Only extreme duress elicits this kind of denial. Case in point, years ago when I was young and poor I was visiting with my husband's family for dinner and chomping on a pre-dinner piece of sticky candy while waiting. (They always ate late and I was always getting hungry at 5, like an elderly nursing home resident.) Suddenly, I felt my bottom right molar shatter into pieces. A molar - a very large tooth - just gave way into the candy, the gooey lump suddenly full of gravel-ly bits. As I hawked it out in my hand I remember announcing, "There's someone's tooth in my candy!" Well who the hell's tooth did I think it was? I was freaking out, trying to deny the reality of what had just happened, calculating, lightening-fast, the cost of what would turn out to be very expensive dental work. I still have that molar to this day and it still works fine... It's not a hilarious story but the story has become a part our our family lore and serves as a reminder of what ridiculous denial the human mind is capable of. So we can at least enjoy a kind of schadenfreude knowing these scoundrels are under huge duress, literally freaking out at the reality they deny. At least I hope they are, for all the trouble their dishonesty causes us.
"But this is also a reminder, that no amount of reason, logic or data will convert the vax disciples. This is no longer about data driven decisions. It is about being adrift. If you rug pull their authority figures, they are religionless. Statism has supplanted their religion and if you dirt-knap their God, they are in free fall. They cannot consider your data not because of its content, but because it leaves them godless and lost."
The above is absolutely brilliant. I have been wondering why my arguments loaded with data and facts have no impact on some acquaintances of mine and the above sentences encapsulates it all perfectly.
Thank you Kevin. Excellent post. I am not a Twitter member but I review your posts. To answer a question you posted today: Yes, this is exactly what happens when you create a Godless society. Thanks for being a truth-telling, honest scientist. Peace.
Karma is bitch at work. I have seen very little of this kind of work regarding magic soup. Mainly people who are affected are just naive or denied choice.
Very sad story. I feel like the author is experiencing a lack of compassion. It's ok to be brainwashed, and ok to be involved in supporting specific political views. Because of that 99.9 of MD in the US and 99% of doctors all over the globe are not doctors anymore.
Meanwhile, as humans, we should appreciate any good will. People change. Sometimes too late. God bless.
I don’t mean any Ill will or lack of emotion for Michel.
We are all products of our echo chamber.
Fede pointed out that he published this more recently and he is the editor of Frontiers in Medicine.
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/5/1248/htm#B12-jcm-11-01248
Only extreme duress elicits this kind of denial. Case in point, years ago when I was young and poor I was visiting with my husband's family for dinner and chomping on a pre-dinner piece of sticky candy while waiting. (They always ate late and I was always getting hungry at 5, like an elderly nursing home resident.) Suddenly, I felt my bottom right molar shatter into pieces. A molar - a very large tooth - just gave way into the candy, the gooey lump suddenly full of gravel-ly bits. As I hawked it out in my hand I remember announcing, "There's someone's tooth in my candy!" Well who the hell's tooth did I think it was? I was freaking out, trying to deny the reality of what had just happened, calculating, lightening-fast, the cost of what would turn out to be very expensive dental work. I still have that molar to this day and it still works fine... It's not a hilarious story but the story has become a part our our family lore and serves as a reminder of what ridiculous denial the human mind is capable of. So we can at least enjoy a kind of schadenfreude knowing these scoundrels are under huge duress, literally freaking out at the reality they deny. At least I hope they are, for all the trouble their dishonesty causes us.
Make no mistake. This is the zombie apocalypse.
There's wrong, dead wrong, and this guy.
Some folks are completely lost in the face of any uncertainty. They prefer a fake certainty.
I'll always prefer having to deal with the uncertainty of the world to the certainty of having cancer, or hurting my loved ones with these shots.
I have seen this before. It is very very sad.
"But this is also a reminder, that no amount of reason, logic or data will convert the vax disciples. This is no longer about data driven decisions. It is about being adrift. If you rug pull their authority figures, they are religionless. Statism has supplanted their religion and if you dirt-knap their God, they are in free fall. They cannot consider your data not because of its content, but because it leaves them godless and lost."
The above is absolutely brilliant. I have been wondering why my arguments loaded with data and facts have no impact on some acquaintances of mine and the above sentences encapsulates it all perfectly.
So sad.
The new mascot for medical auto-genecide.
For example, R. P. Feynman was a scientist. These people are not.
I have a Phd and would not call me a scientist.
At least he advances science (TM) by being a good lab rat (TM).
Thank you Kevin. Excellent post. I am not a Twitter member but I review your posts. To answer a question you posted today: Yes, this is exactly what happens when you create a Godless society. Thanks for being a truth-telling, honest scientist. Peace.
So true.
Karma is bitch at work. I have seen very little of this kind of work regarding magic soup. Mainly people who are affected are just naive or denied choice.
Very sad story. I feel like the author is experiencing a lack of compassion. It's ok to be brainwashed, and ok to be involved in supporting specific political views. Because of that 99.9 of MD in the US and 99% of doctors all over the globe are not doctors anymore.
Meanwhile, as humans, we should appreciate any good will. People change. Sometimes too late. God bless.
Unbelievable...
Very interesting to read!