Forwarded from Miscellaneous Illuminations
In a nutshell, zombie science is supported because it is useful propaganda to be deployed in arenas such as political rhetoric, public administration, management, public relations, marketing and the mass media generally. It persuades, it constructs taboos, it buttresses some kind of rhetorical attempt to shape mass opinion. Indeed, zombie science often comes across in the mass media as being more plausible than real science; and it is precisely the superficial face-plausibility which is the sole and sufficient purpose of zombie science.
Quoting from Zombie science: a sinister consequence of evaluating scientific theories purely on the basis of enlightened self-interest by Bruce G Charlton, 2008
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18603380/
Quoting from Zombie science: a sinister consequence of evaluating scientific theories purely on the basis of enlightened self-interest by Bruce G Charlton, 2008
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18603380/
PubMed
Zombie science: a sinister consequence of evaluating scientific theories purely on the basis of enlightened self-interest - PubMed
Although the classical ideal is that scientific theories are evaluated by a careful teasing-out of their internal logic and external implications, and checking whether these deductions and predictions are in-line-with old and new observations; the fact that…
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Normalizing the New Normal
Todd Hayen
For something to be a “new” normal, it must reach some measure of consensual normalcy. What is normalcy? Many people believe it is whatever sits at the middle of the proverbial “bell curve,” i.e., “majority.”
Is this true?
In my practice as a psychotherapist, I am very uncomfortable when a client asks if their behaviour is “normal.”
Usually I will reply, “well, it is probably the most common behaviour” or, the negative response, “you might be an outlier and not many out there behave that particular way.” That response is never very satisfying. People, it seems, equate “normal”…...
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Todd Hayen
For something to be a “new” normal, it must reach some measure of consensual normalcy. What is normalcy? Many people believe it is whatever sits at the middle of the proverbial “bell curve,” i.e., “majority.”
Is this true?
In my practice as a psychotherapist, I am very uncomfortable when a client asks if their behaviour is “normal.”
Usually I will reply, “well, it is probably the most common behaviour” or, the negative response, “you might be an outlier and not many out there behave that particular way.” That response is never very satisfying. People, it seems, equate “normal”…...
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The “Lab-Leak Theory” returns…as yet another fake binary
Kit Knightly
The theory that “Covid” originated in a bio-lab has been back in the headlines over the last few weeks, serving as a prime example of the type of fake binary OffG has been warning you about.
The “lab-leak theory” – which pushes the idea Sars-Cov-2 was bio-engineered in a lab as a “gain-of-function” program, and then either accidentally or deliberately released on an unsuspecting population – first came to the front pages as early as January 2020.
At the time it was deemed a “racist” “anti-china” conspiracy theory” by the vast majority of the media, but that was then, this is now…...
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Kit Knightly
The theory that “Covid” originated in a bio-lab has been back in the headlines over the last few weeks, serving as a prime example of the type of fake binary OffG has been warning you about.
The “lab-leak theory” – which pushes the idea Sars-Cov-2 was bio-engineered in a lab as a “gain-of-function” program, and then either accidentally or deliberately released on an unsuspecting population – first came to the front pages as early as January 2020.
At the time it was deemed a “racist” “anti-china” conspiracy theory” by the vast majority of the media, but that was then, this is now…...
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The lab leak story is just another way of getting you to buy what they are selling - that the fake pandemic is real & "covid" is more than a new name for old symptoms.
They want you to forget the whole thing was a scam – and to instead take a “side” in a scripted & noisy & totally phony “origin” debate.
The minute you sign up for it they have you – because by agreeing to debate where “it” comes from you have accepted “it” – ie a deadly new pathogen – exists & needs to be dealt with.
And that is all they want from you.
They want you to forget the whole thing was a scam – and to instead take a “side” in a scripted & noisy & totally phony “origin” debate.
The minute you sign up for it they have you – because by agreeing to debate where “it” comes from you have accepted “it” – ie a deadly new pathogen – exists & needs to be dealt with.
And that is all they want from you.
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AUDIO: Kit Knightly on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell
Perspective host Jesse Zurawell is joined by OffG's Kit Knightly to discuss the state of the world, the media, and what we can do about it.
What was the underlying strategy behind the beginning of the war in Ukraine?
Are Russia and China the saviours of freedom some believe them to be?
Is it right – or healthy – to embrace politicians as heroes?
Is there such a thing as a “moral” foreign policy?
What is the future of the East-West divide, and what does it mean for the New Normal?
They address all these questions and more.
TNT Radio…...
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Perspective host Jesse Zurawell is joined by OffG's Kit Knightly to discuss the state of the world, the media, and what we can do about it.
What was the underlying strategy behind the beginning of the war in Ukraine?
