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Jun 30, 2022·edited Jun 30, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

This essay couldn't be more timely or appropriate. I was just thinking about performative behavior. Public health advisors have been wrong on every single aspect of COVID--spread and containment, lockdowns and school closures, masking, medical management, and of course, the vaccine. The data are abundantly clear. And yet, so many of my fellow physician friends and colleagues still keep repeating all of the same crap. For a brief time, I was puzzled. Why?

I put a lot of time and effort into sharing information and studies that would bring them from 2020/2021 into 2022. I'm pleased to say I successfully red pilled a few, but the majority have continued the same talking points. And that's when I realized that it's more important for them to "say the right thing" than to say the RIGHT thing.

Doesn't sound like things end well for a mimetic society...

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if you understand science properly... you understand science is just a fancy way of saying "method." look up the definition. science = method. nothing more. reconsider what we are seeing across academia right now. what? we are seeing science... as institution. the practice of science--method--via the institutions, academia, physics, medicine... has transmogrified from the focus on method... to the focus on the institutions themselves... science.... not as method... but... as institution. hmmm.... and what institutional "gestalt" has science assumed... interestingly enough... it has assumed a form we are very well familiar with. science, as an institution... has assumed the form of... religion. the similarities between orthodox religiosity and orthodox "science" (as an institution) are striking.... science are no longer methodologists... no, scientists are priests. the institution is the church. questioning the science... in other words, actual scientific method... is heresy, another aspect of religion... the ex-communication of the non-believers... by falling back on... the scientific consensus. the consensus says... "the science is settled." settled science is an oxymoron. but not in the emerging church of science. your field has been hijacked by institutionalist zealots who have transformed a methodological approach to interrogating reality that has worked for us well for over 400 years, and replacing it with something that we had before.... rigid belief systems enforced by a priesthood of dogmatic absolutists who expel all sinners from the church of religion as heretics if they refuse to worship at the alter in the church of religion. does "science denier" ring a bell.... there's a method to this madness ..... and there's more to it than that....

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The longer I have practiced, the more I have realized just how much of an art medicine really is. Yes, there is a lot of "science" in medicine, but often a physician's judgement becomes a far more significant factor in a patient's care and outcomes than we like to discuss. Knowing your patients, listening to them, taking time to thoughtfully analyze what they are telling you, touching and examining your patients, and having the courage to trust your gut (your "gestalt," if you will), rather than a cookbook algorithm... So critical and so overlooked.

As to the science, well, that's been dying a slow death for many years, choked by academia, regulation, and Big Pharma. I trained in the era when "evidence based medicine" had really come into its own and we were all reassured this THIS was the only right/true/valid way to practice.

And, of course, now we know just how easily data can be manipulated to achieve a specific end goal. The medical industrial complex and the profiteering of it all has spread its inky, black stain over almost every aspect of medical practice, and finding a way to escape is proving more and more challenging.

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Science, barely managing a whimper, died somewhere alone in a ditch. No stone was left, marking the date of its death. The Watchdog Press was nowhere to be seen. They bought a ticket to the coast and left us long ago.

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"And that's when I realized that it's more important for them to "say the right thing" than to say the RIGHT thing."

Very astute. I hope this catches on and more writers begin to repeat this truism.

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Your colleagues have destroyed trust in medicine. We thankfully have a doctor that saw through this BS from day one and she doesn’t even trust most of her colleagues. Please tell them that. Thank you and your patients are fortunate to have you.

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Thank you!!!

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Jun 30, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I think the biggest giveaway that you are dealing with a hack is when they anthropomorphize a virus. They should be fired immediately.

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DID THE VIRUS TELL YOU TO SAY THAT

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Jun 30, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

My wife just checked to see why I am laughing loudly! Now she's laughing too. Thank you!

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I didn’t think so, but this virus has outsmarted us every step of the way. Maybe it implanted the idea when it infected me. Crafty virus!

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Listen, my case of COVID was a 24-hour nothingburger, and I have an attic full of dismembered orphans to prove it.

