THEE Gregory Stewart

Openly Black Evil Drone Maker, he/him

[THEE Gregory Stewart @gstewtwo]

This. Just this. 👇👇👇👇👇

[Charles Selender @cselender]

@elindburg @The_UnSilent_ Here's the whole video. Her name is Tess Rafferty. She wrote this only 2 days after the 2016 election. And, it's quite prophetic of what the next year and a half would bring.
https://t.co/aM2hLWaTSl

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But he makes it sound like a flipping fashion cycle.

It's just pure bad faith.

He *doesn't* treat the mind/body explanation this way.
That's his golden calf.

[tern @1goodtern]

They all interact.

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But biomedical research often contains competing, overlapping mechanisms.
Microvascular pathology, clotting abnormalities, endothelial dysfunction, platelet activation and fibrin abnormalities are not "replaced" by viral persistence or immune dysfunction.

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It suggests fad-chasing. Patients and scientists jumped on microclots, now they have moved on to the next shiny thing.

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"Once a popular theory, it has now been replaced by other hypotheses"

A cheap little shot there about microclots. He could have inserted any of the problems that Covid causes in there.

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She gets all the benefit of being a campaigning hero filled with emotional force and moral clarity, and not even the faintest interrogation or rigour.

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"Can barely contain her fury"

Her anger is actually ideological certainty and professional overreach, but he presents it as righteous impatience with bad science and exploitation.

Hey ho.

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'Controversial' sells.

What he should be calling it:
Poorly evidenced.
Unproven
Speculative
A revival of older psychogenic models
Potentially harmful
Unwelcome

[tern @1goodtern]

And now he uses 'controversial' not to mean that the theory is unfounded, easily disproved, or dangerous... but to actually give the theory a bit of glamour.
It makes it sound edgy, brave, suppressed, ahead of its time.

*bad faith all the way through*

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"A different- and far more controversial - theory"

Wow. 'Controversial' being used here *positively*.

He set up the 'authorities' as the gatekeepers earlier.

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But normal routine tests do not mean there's nothing physically wrong.
In long covid, that is the whole problem.

He briefly demonstrates he knows this, then keeps using 'normal tests' as part of his narrative momentum toward brain-body explanations.

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The phrase says: routine medicine found nothing. The tests "mocked" him.
So the reader is primed for an explanation outside standard biomedical findings.

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"Medical tests mocked him: normal, normal, normal."

This is interesting because it is emotionally sympathetic to the patient, but it also sets up the later psychologising move.

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He effectively declares long covid research compromised at the foundations.

But the article does not *prove* that.
It *narrates toward it*.

It's a rhetorical piece that manipulates the reader and doesn't use scientific method in any way.

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"Neither of these conditions has been met"

One of tje most loaded claims in the piece.

The author says researchers must know what they are studying and be free to study it impartially, then says neither condition has been met.

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He's implying that science is failing not merely because the condition is difficult, but because science is not being allowed to do its job.
And that sets up the later accusation: that advocates, taboos, fear, and ideology are blocking inquiry.

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"It’s the job of the scientific community to solve mysteries like this one."

On its own, fine, but in its context it's really unnecessarily accusatory.

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It's Tucker Carlson style scepticism with that scrunched up look of confusion on the face.
'This can't be real but wait a second maybe it is!'

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The structure is:
'Of course, these stories might be false. But listen to this devastating account. And this one. And this tearful doctor. And this transformed patient.'

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"If the stories are to be believed…"

It should sound cautious.
But he then spends a lot of time inviting us to believe those stories, emotionally and narratively.