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I don't know about that Eric. I don't think it's operationally impossible when the ones at the top are more likely to be higher in IQ and more Psychopathic. Therefore, they can use their genetic gifts of deception, manipulation and status to collaborate and conspire against the world's population, whom they see as plebs to be ruled over and who's usefulness is coming to an end.

Your hesitancy might be because it sounds too simple to be true. I think the reason that it is true and so successful, is because so many won't actually take this idea seriously and cannot comprehend it. Their mind won't go there due to many factors, such as discussed already by Charlie and others.
I'm with Silence on this. You've created a non-falsifiable theory. If you can't prove the conspiracy it just proves that the conspiracy exists because the conspirators are very good at maintaining secrecy.

There are no high IQ people running things. Most in charge are of quite average IQ to midwit range glad handers. If you had ever worked with or for government, you'd know that. Ditto big business, albeit with added three standard deviation conscientiousness and type A personality not typically found in government. People seriously need to watch less Hollywood "reality".

Even if there were some extremely high IQ master minds, as you imagine, what makes you think they wouldn't compete and fight with each other? They always do, you know. Psychopaths, by definition, are antisocial and don't play well with others, even - perhaps especially - of their own ilk. That is what the psychological profiling science says, of which I know a great deal from my former life.

Can you point to examples of select groups of super intelligent psychopaths that are currently running, or have in the past run, large complex governments or other organizations and successfully expanded their control and hold on their new gains?

Do you even understand what a psychopath is? What is your training in that area?

Also, why now, all of the sudden, has this really smart, hyper organized, non-internally competing, psychopathic cabal emerged? I mean in all of human history we've seen smaller localized cabals try, and fail, to expand their realm of control to encompass large swaths of the world. Usually, some other group feels threatened and wipes them out only, in turn, to eventually be wiped out themselves if they go bad. What do you see as being different about now?

So Charlie thinks it's a conspiracy of evil? I don't totally disagree. That is not a group of brilliant psychopaths. That is dark forces that dwell in all of us and that reach out from the spirit world when there's an opening. The 7 deadly sins have been known for ages. They are what is currently tearing down our society, just as they did to Sodom and Gomorrah in the story. But that is kind of weaselly on Charlie's part. It doesn't address the operational hurdles involved in faking 9/11. It doesn't address specific events. Yeah the terrorist SOBs that attacked us on 9/11 were evil. Yeah the IC was full of sloth. Yeah the do gooders were full of hubris and stupid ideology of "all people are the same"....because Statue of Liberty! All of which resulted in a terrorist cell being in the US and learning to fly big airplanes and being able to weaponize them.

This is really simple. IMO, conspiracy theorists cannot accept that no one is in really charge and that shit happens. They can't handle that simple truth. Out of fear, they must assume intelligent design of all that happens. Nor can they accept that if there is a conspiracy, even if it's Evil itself from the depths of Hell, that it only walks about causing harm because The People allow it/ are susceptible. The government is always only a few hundred bullets away from being replaced. All that would be required is citizens willing to send those bullets at the target - or mass Ghandi like movement, if you prefer. Too scary? I thought so. Go back to your regularly programmed whining.

You are the conspiracy. Your weakness and fear. You feed the evil by doing nothing to stop it.
 
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she has some pretty precise and very current connected dots

So she says.

How do you explain all of the bio-attack and pandemic scenarios that were simulated from the 1950s to current and, especially, after 9/11 without a pandemic occurring?

If you plan, prepare and test responses often enough, odds are that if an event similar to what you are worried about occurs, it will occur during or soon after the exercises. I mean programs are budgeted and exercises undertaken because a consensus deems a scenario likely. It's because a conspiracy is going to make it happen. I really don't understand that conspiracy thinking.

BTW - as for Fauci, who is indeed rat looking jack-ass - how do you explain his hyping HIV in the 80s and early 90s as a disease that would kill millions of us, but did not. Does it occur to you that maybe Fauci is just a dummy bureaucrat that loves to get into the limelight and who's schtick is proclaiming that killer pandemics are upon us?

