Why is extremism breaking out on every topic at once? Bret Weinstein shares a model for looking at the strange rise of fanaticism.
BRET: "So the centerpiece of the model is the idea that there is a filtering process, an evolutionary filtering process, that causes beliefs to become extreme — beliefs that may not start out especially extreme.
And I'm borrowing here a little bit from an idea that was initially put out by Eliezer Yudkowsky years ago as part of the sort of rationalist dialogue, in which he used the example of a cult.
And in this cult, there's a prediction of the end of the world, particular hour of a particular day. The hour arrives. The world does not end. What happens next?
Well, you had a spectrum inside the cult, of people who were just absolutely unshakable in their belief all the way to people who were like, 'Yeah, this seems right, but I don't know. I've got doubts, maybe I don't share.'
Well, the doubters will tend to leave in such a circumstance. And what that does is it concentrates within the cult. It concentrates the true believers."
HEATHER: "It concentrates the verificationists."
BRET: "Exactly."
HEATHER: "The falsificationists leave with each passing, one of these failures of prediction."
BRET: "Right."
HEATHER: "Oh, well then, I guess this isn't true after all."
BRET: "And so it becomes a radicalizing process that is actually the result of game theory. And Eliezer Yudkowsky analogized it to evaporative cooling, where basically in his model, you have particles of different levels of energeticness, and the more energetic ones tend to bounce out of the system, leaving the less energetic ones. So you get a physical cooling.
So that is analogous to the radicalizing of the folks who happen to inhabit some sort of an extreme position. They come to believe that something is true. Evidence arises that it isn't true. And instead of it causing them to rethink their position, it causes them to double down, and may even drive them further into that position — which is surprising to those of us who are watching it."
🚨 JUST IN: PA Gov. Josh Shapiro PANICS, refuses to admit he made up 2 measles deaths in Lancaster County after being exposed by the Commissioner and Sec. RFK Jr.
SHAPIRO: "The 2 deaths were measles-related."
RELATED, not CAUSED. Same playbook as COVID. Unreal.
"I don't think it serves the interest of public health, or slows the spread of this outbreak, for me to get into a back-and-forth about conspiracy theories that are showing up online."
Josh Shapiro is a stone-cold liar. He's now admitting the deaths were "related" not "caused."
HE MUST RESIGN
🚨 BREAKING: Dr. Oz just DROPPED A BOMBSHELL — Pennsylvania may be FABRICATING measles deaths the exact same way they cooked COVID numbers… all to smear RFK Jr. and manufacture midterm CHAOS.
OZ: “We don’t know if these children died FROM measles or already had another condition attacking them and just happened to catch measles at the same time. We LIVED this during COVID — they blamed kids’ deaths on COVID when they didn’t die of COVID!”
This is the playbook. They did it before. They’re doing it again.
Investigate EVERY reported measles death — especially in blue states. They want panic. They want fear. They want you distracted.
Do NOT let them get away with it. Share this. Demand answers. The truth is coming out.
I still can’t believe this. Governor Josh Shapiro, LIED about people dying of measles, took millions in kickbacks from a Vaccine Cartel NGO weeks prior…and then did a press conference blaming RFK Jr. and the ‘unvaccinated’. Holy shit, this guy is pure fucking evil.
Remember this face while he lectures the world on what you should inject, eat, spend, and even think.
Bill Gates is NOT a doctor.
NOT a biologist.
NOT a scientist.
NOT a climatologist.
NOT a veterinarian.
NOT a nutritionist.
NOT a microbiologist.
He is a university dropout who somehow became the unelected architect of a global control system.
Digital IDs. Programmable money. Vaccine passports. Food rationing. Carbon scores. All tied to your biometrics so one flick of a switch can freeze your life.
This isn’t “philanthropy.”
This is the launch of total domination by a man with zero qualifications and unlimited power.
Your body. Your bank account. Your plate. Your freedom... all on the chopping block.
DO NOT COMPLY.
🚨 Secretary Kennedy SHATTERS cagey story on 2 measles deaths in Pennsylvania in a meticulous rebuttal to Governor Josh Shapiro:
“…the deaths may even have been altogether fabricated by one of the Governor's hopeful staffers.”
“The Lancaster County Coroner says that it has no record of any measles deaths.”
“State law requires that all measles deaths be reported to the coroner.”
