Starting with Biomedical, a BIG story.
Biomedical. The former vice president and chief scientist of Pfizer’s Allergy & Respiratory Division comes out and says it definitively. I would state that i much prefer to not say “viruses don’t exist,” but rather “there is no proof that viruses exist.” A negative cannot be scientifically proven, and it the burden of proof should rest upon those who assert that viruses exist.
Dr. Yeadon “I have learned enough to say I think viroLIEgy is wholly fraudulent...I’m also securely of the opinion that global pandemics of severe illnesses are impossible. There haven’t been any pandemics.” Lioness of Judah Ministry, 4/25/24.
By Dr. Michael Yeadon [hot link in text, to Yeadon’s Telegram channel, see end for the URL if you do Telegram], April 25, 2024
I’m formally confident that acute respiratory illnesses that we call colds and flu (“influenza-like illnesses) are not caused by submicroscopic infectious particles called viruses & are not contagious.
For a number of other diseases which are attributed to viruses, such as “HIV/AIDS” & “Polio”, I’ve followed the trail of evidence far enough to also state that there is no evidence that they’re caused by such viruses. On the contrary, and like “Covid-19”, they are more correctly termed syndromes (since the claimed symptoms vary to an extraordinary extent) and are misattributions of a collection of other illnesses. In each case, people really are ill. It’s just that the diagnosis is wrong and not viral, either.
I’ve read of the failures ever to meet reasonable isolation expectations for any virus. Speaking as a man on the Clapham omnibus, I have learned enough to say I think viroLIEgy is wholly fraudulent. Speaking as Dr Mike Yeadon, PhD, I haven’t done enough personal, detailed research to be sure that viruses don’t exist, though I suspect that it’s true.
I make the distinction because I think people have a right to know whether I’m speaking as an experienced scientist or as a thoughtful but inexpert person. If I make a claim without qualification, it would be reasonable for a 3rd party to expect me to be able to produce chapter & verse on numerous important claims about allegedly viral illnesses and, in many cases, I couldn’t do that. I’d be relying on others testimony.
I do have the evidence & have read primary literature on respiratory illnesses and selected others. That’s why I’m sure about them.
I’m also securely of the opinion that global pandemics of severe illnesses are impossible. There haven’t been any pandemics. The most famous example, Spanish Flu Pandemic, is a mixture of exaggeration and probable, deliberate poisoning. In recent years, they’re “PCR false positive pseudo epidemics”, a well-established, real thing, in which 100% of the claimed positive test results are false. There have been famous examples where this is entirely accidental, such as the whooping cough pseudo epidemic.
That we’re at risk at any moment of emergence of a pandemic or severe, highly infectious disease is a central lie which I now regard as an obvious untruth. It’s been a strange and bumpy journey. The strangest thing is showing clever people the evidence underwriting my current position on acute respiratory illnesses & finding them unmoved by it.
There have been some who’ve travelled along similar roads to the same conclusions. I believe Dr Jonathan Engler is one. There are numerous other people who I believe are sincere, so I’m not going tomorrow pick on them, yet still speak as if the propaganda of a lifetime remains intact. It’s maddening & I am unable to account for that.
Interestingly, one person, years ago, confessed to me that they didn’t want to believe what I was telling them, because it was simply too frightening. It’s possible that psychological protection mechanisms prevents some of us from accepting new information. I think we are much more subconsciously active beings than we realise. We then rationalise consciously those things our subconscious has processed (or not).
This may be why many of us have found it impossible to persuade others, even those we love & have known for many years, that we’re being lied to & are under extraordinary attack. I’m not a psychologist either, so I’m unsure what’s really going on when I failed to convince my older sister, who has a PhD in a biological field, that the pandemic is a long planned fraud.
There are some people who act as if they believe that all we need to do is assert that viruses don’t exist and the scales will fall from humanity’s eyes and the battle will be over. My own empirical evidence is that this is among the least successful ways of approaching the undoubtedly thick layers of infectious diseases.
Holding this opinion prompts some of them to claim I’m working for the perpetrators. I cannot help that. I think this is pretty much where my thinking is at present. For avoidance of doubt, neither PCR based diagnostics, tests for what are claimed to be antibodies to certain infectious disease causing agents, and vaccines (without reservation) are all fraudulent.
The underlying illnesses are real, which is why the lies are so effective.
Best wishes, Mike
Yeadon’s Telegram channel is here,
And, East Palestine revisited. A video by the labor activist group Working People, of a large gathering of town residents, toxic chemical poisoning victims from nearby parts of the US, and labor activists from all over the place.