Like I said, you need to consider that the people in charge are not far seeing mastermind psychopaths running ops on us all, rather they merely are bumbling fools, with short term nickel and dime, mediocre cunning at best, leading masses of stupid sheep.

There is nothing being implemented today, in any area, that wasn't the preferred policy of college late night rap sessions 40 years ago. Now those midwits are all grown up and in positions of power to implement their sophomoric concepts.

International psychopath geniuses my ass.
 
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I'm with Silence on this. You've created a non-falsifiable theory. If you can't prove the conspiracy it just proves that the conspiracy exists because the conspirators are very good at maintaining secrecy.

No, it's called looking at the data and coming up with a reason for things being the way they are.

I've already said I'd be open to evidence so I could evaluate in future whether I was right or wrong. At the moment, I believe I am correct.

Eric Newhil said:
There are no high IQ people running things. Most in charge are of quite average IQ to midwit range glad handers. If you had ever worked with or for government, you'd know that. Ditto big business, albeit with added three standard deviation conscientiousness and type A personality not typically found in government. People seriously need to watch less Hollywood "reality".

That's somewhat true. Many people involved in Government are total midwits. But that doesn't mean the ones at the top are total idiots either. You wouldn't have a functioning society if that was the case. Obviously all the idiots are lower down in the hierarchy. Some get up the top too, but I don't think they would last long.


Eric Newhill said:
Even if there were some extremely high IQ master minds, as you imagine, what makes you think they wouldn't compete and fight with each other? They always do, you know. Psychopaths, by definition, are antisocial and don't play well with others, even - perhaps especially - of their own ilk. That is what the psychological profiling science says, of which I know a great deal from my former life.

I don't know if our definitions are mixed up here. But I don't believe you are correct. See further down.

Eric Newhill said:
Can you point to examples of select groups of super intelligent psychopaths that are currently running, or have in the past run, large complex governments or other organizations and successfully expanded their control and hold on their new gains?

I'm not even sure how I could ever give you evidence to satisfy your argument

Eric Newhill said:
Do you even understand what a psychopath is? What is your training in that area?

Yes, I do.

I used to be part of an esoteric group that made studying psychopaths a big part of the required reading material. But anyway, below is a snippet from Robert Hare's work:

A social predator who often charms and manipulates his or her way through life. Psychopaths are completely lacking in conscience and in feelings for others; they take what they want and do as they please without the slightest sense of guilt or regret.”

Hare, R. D. (1993). Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books). Paperback published in 1995. Reissued in 1998 by Guilford Press.





Eric Newhill said:
Also, why now, all of the sudden, has this really smart, hyper organized, non-internally competing, psychopathic cabal emerged?

Whoever said they were non-internally competing? It's obvious that psychopaths would compete with each other to get to the top of the top. It doesn't mean they just go on a rampage. They'd be caught otherwise. The stupid ones anyway.

Eric Newhill said:
I mean in all of human history we've seen smaller localized cabals try, and fail, to expand their realm of control to encompass large swaths of the world. Usually, some other group feels threatened and wipes them out only, in turn, to eventually be wiped out themselves if they go bad. What do you see as being different about now?

You'd need to give examples of these "localised cabals". I don't know what you mean by that.



Eric Newhill said:
This is really simple. IMO, conspiracy theorists cannot accept that no one is in really charge and that shit happens. They can't handle that simple truth. Out of fear, they must assume intelligent design of all that happens. Nor can they accept that if there is a conspiracy, even if it's Evil itself from the depths of Hell, that it only walks about causing harm because The People allow it/ are susceptible. The government is always only a few hundred bullets away from being replaced. All that would be required is citizens willing to send those bullets at the target - or mass Ghandi like movement, if you prefer. Too scary? I thought so. Go back to your regularly programmed whining.