Are Russia and China the saviours of freedom some believe them to be?
Is it right – or healthy – to embrace politicians as heroes?
Is there such a thing as a “moral” foreign policy?
What is the future of the East-West divide, and what does it mean for the New Normal?
They address all these questions and more.
TNT Radio…...
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They are stating it as plainly as they can.
💢 it's not about ethics - or they wouldn't be targeting free range small scale organic farming
💢 it's not about the environment - or they wouldn't be promoting monocultures of chemical-saturated GMO "vegetables".
💢it's not about disease-prevention - unless you are really dumb enough to think factory-farmed chickens have LESS disease potential than natural free range birds.
The simple truth is they want to seize TOTAL control of the global food supply
If you think that's an overstatement please try to think of another, better, explanation for what they are currently doing...
https://dumptheguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/23/free-range-extensive-farming-may-risk-more-animal-borne-pandemics-than-intensive-factory-farming-study
💢 it's not about ethics - or they wouldn't be targeting free range small scale organic farming
💢 it's not about the environment - or they wouldn't be promoting monocultures of chemical-saturated GMO "vegetables".
💢it's not about disease-prevention - unless you are really dumb enough to think factory-farmed chickens have LESS disease potential than natural free range birds.
The simple truth is they want to seize TOTAL control of the global food supply
If you think that's an overstatement please try to think of another, better, explanation for what they are currently doing...
https://dumptheguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/23/free-range-extensive-farming-may-risk-more-animal-borne-pandemics-than-intensive-factory-farming-study
Dumptheguardian
Spread of ‘free-range’ farming may raise risk of animal-borne pandemics – study
If we can’t dramatically cut meat consumption then intensive ‘factory farming’ may be comparatively less risky, say authors
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“Polio Outbreak” – The WHO, Bill Gates, emergency vaccines & more of the same
Kit Knightly
Polio is on the front pages of British newspapers again for the first time in decades. What a time to be alive.
For those who missed it, two days ago the UK government declared a “national incident” after traces of the polio virus were detected in sewage from North London.
Yes, a “national incident”…for traces…found in sewage.
This is a massive escalation, even compared to the pandemic. Covid and Monkeypox at least had the good taste to wait for a single person to actually have the disease (allegedly) before hitting the big red panic button.
In a somewhat…...
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Kit Knightly
Polio is on the front pages of British newspapers again for the first time in decades. What a time to be alive.
For those who missed it, two days ago the UK government declared a “national incident” after traces of the polio virus were detected in sewage from North London.
Yes, a “national incident”…for traces…found in sewage.
This is a massive escalation, even compared to the pandemic. Covid and Monkeypox at least had the good taste to wait for a single person to actually have the disease (allegedly) before hitting the big red panic button.
In a somewhat…...
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Is “Roe v. Wade” REALLY about abortion?
Kit Knightly
A few hours ago the Supreme Court of United States (SCOTUS) confirmed their ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the case which set the precedent for abortion as a human right in the US back in the 1970s.
As soon as this decision was first “leaked” a few months ago it became the trending topic all across the US and to a certain extent the rest of the anglosphere. Since it was confirmed this afternoon, the already supercharged dialogue has reached new heights.
Pro-choice pundits, politicians and celebrities have been flooding the cyber public square with comparisons to the…...
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Kit Knightly
A few hours ago the Supreme Court of United States (SCOTUS) confirmed their ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the case which set the precedent for abortion as a human right in the US back in the 1970s.
As soon as this decision was first “leaked” a few months ago it became the trending topic all across the US and to a certain extent the rest of the anglosphere. Since it was confirmed this afternoon, the already supercharged dialogue has reached new heights.
Pro-choice pundits, politicians and celebrities have been flooding the cyber public square with comparisons to the…...
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WATCH: Interrogating Cold War 2.0
In this open discussion brought to you by Unlimited Hangout and OffGuardian, our panelists talk about the nature of the East-West dichotomy, whether global elites are engineering the rise of Eurasia and the fall of the West and – if so – for what purpose.
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In this open discussion brought to you by Unlimited Hangout and OffGuardian, our panelists talk about the nature of the East-West dichotomy, whether global elites are engineering the rise of Eurasia and the fall of the West and – if so – for what purpose.
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Petro, Maduro and Iran – regime change en route to Colombia?
Gavin O’Reilly
Gustavo Petro’s victory in Sunday’s Colombian Presidential election, marking the first time Bogotá has elected a left-wing head of state, was not the only far-reaching geopolitical event to recently take place involving Latin America.
A week prior to the former guerrilla fighter’s electoral success, President Nicolás Maduro of neighbouring Venezuela paid an official two day visit to Iran where he signed an official 20-year cooperation agreement with Iranian head of state Ayatollah Khameini – a deal intended to counter the wide-ranging US sanctions targeting both Caracas and Tehran.
