The first two things I always check for are conflicts of interest and funding. The authors claim no conflicts of interest, but they don't appear to indicate the funding, so the next thing I would investigate is the authors and their affiliations. Clicking "Show More" under the authors byline unfolds this very revealing list (one need look no further than "a" and "b" to know this study is suspect):
a) Pharmacoepidemiology Research Unit, Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91120, Israel
b) Israeli Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan 5262000, Israel
c) Department of Military Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 91120, Israel
d) The School of Social Work, Sapir Academic College, D. N. Hof Ashkelon, 79165, Israel
e) Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel
f) The Uniformed Services, University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
g) Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan 5262000, Israel
That was my thought too, Margaret! Who funded this study? It is such a clear psychological carrot! You are intelligent if you get vaccinated. So jump on the bandwagon. evidently it was sponsored/funded by the powers that want you to get the jab. I distinctly recall reading though that uptake was lowest at the bottom and at the top of the education scale (i.e. highschool and PhD), and that more of the intelligent in-betweens were buying the fear and the psyop.
Being educated (PHDs) does not equal having common sense. Common sense told me this covid vaccine was suspect and to avoid. When fear- mongering, bribes, coercion, and mandates are needed, then it’s not proving itself on merit or decline in cases.
The problem lies in "being educated (PHDs)". What does "educated" mean? If I am not mistaken in the US the "educational" system heavily relies on "multiple choice tests" during the school years. Does this approach train your ability to connect singular points of data to find new connections? I doubt it. This could lead to being able to store information, but not connect "the dots". Would you define that "connecting the dots" as "common sense"? If so, a highly educated persons with a PHD could be as dumb as a rock. And that might explain, why so many people are incapable of understanding simple logic.
very little multiple choice happening in PhD programs, at least the ones I'm familiar with. Nevertheless I've met several PhD level mathematicians who didn't appear to possess a lick of common sense. I'm not sure that's really the quality that's responsible for those of us who refused the vaccines though. It's more of an intuition or pattern recognition acquired through a history of formative experiences gained by questioning and researching the big events it turns out were all very different than what we were told. Folks with intelligence and common sense often fail to see those paths or look for them if they haven't traveled them before. It also requires acknowledging that the world is a darker place than you may have realized or wanted to think.
The IDF's method of increasing vaccine uptake amongst teenage recruits was to wake them up in the middle of the night and physically force them to get jabbed. I guess they had assessed their cognitive abilities beforehand and decided that this was the best strategy.
“We didn’t force anyone to get the vaccine” say all the lying institutions. Putting aside the distinction between coercion and being forced, this report and a number of others confirm forced “vaccination”.
I remember reading about more than one of these cases. Who are we kidding. Israel had the green pass. Pretty close to a vaccine passport. I, as an American Jew, very familiar with Israel, was astonished at the heavy handed approach to this so called pandemic in a country with the history of medical experimentation in the Holocaust. There wasn’t even a very high death toll when they rolled out the shots & quarantines. Maybe 6500 out of 9 million plus population! That’s a normal flu number, especially since most were elderly. Intelligence had nothing to do with it. Coercion had more to do with it.
In the United States I would venture to say that innate intelligence ie. critical thinking had more to do with not falling for the fear Psyop. And institutions of ‘higher learning’ forced the students to be inoculated.
The Israeli government set a horrifying precedent by secretly signing up the entire Jewish population to a mass medical experiment conducted by a private corporation in league with the state, which violated the Nuremberg Code and punished 'unclean' dissenters by excluding them from society. After the harsh lessons of the Holocaust, this was almost unbelievable, but it happened, and it would seem that the neo Nazis which the 21st century Jewish populace needed protecting from were in fact their own government AND a domestic military establishment which apparently was in league with that government in forcing/coercing citizens to be medically experimented upon. Truly mind blowing.
And every drugstore chain told their employees to get vaccinated or lose their jobs. Nursing homes forbade visits by relatives who were unvaccinated and unmasked. This was in the US.
I’ve come to the conclusion that if it comes from the government, the opposite is probably true. So I think we should be patting ourselves on the back for being superior in every way 😂. I KNOW we’re better looking with a better sense of humor and now to find out we’re intellectually superior as well?
it used to just be 'follow the money' but now its follow the money AND the ideology. ugh.
yup, they've been pulling this bullshit for decades in the autism (supposed) research. 20+ years and billions spent looking for the unicorn autism 'gene' yet as far as I know, they are no closer, producing very little in the way of useful information (from the big money, mainstream anyway) because they are intentionally looking under the wrong rock. duh
Same with Cancer! Look at the amount of money that is being thrown at “cancer research”. They know what is causing it and probably gave a cure but curing is not profitable!
"Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee."
Intelligence has nothing to do with it. I know plenty of pharma experts with PhDs who took the shots. They’re not stupid people. What they are is susceptible to propaganda, and have conformist personalities.
I didn’t take the shots. I was never scared of the virus, as I’m not susceptible to propaganda, I have no shame in going against the grain and I don’t like being told what to do. I am also not remotely stupid, by any metric, but that has nothing to do with it.
Why take a barely tested vaccine with a novel mechanism for a disease that (1j poses no threat and (2) nobody has ever developed a successful vaccine for previously? Seems like insanity to me.
The only difference between me and the pharma experts that took it was that they were scared of the virus. They knew all the other stuff. I don’t know why I wasn’t scared. I’m the sort of person who cuts the green bits off cheese and isn’t scared to eat it as well though. Zero germophobia here. Growing up in a grubby house probably.
Agreed. I grew up on a farm playing in sand boxes cats used as litter boxes and mucking around in farm yards and walking and handling what farms produce. Soil. My mom was too busy with a large farmhouse and 5 kids to run after us. We were hardly sick but with the usual stuff--colds, measles, chickenpox, mumps, whooping cough. Yet we survived. My cousin had her mom washing off her toys and pacifiers the minute she dropped them. This kid was sick all the time. I actually don’t mind even now being a bit grubby when we camp and never use antibacterial soaps and cleaners. I’m very very healthy at 75. No vaxxes of any kind but 1 pneumonia shot and maybe 2 flu shots in my life. The first thing that caused me to resist was the personal decision I made that I did not want my body polluted by an experimental juice. All the rest of the information regarding this disaster and crime flowed in after I did that. I believe God did that.
My father was a pathologist and he would always say about getting dirty or minor cuts “it’s good for you!”. He taught us that there’s clean dirt and dirty dirt. Clean dirt in the yard, in the wilderness, in our house, on our pets, at the stables, at the farm. Dirty dirt- like human slime in crowded city gutters- was to be avoided. I still use those terms!
I have a close friend who argued till she was out of breath that the EUA was the same thing as 'approved'. nothing I could show her would convince her otherwise. she's on her 5th jab and has had covid at least twice. but you know, 'it would have been so much more' if she didn't get all those jabs. what can a moron like me do when up against such religious zealotry? I gave up.
You could have her read this Karl Denninger column- he can be pretty blunt lol! Dr. Campbell, he is not- get ready for a sledgehammer of reality for your friend...
I agree, even intelligent people go in a not thinking stage when it comes to emergencies, and we all were told this is critical and an emergency, but most people get like a sack of potatoes and lethargic when fear kicks in, flight responsive type, because they did not think. And many people still believe mediology is good and govs are pro-public. We all know to get the best exposure for ones website online you have to use certain words and then algorythm picks you up, same happened with this farce, certain words they use on a constant basis, then your brain will pick up the planned intensity of the suggested lockstep message...
No vaccinating “during” a pandemic (especially with an MRNA vaccine that produces short lived variant specific antibodies while short circuiting the creation of any innate immunity) is the very worst thing you do.
They have ye right there, stuck, arguing over nonsense, you don't take novel experimental substances into your temple just becsuse some entity tells you to, I reckon some of the dumbest fuxks on the planet knew this intuitively.
All y'all are feeding into the nonsense, start the argument where the argument starts, deployment was unprecedented, and immoral, end of fooking story, off limits
I shore doo wish I wuz smart enuf to take a half-baked gene therapy injekshun created by CRIMINALS with no lyabillity. really makes cents now that I have had a think about it. I guess maybe I need a teevee sos I can be as intellujent as them folks.
The night before last I had the most fascinating evening: I went to a talk by "South Africa's Tony Fauci" promoting his new book. Watching this evil man systematically and skillfully lying to the innocent audience was quite an experience. I could quite see how he could think that the World is full of people who are just there to be fooled. Unfortunately I did not get chosen to ask my questions! I was reminded of one of Daphne Du Maurier's novels (I think) in which the protagonist is first given a clue that the vicar is a wrong'un by finding a drawing he has done of himself as a wolf speaking to the congregation drawn as sheep.
I'm going to write an article about the experience in more detail, but another feature that occurred to me when watching his gleeful smile, was the psychological research showing that lie detectors do not work on people who feel themselves to be in positions of power, as they ENJOY the experience of lying to people, unlike normal people who experience some stress and guilt.
