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These people believe they are following the science. They understand corruption. The best we can do, I believe, is to show them that medical scientists say the system is corrupt. This is one of my responses:

The last couple of years,  heralds a new era where government appointed medical scientists have been given a position to dictate to the citizens. They have dictated when we can leave our homes,  how far we can travel, order mandatory face masks and coerce citizens to be injected with pharmaceutical products etc.

This would be OK if the medical industrial complex were not corrupt.

Here are 3 editors of major Medical journals who are telling us that corruption is rife in medical science. These are not fringe conspiracy theorists, these are experts who have been at the coal face of medical research for decades!

What if there is a huge web of corruption that aims to design studies that amplify the effectiveness of vaccines? More importantly, to shut down any research or researcher that suggests they have significant safety concerns? I'm arguing this case because we are at a point where people who don't trust vaccines are being labelled irresponsible and worse. Experts who question the safety or the effectiveness or the necessity of the vaccines often lose their jobs and are always censored and vilified.

People are defending this because they are told that we are following the science. Well I'm putting the point across that we should at least question this ideology because editors of prestigious medical journals have come out and told us that medical science is corrupt!

Maybe we should be a little less trusting?

"Politicisation of science was enthusiastically deployed by some of history’s worst autocrats and dictators, and it is now regrettably commonplace in democracies.20 The medical-political complex tends towards suppression of science to aggrandise and enrich those in power. And, AS THE POWERFUL BECOME MORE SUCCESSFUL, RICHER AND FURTHER INTOXICATED WITH POWER,  the inconvenient truths of science are suppressed. When good science is suppressed, people die."

KAMRAN Abbasi, executive editor BMJ, 2020.

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4425

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or AUTHORITATIVE MEDICAL GUIDELINES. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as editor of The New England Journal of Medicine” (my emphasasis)

Marcia Angell 2004

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4572812/#!po=87.5000

2016

"It's unusual to watch one of the world's most powerful editors in scientific publishing play with a marionette puppet.

But Dr. Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, specializes in the unexpected.

The puppet she's holding is dressed as a doctor, complete with a stethoscope around its neck. Its strings represent the hidden hand of the pharmaceutical industry. 

'I think we have to call it what it is. It is a corruption of the scientific process.' -Dr. Fiona Godlee, editor, BMJ "

Another quote from the article

"It's led me and others to increasingly question the idea that the manufacturer of the drug could ever be considered the right people to evaluate its effectiveness and safety," Godlee says.

"That seems to me to be very mad idea which has grown up historically, and we have to start questioning it and we have to come up with alternatives, which would mean independent studies done by independent bodies."

And it matters, Godlee says, because bad science can be dangerous.

"Patients do get hurt."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/bmj-fiona-godlee-science-1.3541769

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Aug 15, 2022·edited Aug 15, 2022Liked by Ann Tomoko Rosen

In regards to NJ’s A4334 bill requiring COVID vaccines for all higher institutions of learning I sent emails opposing A4334 to all 40 members of NJ Senate and to all 80 members of NJ Assembly. I was able to do this in using only 2 emails.

ACT NOW NEW JERSEY: Tell Your Law Makers to Vote NO to Covid Vaccine Mandates at Institutions of Higher Education | Stand for Health Freedom

https://standforhealthfreedom.com/action/no-college-mandates/

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Aug 15, 2022·edited Aug 15, 2022Liked by Ann Tomoko Rosen

“One thing that has become abundantly clear is that NO ONE has all the answers.”

Ann - After reading this article and the shocking responses of some of our neighbors, this one line sums it all up remarkably well. The pre-pandemic comments directed towards you and vaccine hesitancy in general brings my attention to just how far our movement has progressed since early 2020 and even since one year ago when a vast number of people everywhere believed with their hearts and minds that all vaccines are safe and effective. Well growing recognition of the flaws in the MRNA shots has done wonders in breaking the ice that helped produce this extreme prejudice that vaccines are some kind savior while those who raise any questions like you did are heretics who deserve nothing less than scorn and vilification.

But human beings are very capable of empathy and renewed understanding. Yesterday I read a random tweet from a young woman whose life was abruptly and brutally interrupted by an adverse reaction. Upon reading a cruel and uninformed attack against her, it was most surprising to see one comforting response after another reprimanding the guy and barraging him with facts and tales of people they knew who shared similar experiences. What a difference one year made. All I could think is the tide is certainly turning. And with it comes the courage and determination to speak truth to ignorance and make them aware of their misguided opinions. And things are just heating up.

BTW I’m enjoying your writing. It’s kind of cool.

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Aug 15, 2022Liked by Ann Tomoko Rosen

You are a beacon of light and courage. But you didn't think that was what you are, is my sense. I wish I could airlift you and your family to a place where people think straight. And are decent.

You're a wonderful writer and beacon of light. And courage.

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Aug 15, 2022Liked by Ann Tomoko Rosen

I look at the censorship as a sign that the propagandists are now on the defense. For every post that Is removed, 2 or 3 new ones pop up. Like they say, you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. On that note, a few months back I happened to see a posting on Nextdoor that managed to slip through the cracks. Someone who had taken the J&J shot was venting concerns about it after it was scrapped. This led to the longest thread of comments I’ve ever seen over the couple of weeks. And anyone who bothered reading them could see the validity of the questions raised. And also the narrow mindedness among the vaccine apologists. And out of it grew a private group of 30-40 freedom warriors who now keep in touch.

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Maybe monsters is the wrong word, but these people are ignorant and very dangerous.

They would happily remove people from society and have every child forcibly vaccinated, without ever looking for evidence, or considering the consequences.

I have no time or sympathy for imbeciles like these, including so called "experts and doctors" who willingly ignore every piece of data presented to them, but will blindly follow "the current thing".

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