RFK hearing

[SuperHoneyBadger]

"'We're not blaming God for this,' said 35-year-old Kristina Moran Lopez. 'Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we're gonna glorify his name regardless. And we wouldn't change it any other way,' the mom continued. 'If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn't have given my son the vaccine.'"

Yea. That's pretty fucking stupid. Not like anyone who worked on the measles vaccine was created by God or anything - if you're kinky like that. Tale as old as time - 2000 years at least. Unless the elites really did add 1000 years to the calendar during the 1800s and the Dark Ages are a fabrication. Then it's been around 1100 years.

Maybe get the MMR, Polio, Tetanus and Pertussis vaccines and you won't die in elementary school like a scrub.

[neurosis]

Yea. That's pretty fucking stupid. Not like anyone who worked on the measles vaccine was created by God or anything

I guess pro-life has its limitations? So much for the child not having a voice in the matter or rights?

[Rstewart]

^^
Yeah, when I was a kid there was no such thing as your body, your choice.  Mom said get your ass in the car, we're goin to get shots (usually the doctor administered kind, not the bar).

[SuperHoneyBadger]

Mom said get your ass in the car, we're goin to get shots (usually the doctor administered kind, not the bar).

[pmartin]

(usually the doctor administered kind, not the bar).

I have fond memories of the bar. Best jello I ever got as a kid.

[jstell]

Unless the elites really did add 1000 years to the calendar during the 1800s and the Dark Ages are a fabrication.

What?!?
This is a new and different conspiracy I have not heard of.  Learn something every day hangin' around here.   

[Newbeeee™]

Publish or perish. Not a great way to earn or keep trust in a system that is supposedly dedicated to finding objective truths.

The method never left, but the rigor of it's application leaves a lot to be desired. Can we agree on that at least? A cursory search for "scientific repeatability crisis" has a ton of evidence from a great many sources.

LoL
It's a big money laundering club, and we aint in it....

For the peanut gallery:-
ONE BILLION dollars in pharma industry payments to journal peer reviewers - in 3 years and for just 4 journals.
Reviewers received $1.06 billion in industry payments between 2020 and 2022, including $1.00 billion (94.0%) to individuals or their institutions and $64.18 million (6.0%) in general payments. Consulting fees and speaking compensation unrelated to continuing medical education programs accounted for $34.31 million and $11.80 million, respectively.


https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2824834

[Newbeeee™]

Oh - there's another! This one is the latest - Jan 26.
Trial to convince that "you caaaannnn catch a cold"....Not!

No Recipient developed influenza-like illness, PCR-positive respiratory samples, or serological evidence of infection.

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1013153#ppat.1013153.ref007

[SuperHoneyBadger]

This is a new and different conspiracy I have not heard of.  Learn something every day hangin' around here.

Insofar as I can recall, the theory goes:

The Masons (of course) were on a campaign in what we call the 1700/1800s where they added a number "1" in front of nearly all the buildings in Europe, then fabricated the history we know of the intervening years. Easier back then since there was a hell of a lot less literature and fewer literate people to fleece. Then after a few generations, it just stuck.

The reason for the gap was that the technology we had received from the 'beyond' (extra terrestrials, Angels, time travellers, whatever you want to call them) was advancing too fast to be explained. Also explains why scientific discoveries have essentially stagnated after the 1920s when we figured out everything we were given and settled on Quantum Physics as the answer. Every 'discovery' since then is not really new, but an efficiency boost, re-tuning or new use of the current disciplines of chemistry, physics or biology. Even nuclear was just an expensive offshoot of what we knew about radioactivity.

[jstell]

I found this when I asked the interwebs
https://www.discovermagazine.com/what-is-the-truth-behind-the-controversial-phantom-time-hypothesis-45433

There's this outrageous claim that all historians have made a mistake and that we've all had the wool pulled over our eyes and that the chronology we all follow today is wrong

The Holy Roman Emperor Otto III conspired with Pope Sylvester II (and quite possibly the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII as well) to doctor the dating system. The trio cooked the books to place their reigns at A.D. 1000, which they did because it is an auspicious number.  The three men added 297 years of bogus history to the early medieval period to facilitate this deception. That would mean everything that happened between A.D. 614-911 was a fabrication