
On my finish, I don’t care if the bullies are on Blackrock’s payroll straight or in the event that they have interaction of their missionary actions professional bono — both method, 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.
Yet another factor. As eloquently noted by Justin Hart in 2022, “it’s certainly harmful to assert to symbolize science. Science doesn’t want gross sales reps, since it’s the conceptualization of bodily actuality itself as decided by experiment and knowledge. What Fauci actually represented is the authoritarian State with a capital ‘S’.” Certainly.
What Is Science?
The “previous regular” definition of science isn’t one bit fancy. It’s a technique of determining how issues work by observing, forming hypotheses, testing them out, and adjusting conclusions primarily based on the outcomes. That’s it.
Individuals have been practising science since time immemorial — we’re curious beings, we’re wired to play with issues and to observe science. Actually, our ancestors within the olden days knew a ton in regards to the world: medication, agriculture, astronomy, and many others. They knew much more than what at the moment’s monks of institutional science give them credit score for.
Throughout these days, survival was more durable, and poor “science” usually 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 this present day.
Oh, the recollections of 2020 and Neil Ferguson, the lockdown-promoting professor at Imperial Faculty London who was caught violating the social distancing guidelines with a mistress in the course of a lockdown …
Bullies’ Monopoly on Correctness
As a society, we’re in a messy place. There’s a coordinated, well-funded marketing campaign to convey the dignity down. Trustworthy information is censored, and lies get rewarded with bully perks. What’s thrown at us as “science” is a counterfeit. It’s an effigy produced from scraps of BlackRock speaking factors, all designed to decimate the folks and elevate the thieves. And but they discuss 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, additionally they attempt to implement a monopoly on correctness and to play an previous authoritarian trick. They’re tossing large 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
Along with the deliberate obsoletion of dignity, good ol’ corruption reigns supreme. Two years in the past, I wrote this story about corruption in the medical establishment. Since then, it solely received worse. A few telling quotes:
“It’s merely not doable to imagine a lot of the medical analysis that’s printed, or to depend on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical tips. I take no pleasure on this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my twenty years as an editor of The New England Journal of Medication,” wrote Marcia Angell in 2009.
“A lot of the scientific literature, maybe half, could merely be unfaithful. Troubled by research with small pattern sizes, tiny results, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of curiosity, along with an obsession for pursuing trendy tendencies of doubtful significance, science has taken a flip in direction of darkness,” wrote Richard Horton, the Editor-in-Chief of the Lancet in 2015.
Talking of Richard Horton and the Lancet, keep in mind the outlandishly fraudulent HCQ-bashing examine that they printed in 2020 after which needed to retract?
In keeping with the New York Times, “Dr. Horton referred to as the paper retracted by his journal a ‘fabrication’ and ‘a monumental fraud.’ However peer overview was by no means meant to detect outright deceit, he mentioned, and anybody who thinks in any other case has ‘a elementary misunderstanding of what peer overview is … In case you have an creator who intentionally tries to mislead, it’s surprisingly simple for them to take action,’ he mentioned.” Now we all know.
Actual Science Is By no means Remaining
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.
Humorous, 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. Nicely, that, too, was mistaken! To this present day, researchers hold discovering new components of human anatomy and new methods these components work together. Living proof.
A New A part of the Mind
Earlier this yr, they found a brand new a part of the mind. Beforehand, the accepted view was that the membrane surrounding the mind consisted of three layers. In January 2023, a fourth layer was introduced. It was referred to as SLYM (Subarachnoid LYmphatic-like Membrane). In keeping with Science journal:
“The central nervous system is lined by meninges, classically referred to as 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 alternate of small solutes between cerebrospinal fluid and venous blood, thus representing the mouse equal of the arachnoid granulations. The practical characterization of SLYM offers elementary insights into mind immune obstacles and fluid transport.”