With one of Petro’s Presidential aims being to develop further…...
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Gavin O’Reilly
Gustavo Petro’s victory in Sunday’s Colombian Presidential election, marking the first time Bogotá has elected a left-wing head of state, was not the only far-reaching geopolitical event to recently take place involving Latin America.
A week prior to the former guerrilla fighter’s electoral success, President Nicolás Maduro of neighbouring Venezuela paid an official two day visit to Iran where he signed an official 20-year cooperation agreement with Iranian head of state Ayatollah Khameini – a deal intended to counter the wide-ranging US sanctions targeting both Caracas and Tehran.
With one of Petro’s Presidential aims being to develop further…...
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From the Sublime to the Ridiculous…
Sinead Murphy
As 2020 dawned, two concepts came to loom on our horizon: ‘pandemic’ and ‘lockdown.’ Within a month or two, they had cast their pall over the whole of the human world.
The concepts ‘pandemic’ and ‘lockdown’ share something quite fundamental. They each describe an absolute: a disease that affects all people everywhere and a state of complete incarceration.
Human reality does not admit of absolutes. There can be no disease that affects all people everywhere – even the most ardent of the Covid convinced accept that certain demographics are more or less immune to SARS-CoV-2.
And no confinement…...
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Sinead Murphy
As 2020 dawned, two concepts came to loom on our horizon: ‘pandemic’ and ‘lockdown.’ Within a month or two, they had cast their pall over the whole of the human world.
The concepts ‘pandemic’ and ‘lockdown’ share something quite fundamental. They each describe an absolute: a disease that affects all people everywhere and a state of complete incarceration.
Human reality does not admit of absolutes. There can be no disease that affects all people everywhere – even the most ardent of the Covid convinced accept that certain demographics are more or less immune to SARS-CoV-2.
And no confinement…...
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Your regular reminder that Putin is as much a globalist as Truss or Johnson or Biden or Xi.
🔘They are all ultimately selling the same agenda & pushing for the same techno-fascist future.
🔘But these "conflicts" help conceal that fact & distract people into self-defeating, time-wasting binaries.
🔘They have no problem sacrificing lives to create a narrative. They all did it with "covid" and they'll do it again as needed.
🔘Wars are profitable. Rebuilding afterwards even more so -- ask Halliburton.
It's not Left v Right or East v West.
It's 0.1% v the rest of humanity.
Refuse to play the tired old game.
🔘They are all ultimately selling the same agenda & pushing for the same techno-fascist future.
🔘But these "conflicts" help conceal that fact & distract people into self-defeating, time-wasting binaries.
🔘They have no problem sacrificing lives to create a narrative. They all did it with "covid" and they'll do it again as needed.
🔘Wars are profitable. Rebuilding afterwards even more so -- ask Halliburton.
It's not Left v Right or East v West.
It's 0.1% v the rest of humanity.
Refuse to play the tired old game.
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This Week in the New Normal #35
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. “Progressive” Calls for Legal Assisted Suicide
Progressive Magazine has an article this week calling euthanasia a “civil rights issue”.
Also this week, a review of Spain’s new euthanasia law found 180 patients had “died with dignity” in the first 12 months, while Italy carried out their first euthanasia under their new law.
Last week, Portugal approved their new euthanasia bill at the first reading.
In a piece of interesting…...
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Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. “Progressive” Calls for Legal Assisted Suicide
Progressive Magazine has an article this week calling euthanasia a “civil rights issue”.
Also this week, a review of Spain’s new euthanasia law found 180 patients had “died with dignity” in the first 12 months, while Italy carried out their first euthanasia under their new law.
Last week, Portugal approved their new euthanasia bill at the first reading.
In a piece of interesting…...
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Audio
"Polio Outbreak" - The WHO, Bill Gates, emergency vaccines & more of the same by Kit Knightly -- Audio Version.
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Anatomy of a Philanthropath: Dreams of Democide & Dictatorship
“Tyranny is a habit which may be developed until at last it becomes a disease. I declare that the noblest nature can become so hardened and bestial that nothing distinguishes it from that of a wild animal. Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead
If you’re the type of person who’s brimming…...
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“Tyranny is a habit which may be developed until at last it becomes a disease. I declare that the noblest nature can become so hardened and bestial that nothing distinguishes it from that of a wild animal. Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead
If you’re the type of person who’s brimming…...
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So, at what point is Putin finally going to stop "playing along" with these globalist narratives, rip the mask off and reveal himself as Zorro, defender of the human race?
I mean I know it's 5D chess and all but seriously...
I mean I know it's 5D chess and all but seriously...
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