You are the conspiracy. Your weakness and fear. You feed the evil by doing nothing to stop it.

You been on the beers mate? Bit feisty the day like!

So what would you like me to do Eric? Shoot people?

I have a request for you. Why don't you go and send the bullets at the targets, whatever that would be. Why don't you risk your life, career, family, friends and get back to me on how that goes.
 
I used to be part of an esoteric group that made studying psychopaths a big part of the required reading material. But anyway, below is a snippet from Robert Hare's work:

A social predator who often charms and manipulates his or her way through life. Psychopaths are completely lacking in conscience and in feelings for others; they take what they want and do as they please without the slightest sense of guilt or regret.”

Hare, R. D. (1993). Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books). Paperback published in 1995. Reissued in 1998 by Guilford Press.

I have read Hare thoroughly as well as other subject matter experts. The definition you posted isn't the total story. You only applied the part the supports your argument.

Psychopaths are also incapable of remaining committed to causes or organizations because they are easily bored, the committed is false (i.e. only used to satisfy a temporary scam they are working on) and they are, by definition, antisocial (meaning they cannot engage in cooperative behavior for any length of time - actually at all. They only briefly feign cooperation and are, all the while, planning to take advantage of, or Destroy, the other party). Therefore, a psychopath is definitionally incapable of being part of a long term commitment to a secret society and its plans.

Amateurs often mistake people who must make adult decisions - like the CEO who must lay off workers to save the company or the General that must send men into battle and to their deaths in order to win the war quickly and save many more - as being psychopaths.

There is more that even Hare didn't recognize. Psychopaths are truly malevolent and evil. That is not a side effect of how they are. The only thing close to what we would call "pleasure" that they can experience is damaging people's souls. Many psychopaths consider their kindred souls who simply murder people to be crude and low grade. If the victim is dead, the victim is free from living a long life with the deep injuries to the mind that the more sophisticated psychopath can cause. Leaving a deeply psychologically scarred victim behind is the greatest proof, to the psychopath's massively twisted and inflated ego, that he is, indeed, a master - a master of evil. That desire, IMO, is the true motivation of the psychopath and I have seen it in action more than a few times. Hare missed that; or didn't want to go there.

At any rate, these are not people that can be involved in lasting conspiracies. They would rat out the other conspirators just for the pleasure of damaging them, after they became bored with the whole thing. The money doesn't count to them. Money is always easy come, easy go. To be too concerned with smart investments means one is a "sucker", an anathema to the psychopath. Playing any "game", other than his own, is being a sucker.

said they were non-internally competing? It's obvious that psychopaths would compete with each other to get to the top of the top. It doesn't mean they just go on a rampage. They'd be caught otherwise. The stupid ones anyway.

If they compete, then there cannot be one cabal running everything, can there? It also means that competing cabals would be taking the world in different directions and they would keep each other weak and in check.

If you think the losers of the competition are going to just accept their place in a pecking order, then you really don't understand psychopathy (see above). Each psychopath sees himself as a king. A master. They are not taking orders from anyone.They aren't playing by anyone else's rules. To even try to do so makes them feel drained and weak. Hence the rapidly arising sense of boredom even when playing out their own cons because they have to play nice with the victims for a while. At first that is exciting as the psychopath contemplates his genius in deceiving the dupes. The deception though, is a game that must be played with compromises to socially expected behaviors. Once the compromises outweigh the duper's delight, the trap is sprung, the victim smashed and the psychopath merely goes on his way to the next operation.

Psychopaths make terrible soldiers, btw, for the reasons I outlined. They cannot follow orders or stay in the ranks. They are usually drummed out of the military before they cause too much harm. Again, how would they maintain in a secret society's structure?


need to give examples of these "localised cabals". I don't know what you mean by that.

Sure you do. I keep asking for examples of these cabals of psychopaths that are allegedly running the show and you keep dodging the ask. So I'm being reasonable and asking for a small local example. If these cabals can run the world, then surely there must be a microcosm of that at a state or city level that is well documented.


been on the beers mate? Bit feisty the day like!

