| Category | News & Politics |
| Sensitivity | Normal - Content that is suitable for ages 16 and over |
Friday, April 26, 2024
165. A Metaphysical Commitment: The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto from archive.org
165. A Metaphysical Commitment: The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto from archive.org
A Metaphysical Commitment
At the core of every scientific research program (and forced schooling is the largest such program in history) lies a metaphysical commitment on which all decision-making rests. For instance, the perspective of which pedagogy and behavioral science are both latter- day extensions rests on six pillars:
1. The world is independent of thought. It is atomic in its basic constituents.
2. The real properties of bodies are bulk, figure, texture, and motion. 3. Time and Space are real entities; the latter is Euclidean in its properties.
4. Mass is inert. Rest or uniform motion are equally "natural" conditions involving no consciousness.
5. Gravitational attraction exists between all masses.
6. Energy is conserved in interactions.
There is no obvious procedure for establishing any of these principles as true. There is no obvious experimental disproof of them either, or any way to meet Karl Popper's falsification requirement or Quine's modification of it. Yet these religious principles, as much metaphysics as physics, constitute the backbone of the most powerful research program in modern history: Newtonian physics and its modern fellow travelers. 5
WHO, Media Drum Up Fear of Bird Flu Spreading to Humans
WHO, Media Drum Up Fear of Bird Flu Spreading to Humans
The WHO’s Chief Scientist Jeremy Farrar warned bird flu has an “extremely high” mortality rate for humans and could mutate to pass between humans, despite no record of human-to-human transmission of H5N1.
Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day. It's free.
The World Health Organization (WHO) again sounded the alarm about bird flu last week, warning it has an “extremely high” mortality rate among humans.
The disease, the H5N1 avian influenza virus — also known as “highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A,” and simply as “bird flu” — can pass among some animals, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
However, it has never passed from human to human, and there have been extremely rare reports of animal-to-human transmission, the agency said.
Still, WHO Chief Scientist Jeremy Farrar said there is “great concern” that the disease will evolve and develop “the ability to go from human-to-human transmission.”
Reports of bird flu outbreaks date back to the 1880s, according to the CDC. Since 2014, there have been periodic and increasingly alarmist media stories about the virus.
Book II The Republic by Plato
Socrates
- GLAUCON
With these words I was thinking that I had made an end of the discussion; but the end, in truth, proved to be only a beginning. For Glaucon,
who is always the most pugnacious of men, was dissatisfied at Thrasymachus'
retirement; he wanted to have the battle out. So he said to me:
Socrates, do you wish really to persuade us, or only to seem to
have persuaded us, that to be just is always better than to be
unjust?
I should wish really to persuade you, I replied, if I could.
Then you certainly have not succeeded. Let me ask you now: --How would you arrange goods --are there not some which we welcome for their
own sakes, and independently of their consequences, as, for
example, harmless pleasures and enjoyments, which delight us at
the time, although nothing follows from them?
mRNA COVID Shots May Cause Myocarditis — But Nothing Else, HHS-Funded Report Concludes
mRNA COVID Shots May Cause Myocarditis — But Nothing Else, HHS-Funded Report Concludes
In what one critic called a “whitewash of the horrible truth regarding COVID-19 vaccines,” a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine confirmed a causal link between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis — but rejected a causal link between the vaccines and a host of other adverse effects.
Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day. It's free.
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) confirmed a causal link between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis — but rejected a causal link between the vaccines and a host of other adverse effects including female infertility, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Bell’s palsy, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome and heart attack.
Brian Hooker, Ph.D., chief scientific officer for Children’s Health Defense, called the NASEM report a “whitewash of the horrible truth regarding COVID-19 vaccines.”
Hooker told The Defender:
“The propaganda is so thick in the report it is difficult to know where to start. Although the NASEM report authors found a link between mRNA vaccines and myocarditis, they said it was mild — which couldn’t be further from the truth. It is shameful that they would downplay such a debilitating and life-changing adverse event from COVID-19 vaccines.”
2015 Scientific Paper Proves US & Chinese Scientists Collaborated to Create Coronavirus that Can Infect Humans
2015 Scientific Paper Proves US & Chinese Scientists Collaborated to Create Coronavirus that Can Infect Humans
A Special Report by Peter R. Breggin, MD Published April 15, 2020
|
| |||||||||||||||
[This video and report were published April 15, 2020. Just one month after the lockdowns were first announced.]
 |
A Special Report Published April 15, 2020 by Peter R. Breggin MD
In 2015, American researchers and Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers collaborated to transform an animal coronavirus into one that can attack humans. Scientists from prestigious American universities and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) worked directly with the two coauthor researchers from Wuhan Institute of Virology, Xing-Yi Ge and Zhengli-Li Shi. Funding was provided by the Chinese and US governments. The team succeeded in modifying a bat coronavirus to make it capable of infecting humans.
FDA Removes Social Media Posts Against Ivermectin, Settles Lawsuit
FDA Removes Social Media Posts Against Ivermectin, Settles Lawsuit
- by Carolyn Hendler, JD
- Published
- Bioethics
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have agreed to remove social media posts and web pages cautioning the public not to take the FDA-approved drug Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 symptoms. The move comes as part of lawsuit settlement.
In 2022, three doctors, Drs. Mary Talley Bowden, Paul Marik and Robert Apter filed suit against the FDA claiming that it interfered with the doctor-patient relationship and prevented patients from getting prescribed treatment because pharmacists refused to fill prescriptions and insurance companies would not pay for prescriptions of Ivermectin.1 2
The FDA has agreed to remove and never republish posts such as the one from 2021 that had a picture of a horse and said, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all Stop it” and, “Why You Should Not Take Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19.”3 In return, the doctors suing the government agency have agreed to dismiss their claim.4
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)