ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 36

The pandemic has been scrubbed from the front pages at this point and replaced by a different hysteria du jour, but the semi-open posts I've hosted here on the Covid-19 narrative, the inadequately tested experimental drugs for it, and the whole cascading mess surrounding them have continued to field a steady stream of comments, so I'm opening yet another space for discussion. The rules are the same as before:

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.

3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.

With that said, as the vaccinated keep catching Covid (and many of them never quite seem to get over it) while the rest of us are fine, the floor is open for discussion.

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Never a dull moment on Steve Kirsch's Substack blog. Here's his post for today.

COPY-PASTE:

An open letter to Nergis Mavalvala, the Dean of Science at MIT
How do you think she will respond?
by Steve Kirsch
Apr 12, 2022

Dear Dean Mavalvala,

I've written to you before but never got a response.

I donated $2.5M to MIT nearly 25 years ago; the Kirsch Auditorium is named in honor of my gift.

Recently, I asked if I could give a speech in that auditorium to talk about COVID vaccine science that is being censored by the media and labeled as "misinformation."

I was told that they couldn't find a faculty member to sponsor my talk.

I was stunned.

My beliefs are shared by millions of Americans, yet the MIT faculty won't allow me an opportunity to be heard.

I wanted to speak about what the data shows and point out that people are ignoring the data and simply trusting whatever the CDC claims.

The data doesn't lie. The data consistently shows the COVID vaccines are the deadliest vaccines in human history. There is no other explanation that anyone has proposed that fits the data.

It is unfortunate that the MIT faculty was not open minded enough to consider the possibility they may have gotten it wrong.

That's not how a premiere institution of science is supposed to work.

MIT should welcome legitimate data that challenges its beliefs. That would be consistent with the values of MIT which state:

With fearless curiosity, we question our assumptions, look outward, and learn from others

Because learning is nourished by a diversity of views, we cherish free expression, debate, and dialogue in pursuit of truth – and we commit to using these tools with respect for each other and our community

We challenge ourselves to face difficult facts

We know that talent and good ideas can come from anywhere

Together we possess uncommon strengths, and we shoulder the responsibility to use them with wisdom and care for humanity and the natural world.

Do you believe the unwillingness of MIT faculty members to sponsor my talk is consistent with the MIT values?

-steve

P.S. I was ultimately able to find one MIT faculty member to sponsor my talk. I find it very telling that MIT could not. That is the problem here. It should have been impossible to find an MIT faculty member that would not sponsor my talk.

If, he gets a response, I imagine it will go something like this:

Dear Mr Kirsch

Thank you for your email/letter of xx/xx/xxxx concerning your request to deliver a speech at MIT about COVID vaccine science.

MIT acknowledges and appreciates the donation you have noted in your email/letter. On behalf of the Institute, I take this chance to thank you again for the generous support that you have provided.

With respect to your request, MIT's policy is that guest speakers at the Institute must be sponsored by a faculty member. MIT's policy does not permit requests that are not sponsored to proceed.

Thank you again for your generous donation.

Yours sincerely,

XXXX

I know right? Like, why even donate large sums of money from your own personal fortune to academic institutions if they won't then provide you privileged access to teach whatever you want to the students?

I thought that was how these schools in the US were supposed to work? And also their own private research institutions.

Kirsch frustrates me greatly, as he is always that guy who has one good point, and then one very stupid one that risks undermining the good one, because it's the stupid one that he ends up leaning on.

He has a point in that academic institutions are supposed to allow debate and free access to ideas for students to make up their own minds. But the fact that he alway starts off with the fact that he *deserves in because he literally paid the university millions of dollars of his own personal fortune to put his name on it* smells so hypocritical I need to open a window.

(On the other hand. What do the people who experience clairolfaction smell when they read this?)

"In April 2020, Kirsch founded the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund (CETF) to fund research into off-label treatments for COVID-19 among drugs already having FDA approval for other diseases, donating $1 million himself and also fundraising from others.[11][13] He recruited what MIT Technology Review called "a powerhouse board" of scientific advisors including Robert Siliciano and management by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.[11] By October 2021 the fund had made grants totaling $4.5 million to various researchers.[11]

The fund found a "promising candidate" for further study in fluvoxamine, according to MIT Technology Review.[11] After funding a successful small trial which ended in November 2020, CETF provided further funding for a Phase 3 trial, which as of October 2021 was analyzing data.[11][12] Kirsch, frustrated that CETF's scientific advisory board was not willing to promote use of the drug based on results of a small preliminary study, wrote a post on Medium titled The Fast, Easy, Safe, Simple, Low-Cost Solution to COVID That Works 100% of the Time That Nobody Wants to Talk About. Medium removed his access to the site, citing misinformation concerns.[11] Kirsch also refused to accept the outcome of a CETF-funded study on hydroxychloroquine, which had found the drug ineffective; he eventually warred with CETF's scientific advisory board over CETF's treatment of both drugs to the extent that in May 2021 all 12 members resigned.[11]" (my bold added.)

Also, did you know that hydroxychloroquine is easily manufactured at home? This is not medical advice. Remember, it's the active ingredient in tonic water, which is simply the addition to a recreational beverage that “saved more Englishmen’s lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.”

Ha, ha - the home recipe is worth its weight in gold

I'm going to try it

And a few stiff G&Ts next time I feel a cold coming on.

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