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green_dog's avatar

Thank you again for your excellent work. I am so grateful that you're exposing this weaponization of science. Their lack of integrity in pursuing these nonsensical accusations is beyond disgusting. I am so disappointed - almost frightened, really - to find that people I once thought to be intelligent are blind to what's going on.

weedom1's avatar

It’s been sad to see the capture and decline of research institutions, publishers and reviewers over my lifetime. I used to think that Retraction Watch could be helpful in navigating this decline, but I have come to see it as part of the problem. This post is clearly confirmatory.

Sharon Wood's avatar

What is sacred anymore?

weedom1's avatar

This is the "second world" where institutions started during a time when lying was considered bad still remain, but they are hollowed out and non-functional.

SEF's avatar
Nov 21Edited

As a scientist I have known for a long time that Retraction Watch and almost all mainstream so-called "scientific integrity" initiatives are extremely corrupt, deceitful, and definitely part of the problem. That said, I have ALSO known for a long time that Trump is also extremely corrupt, deceitful, and definitely part of the problem. He's certainly not someone that any decent person in their right mind should be celebrating as the leader of the U.S. Hopefully, more and more people are slowly waking up.

weedom1's avatar

What is your field of science?

Which possible presidential candidate do you find to be less corrupt than Trump?

Trump is certainly no boy scout.

Many people have been programmed to hate him so much that they would unalive him and put an outright marxist in his place.

I am in the category of people who recognize the Creator. Marxists have and will unalive my kind when they take over. I will seek to delay this by voting for those who don't outright hate my kind.

SEF's avatar
Nov 21Edited

I am a medical researcher, not a physician but work along the lines of identifying which treatments are good (or bad) by analyzing and interpreting data, and very often challenge dogma in my own professional work (though in much less controversial fields than vaccines etc.). Personally, I immediately recognized the massive scientific flaws in the mainstream studies pushing the mRNA vaccines, and I really emphasized the fact that the mRNA vaccine RCTs showed "4 killed for every 3 saved". I also recognized the scientific flaws and bias in the mainstream narrative claiming "ivermectin doesn't work". I even told my elderly-ish parents who spend significant time in public settings not to get the experimental vaccines but be careful and keep their immune systems strong etc., and I got ivermectin ahead of time for them, their plan was to wear masks in crowded settings until 2022 and I was totally fine with that as an alternative to the vaccines. (BTW, they got COVID far later than all their vaccinated/boosted family and friends and acquaintances, except the eccentric vaccinated/boosted ones who ALSO wore masks and ordered takeout until 2023, etc.)

As to which presidential candidate is less corrupt than Trump, I don't care about grade-school style popularity contests or groupthink or what is "cool", I care about right vs. wrong, and I would feel quite confident betting my life that all three candidates who ran against Trump, though all significantly flawed, were exponentially less corrupt than Trump (ironically Biden, the only one who did beat Trump, was most likely the worst of the three). The unpopular truth is still the truth. I am not a Marxist or any -ist but I believe "Marxism" is exactly one of the things that you have been "programmed to hate" (using your words) by the powerful and billionaires who have literally THOUSANDS of times more money than you (unless you are a billionaire yourself).

weedom1's avatar

You have made your background and operating principles clear enough for me to understand. Thanks for the reply.

SEF's avatar

You're welcome!

SEF's avatar

Thank you- as they say, great minds think alike.

Rodney's avatar

Hope you all see a just outcome with the bastards nailed to a wall.

Tony Broomfield's avatar

Superb work again from you lovely folks. Those eyes in the back of your heads must be awful tired with this duplicity. Keep up the good work, the whole planet needs to win this fight.

Melblanca's avatar

If anything resembles an attention-seeking campaign, it’s the approach they are displaying. It is less science and more just rhetoric. If a critique relies on tropes, insinuations, and ad hominem, how can it be taken seriously in a professional capacity? It becomes nothing but an opinion piece. They claim you're attention seeking. However, I'm sure it is THEIR strategy to appeal to and pressure mainy to those who already share their COIs, same confirmation bias, or ideological commitment to get some steam behind them when they lack credibility in the scientific rigor of their argument.

T'ree's avatar

Agree the 'attention seeking' argument is hackneyed at it's outset. Particularly hilarious is when independent critiques are labeled as money-making. LMFAO when mainstream accusations claimscounter-narrative sources "make millions"... as even if technically true, wanes to a microscopic nothing compared to The-Powers-That-Wanna-Be billions and trillions and all their high-status meat puppets.