“I’m throwing out all my pharmaceutical products.”
“I’m rethinking toothpaste.”
“I’m suddenly really interested in regenerative farming.”
Jeffrey Tucker just admitted that the Covid era completely changed his perspective in ways he “never imagined.”
“I never imagined I would be this guy, but here I am, full-blown crunchy.”
Naomi Wolf: “Once you start questioning what’s in this stuff, it doesn’t stop with pharmaceuticals.”
@jeffreytucker@naomirwolf
ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL.
Josh Shapiro turned a measles controversy into another lesson in why Americans don’t trust politicians. Local officials questioned the state’s “measles-associated deaths” claim, and now Shapiro has serious explaining to do.
Fear first. Details later. Then expect everyone to shut up and believe you.
That’s not leadership. That’s political sleaze.
If you’re going to scare families, bring the receipts. Until then, Shapiro looks like a dishonest fraud exploiting fear for political gain.
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is only 38 years old. He founded Flock at 29 and runs the company that got massive government contracts all over the country almost overnight without anyone noticing.
Does this seem 'off' to anyone else?
Prior to Flock he ran a car sharing app that went nowhere and then an entertainment app that he sold for $200 million that he used to capitalize Flock
Okay, I buy the story so far. Young tech wizard with a little business accumen. Fine.
But then to get all the government contracts from coast to coast? Unknowns have a hard time getting government business with the complicated procurement processes, quoting rules, and the minority business requirements required by many local governments across the nation.
Yet this guy who made 2 apps for civilian use figured all that out? Managed to navigate the non-flexible processes that are different in every jurisdiction, skipped the public bidding process legally required in most of them, all to sell a brand new service without a history of success?
And he did all that in just a couple of years without anyone noticing? With hundreds of state and local governments?
I'm having a hard time buying this.
The growth of this company and expansion into so many separate government agencies went too smoothly. Like it was coordinated at a higher level.
A company discovers its product is causing cancer, is already losing billions in lawsuits over it, and other nations won't even accept our crops because of it. The honest move is obvious. Go back to the drawing board and build something safer.
That is not what happened. Instead they ran to the government and asked to be protected from liability, telling Washington they'd pull the product entirely unless they were shielded from the lawsuits their own product created.
The World Health Organization has known this product is carcinogenic. And these corporations are so entrenched in our government agencies, our regulatory agencies, and our commerce that even knowing what we know, our own president has to be cautious about calling it out, because removing it now would devastate the farming industry. That fear is doing more to protect this chemical than any safety data ever could. It's one of the worst things sitting in our environment right now.
RFK Jr. is correct. The fact is that there are billions of fragments of human cellular debris and DNA from the cultured cell line of an aborted fetus in every injected dose of MMR, chicken pox, and Hep A vaccines.
Because viruses multiply in cells, living cells are used to grow viruses for vaccine production, including the cultured cell lines of aborted fetuses. Two such cell lines are MRC-5 and WI-38, which are described by a company that sells them as follows: “The MRC-5 cell line was derived from normal lung tissue of a 14-week-old male embryo” and the “WI-38 cell line is the first human diploid cell line to be used in human vaccine preparation … [and] were isolated from the lung tissue of a 3-month-old, female, embryo.” https://t.co/y62xpnD114; https://t.co/MrMp5394fm.
The ingredients of chickenpox, rubella, and hepatitis A vaccines each include cellular and DNA pieces from these fetal cell lines. The ingredient list for Varivax (chickenpox) includes “MRC-5 human diploid cells including DNA & protein,” for MMR-II (which includes rubella) includes “WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts,” and for Havrix (hepatitis A) includes “MRC-5 cellular proteins.” https://t.co/HLXdeVjMKZ/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/b/excipient-table-2.pdf(https://t.co/jJSLoXzWke).
As for the quantity of human DNA in each vial, for Varivax, as the FDA explains: “human MRC-5 cells are the substrate upon which the Oka strain of varicella is grown. In the process of isolating virus from these cells, MRC-5 derived proteins and DNA are also obtained. The nearly 2 ug [2,000 nanograms] of unmodified mammalian DNA present in each dose of VARIVAX…” https://t.co/OU6WGu2nCS.
