This Blog Will Be Censored by NewsGuard; on Moderation; Open Thread
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, dear readers! May your holiday season be filled with joy, love, and mutual acceptance. I am agnostic and not religious, but I have always loved Christmas and enjoyed seeing little children excitedly awaiting the mysterious chimney guest. My best wishes to readers of all creeds, and I appreciate every one of you, your subscriptions, and your comments.
NewsGuard Angling to Censor My Blog
Newsguard is a well-financed, shadowy partisan group pretending to be a neutral arbiter of which websites are “reliable” and which are not. While the good news is that I am important enough for them to react to, the bad news is that NewsGuard is angling to declare my blog an “unreliable news source.” I received this email from them:
NewsGuard is asking me to “disclose my anti-COVID-vaccine perspective.” At the same time, they are not asking Pfizer-sponsored pro-COVID-vaccine media to disclose their “pro-COVID-vaccine” bias. It's a bit unfair, I would say and shows how flawed NewsGuard’s process is.
Here’s the text of my reply:
John, thank you for your question, and I am flattered by the attention.
I question the motivation behind asking about "the site's disclosure of its anti-COVID-vaccine perspective," as many Pfizer-sponsored news organizations do not disclose their pro-Pfizer-vaccine perspective, which is magically okay with NewsGuard. I must conclude that I will not get a fair review anyway, given the slant of questions.
In my opinion, NewsGuard is an illegitimate organization. Therefore, I respectfully decline to provide any information to NewsGuard to not legitimize it.
Please do not take this personally; it is not about you but about your employer.
Thank you, and have a great holiday season!
In any case, do expect my blog to be rated an “unreliable news source” and blocked by major social networks such as Facebook. Oh well.
Moderation in Our Comment Section
My comment section is meant to be a pro-free speech zone. I have seen comments that are insensitive, antisemitic, pro-COVID-vaccine, virus-denying, and more. (I do not consider general comments supporting the human rights of Palestinians to be automatically antisemitic)
A certain poster posts cryptic messages with numerological revelations about the number 666 and various evils of this world. Another poster incessantly spammed his blog links (I blocked that one after watching this go on for a year)
I disagree with the above-mentioned opinions, but I feel they need to be allowed to exist if I claim the free speech moral high ground. The pro-COVID-vaccine posts, specifically, are important to keep us challenged.
However, I also recognize that excess nasty content can poison conversations. So, for all people espousing such views, I ask you: please do not monopolize conversations and do not post excessive numbers of comments. Your opinion has the right to exist, but you do not have the right to stick a reply under every comment. That is spam. Okay?
Open Thread
If you have something to say, I invite you to say whatever is on your mind in the comments.
Also, if you feel like upgrading your subscription to a paid one, this is a good moment to consider doing that.
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Again, Merry Christmas! Be well!
I posted something at the HART substack, mentioned a couple relevant sites but not this one as it was not directly relevant to the subject. Still I wish all substackers a Merry Christmas. Take note that I describe a significant side effect from ivermectin and fenbendazole.
Four years ago I knew almost nothing about medicine. When the "two week" covid shutdown occurred I began to read. Probably a couple hours every day. One of the best sources is, "The Forgotten Side of Medicine, by a Midwestern doctor. So many other great people have covered so much It is impossible to remember them all.
One result; I had acquired ivermectin and fenbendazole as emergency use drugs. My wife is dying, stage 7 Alzheimer's. When she developed a horrid infection in her elbow it became an emergency. I greatly fear the death factories hospitals and broke out the emergency drugs and gave them two days to show improvement. They worked, a Christmas miracle, her elbow has healed, it took 3 months. However, there was a side effect from the drugs.
Another source, 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, had an article about a fungus infection in the brain could cause amyloid plaques, similar to Alzheimer's. Ivermectin and fenbendazole will kill it. For four years I have watched my wife decline, constant slow decline, to become a total bed bound invalid needing to be hand fed. In the last couple months she has started talking again, mostly babble when I feed her, but answering a few simple question. The first improvement in four years. I ran out of chicken pieces to feed her, and gave her some ham. I asked her if she like the ham. She answered, "Yes." She answered! There was a side effect to these drugs.
So, the evidence indicates her Alzheimer's was an infection treatable by ivermectin and fenbendazole. These are very safe drugs. Where were the doctors with this treatment four years ago?
Four years ago, when I knew nothing about medicine, they prescribed vitamin E, an SSRI antidepressant, and a statin. The brain needs cholesterol to function. Cholesterol cannot pass the blood brain barrier so the brain has cells that produce cholesterol. Statins inhibit the production of cholesterol by those cells, resulting in Alzheimer's symptoms.
So that is the state of American Doctors and Big Pharma Medicine.
Merry Christmas to all the substackers and everybody everywhere fighting the BioWar.
I'm sorry, but I have to say this: Igor is the best fricken guy in the world.
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