Gavin de Becker: "We dropped infected ticks on Cuba, and Lyme disease is likely the result of experimentation."
Joe Rogan: "People have pushed back on me about that one recently… because Lyme disease has existed forever."
The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.
The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.
The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.
The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.
The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.
The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.
The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.
Now it is today.
Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.
He is confident.
He has always been confident.
The confidence has never been the problem.
The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.
🚨BREAKING: Australian PM Anthony Albanese declares the "far right" is the true threat to democracy
He remains silent on the Islamist perpetrators behind the deadly Bondi Beach terror attack targeting Jews.
This is outrageous.
They deflect so fucking good
Terrorist attacks,
So let’s take away more rights of peaceful Australians,
Instead of addressing the root cause of the problem,
Including one of the subjects being on a asio watch-list.
Deflection at its finest.
Oh, so Aussies get an anti hate task force, but it's fine to burn our flag and march on our bridge with terrorist flags. Fuck all these fucking traitors
Talk about disconnected. @AlboMP believes that mass immigration is a minor issue impacting only on a small number of people
Your Prime Minister is putting the desires of future immigrants ahead ALL EXISTING Aussies, he will flood Australia
WE MARCH!
The feral ‘thing’ that spat in the face of the gorgeous patriotic 80 year old woman at the Melbourne Australia Rally has possibly been identified.
FAFO 🤡
🛑 AUSTRALIA SURRENDERS TO WHO THIS SATURDAY!
On 19 July, the Albanese Government will hand control of Australia’s health policy to the World Health Organization—without a vote, without debate, and without your consent.
Under new binding amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR), unelected global bureaucrats in Geneva will be able to influence:
• Lockdowns
• Vaccine mandates
• Travel restrictions
• Digital health IDs
• Cross-border surveillance
The most shocking part? They removed human rights protections from the text.
This is not health policy.
This is globalist control wrapped in a white lab coat.
The media is silent.
Parliament is complicit.
But YOU can still fight back.
🇦🇺 Our sovereignty is not for sale.
👉 Learn more & take action:
🔗 https://t.co/jwWW17rV0C
@abcnews I'm so glad we fund the @abcnews. The investigative journalism they do is amazing. Great work!! I'd sing more praise but I'm running late for booster #10
There it is folks.
The Under 16’s Social Media Ban scope creep has gone full Orewell
We said it at the start - this is NOTHING about protecting kids and EVERYTHING about monitoring Australian adults then tying your movement online to the Digital ID
Labor & Liberal Agenda 2030
We won!
Together with @X, we just defeated Australia’s government in a huge victory for free speech!
The eSafety Commissioner’s effort to censor me and to demand that X complies has failed. This sets an important precedent.
Congratulations, Australia! 🇦🇺
@elonmusk
BREAKING: The long-awaited verdict in my lawsuit and @X’s lawsuit against Australia’s government will be announced in a few hours time, at 4pm Australian EST, or 2am ET. @elonmusk
This is the most important freedom of speech case on the planet right now.
More details below. 🧵