As for MMR-II, as RFK Jr. pointed out below, during Dr. Plotkin’s deposition, I asked: “Isn't it true that MMR II contains approximately 150 nanograms cells substrate double-strand DNA and single-strand DNA per dose purposefully fragmented to approximately 215 base pairs in length?” Dr. Plotkin answered: “Yeah, that's probably correct, yes.” https://t.co/9js9D2ipLQ p. 328 (https://t.co/yKGUIj9t4Z). See also https://t.co/yDfzW6CAaW; https://t.co/kw1RNTtMuH (See Table 3, reflecting an average of 142 nanograms of single-stranded DNA and 35 nanograms of double-stranded DNA in the rubella vaccine component of each dose of MMR-II; and an average of 276 nanograms of single-stranded DNA and 35.74 nanograms of double-stranded DNA in each dose of Havrix).
For DNA remaining in the final formulation, assuming pharma companies follow FDA’s guidance, they would fragment “the DNA size to below approximately 200 base pairs.” https://t.co/PNRGEYsJLD pp.29-30. Doing the math, supposing only 100 nanograms of double-stranded DNA remain, and are broken down into 200 base pair fragments, this equals approximately 463 billion pieces of human DNA from an aborted fetal cell line in each vaccine dose; double that number for single-stranded DNA. https://t.co/ga1ln5mSBI. See also https://t.co/nwCA2hBond.
At his press conference today, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro accused me of promoting conspiracy theories because I told him, during an earlier telephone conversation, that some Americans had religious objections to the MMR vaccine because it contained fetal tissue. “There is no fetal tissue in the MMR,” he told me.
This is a segment from a videotaped deposition of Stanley Plotkin, the inventor of the MMR vaccine. Plotkin admits to butchering 76 aborted normally developing fetuses, all over three months old, in just one of the many studies that led to the development of his vaccine.
The rubella virus used in MMR-II is grown on the cultured cell line composed of lung tissue from an aborted three-month-old female embryo and listed as “WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts” in the ingredients of MMR-II as portions of these cells end up in each vial of MMR II.
During Dr. Plotkin’s deposition, Attorney Aaron Siri asked: “Isn’t it true that MMR II contains approximately 150 nanograms cells substrate double-strand DNA and single-strand DNA per dose purposefully fragmented to approximately 215 base pairs in length?” Dr. Plotkin answered: “Yeah, that’s probably correct, yes.”
This equals approximately 646 billion pieces of human DNA from an aborted fetal cell line in each vial of MMR-II.
In addition to the human DNA, there is also an unspecified amount of human cellular debris in each dose of MMR-II.
During our phone conversation, Governor Shapiro also accused me of promoting vaccine misinformation. When I asked him for an example, he was unable to provide one, but this did not deter him from publicly repeating that accusation during his press event. As I told him, HHS does not tolerate misinformation by any employee. I offered to point to hundreds of instances of vaccine misinformation by the Biden administration about which I had never heard him complain.
Governor Shapiro also faulted me for the decline in Pennsylvania vaccination rates from 97% - 93.2%. When I pushed back on this assertion, he acknowledged that most of the decline occurred during the Biden administration. It’s unfortunately true that the government lockdowns, deceptions, manipulation, and overreach during Covid severely damaged public faith in the vaccine program.
Governor Shapiro’s press conference was an example of the same species of gaslighting.
The Trump administration is working to restore public trust not by gaslighting or manipulating, but by being truthful, at last, with the public.
The Fourth Amendment is not up for “compromise.”
Our Founders did not risk their lives so a CEO could trade our rights for profit and perceived “safety.”
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin
The Governor and other state officials, along with Penn Medicine officials, announced two “measles-associated” deaths here. The underlying assertion was that the deaths were from measles. In fact it has been stated these are the first measles deaths in the U.S. in 35 years. But the County Coroner says there are zero measles deaths here. The Governor’s office will not respond to questions. And now apparently they will not respond to CDC either.
I think it is fair to ask why? If you have a press conference announcing this, you have a duty to be transparent.
For those who don't know, Dr. Stanley Plotkin is the world's leading vaccinologist. Here are a few other clips:
Who's Plotkin: https://t.co/DC1uP4meY8
Autism: https://t.co/I3zTmbQ0lL
Clinical Trials: https://t.co/cLCYrE0ser
Vac v Unvac Study: https://t.co/viIJdcAFlh
And here is the full 9-hour deposition: https://t.co/uRg1F8TIMg