Industrially poisoned East Palestine residents demand fully-funded healthcare, The Real News Networks, 4/25/24. Three hours and 11 minutes.
"On March 23, 2024, a coalition of around 80 people convened at the East Palestine Country Club at the first gathering called by the newly formed Justice for East Palestine Residents & Workers Coalition. Those in attendance included: East Palestine residents; railroad workers; residents of other “sacrifice zones” in Ohio, Maryland, California, and West Virginia; concerned citizens living near other rail lines; labor activists and labor union representatives; representatives of environmental justice organizations; (striking) journalists; socialists, Trump voters, non-voters, etc.; and more. As journalist Steve Mellon reported, “The newly formed coalition, dubbed Justice for East Palestine Residents & Workers, determined they will travel to Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8 to further their demand that the federal government step in and make sure those affected by the derailment are provided with fully funded health care.”
In this extended episode, you will hear a compilation of speakers from the March 23 conference in East Palestine. Speakers include: Lauri Harmon, East Palestine resident; Chris Albright, East Palestine resident; Jami Rae Wallace, East Palestine resident, president of East Palestine Unity Council; Christina Siceloff, East Palestine resident; Rob Two-Hawks, East Palestine resident; Daren Gamble, East Palestine resident; John Palmer, longtime organizer and officer with the Teamsters, but not speaking on behalf of the Teamsters; Andrew Sandberg, International Association of Machinists IAM; George Waksmunski, United Electrical Workers UE; Chris Silvera, Teamsters Local 808 executive secretary; Steve Mellon, journalist for the Pittsburgh Union Progress, on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for 18 months; Vina Colley, Portsmouth-Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety & Security; Steve Zeltzer, WorkWeek; David Pfister, Food & Water Watch; Nicole Fabricant, activist, academic, and author of Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore; Hilary Flint, Clean Air Action; Penny Logsdon, Lee County, Iowa, Labor Chapter; Jeff Kurtz, Lee County, Iowa, Labor Chapter; Carrie Duncan, Lee County, Iowa, Labor Chapter; Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network; Mike Stout, musician.
Editor's Note (4/25/24): This episode of Working People was published on TRNN's podcast feed on April 18, 2024, before the Labor Notes conference in Chicago. Studio Production: Steve Zeltzer, Maximillian Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor.”
My comments.The testimonies by the town’s residents are downright scary and mind-blowing. Just as disturbing are eyewitness accounts by others about facilities near their towns, such as the nearby "uranium enrichment plant”/nuclear weapons production facility in Piketon, Ohio, and toxic chemical facilities in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, across the state line from nearby East Palestine. Rousing statements of solidarity. I would have preferred hearing from more residents, though.
And yes, some of what people seek is native. They advocate national health care, when such an entity if ever created will follow and enforce the rules of allopathic medicine, and will serve as a means for massive data collection from the populace, as per the UK and Israel. And lots of people advocated for nationalizing the railroads, as if state owned capitalist enterprises actually act any differently than any other capitalist enterprise. Plenty of evidence to the contrary, over 100 years of it, globally. But it’s good to seem them not roll over and give up while muttering nihilistic and cynical justifications for doing so.
A report which includes quotes from the residents is at this page, The media outlet is being done by workers who are striking against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazetter over workplace issues.
4IR. Noman Finkelstein speaks of yet new rhetorical escalations in the confrontation between the Iranian state and the Israeli one.
Norman Finkelstein: Israel at the Brink amid Rising Tensions at 3 WARS IRAN HEZBOLLAH _ GAZA, Crochê Da Ray, 4/24/24. 32 minutes.
My comments. Apparently, both Israel’s UN ambassador and Israeli “moderate” official historian Benny Morris have in recent days called for a preemptive nuclear strike on Iran before that state can develop a nuclear weapon. The ambassador equated the prospect of Iranian nukes with the rise of Hitler and stated that if the rest of the world acts like Chamberlain in this matter, Israel will play the role of Churchill.
Meanwhile, campus protests are growing and spreading. Nice to see this involvement. But i’m disturbed by a tendency of the movement to enforce the official PsyOp “Pandemic” narrative of the last four years, with many protesters wearing face masks, especially ones talking to media. Given the state of development of facial recognition software being used by law enforcement agencies, a development greatly enhanced by the PsyOp, law enforcement people know who the protesters are. The only real effect of mask wearing is the legitimation of the false narrative.
And, a supplement to the Special Edition of two days ago regarding Austrian Economics, an excellent refutation of the entire theoretical basis of that school.