New Salivary Glands (Perhaps)
In 2020, Dutch most cancers researchers made a splash after they printed a paper through which they described what they believed to be new salivary glands. Being a skeptical peasant, I wish 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 finest guess primarily based on their imaging approach.
To confirm their discovering, one would want to comprehensively examine a bigger and extra diversified dataset — and to the very best of my information, nobody has performed it but. Additionally, 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.
Due to their location over a chunk of cartilage referred to as the torus tubarius, the discoverers of those new glands have dubbed them the tubarial salivary glands. The glands most likely lubricate and moisten the higher throat behind the nostril and mouth, the researchers wrote … within the journal Radiotherapy and Oncology.
The invention was unintentional. Researchers on the Netherlands Most cancers Institute had been utilizing a mixture of CT scans and positron emission tomography (PET) scans referred to as PSMA PET-CT to check 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.”
Apparently, the tentative nature of this discovery didn’t forestall The Scientist from naming their article about it “Scientists Uncover New Human Salivary Glands.” That alone demonstrates the truth that “the science” is a humorous beast.
Interstitium: A Vital Replace
This discovery, too, requires a clarification. In 2018, Nature printed a study titled, “Construction and Distribution of an Unrecognized Interstitium in Human Tissues.”
A lot of information articles printed on the time, such because the Science article right here, mentioned that the interstitium itself was found. Nevertheless, 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 strong mass of connective tissue however as a substitute, it was stuffed with fluid — and the explanation the scientists had not beforehand observed 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 techniques; and surrounding muscle tissue, in accordance with a brand new examine detailing the findings, printed … within the journal Scientific Reports.
Beforehand, researchers had thought these tissue layers had been a dense ‘wall’ of collagen — a robust structural protein present in connective tissue. However the brand new discovering reveals that, fairly than a ‘wall,’ this tissue is extra like an ‘open, fluid-filled freeway,’ mentioned co-senior examine creator Dr. Neil Theise, a professor of pathology at New York College Langone Faculty of Medication.
The tissue accommodates interconnected, fluid-filled areas which can 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 see into the mobile world.
When scientists put together tissue samples for these slides, they deal with the samples with chemical compounds, minimize them into skinny slices and dye them to focus on key options. However 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 belly tissue, attaching the intestines to the posterior belly wall, was reclassified as a brand new organ, after the invention was first described in 2012.
This Healthline article makes me a bit of nervous although. I’m very completely happy 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 massive bowel and rectum. I observed that the approach we use on the left colon has the identical anatomic foundation because the methods we use on the correct.
Once I checked out this nearer I observed the explanation for this was that the correct and left colon have an hooked up mesentery. (In each affected person. That’s, universally.)’
As a skilled surgeon, Coffey is conscious that, ‘In keeping with basic anatomic instructing, the correct and left colon shouldn’t have an hooked up mesentery and, if a mesentery had been current, then this must be thought-about anomalous.’ …
He went on to inform Healthline, ‘Some texts instructed that the correct and left colon did have a vestigial or rudimentary mesentery, hooked up instantly behind them. So, what we discovered surgically was very totally different to what we had been taught anatomically [emphasis mine].’”
“New Mind Cleansing System Found”
Extra in regards to the mind. Up till just a few years in the past, the consensus was that there was no lymphatic system within the mind. After which abruptly, there was! The NIH (2012):
“Scientists have found a system that drains waste merchandise from the mind … Our our bodies take away useless blood cells and different waste by a community of vessels referred to as the lymphatic system. The mind, nonetheless, has a special methodology of protecting clear.
Cerebrospinal fluid cleanses mind tissue. However how the fluid strikes by the mind and clears waste wasn’t effectively understood. Till now, scientists might solely examine mind tissue in animals that had been already useless. They thought vitamins and waste had been transported by the gradual means of diffusion.