As I mentioned in response to your earlier Tweet, and I will unfold here again given Twitter censorship (and feel free to quote any of my remarks or observations Jessica in any of your Substack posts):
"Punching some holes in this "study", the 'cognition test' they refer to is a *military* one called the 'Swedish Enlistment Battery'
In 2017 it was criticised: "proportion of summoned people for standardised testing has so far been low"
Thankfully with Substack notes I can expand the criticisms. So there's a number of selection biases occurring here:
1) The person must have undergone 'mandatory' military service in Sweden. They do hold exemptions for conscientious objectors: "If you are enlisted but know you are unable to use lethal force, then you can apply for conscientious objector status at the Defence Conscription and Assessment Agency."
2) Not all people will undergo the 'SEB' because conscription only occurs during a heightened state of alert in Sweden. They might be required to 'enlist' (which is a simple registration form) but this isn't the same as being conscripted.
3) As a result, the majority of the people don't actually undergo the SEB, which is evidenced in the 2017 paper which notes adoption is low.
So essentially you're only getting people who want to be in the military, who have also chosen to undergo the SEB. This means you end up with a graph cherry picking fallacy.
Imagine, for example, people with an IQ of 90 to 110 join the military, and for simplicity we'll assume they all undergo SEB. They might go 'aha, people with 110 IQ got jabbed the fastest'. But then if we introduce the full population subset, we might see two things occurring:
1) The upper and lower band limits expand, so now we're including those below 80 IQ who are not medically fit for service, and we're also including the 111-125+ academics range (who opt not to go for all that fighty-murdery-bloodshed stuff). Suddenly, the peak of the 110 IQ range is not the 'actual peak', and the bottom of the 90 IQ range is not the actual bottom.
2) We'd also see signal dilution. So you'd see many more people who are in the 90-110 IQ range who didn't take the SEB diluting the uptake rates.
The study was crafted quite maliciously. You see, if you factor in anyone with mental deficiencies (as medically recognised medical health issues), say, the 75 to 90 IQ band, you will naturally see a 'lower uptake' because the vaccine uptake is co-dependent upon whether or not their carer gets the shot for them, and how quickly.
Notice the study clues us in on their use of fraud by fallaciously suggesting a 'prebooked vaccination appointment' solves the issue for the 'morons'? If intelligence is what drives vaccine uptake, then why would a totally unrelated vaccine appointment service boost 'uptake' in the 'moronic' group? Their IQ hasn't gone up.
Imagine if I said smart people could play pianos, but if we mandated the purchase of pianos for dumb people, they could play pianos as well. Is that an intelligence correlation? *No*
So instead, what they're doing is exploiting disabilities that impede vaccine uptake, and artificially spinning it into the inverse to claim smart people get shots. Or to put the fallacy in context: 'all disabled people without legs are slow runners'. Yeah, no fucking shit.
I enjoy reading the word "people" in any text containing statistics. I can not read the original source, because I abhore narcissistic scientific propaganda, but this comment is great.
Wisdom is not synonymous with being “smart”. I know a plethora of individuals much smarter than I who believe in the current narrative. I also know quite a few people of ordinary intelligence like myself(outdated masters in library science) who were wise enough to stop vaccinating several years ago.
I don’t watch the news, I really don’t care what most people think of me and for the most part I avoid those “smart” devices. I guess I’ll just have to remain stupid but wise.
Unfortunately print books, which can’t be adulterated, are no longer in vogue. Many libraries no longer have books. I just learned the school district where I taught until 2017 no longer has a librarian.
These are both garbage studies because they leave out a major influence on vaccination decisions: prior infection. If people with lower cognitive ability are more likely to be infected (as the authors in the J of Health Economic at least acknowledge), then leaving that variable out of any multivariate model means excluding a major confounder.
There are other problems with both studies. The one using IDF data is descriptive only --there is really no reason why not to do a regression analysis. Also, soldiers with higher cognitive ability tend to be sorted into more elite units that were: 1) probably more likely to be heavily pressured to vaccinate 2) threats of reassignment or ejection from service for not vaccinating (which there were) have a higher cost for elite soldiers.
These blatantly obvious appeals to ego are so pathetic, not to mention deeply ironic. I'm not sure who is more embarrassing, the 'study' authors or the people who cite this utter nonsense as part of their argument.
Personally, I think the amount of Neanderthal DNA present in the individual human genome is a better predictor of 'vaccine hesitancy' than cognitive ability (or lack of). Pleased to say that muh Neanderthal tainted human brain alerted me to the fact that something was 'not quite right' with an aggressive, extraordinarily coercive, mass experimental 'vaccination' campaign for a 'flu like illness which mainly affected the elderly and those with co-morbidities.
