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Lessons from Civil War history
I first became aware of William Allen, eventually a Colonel in Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army, when I was researching my 2019 (privately printed) book commemorating the tenth anniversary of our Baptist chapel’s burning down shortly before I moved to Devon. As Captain Allen, together with his lifelong friend Captain John Vernon, and a couple of other Baptist “other ranks,” he was an early leader, and almost certainly founder, of the Baptist Church, Kilmington, now active and growing with weekly congregations upwards of 150 people.
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Trust and obey, for there’s no other way to avoid Misinformation
A friend and Humpist from America (who was also a Cambridge contemporary) sent me this link to a new paper calling for the withdrawal of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID “vaccines.” It is not the first such report.
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Total insanity is no fun
Tom Lehrer claimed to have given up songwriting because the US political situation had become too ridiculous for satire. Things are so much worse now that satire itself has virtually died (apart from woke virtue signalling posing as satire, and distinguished by provoking vomiting rather than laughter). Likewise, a blog like this, which currently majors on pointing out societal evils, is in danger of having simply to say, “Everything around you is insane – there’s nothing else to say.” But I’ll try for now to keep on at least making some sense of things.
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A longer, even more authoritative COVID report
Last month I cited Martin Sewell’s Edinburgh-based review of COVID and the calamitous measures taken against it, recommending it as a reference. Now there’s an even more authoritative paper – the final report of the US Congress’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronovirus Pandemic, 520 delicious pages of scathing critique.
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Clearing my mind on COVID
I’ve been ploughing through an astonishing tour-de-force review of the literature, both academic and popular, on COVID-19 by the economist Martin Sewell, available here from Researchgate.
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COVID stats revisited
A new paper in the BMJ assesses the worldwide effects of COVID (and simultaneously its management) through excess death statistics.
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…and they still lie
“Some of the effects were direct from the disease, but many of them were indirect by the lockdowns, which were in and of themselves unpredictable because they weren’t part of the plan.” Chris Whitty at COVID Enquiry. So speaks the man who was Chief Medical Officer in 2020. Note the “Some” from COVID opposed to the “Many” from lockdowns. And he lies anyway, because even I (a retired non-CMO GP) predicted the tragic outcomes before the lockdowns happened. At the time I didn’t even know that the pandemic plans of everyone up to the WHO excluded lockdowns because their ill effects were entirely predictable. But you don’t get knighthoods for … Continue reading
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Mental health and the young
Quite regularly some new statistic appears about the increasing levels of mental health problems amongst children and young adults. The latest survey suggests one in five souls aged from eight to twenty-five had a “probable” mental health issue in 2023. It seems the conditions primarily blamed are anxiety, autism spectrum disorders, and depression. That does not indicate a healthy society.
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She don’t lie, she don’t lie, Cochrane
What started me investigating propaganda and related topics, around nine years ago now, was the strange phenomenon of how public attitudes on sexuality had (ostensibly) been dramatically reversed in just a decade or so, as if by magic. Another decade has shown up many of the mechanisms, such as institutional capture, mass formation and so on. But it still remains strange how it is far easier to sell lies than truth to ordinary people.
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The Pauli Principle
In this case I’m referring to the British Principle Trial of Ivermectin, which was pauli planned, pauli executed and pauli applied. Excuse my spell checker.
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