In a brand new examine, a analysis workforce led by Dr. Jeffrey Iliff and Maiken Nedergaard on the College of Rochester Medical Middle used a technique referred to as 2-photon laser scanning microscopy to investigate the stream of cerebrospinal fluid in dwelling mouse brains. This new expertise allowed the scientists to check 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. Within the mind, blood vessels are surrounded by cells referred to as astrocytes. These cells have projections referred to as finish toes 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 is a a lot sooner and extra environment friendly approach 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 subject (and lots of different subjects as effectively). I imagine that life is mysterious, and that there are a lot of methods through which dwelling beings talk and alternate vitality. Regardless of the present understanding is on both facet 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 utterly fascinating to me that as vital as exosomes are, up till just a few a long time in the past, the scientists didn’t know they existed in any respect. Immediately, exosomes are an in-demand space of analysis — besides, researchers are largely making guesses, and the mystery remains:
“Cells in vivo and ex vivo launch membrane vesicles. These extracellular vesicles (EVs) are 50- to 100-nm-sized lipid bilayer-enclosed entities containing proteins and RNA. Not way back, EVs had been thought-about to be “mobile mud” or rubbish and didn’t appeal to a lot consideration. Nevertheless, it has not too long ago been discovered that EVs can have vital 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 comprise viral proteins and components of viral genetic materials … we emphasize that within the particular case of virus-infected cells, it’s nearly not possible to tell apart EVs from (noninfectious) viruses and to separate them.”
Perhaps, 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 Micro organism within the Intestine
It’s arduous to imagine it nevertheless 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 actual motive 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 can be good for the guts.
The nice microbes, corresponding to Bifidobacterium and lactic acid micro organism, feast on chocolate … If you eat darkish chocolate, they develop and ferment it, producing compounds which can be anti-inflammatory. The opposite micro organism within the intestine are related to irritation and might trigger gasoline, bloating, diarrhea and constipation. These embrace some Clostridia and a few E. coli.
“When these compounds are absorbed by the physique, they reduce the irritation of cardiovascular tissue, decreasing the long-term threat of stroke,” mentioned John Finley, Ph.D., who led the work. He mentioned that this examine is the primary to have a look at the results of darkish chocolate on the assorted sorts of micro organism within the abdomen.
He defined that cocoa powder, an ingredient in chocolate, accommodates a number of polyphenolic, or antioxidant, compounds corresponding to catechin and epicatechin, and a small quantity of dietary fiber. Each elements are poorly digested and absorbed, however after they attain the colon, the fascinating microbes take over.
“In our examine we discovered that the fiber is fermented and the massive polyphenolic polymers are metabolized to smaller molecules, that are extra simply absorbed. These smaller polymers exhibit anti-inflammatory exercise,” 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 word, there’s speak of utilizing cocoa butter (2013) and chocolate (2017) to encapsulate probiotics. Yum.
Infectious Principle of Dementia
That’s an enormous one. Personally, I’m inclined to imagine that quite a lot of dementia-like and neurological signs are induced at the very least partially by infectious brokers and the irritation that ensues after they overwhelm the mind and the CNS at giant (assisted by the environmental toxicity, the EMFs, and many others.).
I imagine 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 in regards to the infectious theory of Alzheimer’s disease. Right here is the abstract:
- Till very not too long ago, it was thought-about official and confirmed that Alzheimer’s Illness is non-infectious and brought on by amyloid plaques
- Final yr, the information got here out that the foundational examine on Alzheimer’s that had been driving the general course of analysis up to now twenty years had been primarily based on fraud
- The brand new rising principle proposes that Alzheimer’s Illness could also be triggered by pathogens, and amyloid plaques could type as an immune response
- Nevertheless, you will need to the keep in mind that even when a pathogen or a gaggle of pathogens is really concerned in triggering the signs of Alzheimer’s Illness, the mainstream narrative will probably 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 an attractive factor. Additionally it is a humbling factor, regardless of how a lot we all know, there’s at all times 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 “simply belief 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 most likely be taught extra.
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