Funny. I did 23 and Me years ago (stupid I know) and they told me that the amount of Neanderthal genes I had was more than 95% of all people tested. I wasn't sure what any of that meant but I told my friends about it and we laughed and laughed. Over the the years they've sent me scientific articles about Neanderthals when they come across them. They made art, they buried their dead, and so on, all part of the joke. Well I am the only one of that group of friends that did not take the death jab...
I'm not sure classical intelligence has much to do with it. I had a very intelligent PhD tell me he was going going along with it because he was 'drinking the Kool-Aid' (very highly paid job with Amazon). Whereas my (PhDless) intuition smelt a rat almost straight away. How many of us sensed something wrong but didn't think they could say no because of material, societal concerns? Very many, I would think. And that's the scary bit.
About 40% of us. That’s how many marines turned the vax down before it was mandated. It was also the amount of employees at my hospital who declined until the vax was mandated, and then it dropped to 3%.
Selection bias would be a huge issue for such a study. I can't think of a more contentious metric than general intelligence. This seems manifestly self-serving. As you say, Jessica, "slack-jawed yokels" unite. I guess that would include Jay Battacharia, John Ioannidis, Robert Malone, Peter McCullough, you, with your measly 3 (4?) advanced degrees, Paul Marik, etc. Obviously, only idiots would question the Experts of the CDC, NIH, & FDA.
Quite right. It is independant thinking that is the the biggest factor, not intelligence. More intelligent people are better at coming up with rationalisations for their prejudices, and more prone to looking down on others.
Thanks for that, Jessica. This is another what I call "vomitus maximus" moment. Very typical hatred of the rubes and plebs by the self-appointed masters of the universe.
I think they cannot abide that the rubes and plebs got it right, and they got it wrong (though of course they won't articulate it like that, even to themselves).
I believe the actual correlation is unrelated to intelligence, but rather to level of education (the more educated and credentialled being the more easily fooled and led by the nose). This is well-known (often mentioned e.g. by Mattias Desmet). That must really hurt them.
The first two things I always check for are conflicts of interest and funding. The authors claim no conflicts of interest, but they don't appear to indicate the funding, so the next thing I would investigate is the authors and their affiliations. Clicking "Show More" under the authors byline unfolds this very revealing list (one need look no further than "a" and "b" to know this study is suspect):
a) Pharmacoepidemiology Research Unit, Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91120, Israel
b) Israeli Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan 5262000, Israel
c) Department of Military Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 91120, Israel
d) The School of Social Work, Sapir Academic College, D. N. Hof Ashkelon, 79165, Israel
e) Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel
f) The Uniformed Services, University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
g) Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan 5262000, Israel
indeed Margaret. and excellent comment.
That was my thought too, Margaret! Who funded this study? It is such a clear psychological carrot! You are intelligent if you get vaccinated. So jump on the bandwagon. evidently it was sponsored/funded by the powers that want you to get the jab. I distinctly recall reading though that uptake was lowest at the bottom and at the top of the education scale (i.e. highschool and PhD), and that more of the intelligent in-betweens were buying the fear and the psyop.
I recall reading that one if the most jab-refusing groups was people with PhDs.
Either way, avoiding the poison was one of the smartest things I’ve ever done!
Being educated (PHDs) does not equal having common sense. Common sense told me this covid vaccine was suspect and to avoid. When fear- mongering, bribes, coercion, and mandates are needed, then it’s not proving itself on merit or decline in cases.
The problem lies in "being educated (PHDs)". What does "educated" mean? If I am not mistaken in the US the "educational" system heavily relies on "multiple choice tests" during the school years. Does this approach train your ability to connect singular points of data to find new connections? I doubt it. This could lead to being able to store information, but not connect "the dots". Would you define that "connecting the dots" as "common sense"? If so, a highly educated persons with a PHD could be as dumb as a rock. And that might explain, why so many people are incapable of understanding simple logic.
https://archive.org/details/free-fall-nist-ncstar-1-a
Dumb as a rock...👍🏼🎯
very little multiple choice happening in PhD programs, at least the ones I'm familiar with. Nevertheless I've met several PhD level mathematicians who didn't appear to possess a lick of common sense. I'm not sure that's really the quality that's responsible for those of us who refused the vaccines though. It's more of an intuition or pattern recognition acquired through a history of formative experiences gained by questioning and researching the big events it turns out were all very different than what we were told. Folks with intelligence and common sense often fail to see those paths or look for them if they haven't traveled them before. It also requires acknowledging that the world is a darker place than you may have realized or wanted to think.
Agree!
I read the opposite as the university groups and professors were totally on board.
It would be worthwhile to know from what publication and from what article you read this about phds being one of the most jab refusing groups.
Exactly the opposite of observations .
And from what funding sources!
