In 2002 UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair’s government published the infamous “September Dossier”, a report alleging the presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. This dossier precipitated a series of wars of incalculable regional damage and loss of life. It was quickly established that this document was a pack of lies, and yet, despite the magnitude of this lie, public trust in official claims remains to this day undiminished.Tony Blair is not in jail and is universally regarded as a wise elder statesman.
Covid deceptions could fill a book and many people have indeed done so. A random few that come to mind are the acceptance of Neil Ferguson’s pandemic death toll models. Ferguson had/has a consistent track record of predictive failure and was, frankly, an obviously incompetent modeller, and yet the predictions of this hypocritical lockdown flouter, became the basis of government Covid policy. Then there was the real time transition from “masks don’t work, to masks are essential”, the “any death within 28 days of a positive pcr test is a Covid death” nonsense, and the blatantly untrue, “vaccines will provide 100% protection from infection and transmission” claim. The public continue to obediently roll up their sleeves.
Anyone remember “global warming”? Before there was “climate change” there was global warming. Global warming was a term coined by scientist Walter Broecker in 1975, although the term was used concurrently with “climate change” in scientific circles, global warming, riding the crest of a short term rise in planetary temperature, was adopted as the preferred brand option for this novel and highly contagious viral climate hypothesis, until a succession of catastrophes compromised it’s market value. In 1988 the planet inconveniently stopped warming and continued to stop warming until 2012, a resumption that purely coincidently concurred with revised data interpretations and collection protocols. Within this period of failure to cooperate with scientific predictive modelling, the UK suffered one of its most savagely snow bound winters of the past half century, sheep froze to death in the fields. As well as the innocent suffering of sheep, there was a well deserved suffering of climate “scientists”; scientists like David Viner, who in 2000 had predicted that snow was set to be a “very rare and exciting event”. An equally savage, not all that rare, but perhaps in its own peculiar way,“exiting”, brutally cold winter occurred in 2018. The fact that these laughably antithetical weather events followed on a egregious data manipulation scandal that came to be known as “Climate Gate” astonishingly failed to sink the not so good ship, Climate Panic. Climate Gate was a scandal in which in 2009 the UK climate research department’s emails were hacked, exposing an awareness of the warming pause and an intention to respond to this by not informing the public and to instead “hide the decline”. All of these unfortunate events ultimately lead to the early retirement of “global warming” and the fielding of the conveniently ambiguous substitute, Climate Change. Public faith remarkably remains unshakeable.
But wait! If you think that’s funny, wait until I tell you about the death of a man called Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein ran a child trafficking ring that serviced a who’s who of American politics and culture. Epstein was arrested in 2019 for the federal crime of trafficking minors. A lot of extremely powerful people had a very powerful interest in Epstein not testifying, so understandably he was held in conditions of the tightest security. Epstein’s cell was covered by two cameras and two separate guards were assigned to twice hourly checks of Epstein’s cell. On August the tenth, official sources announced Epstein’s death by suicide, citing an astonishingly bizarre and unbelievable concatenation of events. On the evening of his suicide both of Epstein’s guards simultaneously fell asleep for three hour. In a massive “coincidence” both of the cameras covering his cell also malfunctioned. Completely unaware of this, Epstein chose this precise point in time to commit suicide…by hanging himself with paper from a bed frame he was taller than. People believe this; I am not making this up.
How can we explain this capacity of the general public for belief in the impregnable truth of claims built on obvious nonsense?
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