Thoughts on Science, Medicine And Sundry Things
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In my personal blog, I chat about my everyday scientific life and share some thoughts on what I see and experience.
Insight into larger contexts, also known as truth, freedom and peace are interrelated. In the Gospel of John, it sounds like this: “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). War and conflict arise, among other things, from the fact that someone can only take a certain perspective and cannot see and accept that of the other person. To see the truth, you have to have a broad view. If you don’t, you run the risk of slipping into the dichotomy of ‘either/or’, ‘me or you’, ‘good’ and ‘evil’. And the result is war.
We have seen a lot of this ‘culture of war’ in recent years. Currently, politically in the Ukraine crisis. I have just recently written a text about peace in times of war for the MWGFD website. In it, I take the beatification of Max Josef Metzger in the Freiburg Minster on 17 November 2024 as an opportunity to point out the danger of the current warmongering. Metzger was a pacifist and was executed by the Nazis for treason because of his pacifism. At the moment, no one is punished by death for treason in Germany. But many who do not go along with the warmongering are virtually and socially assassinated.
A large Korean cohort study has just been published that included half of the population of Seoul. The data is based on the Korean health database [1]. The study participants, more than 2 million people in total, were randomly selected from all residents of Seoul and followed prospectively, i.e. into the future, to see if they received Covid-19 ‘vaccinations’ and, if so, which ones, and if they developed psychiatric illnesses.
308,354 of them were not ‘vaccinated’, and thus provided a good database for comparison. The study showed that depression, anxiety disorders, including stress disorders and somatoform disorders, as well as sleep disorders and sexual disorders were more common in those who had been vaccinated, while schizophrenia and bipolar disorders were more common in those who had not been vaccinated. Adverse effects were generally more common in people who had been ‘vaccinated’ with different preparations mixed together. This can be seen in the figure below, which shows the incidence rates for anxiety disorders. The green bands indicate the incidence rates for ‘unvaccinated’ people, the blue bands for ‘vaccinated’ people with mRNA ‘vaccines’; the red bands for vector DNA ‘vaccines’ (e.g. AstraZeneca). The dark blue line is that for people with different ‘vaccines’. The effects were recorded for up to three months after the ‘vaccinations’ and only if at least two ‘vaccinations’ had been administered.
On 15 August 2024, the US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), issued a recommendation that older people aged 60 and over should receive a dose of a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control, the public health authority, recently published this in its weekly report [1]. A new product appears prominently there, the modified RNA prevention, mRNA1345 from Moderna, which is sold under the trade name mResvia.
This is a new gene therapy prevention therapy, referred to as a ‘vaccine’. The corresponding approval study was published in 2023 [2]. I took a closer look at this because I was once again interested in the risk-benefit ratio.
It is important to know that respiratory syncytial viruses (RSVs) are common viruses that are found in every kindergarten, every school class, and every nursing home. Anyone who comes into contact with them and is susceptible will get a cold, cough, hoarseness, maybe even a fever: especially in older people, an infection can develop that takes a more severe course. Probably similar to a corona infection. Basically harmless. Exceptions not ruled out.
In June 2022, I discussed the monkeypox tabletop exercise from the Munich Security Conference of November 2021 in my blog “Monkeypox – Conspiracy (Theory) for Advanced Learners” and suggested a prospective test. It took a while, but it appears my considerations at the time weren’t so misguided. I had written that if the notion holds that these pandemics and their precursor games are cleverly concocted plans, we would soon witness a declaration of a global emergency (PHEIC), alarmist press releases, possibly about a genetically modified monkeypox virus.
Initially, it seemed I was mistaken, as the monkeypox alarmism quickly subsided. However, monkeypox has returned. The WHO Director-General has consulted his shamans, who have whispered to him: a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). This mechanism empowers the WHO to make recommendations to governments.
The Enlightenment is one of the greatest cultural, social, and philosophical achievements of modern times [1]. However, it has not achieved its goal of freeing humanity from its immaturity and bondage to dogmatic beliefs, political power ambitions, and moral constraints. Instead, it has died a quiet death. Editorial writers and columnists have neither noticed nor commented on its demise. A new religion has taken hold, one that is more intolerant, dogmatic, and at least as violent as the old one from which the Enlightenment sought to liberate us. This new religion is the belief in science, scientism, with its transhumanist creed that man is God and can therefore execute everything that he can technically accomplish and socially enforce [2-8].
The Enlightenment was a gradual process. It is often associated with great names such as Leibniz, Kant, Voltaire, D’Alembert, Holbach, and Diderot in the philosophical realm, as well as with “enlightened” monarchs like Joseph II and Frederick the Great and the founding fathers of the United States of America. However, at its core, it was an ongoing process. It was made possible by the insights of science, which provided humans with a deeper understanding of the world, thus offering new means of control. Simultaneously, it rendered certain aspects of religion, particularly those verging on superstition, more questionable—for example, the notion that an earthquake or plague was divine punishment. Nonetheless, it must not be forgotten: Without religion, there would never have been an Enlightenment. The Enlightenment essentially began in the Middle Ages with those thinkers and philosophers—clergy, all of them—who used their intellects to explore the fundamental questions of existence [11].