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/10/the_unvaccinated_are_looking_smarter_every_week.html
💯
Intelligent? How about assessing wisdom?
certain rabbis want all non jews DEAD...and look up the NOAHIDE LAWS and why does CHRISTIAN USA HAVE THEM????
These ‘Rabbi’s’ are not representative of the Jewish faith. Jews don’t want anyone dead. We believe in life.
The IDF's method of increasing vaccine uptake amongst teenage recruits was to wake them up in the middle of the night and physically force them to get jabbed. I guess they had assessed their cognitive abilities beforehand and decided that this was the best strategy.
Wow, fascinating intel, Jaime. Do you have a reference for that? I may want to use it sometime. No worries if it's not handy.
I believe it's genuine and hasn't been 'debunked' by the 'fact checkers':
https://www.europereloaded.com/distraught-israeli-mother-describes-attempted-forced-vaccination-of-her-child-video/
“We didn’t force anyone to get the vaccine” say all the lying institutions. Putting aside the distinction between coercion and being forced, this report and a number of others confirm forced “vaccination”.
Thanks for the speedy find, Jaime!
I remember reading about more than one of these cases. Who are we kidding. Israel had the green pass. Pretty close to a vaccine passport. I, as an American Jew, very familiar with Israel, was astonished at the heavy handed approach to this so called pandemic in a country with the history of medical experimentation in the Holocaust. There wasn’t even a very high death toll when they rolled out the shots & quarantines. Maybe 6500 out of 9 million plus population! That’s a normal flu number, especially since most were elderly. Intelligence had nothing to do with it. Coercion had more to do with it.
In the United States I would venture to say that innate intelligence ie. critical thinking had more to do with not falling for the fear Psyop. And institutions of ‘higher learning’ forced the students to be inoculated.
The Israeli government set a horrifying precedent by secretly signing up the entire Jewish population to a mass medical experiment conducted by a private corporation in league with the state, which violated the Nuremberg Code and punished 'unclean' dissenters by excluding them from society. After the harsh lessons of the Holocaust, this was almost unbelievable, but it happened, and it would seem that the neo Nazis which the 21st century Jewish populace needed protecting from were in fact their own government AND a domestic military establishment which apparently was in league with that government in forcing/coercing citizens to be medically experimented upon. Truly mind blowing.
And every drugstore chain told their employees to get vaccinated or lose their jobs. Nursing homes forbade visits by relatives who were unvaccinated and unmasked. This was in the US.
Just to clarify, you were astonished that the Israeli state and IDF could be heavy handed?
All is not as it seems
Keep researching and thinking critically
😡😡😡
I’ve come to the conclusion that if it comes from the government, the opposite is probably true. So I think we should be patting ourselves on the back for being superior in every way 😂. I KNOW we’re better looking with a better sense of humor and now to find out we’re intellectually superior as well?
I have also come to the same conclusion.
it used to just be 'follow the money' but now its follow the money AND the ideology. ugh.
yup, they've been pulling this bullshit for decades in the autism (supposed) research. 20+ years and billions spent looking for the unicorn autism 'gene' yet as far as I know, they are no closer, producing very little in the way of useful information (from the big money, mainstream anyway) because they are intentionally looking under the wrong rock. duh
Same with Cancer! Look at the amount of money that is being thrown at “cancer research”. They know what is causing it and probably gave a cure but curing is not profitable!
Off topic, but Neil Oliver just used your word "philanthropath" on his GB News broadcast today.
Oh wow, thank you so much for letting me know, Cynthia! I know he used it twice on his 6/17 monologue (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/i/125317987/neil-oliver-used-philanthropath) but didn't realized he'd used it again! Bless Neil's precious heart 😍
King James Bible, Revelation 3:9
"Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee."
https://biblehub.com/revelation/3-9.htm
😂😂👍👍👍👍
Thank God I am so stupid I didn't take those injections!
I hereby identify as Australopithecus ... and I’m damned proud of it
rotfl We need t-shirts, Inbred Cretins Unite The New Darwin Awards
I am proud
That I resisted coercion
Survived the perversion
Of our whole society
Who pushed a certain
So called certainty
That wasn't, Isn't
And never was or will be
Anything but dangerous
Reckless and essentially
A form of medical rape
For everyone else
Sorry, but too late.
Intelligence has nothing to do with it. I know plenty of pharma experts with PhDs who took the shots. They’re not stupid people. What they are is susceptible to propaganda, and have conformist personalities.
I didn’t take the shots. I was never scared of the virus, as I’m not susceptible to propaganda, I have no shame in going against the grain and I don’t like being told what to do. I am also not remotely stupid, by any metric, but that has nothing to do with it.