Marc G. Wathelet's avatar

It was infuriating to read the protest letter at the end of your piece, Kevin, such disingenuous arguing is revolting. And they have been at it for a very long time. I must thank you again for the rigorous work you are carrying out to sort out the truth of the matter for us. Those responsible or complicit will keep denying and censoring, it's hard to admit to have been so wrong for so long and that people were injured or killed as a result of the choice they made. It's not impossible, Piers Morgan did a heartfelt looking in the eye apology to Djokovic on camera, but we won't see Fauci do that. It is sad to see the rot of corruption that pervades science today at all levels, and the same holds true for all institutions. All institutions are based on a lie, as Lacan put it. I don't know how to get out of this mess but by seeking the truth. Thank you again and keep on "truthing".

mejbcart's avatar

Sorry for reading this 'inquisition procedure' initiated by, as always, a double named agents, since Arnold Foundation is now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ventures

with CRIME listed in the areas of their FOCUS, on the first place... BUT read about the founder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Arnold

or his wife: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Arnold

and look for the word 'Controversies'. Also were such a young couple in their 50-ies managed to 'collect' >4bln $'s..??? There is no publicly available information confirming John Arnold's religious background or ethnicity. Hm... The power of that organization can be found in every college physics book, where Arnold Ventures is listed as one of the Founding Funders of https://openstax.org/foundation , who PRINT THE SCIENCE for ALL the YOUNG GENERATIONS.

You will see there right behind ARNOLD VENTURES, names like:

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Chegg, Inc.

Arthur and Carlyse Ciocca Charitable Foundation

Digital Promise

Ann and John Doerr

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Girard Foundation

Google Inc.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The Hewlett-Packard Company

Intel Inc.

Rusty and John Jaggers

The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation

Charles Koch Foundation

Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Inc.

The Maxfield Foundation

Burt and Deedee McMurtry

Michelson 20MM Foundation

National Science Foundation

The Open Society Foundations

Jumee Yhu and David E. Park III

Brian D. Patterson USA-International Foundation

The Bill and Stephanie Sick Fund

Steven L. Smith & Diana T. Go

Stand Together

Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation

The Stuart Family Foundation

Tammy and Guillermo Treviño

Valhalla Charitable Foundation

White Star Education Foundation

Schmidt Futures

William Marsh Rice University

The billions for Penn because of :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Weissman

WIth one word, your publication is about SCIENCE, not CRIME. These morons are there to make you 'fear' the system, the very system which created covid in the first place...

sandra's avatar

Stepping on the toes of Truths.....wrong dance step for Retraction Watch, especially under your watch Jessica.....stupid is as stupid does!!! *******You go Girlfriend******* ;)xo's

Beyowulf760's avatar

Well said Sandra!

Jonathan's avatar

Gonna be a good aftermarket for nose reconstruction surgeons by the time this is done snd dusted.

T'ree's avatar

Unfortunately I didn't finish reading the Dr Rose article but I have paid attention to Retraction Watch a few years before the plandemic.

It is extremely biased, which is obvious in even the language they use in their blogs, plus always following a double-standards where it pleases. Just the usual when it comes to anything that doesn't help make so-called Medicine appear omniscient/omnipotent in the creation of deceptive profit.

Absolutely NO SURPRISE that they haven't apologized nor even acknowledged the facts in Dr Rose's instance. It is anti-transparency in every instance it purports to "report".

Retraction Watch is the propaganda tool. Along with probably most of the blind retractions that are made in these "highly esteemed" publications.

Glad you are bringing it out into the open the role of this entity - though not envying the headache of its purpose being directed at truly independent researchers like Dr Rose.

Sandy K's avatar

Jessica, Kevin and David: IMPRESSIVE! This tells me that y'all are directly over a target that the powers-that-shouldn't-be want to keep hidden in the dark. They are just cockroaches running for cover.

Blessings to you and your colleagues.

Vivien C Buckley's avatar

I find the corruption weaved into our healthcare extremely frightening. Pharma funds everything to do with it, which translates into everything to do with their profits. Murder and harms are taking place openly and freely under the pretence of protective healthcare. The corruption has been well thought out with intricate planning and protected by an impenetrable palisade. I feel that Kevin is taking all the risk with not a whole lot of help taking Goliath on. Kevin is really intelligent and knows his stuff but surely there are others who could fight the good fight too. I wish I could do something to be of some use.

Mick From Hooe (UK)'s avatar

Hang on in there Jessica. They're running scared because you've hit a nerve with the truth.

At long last Big Pharma are being revealed as being dishonest regarding the false claims of Safety and Efficacy of their poisonous and dangerous medicines, particularly the deadly injections they call 'vaccines'. Particularly the DEADLY unproven 'experimental' mRNA poisons that have already damaged or killed (murdered) much of humanity.

Now we await the termination of the dangerous Gain of Function bio-weapon experiments that could wipe out humanity. It's total insanity (Pandora's Box).

Finally, we might start to trust the medical industry again when their 'shield' from LIABILITY (the PREP ACT) is terminated and Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, etc,) have to accept culpability for all INJURIES and DEATHS caused by their (pretend) cures viral illnesses.

Unjabbed Mick (UK Patriot) We live longer

Bon Kwi Kwi's avatar

Only mid-wits bring a pea-shooter to a gun fight

DC Lovell's avatar

Captured is the best word to describe the current propaganda masquerading as science. I wonder what Dr. John Ioannidis would say about this.

PaPa's avatar

“The truth does not require your participation to exist. Bullshit does.” ~ Terence McKenna

2025 - The gaslighting and BS require constant promotion, support, and validation so to keep the believers believing. Once that stops - the believers may start asking questions or become skeptical. BS needs believers - and that's the goal of the narrative.

As for the believers, it's not a lie if I believe it, so I believe it because I believe it.