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I have little political means or clout for that matter, so I choose to write as a therapeutic effort and in the hope that maybe I have picked out a detail that someone missed or that it helps someone to become more resilient in these interesting times. Maybe, just maybe, it is enough to cause worthwhile debate and progress somewhere even if I am wrong.

"It is said that what is called 'the spirit of an age' is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation."

- Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1700)

Academic Papers

A man praying in front of an altar with a computer displaying an atom, tapestery with DNA markets and various pieces of laboratory glass wear. The base of the altar bears the marking '666'

The COVID-19 period highlights a huge problem that has been developing for decades, the control of science by industry. In the 1950s, the tobacco industry set the example, which the pharmaceutical industry followed. Since then, the latter has been regularly condemned for illegal marketing, misrepresentation of experimental results, dissimulation of information about the dangers of drugs, and considered as criminal. Therefore, this study was conducted to show that knowledge is powerfully manipulated by harmful corporations, whose goals are = 1/financial; 2/to suppress our ability to make choices to acquire global control of public health.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Tags: Covid · Big Pharma


The 112-Year Odyssey of Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccines-Mistakes Made and Implications for the Future

Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (UK) 18/12/2022

Effective diphtheria, tetanus toxoids, whole-cell pertussis (DTwP) vaccines became available in the 1930s, and they were put into routine use in the United States in the 1940s. Their use reduced the average rate of reported pertussis cases from 157 in 100 000 in the prevaccine era to <1 in 100 000 in the 1970s. Because of alleged reactions (encephalopathy and death), several countries discontinued (Sweden) or markedly decreased (United Kingdom, Germany, Japan) use of the vaccine.

Abstract Ending

Because of the small number of antigens (3–5 in DTaP vaccines vs >3000 in DTwP vaccines), linked-epitope suppression occurs. Because of linked-epitope suppression, all children who were primed by DTaP vaccines will be more susceptible to pertussis throughout their lifetimes, and there is no easy way to decrease this increased lifetime susceptibility.

Tags: History · Precautionary Method


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