Unmasking Fauci and The Scienceᵀᴹ

Thursday, 3 August 2023 — South Melbourne

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Dear Reader,

Many people aren’t aware that there’s a difference between science and The ScienceTM.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory. There’s a logical reasoning underpinning it.

And your health and well-being rely heavily on being able to discern the two.

The truth is that many things we think are scientifically proven are nothing further from the truth. Rather, they are cleverly designed marketing strategies by governments, large corporations and other institutions to assure their intended audience of the benefits of a certain product.

Some of you might’ve been around when doctors endorsed smoking as a healthy habit. They even used consensus data such as this poster to make it appear as if it’s scientifically proven:

In hindsight, we realise the absurdity and the deception behind it. We don’t know who these many doctors are, their credentials, or the grounds on which they gave their opinion. Tobacco companies engaged in unethical means to extract the desired outcome. This included distributing cigarette packs to doctors, asking loaded questions, and changing the narrative on the health effects through diversion and downplaying the negatives.

Nowadays, we know there’s empirical data to show that smoking can cause different forms of cancer as well as damage to the respiratory system. And tobacco companies paid dearly for it when the truth came out. However, they’d made billions and the compensation was likely a slap on the wrist especially given it took decades to catch up to them.

We haven’t learnt much after all these years. And this strategy of conflating science still does its rounds.

I’ll unpack it today.

The unravelling of Dr Anthony Fauci — the man who called himself ‘The Science’

In Australia, we’ve recently seen the mainstream media change their narrative regarding the Wuhan virus and control measures implemented by the government and public health authorities.

Last Saturday’s front page news on The Australian was a bombshell. It revealed how Dr Anthony Fauci sought to cover up the origins of the Wuhan virus and his gain-of-function research money trail. While this had done the rounds in 2021, the government authorities and mainstream media tried to downplay it or spun it as a conspiracy theory.

Yes, they actually published these articles at the same time in order to obfuscate the public and sow doubt in their minds.

However, the increasing weight of evidence against Dr Fauci from testimonies and witnesses, as well as his own emails, exposes him as a pathological liar who may’ve been behind one of the worst medical debacles in history. So much so that those who once circled the wagons around him are now having to do an about-face to preserve the little credibility they’ve got.

This is the man who once said attacks on him are ‘attacks on science’.

His bold claim revealed the level of hubris and self-assurance, understandable given his long career spanning almost 40 years as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Immune Diseases since 1984.

The hypocrisy of a double-masked man

Dr Fauci may’ve been right about seeing himself as ‘the science’. Perhaps we should even say he is the face of The ScienceTM.

We saw how the world took his recommendations from the onset of the Wuhan virus outbreak as gospel. Government leaders, public health agencies, academia, corporations, media and the general public bowed to his every word and followed his recommendations religiously.

Publicly he advocated the use of face masks. However, in private emails revealed in 2021, it showed that he knew that they weren’t effective. He even laughed at those who followed the health directives to take off masks when sitting down in a restaurant as having it ‘ass backwards’. Perhaps the most ridiculous recommendation he made was in early 2021 when he suggested that wearing two masks ‘just makes common sense’.

Similarly, he was a keen advocate of lockdowns. For almost two years, he used fear tactics to scare people into staying at home. He praised Australia in early-2021 for following his directives, saying that ‘When Australia shuts down, it shuts down’.

In hindsight, lockdowns crunched the global economy and ruined many livelihoods. We’re starting to live through this.

‘Safe and effective’ leading to injuries, deaths and millions in compensation payouts

Perhaps the most egregious impact on the world attributable to Dr Fauci is that of the vaccines, which more than 5.5 billion people in the world took. With the announcement of a vaccine for the virus, Dr Fauci used lockdowns and vaccines as a carrot-and-stick to increase vaccine intake.

I wrote previously about ‘The Twitter Files’ by Matt Taibbi. Within that showed Dr Fauci’s hand in censorship of dissenting views over the efficacy of these vaccines.

Before the Wuhan virus outbreak, vaccine effectiveness was somewhat of a sacred cow. To doubt or question this would turn you into an ‘anti-vaxxer’, or someone who is anti-science and irrational.

The whole thing began unravelling though as Pfizer revealed last October to the European Union Parliament that they never tested them to see if they stopped transmission. Now we’re seeing the negative impacts it had on the people.

Most recently, the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Immunology published a review study on the impact of these vaccines in Australia. The results found some shocking outcomes including the alarming incidences of serious side effects and deaths across all ages. It revealed findings that mainstream media and the medical community suppressed.

As of last October 2022, the Federal Government had budgeted $77 million for claims expected in the 2023 financial year. This could continue to rise in the coming years.

Going forward, the world is going to face a lingering aftermath of this serious case of medical malpractice. And Dr Fauci will stand responsible for it.

Even if he won’t be able to repay the damage, he knows that he’s dealt a death blow to the public trust in vaccinations. One of his regrets is that vaccination intake has fallen since this global catastrophe.

Will the world learn its lesson?

If there is a lesson we need to learn, it’s that discernment is of paramount importance.

We’ve seen how a general lack of understanding of science has caused us to blindly follow someone who spoke the right words, looked the part and ended up causing us much harm and grief.