So what would you like me to do Eric? Shoot people?

I have a request for you. Why don't you go and send the bullets at the targets, whatever that would be. Why don't you risk your life, career, family, friends and get back to me on how that goes.

Been there/done that. Of course those were actual bad guys, not your imaginary ones.

So you, by your own definition, are part of the conspiracy. You want to complain about the conspirators, but you won't do anything about it because you might get hurt or lose financially. All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Wealthy Americans risked all and kicked Brit ass to form a better country. Guess such people don't exist anymore.

Afghanis kicked Brit ass, Russian ass and have fought the US to a stalemate. Heck, little people all over the world have fought off military super powers. Guess your secret cabal of super geniuses some how miscalculated on those adventures.

Or is it that you really do know that there is no one to target because there is no cabal that you can identify - and you'd just be attacking businessmen, stupid politicians, etc.

I mean, according to you, knocking off the cabal members would be, literally, saving the world. Guess you are no hero, huh?

Just thought I'd make it real for a minute. Sorry.
 
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I looked in vain in what you linked to for evidence of a pure isolate of whole viruses. I can't see it, so I'm still waiting for an appropriate link from you. If you haven't got one, please say so and I'll let the matter drop.
My feeling is that Cowan could express himself a lot better, but Alex has falsely come to the conclusion from that interview that the issue of isolating the virus is irrelevant.

It might be absolutely vital. There can't be a reliable PCR test without a genuine isolation of the virus, and all Koch's tests must be unsatisfied.

David
 
I have read Hare thoroughly as well as other subject matter experts. The definition you posted isn't the total story. You only applied the part the supports your argument.

Psychopaths are also incapable of remaining committed to causes or organizations because they are easily bored, the committed is false (i.e. only used to satisfy a temporary scam they are working on) and they are, by definition, antisocial (meaning they cannot engage in cooperative behavior for any length of time - actually at all. They only briefly feign cooperation and are, all the while, planning to take advantage of, or Destroy, the other party). Therefore, a psychopath is definitionally incapable of being part of a long term commitment to a secret society and its plans.

Amateurs often mistake people who must make adult decisions - like the CEO who must lay off workers to save the company or the General that must send men into battle and to their deaths in order to win the war quickly and save many more - as being psychopaths.

There is more that even Hare didn't recognize. Psychopaths are truly malevolent and evil. That is not a side effect of how they are. The only thing close to what we would call "pleasure" that they can experience is damaging people's souls. Many psychopaths consider their kindred souls who simply murder people to be crude and low grade. If the victim is dead, the victim is free from living a long life with the deep injuries to the mind that the more sophisticated psychopath can cause. Leaving a deeply psychologically scarred victim behind is the greatest proof, to the psychopath's massively twisted and inflated ego, that he is, indeed, a master - a master of evil. That desire, IMO, is the true motivation of the psychopath and I have seen it in action more than a few times. Hare missed that; or didn't want to go there.

At any rate, these are not people that can be involved in lasting conspiracies. They would rat out the other conspirators just for the pleasure of damaging them, after they became bored with the whole thing. The money doesn't count to them. Money is always easy come, easy go. To be too concerned with smart investments means one is a "sucker", an anathema to the psychopath. Playing any "game", other than his own, is being a sucker.



If they compete, then there cannot be one cabal running everything, can there? It also means that competing cabals would be taking the world in different directions and they would keep each other weak and in check.

If you think the losers of the competition are going to just accept their place in a pecking order, then you really don't understand psychopathy (see above). Each psychopath sees himself as a king. A master. They are not taking orders from anyone.They aren't playing by anyone else's rules. To even try to do so makes them feel drained and weak. Hence the rapidly arising sense of boredom even when playing out their own cons because they have to play nice with the victims for a while. At first that is exciting as the psychopath contemplates his genius in deceiving the dupes. The deception though, is a game that must be played with compromises to socially expected behaviors. Once the compromises outweigh the duper's delight, the trap is sprung, the victim smashed and the psychopath merely goes on his way to the next operation.