This is from the first full chapter of Paul Mattick’s Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory, 1974;
Viewed apart from production, the price problem can be dealt with purely in terms of the market. If the supply of commodities exceeds the demand for them, their price falls; in the opposite case it rises. The movement of prices, however, cannot explain the phenomenon of price itself, as a property of products. Even if the objective concept of value is given up, some other concept of value must be maintained to say more than that prices determine prices. The “solution” to this problem was found in a move from economics to psychology. Prices, economists began to claim, are based on consumers’ individual evaluations as represented by their demand for goods. Prices are then explained by the scarcity of the goods in question relative to the demand for them. It did not take long for this subjective treatment of value, in the form of “marginal utility theory,” to become almost universally accepted within bourgeois economics.
With the marginal utility theory the idea of political economy lost its sense and was abandoned for that of “pure” economics. Marginalism was not different in method from classical economics, but it applied this method no longer to social problems but to the behavior of individuals with respect to the goods available to them and to the consequences of this behavior for the exchange process. Naturally, classical economics also concerned itself with the individual who, as homo economicus, competed with other individuals for the greatest possible gain. But this competition was thought to be a process of equilibration and ordering that adjusted production and distribution to social requirements. While this process took place as if directed by an invisible hand behind the backs of the producers, it nevertheless took place, effecting the necessary unity of private and general interest. Conversely, it could obviously not occur to the marginalists to deny the existence of society. But for them social conditions were only a means to the end of establishing the “economic relation” of the individual to the things he finds of use. They saw this relation as holding for individuals outside society as well as for each person in any and every society, so that the nature of any particular society was irrelevant…..
Bourgeois apologetics had taken on two tasks. On the one hand, it was thought essential to represent the winning of profit, interest, and rent participation in the creation of wealth. On the other, it was thought desirable to found the authority of economics on the procedures of natural science. This second desire prompted a search for general economic laws independent of time and circumstances. If such laws could be proven the existing society would thereby be legitimated and every idea of changing it refuted. Subjective value theory promised to accomplish both tasks at once. Disregarding the exchange relation peculiar to capitalism-that between the sellers and buyers of labor power it could explain the division of the social product, under whatever forms, as resulting from the needs of the exchangers themselves…..
To be sure, the assumption of a tendency to equilibrium of supply and demand effected by exchange lay at the basis of all market theories. Walras, however, attempted to prove the validity of this assumption in the manner of the exact sciences. According to him marginal utility was not only self-evident but also measurable by the application of the principle of substitution to the commodity market as a whole, where all prices inextricably intertwined. Prices seemed to him to be inversely proportional to the quantities of commodities exchanged. Production costs were formed, in his eyes, by the wages, interest, and rents entering into them, which he considered alike as payments for productive services. All persons exchanged their productive services for consumer goods of equal value. The “reality” of the subjective values manifested in equilibrium prices was here visible in the equilibrium of the economy, and this equilibrium in turn demonstrated the validity of the subjective value concept. As value and equilibrium defined each other, the theory of value was equated to that of general equilibrium, and it sufficed to prove the theoretical possibility of the latter to prove the validity of the subjective theory of value.
Despite its dependence on circular reasoning, the idea of equilibrium applied to the economy as a whole, to parts of it, or to particular cases, remains one of the methodological principles of bourgeois economics, if only because from this discipline’s point of view, all movement in the world – not only that of the economy – tends toward equilibrium states. Of course, the Walrasian system of general equilibrium-represented by a system of simultaneous equations-was only a model and not a picture of concrete conditions. It claimed, however, the status of scientific knowledge on the ground that though the economy might depart from equilibrium, it would always tend to return to this condition. On account of the involution and complexity of the manifold intertwined economic processes, theoretical proof of the possibility of equilibrium could be furnished only by means of mathematics on a level of abstraction which, while corresponding to the theory, had lost all connection with reality.
[Just like virology has moved steadily away from any connection to the material world via “wet labs” and onto computer models existing only in silico. ]
Ending this segment and this edition, some interesting ideas from Gail Tverberg, limited as she is by being trapped inside bourgeois economics.
The world’s economic myths are hitting limits, Gail Tverberg, 4/18/24. Graphs.
There are many myths about energy and the economy. In this post I explore the situation surrounding some of these myths. My analysis strongly suggests that the transition to a new Green Economy is not progressing as well as hoped. Green energy planners have missed the point that our physics-based economy favors low-cost producers. In fact, the US and EU may not be far from an economic downturn because subsidized green approaches are not truly low-cost.
[1] The Chinese people have long believed that the safest place to store savings is in empty condominium apartments, but this approach is no longer working.
