To science bloggers living with mommy

by Jon Rappoport

November 19, 2015

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These conventional science bloggers are really something. They’ve never met a published study extolling mainstream science they haven’t loved. I don’t know, maybe the studies somehow remind them of mommy and her warm basement where they still live at age 40 and do their important work.

A study praising a new drug? A study claiming a vaccine was “well tolerated?” A study claiming GMOs are perfectly safe? A study reporting the dire effects of manmade warming? They kiss it and try to make it better.

So here are a few statements they can chew on like week-old delivery pizza.

Warning: what follows could forever alter your view of published science.

We begin with quotes from two editors of prestigious science journals. These people have read, pawed over, analyzed, and dissected more science studies than 1000 bloggers taken together ever will.

One: Richard Horton, editor-in-chief, The Lancet, in The Lancet, 11 April, 2015, Vol 385, “Offline: What is medicine’s 5 sigma?”:

“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness…

“The apparent endemicity of bad research behaviour is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world. Or they retrofit hypotheses to fit their data. Journal editors deserve their fair share of criticism too. We aid and abet the worst behaviours. Our acquiescence to the impact factor fuels an unhealthy competition to win a place in a select few journals. Our love of ‘significance’ pollutes the literature with many a statistical fairy-tale…Journals are not the only miscreants. Universities are in a perpetual struggle for money and talent…”

Two: Marcia Angell, former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, in the NY Review of Books, January 15, 2009, “Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption”:

“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 an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”

Three: John PA Ioannidis, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece, and Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Department of Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, in PLoS Medicine, August 30, 2005, “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”:

“There is increasing concern that most current published research findings [in all scientific fields] are false… a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller…when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance. Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias…There is increasing concern that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims. However, this should not be surprising. It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false.”

Four: Back to Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet. In the same editorial quoted above, Horton makes reference to a recent symposium he attended at the Wellcome Trust in London. The subject of the meeting was the reliability of published biomedical research. His following quote carries additional force because he and other attendees were told to obey Chatham House rules—meaning no one would reveal who made any given comment during the conference.

Horton: “‘A lot of what is published is incorrect.’ I’m not allowed to say who made this remark [at the conference] because we were asked to observe Chatham House rules. We were also asked not to take photographs of slides. Those who worked for government agencies pleaded that their comments especially remain unquoted, since the forthcoming UK election meant they were living in ‘purdah’—a chilling state where severe restrictions on freedom of speech are placed on anyone on the government’s payroll. Why the paranoid concern for secrecy and non-attribution? Because this symposium—on the reproducibility and reliability of biomedical research, held at the Wellcome Trust in London last week—touched on one of the most sensitive issues in science today: the idea that something has gone fundamentally wrong with one of our greatest human creations [biomedical science]”.

Conventional science bloggers, take notice. You’re working in a field where studies supporting the general consensus are tainted and stained.

Starting sentences with “the FDA approves” or “the CDC confirms” or “a study published in The New England Journal established” isn’t a ticket to the truth. Far from it.

You’re wading in a stench-ridden swamp, and you don’t know it; or you do know it and you don’t care, because you want to be part of the club; or someone is paying you to make absurd assertions. One way or another, you’re doomed if you follow the party line.

This is a much different landscape than you think it is. It’s a wholesale fabrication of what looks, sounds, smells, tastes, and feels like truth. But it isn’t. It’s a lying cartoon. It has vicious consequences.


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Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

11 comments on “To science bloggers living with mommy

  1. NaturalWoman says:

    Thanks for putting this all into one concise article that we might share with others.

  2. Sean Thomas says:

    The present state of affairs makes it impossible to discuss anything you haven’t personally experienced. We live in a world of deceit; the oligarchy allows us to educate ourselves, but at the same time, they must conceal the truth. It is a complicated game they play, we need to be smart enough to fight their wars and operate their machines, but we must not be in a position to observe their privilege or question their authority. Thus, everything must be an elaborate hoax.

    For example, look at 911. Did you expect the government just to announce that they were going to embark on a war of conquest throughout central Asia and the middle east? No, they staged a preposterous false flag operation to justify a “defensive” action.