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Never has there been a more obsequious regime apologist than Paul Krugman. Before Robert Wenzel passed away he would make a point of routinely establishing what an idiotic turd Krugman is with his little origin story of how co-ops work etc. It was the financial crises that initially got me searching for the people like Peter Schiff that called out the subprime mortgage crises before it erupted and people like Krugman wrote smug columns about how fucking great everything was. Now that everyone knows of someone who has been adversely impacted by the jab (unless they're the type so hopelessly biased that they would pray to Pfizer for easing their suffering after being hospitalized with "mild" myocarditis) there will be an entire generation looking to people like Mike Yeadon, Robert Malone, Jessica Rose, Simone Gold, Pierre Koury, Peter McCollough and the 17,000 physicians of the Rome declaration and the 40,000 public health professionals of the Great Barrington Declaration and know everything they need to know about the cathedral while they wring their hands and try to spin their incompetence/malevolence into some kind of "no one could have done/known better" bullshit narrative. I hadn't seen Paul Krugman's name in a long time. Even though I know the reason he is promoted and exists, it still boggles my mind that someone that has so obviously been wrong and full of shit for more than a decade can still be taken seriously by anyone.

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It really is an effective and powerful counter-signal. Once you see it, you see it everywhere.

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I see it in all those forming a mass psychoses, or whatever you all call it, in the opposition to injections too. All large movements can and will be hacked.

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"He was thinking about which side he’s on, and what status he wishes to maintain, and which fashionable rooms he wishes to be welcomed in."

And this goes the same for almost every college president and bureaucrat, every leader of any cultural institution from your local community theater to your largest museum, almost every journalist or editor or professor, actor writer musician artist critic etc etc—our supposed elite class of thinkers, artists and sense-makers have abdicated any allegiance to truth or principle, any dignity or inherent integrity that can't be immediately converted into political virtue points, and have destroyed their credibility to engage in an endless neurotic orgy of tribal virtue signaling.

When the angry infants they've welcomed to lead their institutions destroy them and their precious careers, it will be well-deserved and very fun to watch.

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Jun 30, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Never heard or read the term "mimetic" society but its spot on. I learn something new every time you post.

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the peter principle on steroids. didn't paul krugman win a nobel prize? to listen to him and robert reich fantasize about the causes of inflation now is painfully embarrassing

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Willful ignorance borne of ideological and tribal conformity.

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Robert Reich is a human oil slick.

He will literally say anything to advance himself and his agenda, and then pivot and say the exact opposite without any hint of shame. Total cretin.

One of a hundred examples: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfTu2U-u2qT/

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oh my god! did these men ever have any shred of credibility and if they did, what happened to them? and if they didn't, how did i miss seeing that?

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The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design…

Hayek

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You’ve coined a new phrase: “Paul Krugman Wrong.” That guy’s not just wrong. He’s “Paul Krugman Wrong”! A damning indictment indeed! Unexpectedly!

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Jun 30, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

That inflation phenomenon is completely unpredictable. I saw this crazy guy on YouTube who says it's all about how much money the government creates. I yelled at my computer screen "Fuck you Milton Friedman, how dare you pretend to know more than the experts celebrating the current things!"

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It *is* a shock that two people voted against it!

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YOU HAD ME AT “BEEF THING” 😂😂😂😂 and I SWEAR TO GOD, why does the whole world, besides the “science(!) people in charge” not know that you don’t vaccinate during a pandemic? Even I, (English lit major-and-worthless-MFA-degree-in-Choreography) learned this in 7th grade. C’mon man! Liars, liars, pants ablaze!

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Their prestige is ultimately based on their ability to get results. Since they don't, their prestige is dieing. They may wear the skinsuits of experts, but those skinsuits are starting to rot and people are picking up on the smell.

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Krugman started off challenging the free trade paradigm and doing some good work, but sold out and became a complete idiot.

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More often than not, the right answer is "I don't know." But you don't get very far with that answer these days. But on inflation, even Jay Powell's cop out is off, because none other than establishment economics God Larry Summers predicted entrenched inflation a year ago.

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Consider that Powell is lying he knew what The FED was doing.

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How much more wrong can you be than to concoct a virus and release it on your own people, never endingly threaten a county and not expect them to retaliate, spend trillions of dollars you don't have and say it won't cause inflation, kill the inhabitants of your country with vaccines, famine and poverty then replace them with foreigners that will not assimilate. The haters of men are succeeding.

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