To be fair, not everything Dr Fauci said was wrong. However, the authorities took his words and implemented them without questioning going so far as to coerce people against their best interest.

Those who went against the flow these three years faced much vilification at the time. However, the world is realising slowly that there was merit in what they did.

Once again, it shows that contrarian thinking shines through. It takes much courage to persist and prevail when the world is deeply immersed in conformity and groupthink.

You’d be glad to know that we’ve got a community of contrarian thinkers that you can join!

These people subscribe to Jim Rickards’ Strategic Intelligence which fosters a healthy scepticism on the mainstream narrative on many issues, not just on the virus outbreak. Not everyone agrees with Jim’s view on everything, so it’s not an echo chamber. That’s what makes them more discerning than the average Joe and Jane on the street.

If this is what you’re looking for, sign up here!

Regards,

Brian Chu,
Editor, The Daily Reckoning Australia

Dear Reader,

This just in on the latest Gallup Poll. Americans’ most trusted institution, the military, is falling from grace.

Responsiblestatecraft.org:

‘The left claims that racism and other intolerances in the ranks have caused Americans to turn against the military; the right says “woke” politics are at the root of increasing alienation. Perhaps the culture indeed is responsible for the 25% shortfall in recruitment but beware of partisan narratives that appear to speak for everyone and explain trends so neatly. Never is anything that simple.

‘Nope. Not that simple. The right supposedly thinks the military is too woke. The left supposedly thinks it is not woke enough. But what if the real reason Americans are losing faith in the Pentagon is neither? What if they are losing faith in Congress…in the White House…both political parties…in the Supreme Court…and in the whole shebang?’

They, the elite

What if ‘The People’ are catching on? What if they are realising that the military works for the elite…and that the elite deciders work for themselves, not for ‘The People?’

Why do we have US$32 trillion of federal debt? Why do the Feds continue to add more?

Bloomberg reports:

‘The Treasury Department increased its net borrowing estimate for the July through September quarter to US$1 trillion, well up from the US$733 billion amount it had predicted in early May.’

US$1 trillion dollars in just three months. And every penny of it will be paid — one way or another — by ‘The People’. Wars, boondoggles, claptrap programs — why are there so many of them?

And yes, the superficial reasons for these things are obvious: they pay off for the deciders.

Bloomberg again: ‘Lockheed Is Reaping US$2.3 Billion So Far Restocking the Pentagon’:

‘Pushing to restock depleted US weapons stockpiles, the Pentagon has already committed almost US$2.3 billion of a potential US$6 billion to Lockheed Martin Corp, the top maker of munitions that the US has provided Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion, according to new Defence Department data.’

Unequal men

But in this sea of woe, woke, and weird…there are deeper currents. ‘Megapolitics’ is the term coined by our friends, James Davidson and Lord Rees Mogg, to describe them. Largely invisible, rarely understood, and impossible to contradict, they sweep us along like plastic bottles on a flood tide.

‘All men are created equal’ is an idea. The 375 Zulu warriors killed at Rorke’s Drift was a fact. And behind that fact was another one: the handful of English soldiers who killed them had rifles. The Zulus had spears. For hundreds of years, the power relationship was so unequal that Europeans were able to colonise much of the world…while neither Africans, Asians, nor the Indians of North or South America colonised any part of Europe.

That’s megapolitics. It didn’t matter what anyone thought; the Zulus were outgunned. Ultimately, it’s the facts that matter. Ideas are how we explain, justify and misinterpret them.

This brings us to the latest twist in the story of the Industrial Revolution and the deciders’ latest crusade; they want to eliminate fossil fuels.

It was coal that gave the English a decisive edge at Rorke’s Drift. Coal…and later, oil and gas…fired the furnaces that made steel. The steel was turned into the ships that took the English to Africa…the motors that powered the ships…and the guns that they used to kill Zulus.

Cometh the machines

Your humble editor, personally, brought the industrial revolution to the Calchaqui Valley in Argentina. When we arrived, there were no tractors or modern machinery in use on the farm. The cowboys rode horses. An aging percheron pulled a hay rake. A mule pulled a plow with a single blade.

In less than 10 years, all that changed. Tractors, trucks and a backhoe now do the hard work. The ranch hands ride on motorbikes or pickup trucks.

Output rose in a single hop. And then it was over. We can increase productivity, perhaps, with newer machines, more chemicals, more fertiliser and better seeds — but probably not by much.

And in Europe and ‘the West’ today, the Industrial Revolution is over. Growth rates have been going down for half a century. Birthrates are falling. Populations are in decline. Our use of fossil fuel is going down. Debt is piling up; current output can’t keep up with our expenses. And now, the Zulus have automatic rifles too. The BRICs become more independent, more powerful. The ‘Global South’ (which somehow included India, and China, both in the Northern Hemisphere) will soon produce most of the world’s cars, ships, and guns.

Meanwhile, in ‘the West,’ the advances of the Industrial Revolution, if there are any, are incremental…not revolutionary….and often, illusory.

Today, we have all the internal combustion engines we can use. We can get new and better ones, but they will make only incremental improvements to output.

It is in this fertile soil…the declining marginal utility of fossil fuels…that a new idea has taken root: that coal, gas, and oil are evil.

Regards,

Bill Bonner,
For The Daily Reckoning Australia