why is scientific method not being followed in academia or government and why (are) any discussion of anything the least bit threatening to the pharmaceutical industry now (being) censored by all power centers in our society?

All the while having the temerity to yell at/censor people for not 'following the science'! As you say, there's nothing too mysterious about their motives - money, power - the mind-boggling part is the depth and breadth of the influence they've acquired.

I remember Brian (pre-Covid) would pull anyone up for using 'they' - he'd want to know who's 'they'? It was a fair enough point - he was trying to stop the discussion from becoming a generalized rant against a nameless 'they'. I'd also challenge 'conspiracy theorists' by asking how on earth do you get so many people - from opposite sides of the political divide - to keep a secret about whatever the conspiracy of the day was?

But if you look at it as a cultural phenomenon then it starts to make sense. If you control the culture, then that takes care of all those moving parts - they're all working in unison in a self-reinforcing way. Those that do speak out are marginalized and censored.

There's something rotten in scientific culture. This rotteness didn't drop out of the sky with Covid - it's connected to a decades long infiltration by the CCP as well as homegrown power-centralization forces - Covid has activated it around a common cause. For their next trick the plan is to shrug off being caught out lying about Covid and just steam-roll on.

He's clearly not anti-vax, clearly pro-science. This is a very tame, reasonable interview, and yet it would likely be banned from YouTube and Facebook. What's going on? And the US is celebrating July 4. So much for independence and free speech!

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