Psychopaths make terrible soldiers, btw, for the reasons I outlined. They cannot follow orders or stay in the ranks. They are usually drummed out of the military before they cause too much harm. Again, how would they maintain in a secret society's structure?

Agreed. Psychopaths are the human predator, perhaps a genetic mutation, possibly related to the extended consciousness realms via them being a manifestation of the evil side, or just a reaction to evolutionary selective pressures. Combination of these things is on the cards too.

You've given me some points to think about though.

Eric Newhill said:
Sure you do. I keep asking for examples of these cabals of psychopaths that are allegedly running the show and you keep dodging the ask. So I'm being reasonable and asking for a small local example. If these cabals can run the world, then surely there must be a microcosm of that at a state or city level that is well documented.

I don't think you are going to find any evidence that is well documented about psychopaths running a local government Eric. That's a bit silly to ask for because you know there won't be any (for obvious reasons).


Eric Newhill said:
Been there/done that. Of course those were actual bad guys, not your imaginary ones.

Military? Police? Security?


Eric Newhill said:
So you, by your own definition, are part of the conspiracy. You want to complain about the conspirators, but you won't do anything about it because you might get hurt or lose financially. All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

It's a cost/benefit analysis, Eric. I have commitments to my career, family and friends. I am in no position to fight back in whatever grand battle you have imagined in your head. Let's be honest, hardly any of us are. The whole last year made me realise that we are all on a train wreck heading to hell, and there isn't any getting off; I'm only holding on as best I can and protecting my loved ones. Perhaps helping to rebuild a non-degenerate society afterwards.

And I'm not part of any conspiracy. What the hell are you talking about chief?

Eric Newhill said:
Wealthy Americans risked all and kicked Brit ass to form a better country. Guess such people don't exist anymore.

Yes you guys did, rightly so, and the world has benefited from it (mostly).

Such people don't really exist anymore. They all got wiped out in the World Wars and we have bred more and more subservient and docile populations ever since. We are all mostly the product of our times too. The past year has made that abundantly clear.


Eric Newhill said:
I mean, according to you, knocking off the cabal members would be, literally, saving the world. Guess you are no hero, huh?

Just thought I'd make it real for a minute. Sorry.

Never said I was a hero. Don't want to be one either. Humanity can sort its own shit out. I'll play a part where I can though.
 
I have read Hare thoroughly as well as other subject matter experts. The definition you posted isn't the total story. You only applied the part the supports your argument.
Reading the above discussion, I am left wondering whether being a psychopath is a binary thing - either you are or you aren't. I remember once reading that a gene had been discovered for this - which would suggest it might be binary - but the world is awash with claims of that sort.

Do you want to name the politicians, or others in positions of power who you think are psychopaths?

I do think there is a quite separate lust for power in some people. Such people need not necessarily want to do bad.

David
 
managed to do it. It wasnt letting me post that post (tried loads of times) even though other test posts where working ok, so i screenshot it and posted as photoes. Will try again now see if i can post it in normal text
 
Reading the above discussion, I am left wondering whether being a psychopath is a binary thing - either you are or you aren't.

Psychopathy is not Binary.

Everyone has psychopathic tendencies and thoughts. Fortunately, most people don't act upon them.

I used to work in the Mental Health business. For legal and insurance purposes, Psychiatrists and Psychologists need hard criteria for documenting whether a person is mentally ill. For this, they use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM.

https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm

It's a huge book, and very expensive, but fun to read.
 
Apology accepted - and likewise.

I come to this forum because I have had a wide range of "paranormal" experiences over my life - in fact the older I get, the closer I feel on a daily basis to realities beyond the material world. I want to be able to relate to others and learn what they think about these matters.