Why take a barely tested vaccine with a novel mechanism for a disease that (1j poses no threat and (2) nobody has ever developed a successful vaccine for previously? Seems like insanity to me.
The only difference between me and the pharma experts that took it was that they were scared of the virus. They knew all the other stuff. I don’t know why I wasn’t scared. I’m the sort of person who cuts the green bits off cheese and isn’t scared to eat it as well though. Zero germophobia here. Growing up in a grubby house probably.
Agreed. I grew up on a farm playing in sand boxes cats used as litter boxes and mucking around in farm yards and walking and handling what farms produce. Soil. My mom was too busy with a large farmhouse and 5 kids to run after us. We were hardly sick but with the usual stuff--colds, measles, chickenpox, mumps, whooping cough. Yet we survived. My cousin had her mom washing off her toys and pacifiers the minute she dropped them. This kid was sick all the time. I actually don’t mind even now being a bit grubby when we camp and never use antibacterial soaps and cleaners. I’m very very healthy at 75. No vaxxes of any kind but 1 pneumonia shot and maybe 2 flu shots in my life. The first thing that caused me to resist was the personal decision I made that I did not want my body polluted by an experimental juice. All the rest of the information regarding this disaster and crime flowed in after I did that. I believe God did that.
My father was a pathologist and he would always say about getting dirty or minor cuts “it’s good for you!”. He taught us that there’s clean dirt and dirty dirt. Clean dirt in the yard, in the wilderness, in our house, on our pets, at the stables, at the farm. Dirty dirt- like human slime in crowded city gutters- was to be avoided. I still use those terms!
Great comment!
Also unvaxxed, but the "straw that broke the camel's back":
EUA.
That, in itself, should have convinced many to not comply.
Guess that didn't happen...
I have a close friend who argued till she was out of breath that the EUA was the same thing as 'approved'. nothing I could show her would convince her otherwise. she's on her 5th jab and has had covid at least twice. but you know, 'it would have been so much more' if she didn't get all those jabs. what can a moron like me do when up against such religious zealotry? I gave up.
What you can do is not waste any more if your time on her .
I don't
You could have her read this Karl Denninger column- he can be pretty blunt lol! Dr. Campbell, he is not- get ready for a sledgehammer of reality for your friend...
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=249647
Ears that do not hear, eyes that do not see, because they don’t want to know.
Can't agree with you more...
All around me have been vaxxed, and had Covid at least twice.
I haven't.
I, too, gave up trying to convince anyone, but when questioned about my status, I'll spew 5 minutes of facts, and leave it there...
But I have put a bug in their ear...
I agree, even intelligent people go in a not thinking stage when it comes to emergencies, and we all were told this is critical and an emergency, but most people get like a sack of potatoes and lethargic when fear kicks in, flight responsive type, because they did not think. And many people still believe mediology is good and govs are pro-public. We all know to get the best exposure for ones website online you have to use certain words and then algorythm picks you up, same happened with this farce, certain words they use on a constant basis, then your brain will pick up the planned intensity of the suggested lockstep message...
That to me is stupidity!
There is no evidence to suppprt their first premise,
"Since vaccination adherence is crucial in reducing morbidity and mortality during a pandemic, "
If i was peer reviewing it i would have rejected it.
Assumptions and science
Are like oil and water
They shouldn't mix
Unless it isn't science
But gaslighting and compliance
Peddled to people who should really know the difference between the two
No vaccinating “during” a pandemic (especially with an MRNA vaccine that produces short lived variant specific antibodies while short circuiting the creation of any innate immunity) is the very worst thing you do.
They speak as if pandemics happen all the time and vaccines have always been the way out. Seems like their laying down the rules moving forward.
peer review = circle jerk. ;)
They have ye right there, stuck, arguing over nonsense, you don't take novel experimental substances into your temple just becsuse some entity tells you to, I reckon some of the dumbest fuxks on the planet knew this intuitively.
All y'all are feeding into the nonsense, start the argument where the argument starts, deployment was unprecedented, and immoral, end of fooking story, off limits
I shore doo wish I wuz smart enuf to take a half-baked gene therapy injekshun created by CRIMINALS with no lyabillity. really makes cents now that I have had a think about it. I guess maybe I need a teevee sos I can be as intellujent as them folks.
Yoooiz phunny
(and it probably took a lot of effort to think up all the hilarious misspellings and such. love it! its hard to pretend to be dumb)
Chuckle
beautiful
Just a short reply...
Something I learned over the years.
Formalised education does not necessarily denote intelligence.
It certainly does tell you they can read, remember and repeat.
As for using what they've learned in a cognitive fashion....
May I quote von MIses.
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
There is actually quite a large number of notable autodidacts who contributed to our collective understanding over history.
