And we are better for it.
If you were trying to create the perfect conditions for public skepticism about vaccines in the midst of a pandemic, could you have done any better than this?
- Norman Doidge
Jordan Peterson has gone further into unpacking the false narratives and manipulation regarding covid at a pace that seems to be quickening. He recently released a three-hour video on the topic. All Peterson did in this video was to introduce Norman Doidge (a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst), who then spent the three hours reading his (obviously) very long analysis of the covid road.
The analysis is entitled “Why so many are hesitant to get the COVID vaccines, and what we can do about it.” It is in four parts, with chapter one here (and links to the other parts are included). It was published on October 27, 2021. A thirty-eight page “printer friendly” version is also available. Then you have my brief notes and summary.
I have to say, except for diving into the “whys” of the mainstream narrative and government actions of the last two years, Doidge has most of the issues that that honest doctors like Malone and McCullough have pointed out, or that readers of banned or blacklisted websites like Lew Rockwell or Infowars would already be very well aware.
I said most. No mention of alternative treatments and how these were crushed. No real dive into the data, demonstrating that there was no “pandemic.” But still, overall, a very good report.
Here I will only offer some examples: he opens with an examination of what he calls the behavioral immune system (BIS). I only introduce it here because he spends a good amount of time discussing it. It would seem a good topic of conversation to have amongst Doidge, Peterson, and Dr. Desmet. This BIS explains, for Doidge, why….
… someone drives alone wearing a mask, or goes for a walk by themselves in an empty forest masked, or when someone—say with good health and no previous known adverse reactions to vaccines—hears that a vaccine can in one in 500,000 cases cause death, but can’t take any comfort that they have a 99.999% chance of it not happening because it potentially can.
You all know such people.
There are the positive aspects of vaccination – smallpox being a major example. But he also covers the many tragedies – and, in many cases, purposeful abuses: the Tuskegee experiments, forced sterilizations, etc.
None of the public health abuses during this period involved informed patient consent, and yet they were government-sponsored, lauded, and justified in the name of the greater good.
Until the Nazis came along. Then the experimenters got a little cautious – or, I wonder, just more discrete? In any case, we got the Nuremburg Code and the Declaration of Helsinki: informed consent would now be mandatory.
The connection between the pharmaceutical companies and the FDA that regulates and approves the manufacture of vaccines is made – regulatory capture. Further, the regulators often have financial incentive to approve the drugs which they regulate – and Fauci is named directly. Finally, the swinging door from regulator to industry and back (although there were also several resignations mentioned as well).
He continues to list the numerous multi-billion-dollar fines paid by companies in the industry – Pfizer, Glaxo, Abbot, Eli Lilly, Johnson and Johnson, Merck, etc. Oxycontin, Vioxx, and the like. Ghost-written papers – papers written by big pharma but pawned off as independent research. Delay the reports of side-effects until the patent runs out, then use the side-effects to kill any generic use and come up with modifications to secure a new patent. The list of corruption is endless.