    For the most part, we work at counter-productive jobs, eat fake food, and share mirthless smiles. Even the oligarchy itself must slink around in the shadows without the benefit of being called, a “Lord” or “Duke.”

    • NaturalWoman says:

      Excellent comment, Sean. As more and more of us grow in awareness, they will have less power. I choose to be optimistic and believe that good will triumph.

    • Jason Calley says:

      Hey Sean! Excellent comment you’ve made. Yes, anyone who depends on the mainstream “truth” is living in a dream. I think that large parts of the real truth are out there, but digging through the vast pile of garbage to find the small nuggets of fact that hang together in a coherent unit is a task that most people either can not or will not do. I am reminded of a quote from Ashley Brilliant. “I have abandoned my search for truth, and am now looking for a good fantasy.”

      Personally, I have not given up at all. In fact, writers and researchers such as Jon Rappaport give me great reason to remain optimistic.

      • NaturalWoman says:

        Gosh, I love Asheigh Brilliant. I met him at a conference many years ago when his book, I May Not Be Totally Perfect But Parts of Me Are Excellent, came out. Do you know him? What has he been up to in recent decades?

    • Good comment ST…very good.

      “Did you expect the government just to announce that they were going to embark on a war of conquest […]”

      I am not so sure that ‘government’ is the right word here Sean — have you concidered, other scenarios…I saw the footage of George Bush that morning…he was truly shocked and amazed.

      BTW, there are sources of information out there if you look, dig deep — what I recognize , and now understand, there is an army of SJW’S and NPC’s — a totally deaf/dumb/blind Russian fifth column entenched in western media and online in their little fake news channels…and they don’t even know they are part of it. They practice misinformation and fake news, but…

      Generals don’t come out and blurt out to an unsuspecting population — generals don’t tell military secrets…something was terrible wrong with this following statement. General Wesley Clarke on “Democracy Now”

      “We’re Going to Take out 7 Countries in 5 Years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran..”

      What you find at that time is that Clarke was a Democratic Party presidential candidate…before endorsing Clinton.

      General Wesley Clarke, was disciplined a number of times for COC violations. Making important policy decisions he was not authorized to make, like hanging around with war criminals… in Bosnia.

      Rumours are that Clarke was forced out of the military, due to his relationship with people in Washington…things intergrity and character issues…

      But yet that one war statement, of America taking 7 countries out in 5 years, was never contested by mainstream, as being truthful, it was excepted on the point of he was a gneral and should know such things, and that is not so.

    • Tom_12 says:

      You stated the current State of the World in the fewest words possible without losing the message.

  3. I know research these bloggers don’t like. The studies published in several mainstream medical journals (I think it was the Lancet, the BMJ and the JAMA), which showed that 80-90% of conventional medical treatments are not backed by science. That’s such an inconvenient truth for those with strong beliefs in “science based medicine”.

  4. middleway says:

    Enlightenment is a painful journey. When we finally realize that we have all been indoctrinated to play the sacrificial pawns in the uber elitist’s Babylonian utopian wet-dream, only then can humanity begin to resist and fightback; The fate of your very soul will depend on it.

  5. Short, but exquisitely “sweet”, Jon.

    If you had written this earlier, it would have made excellent basis for accusations tendered in my latest article. But will the people remain “that” stupid and scientists fuel corruption “for all time” or might a renaissance of truth permit sea change casualties in the highest places?

    Best
    OT

  6. John says:

    We exist in an age where a bunch of elite power hungry maniacs get access to real medicine and cures, while the peasants are fed crumbs and lies. A diabolical age where illusion is commonplace, where snopes is the arbiter of what is fact and what is fiction.

    Nobody is interested in searching for truth anymore. False narratives are promulgated and that is the “reality” we are all forced to accept as “truth.” People rather feel good and just exist, rather than live with purpose.

    The sky is falling because of “climate change.” If you don’t pay carbon taxes and give up all your individual liberty to the state, you will be rendered obsolete.

    It is a sick world and getting sicker. The technocrats are ushering in an age of illogic. The useful idiots who value convenience over their freedom have become their willing slaves.

    How does one who still chooses to think for themself fight this invasion of the mind snatchers?

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