The focus on ownership of condominium homes is beginning to unwind, with huge repercussions for the Chinese economy. In March, new home prices in China declined by 2.2%, compared to a year earlier. Property sales fell by 20.5% in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period a year ago, and new construction starts measured by floor area fell by 27.8%. Overall property investment in China fell by 9.5% in the first quarter of 2024. No one is expecting a fast rebound. The Chinese seem to be shifting their workforce from construction to manufacturing, but this creates different issues for the world economy, which I describe in Section [6].
[2] We have been told that Electric Vehicles (EVs) are the way of the future, but the rate of growth is slowing.
In the US, the rate of growth was only 3.3% in the first quarter of 2024, compared to 47% one year ago. Tesla has made headlines, saying that it is laying off 10% of its staff. It also recently reported that it is delaying deliveries of its cybertruck. A big issue is the high prices of EVs; another is the lack of charging infrastructure. If EV sales are to truly expand, they will need both lower prices and much better charging infrastructure.
[3] Many people have assumed that home solar panel sales would rise forever, but now US home solar panel sales are shrinking.
A forecast made by the trade group Solar Energy Industries Association and consulting firm Wood Mackenzie indicates that US solar panel installations by homeowners are expected to fall by 13% in 2024. There are many issues involved: higher interest rates, less generous subsidies to homeowners, not enough grid capacity for new generation, and too much overproduction of electricity by solar panels in the spring and fall, when heating and air conditioning demand is low. The overproduction issue is particularly acute in California.
For each individual 24-hour day, the timing of solar energy production does not match up well with when it is needed. With sufficient batteries, solar electricity produced in the morning can help run air conditioners in the evening. But storage from summer to winter is still not feasible, and batteries for short-term storage are expensive.
[4] It is a myth that wind and solar truly add to electricity supplies for the US and the countries in the EU. Instead, their pricing seems to lead to tighter electricity supplies.
…..I believe that the strange pricing systems used for wind and solar in the US and EU are driving out other electricity suppliers, especially nuclear. With this system, intermittent electricity enjoys the subsidy of going first at the regular wholesale market rate. Other providers find themselves with very low or negative wholesale rates in the spring and fall of the year and on weekends and holidays. As a result, their overall return falls too low. Nuclear is particularly affected because it requires a huge, fixed investment, and it cannot be ramped up and down easily…..On a world basis, in 2022, wind and solar added about 13% to total world electricity generation (Figure 3).
Based on Figure 3, with the addition of wind and solar, the upward slope of the world per capita electricity generation has been able to remain pretty much constant from 1985 to 2022, at about 1.6% per year. But the US and the EU, as high-cost producers of goods and services, haven’t been able to participate in this per capita growth of electricity. Instead, China has been a major beneficiary of the shift of manufacturing overseas from the US and EU. It has been able to rapidly increase its electricity supply per capita, even with wind and solar. It has also been adding both nuclear and coal-fired electricity generation capacity.Thus, this analysis produces the result a person would expect if the physics of the world economy favors efficient (low-cost) producers.
[5] It is a myth that the US and EU can greatly ramp up the use of EVs or greatly increase the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) without relying on fossil fuels.
Both EV production and AI are heavy users of electricity supply. We have seen that the US and the EU no longer have growing per-capita electricity supplies. Ramping up electricity generation would require a long lead time (10 years or more), a major increase in fossil fuel consumption, and an increase in electricity transmission lines…...
[6] It is a myth that the world economy can continue as usual, whatever happens to energy supply and growing debt. China’s homebuilding problems could, in theory, lead to debt bubbles crashing around the world….
[7] The world’s biggest myth is that the world economy can continue to grow forever.
I have pointed out previously that based on physics considerations, economies cannot be expected to be permanent structures. Economies and humans are both self-organizing systems that grow. Humans get their energy from food. Economies are powered by the types of energy products that our built infrastructure uses. Neither can grow forever. Neither can get along without energy products of the right types, in the right quantities.
We become so accustomed to the narratives we hear that we tend to assume that what we are told must be right. These narratives could be based on wishful thinking, or on inadequate models, or on a sour grapes view that says, “We don’t want fossil fuels anyhow.” We know that humans need food, and that economies will continue to require fossil fuels. We can’t make wind turbines or solar panels without fossil fuels. What do we plan to do for energy without fossil fuels? In a finite world, economies cannot continue forever. We don’t know precisely what will go wrong or when it will go wrong, but we can get a hint from the recent failures of myths that our economy may change dramatically in the not-too-distant future.