Oddbean new post about login | logout Presumably, there was a time when you too believed in “the studies”™️. When did you wake up and what caused it?
When I went to university, I studied a subject that was so complex that I could never wrap my head around it, but, for some reason, others could. I tried to understand the thing but I couldn't. Not only that, but there was barely time to think critically about anything on that heap of ideas because there were a lot of them and if you stopped and tried to think, you would immediately receive a bad score. That made me increasingly suspicious about what I was trying to learn. How was it possible that I would be rewarded by just being a memorizing machine and not by analyzing or having a solid foundation in my way of thinking?
For me it was the transgender stuff. When people I'm close with said that big hairy dude in a dress is actually a" beautiful courageous woman". I remember that event got me thinking about other stuff and how I can't be the only person who thinks this wrong.
The day after jabbing Pfizer shot 1 into my arm on a lunch break when Microsoft announced company wide mandates. Woke me right the fuck up and I tuned back into Dave Smith and other libertarian sources and started to see the truth again.
RIP Informed Consent
After the booster. Wife and I got sick with the exact symptoms that everyone was calling “omicron”. Found out the government would give me a free PCR test if I scanned my face for them. Realized that a positive test would change absolutely nothing about what would happen to me, I’d just be adding to the statistics, and the digital surveillance apparatus. Started asking questions of the doctors in the family. Got called an anti-vaxxer (me, who had gotten 3 fucking shots). Quit the family text thread. Never looked back.
Long before COVID, when I was in university, and I saw firsthand a nationally famous researcher pull "outliers" from their data set, so that the results would turn out the way their sponsor wanted. I knew then that all the research going on in academia was fraudulent, with sponsors "paying" for the results they wanted.
Once they pull the hockey stick, they are all discredited
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