Buckminster Fuller
Benjamin Franklin
Leonardo Da Vinci
I think even Isaac Newton was self taught
Gregor Mendel
Henry Ford
Nikola Tesla
Ramanujan
These guys just read, tinkered and played until they became masters
There are a couple of interesting graphs in sections on intelligence (roughly speaking) and going along with the narrative in this article -
https://whatdoino.substack.com/p/copy-coping-with-disagreement-and
The night before last I had the most fascinating evening: I went to a talk by "South Africa's Tony Fauci" promoting his new book. Watching this evil man systematically and skillfully lying to the innocent audience was quite an experience. I could quite see how he could think that the World is full of people who are just there to be fooled. Unfortunately I did not get chosen to ask my questions! I was reminded of one of Daphne Du Maurier's novels (I think) in which the protagonist is first given a clue that the vicar is a wrong'un by finding a drawing he has done of himself as a wolf speaking to the congregation drawn as sheep.
I'm going to write an article about the experience in more detail, but another feature that occurred to me when watching his gleeful smile, was the psychological research showing that lie detectors do not work on people who feel themselves to be in positions of power, as they ENJOY the experience of lying to people, unlike normal people who experience some stress and guilt.
Jonathan Reece, that gleeful smile on the face of a successful liar is called "deceiver's delight."
Thanks
As I mentioned in response to your earlier Tweet, and I will unfold here again given Twitter censorship (and feel free to quote any of my remarks or observations Jessica in any of your Substack posts):
"Punching some holes in this "study", the 'cognition test' they refer to is a *military* one called the 'Swedish Enlistment Battery'
In 2017 it was criticised: "proportion of summoned people for standardised testing has so far been low"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-022-00887-0"
Thankfully with Substack notes I can expand the criticisms. So there's a number of selection biases occurring here:
1) The person must have undergone 'mandatory' military service in Sweden. They do hold exemptions for conscientious objectors: "If you are enlisted but know you are unable to use lethal force, then you can apply for conscientious objector status at the Defence Conscription and Assessment Agency."
https://www.krisinformation.se/en/hazards-and-risks/hojd-beredskap-och-krig/total-defence-service
2) Not all people will undergo the 'SEB' because conscription only occurs during a heightened state of alert in Sweden. They might be required to 'enlist' (which is a simple registration form) but this isn't the same as being conscripted.
3) As a result, the majority of the people don't actually undergo the SEB, which is evidenced in the 2017 paper which notes adoption is low.
So essentially you're only getting people who want to be in the military, who have also chosen to undergo the SEB. This means you end up with a graph cherry picking fallacy.
Imagine, for example, people with an IQ of 90 to 110 join the military, and for simplicity we'll assume they all undergo SEB. They might go 'aha, people with 110 IQ got jabbed the fastest'. But then if we introduce the full population subset, we might see two things occurring:
1) The upper and lower band limits expand, so now we're including those below 80 IQ who are not medically fit for service, and we're also including the 111-125+ academics range (who opt not to go for all that fighty-murdery-bloodshed stuff). Suddenly, the peak of the 110 IQ range is not the 'actual peak', and the bottom of the 90 IQ range is not the actual bottom.
2) We'd also see signal dilution. So you'd see many more people who are in the 90-110 IQ range who didn't take the SEB diluting the uptake rates.
The study was crafted quite maliciously. You see, if you factor in anyone with mental deficiencies (as medically recognised medical health issues), say, the 75 to 90 IQ band, you will naturally see a 'lower uptake' because the vaccine uptake is co-dependent upon whether or not their carer gets the shot for them, and how quickly.
Notice the study clues us in on their use of fraud by fallaciously suggesting a 'prebooked vaccination appointment' solves the issue for the 'morons'? If intelligence is what drives vaccine uptake, then why would a totally unrelated vaccine appointment service boost 'uptake' in the 'moronic' group? Their IQ hasn't gone up.
Imagine if I said smart people could play pianos, but if we mandated the purchase of pianos for dumb people, they could play pianos as well. Is that an intelligence correlation? *No*
So instead, what they're doing is exploiting disabilities that impede vaccine uptake, and artificially spinning it into the inverse to claim smart people get shots. Or to put the fallacy in context: 'all disabled people without legs are slow runners'. Yeah, no fucking shit.
Good comment. Always nice to see people exercising that internal dialectic that thinking for yourself involves.
I enjoy reading the word "people" in any text containing statistics. I can not read the original source, because I abhore narcissistic scientific propaganda, but this comment is great.
Ha!