I guess that's why I react negatively to all of the conspiracy theory emphasis that has become the norm at Skeptiko; that and because I have worn a few different hats/different careers that have given me insight into how the halls of power work (or not work) - and I have family, friends and associates also from such realms. This breadth of personal knowledge/personal close contact knowledge ranges from the military, military intelligence, the intelligence community, through the corporate world right up to the old "captains of industry", as they were once called.

Invading Iraq on false premises? Social media harvesting your data and selling it? Media messaging to the point of brainwashing? Sure. I know those kinds of conspiracies happen every day - and, here's the thing, each is demonstrably provable in any court of law. The Illuminati? Attacking our own country on 9/11? The government/Cosa Nostra killing Kennedy? Nope. Ain't happening. No way, if for no other reason than because they aren't feasible from a successful operations standpoint. But those "theories" also ignore human nature. Think about it, if there was an Illuminati, there'd soon be a competing group, and another and another. Like the Cost Nostra, they'd sometimes cooperate and sometimes viciously compete. They'd all keep each other in check and each group would represent a different set of interests. Each would stake out its territory.

The "world" is a big place full of much diversity. To control the whole thing is infinitely more impossible than a single Cost Nostra "family" trying (and failing) to control just one city like New York. The self-organization of binding ideologies should be studied. It explains things far more than conspiracies. Study how Christianity took over Rome and became the dominant - heck the only - religion in Europe. Long before there was Pope in Rome, Christianity had conquered Europe via self organization. The Pope could only control Christianity - and not for long; e.g. Protestants - as long as the ideology was firmly rooted in the populace before his arrival as an official. This is similar to Alex's familiar quip about the feminist movement being infiltrated by the CIA. The conspiracy theorist believes the CIA created the feminist movement for some nefarious purpose. I assert they infiltrated it because, like Christianity almost two millennia ago, it was an organically arising ideology that the officials wanted to understand and control.

The socialist movement in the US and its current government partnership is much like the above. The socialist movement arose and the govt wanted to co-opt it like the Pope co-opted Christianity. That is how they think they can a) control it b) ride on the wave for personal gain/power.

It's a dangerous risky/uncertain cat and mouse game that must be played. There is no secret cabal in charge. The conspiracy is that the government isn't telling us what this game is all about (because they can't politically) - not that a cabal architected the movement and is now intentionally forwarding it.

EDIT: They have to play that game because in a democracy/constitutional republic you can't just round up political enemies and shoot them. So a need for persuasion, co-opting, deal making with emerging ideological movements becomes paramount.

That is the nuance Charlie doesn't get.

EDIT 2: What I said also goes for things like MK-ULTR, a minor, inconsequential operation which conspiracy theories love to point to for some weird reason. Psychedelics were emerging as a cultural ingredient. The CIA and military had long wanted a "truth serum". So they got involved with looking at psychedelics, primarily for that purpose. I mean getting the truth out of sources, covertly, is ancient. It used to be satisfying sex and the pillow talk afterwards and/or alcohol. Hardened professionals are usually immune to those techniques. So they wanted something more effective. Additionally, the Chinese had used some more or less effective brainwashing techniques on captured US troops. They looked at all kinds of substances. A little compartment got carried away, did some unethical things, got caught and were the subject of congressional hearings. Also, psychedelics were a component of the youth movement in 1960s. So that scene was also infiltrated and studied. Of course it was. Anyone here charged with the security of the US would have done the same. MK-ULTRA was and is a big nothing, but a totally understandable big nothing. Hardly a paradigm shattering revelation. People that watch too many movies want to believe that Manchurian killer zombies were created. There is 0 evidence for that. Fun camp fire story, though.