Wisdom is not synonymous with being “smart”. I know a plethora of individuals much smarter than I who believe in the current narrative. I also know quite a few people of ordinary intelligence like myself(outdated masters in library science) who were wise enough to stop vaccinating several years ago.
I don’t watch the news, I really don’t care what most people think of me and for the most part I avoid those “smart” devices. I guess I’ll just have to remain stupid but wise.
Important distinction, always! Well done.
Smart = able to understand; good at discriminating between similar concepts, and using them.
Wise = makes good decisions; good at discerning what is good, and what is important.
God gives discernment. 😊
When you realize how corrupt colleges are now, your “outdated masters” may be more relevant than you think!
Unfortunately print books, which can’t be adulterated, are no longer in vogue. Many libraries no longer have books. I just learned the school district where I taught until 2017 no longer has a librarian.
Also...most of the participants 20 yo males. Not known for worrying about consequences.
These are both garbage studies because they leave out a major influence on vaccination decisions: prior infection. If people with lower cognitive ability are more likely to be infected (as the authors in the J of Health Economic at least acknowledge), then leaving that variable out of any multivariate model means excluding a major confounder.
There are other problems with both studies. The one using IDF data is descriptive only --there is really no reason why not to do a regression analysis. Also, soldiers with higher cognitive ability tend to be sorted into more elite units that were: 1) probably more likely to be heavily pressured to vaccinate 2) threats of reassignment or ejection from service for not vaccinating (which there were) have a higher cost for elite soldiers.
These blatantly obvious appeals to ego are so pathetic, not to mention deeply ironic. I'm not sure who is more embarrassing, the 'study' authors or the people who cite this utter nonsense as part of their argument.
Personally, I think the amount of Neanderthal DNA present in the individual human genome is a better predictor of 'vaccine hesitancy' than cognitive ability (or lack of). Pleased to say that muh Neanderthal tainted human brain alerted me to the fact that something was 'not quite right' with an aggressive, extraordinarily coercive, mass experimental 'vaccination' campaign for a 'flu like illness which mainly affected the elderly and those with co-morbidities.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/08/study-reveals-striking-differences-in-brains-of-modern-humans-and-neanderthals
Funny. I did 23 and Me years ago (stupid I know) and they told me that the amount of Neanderthal genes I had was more than 95% of all people tested. I wasn't sure what any of that meant but I told my friends about it and we laughed and laughed. Over the the years they've sent me scientific articles about Neanderthals when they come across them. They made art, they buried their dead, and so on, all part of the joke. Well I am the only one of that group of friends that did not take the death jab...
Wow, I was half joking but there might be something in this!
Maybe the Neanderthals evolved built-in BS detectors in order to mix with those wily homo sapiens ;)
I'm not sure classical intelligence has much to do with it. I had a very intelligent PhD tell me he was going going along with it because he was 'drinking the Kool-Aid' (very highly paid job with Amazon). Whereas my (PhDless) intuition smelt a rat almost straight away. How many of us sensed something wrong but didn't think they could say no because of material, societal concerns? Very many, I would think. And that's the scary bit.
About 40% of us. That’s how many marines turned the vax down before it was mandated. It was also the amount of employees at my hospital who declined until the vax was mandated, and then it dropped to 3%.
Selection bias would be a huge issue for such a study. I can't think of a more contentious metric than general intelligence. This seems manifestly self-serving. As you say, Jessica, "slack-jawed yokels" unite. I guess that would include Jay Battacharia, John Ioannidis, Robert Malone, Peter McCullough, you, with your measly 3 (4?) advanced degrees, Paul Marik, etc. Obviously, only idiots would question the Experts of the CDC, NIH, & FDA.
I was thinking the same thing.
How do you measure intelligence? Like really?
Put a doctor deep in the rainforest, and he will likely starve, be eaten or die.
Put the bushman in a surgery and well he will probably cause a lot of misery.
There are many different tools in the toolbox.
Each has a function and purpose.
But don't call the hammer dumb because he can't cut wood.
Or the saw slack because he can't whack in a nail.
Quite right. It is independant thinking that is the the biggest factor, not intelligence. More intelligent people are better at coming up with rationalisations for their prejudices, and more prone to looking down on others.
Einstein said not to judge a fish because it can't climb a tree....
Thanks for that, Jessica. This is another what I call "vomitus maximus" moment. Very typical hatred of the rubes and plebs by the self-appointed masters of the universe.
I think they cannot abide that the rubes and plebs got it right, and they got it wrong (though of course they won't articulate it like that, even to themselves).
I believe the actual correlation is unrelated to intelligence, but rather to level of education (the more educated and credentialled being the more easily fooled and led by the nose). This is well-known (often mentioned e.g. by Mattias Desmet). That must really hurt them.