As promised, I needed to ruminate on this for a minute for replying, as it is quite deep. I think it is that reality will be as conspiratorial as anybody wants it to be. Also, I think that thoughts of conspiracy have an inverse relation to the necessity of survival. In other words, the more comfortable one becomes, the more likely they will think that everything is a conspiracy. Of course, most of us are not tossed into a forest and struggling to live off of berries, nuts, or half rotted animals. Even more so, there are confusions of divinity. Some people want to rub the belly of Buddha, and I would find more self realization in rubbing Sinead O'Connor's bald head. Neither, of course, makes any sense at all unless one is a coke snorting Sigmund Freud.

My issue with "conspiracy theorists" is that they seem to get high off of thinking some kind of terrible deception must be happening on them, and everybody else in the world, every second. I think that it would be better to call many of them "sooth Sayers" rather than "conspiracy theorists."

On a more basic, primordial level, I don't see a cat and mouse game. What I see is a push and shove gave based upon nuances of normalcy. People like to use words like "social status," but I don't see any of that as a regulating factor. I think that most people are quite static in their spiritual projection. It doesn't matter if they are rich, poor, or middle class. Yes, there is a lingering bromide of "I just want my kids to have a better life than I had." - However, if one did not have at least that, how could this existence be tolerable?

One of the things that Nietzsche said, before he became an blithering idiot, slobbering all over himself, was, "The Eternal Return was the most scientific principle of all existence." That isn't the exact quote, but I think that perspective is probably the most damning to human potential, and the equivalent of actual, living hell.

Certainly, it is difficult, if not impossible to foresee one's future in every detail, especially if one is a risk taker. I would gamble to say that it is impossible even if one is not a risk taker. My idea of faith is not in a God written in books, but rather in an indelible force inside of one daring enough to tap into an inexorable, undefined will. That is what makes us human.....if we have the courage.
 
MAD LIBS (noun; 2020-2021 meme replacing the quaint MAD Magazine pastime from yesteryear) :

def.: All those woke enough to believe _______________.

Yes, in the tradition of the original MAD LIBS, you are invited to fill in the blank. Here’s just one suggestion to complete the new 2020-2021 meme definition:

All those woke enough to believe the headline “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protest” carries any credence.
No doubt, there are many more to explore. Be creative. Have fun.

 
StandUpMassachusetts.org

Click on “Masks and Face Coverings” —Page Down to view the video discussion of Peggy Hall and Tammy Clark on the issue of the health risks involved with prolonged mask wearing.

Tammy Clark is an OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) Credentialed Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Compliance Expert who provided testimony to the March 1, 2021New Hampshire Administration session in regard to health and safety compliance issues related to the mandated wearing of face masks. (https://youtu.be/sLgrSmczXs0. Ms. Clark’s testimony appears appears from 1:24:18 – 1:32:34)

(Please see my March 3rd Skeptiko post of a transcription of Tammy Clark’s testimony.)
 
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No, the gold standard test is viral culture.

There seems to be some confusion about this:

The “gold standard” for clinical diagnostic detection of SARS-CoV-2 remains NAATs, such as RT-PCR.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/antigen-tests-guidelines.html

"In Ontario, we use PCR as the gold standard of testing for COVID-19 because it is able to successfully detect tiny amounts of the virus (sensitivity) with a low chance for error (accuracy) compared to other types of lab tests."
— Jonathan Gubbay, Medical Microbiologist, Public Health Ontario
https://www.publichealthontario.ca/...t requires a sample,by a health care provider.

The eccentric scientist behind the ‘gold standard’ COVID-19 test
Bombastic biochemist Kary Mullis invented PCR
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...st-behind-the-gold-standard-covid-19-pcr-test
The gold-standard diagnostic test, which uses RT-PCR
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02140-8

A PCR test for COVID-19 is a test used to diagnosis people who are currently infected with SARS-CoV-2, which is the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The PCR test is the “gold standard” test for diagnosing COVID-19 because it’s the most accurate and reliable test.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/21462-covid-19-and-pcr-testing

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers PCR tests the “gold standard” of COVID-19 testing,
https://time.com/5880255/covid-19-tests-types/
 
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