Les Funk

Husband, father, technologist, cattle farmer, musician/songwriter, amateur sports advocate. technical writer, educator. Indigenous pentecostal mennonite?

[Les Funk @lesmfunk]

If confirmation bias exists, it does so as a legitimate enterprise only.

I challenge anyone to put their confirmation bias aside and be open to that possibility.

Anyone who calls out another's confirmation bias is intellectually lazy and holding to a self-defeating position.

[Les Funk @lesmfunk]

@EthicalSkeptic I think you are describing a type of referee who is not a player, but still considers himself involved in the game when calling foul.

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

The Riddle of the Debunker

Debunkers are little more than skilled social manipulators - stage magicians employing semantic and inductive sleights of hand.

The astute philosopher notices that the debunker's craft rests largely upon ad hoc appeals, arguments from ignorance, and a carefully preserved illusion of prior plausibility - insistent orthodoxy presented in such a way that it remains insulated from challenge or falsification.

Yet, in the same breath, they will invoke the name of science while practicing this very stagecraft of pseudo-skepticism.

Debunking poses its claims entirely within the domain of belief and rhetoric, whereas falsification entails risk and genuine scientific effort. The easy intoxication of negation offers a quick reward compared with the difficult labor and tension involved in proposing and testing an idea.

Unlike those they assail, the debunker assumes no reciprocal risk. Such behavior often betrays an underlying insecurity - the terror over the need to never be caught - an ego seeking 'most correct person in the room' status. There is a deep-seated lack of integrity and malice implicit in dismantling the work and risk of others while investing nothing of one's own in return.

And when the debunker happens to be correct, it is merely by accident. The subject of his criticism, in contrast, is engaged in the work of science itself - open to being found either right or wrong through honest inquiry and ethical research.

Know these parents' basement dwellers by their habits: intellectual laziness, poor philosophical grounding, and an unwavering confidence in conclusions they themselves never had the courage to place at risk.

[The Doctor’s Lounge Podcast @DRsLoungePod]

We hold vaccines to a lower evidentiary bar than drugs — backwards, since we give them to healthy people to prevent disease, where the bar should be higher.
Høeg's VAERS estimate: ~1 in 6,200 myocarditis in adolescent boys after dose 2.

Hong Kong's prospective data: 1 in 2,680.
VAERS didn't overcount. It undercounted.

[Les Funk @lesmfunk]

I don't think anyone disagrees with keeping kids off social media.

The disagreement stems from deciding who is responsible for those kids.

Let parents/guardians do their job and give them the tools to do it.

Top-down, state nanny policies are never the answer.

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

To push the vaccines, everyone lied by claiming it would prevent COVID transmission. This lie fueled profound discrimination against the unvaccinated.

Here I show why vaccines keep failing to prevent transmission so this lie can never be used on us again
https://t.co/JqOyPfRIFc

[Jikkyleaks 🐭 @Jikkyleaks]

Now you know where the "pharma R&D billions" go, that you pay for in your drug price.

Not into researching new drugs but paying off litigants so that the truth about contaminated drugs can never see the light of day.

What was in the Gardasil documents?

#Plasmidgate

[Jikkyleaks 🐭 @Jikkyleaks]

Reminder: Gardasil was the first vaccine to have shown plasmid contamination in court.

Merck needed that information buried because it impacts every single recombinant vaccine on the market, making widespread DNA contamination the real pandemic.

#plasmidgate #novagate

[John Beaudoin, Sr., The Real CdC, The Last Boomer @JohnBeaudoinSr]

From my article more than FOUR YEARS ago

It has all been available all this time

@Kevin_McKernan @JesslovesMJK @SenRonJohnson

[Les Funk @lesmfunk]

@BarbaraRKay I'm guessing that's the very reason why they still exist.

[MAHA Action @MAHA_Action]

RFK Jr. says public health officials were openly lying during COVID to get Americans to comply.

“The government was not always telling the truth to the American public.”

“Science was being manipulated.”

“Regulatory officials at the highest level were openly telling what they called noble lies.”

“In order to get the public to do something that they thought they ought to be doing, they would misstate the data.”

“We’re not doing that anymore.”

“We tell them what we know and what we don’t know.”

“We’re not gonna fill gaps by lying to people.”

“We’re gonna fill them by doing the research that should’ve been done.”

[Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD @TracyBethHoeg]

🙏Nice to have our vaccine report recognized by @POTUS

Less nice to have just been fired as head of CDER @ FDA & not know why or who fired me

But I valued my time @ FDA & am proud of our work

I discuss that & the importance of accountability here
👇
https://t.co/X0WUUb82RS

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

So let me get this straight...

Canada is in a recession—the only G7 country currently in one. Unemployment is up. Inflation is rising. Food insecurity is at a record high.

Yet the highest proportion of Canadians since 2017 now say the country is on the right track.

That's either a remarkable display of optimism—or a sign that many Canadians aren't getting the full economic story from the news they consume.

[Les Funk @lesmfunk]

@DltaHspcSociety How about conspiracy to commit homicide when no homicide has yet occurred?

[WeAreCrucified @wearecrucifiedX]

While others celebrate the feast of sacrifice, we remember the ultimate fulfillment and final sacrifice on our behalf.

But now what are we supposed to do?

What do we have to offer?

https://t.co/ADNt52RGIk

[Les Funk @lesmfunk]

@ClareCraigPath How did the mice describe their pain on a scale of 1 to 10?

[Dan Dicks @DanDicksPFT]

Canada’s DRIVE-THRU DEATH: From TIM HORTONS To LETHAL INJECTION In Just 2 Hours!!

A Canadian doctor meets a struggling 45 year-old man at a Tim Hortons parking lot, assesses him for euthanasia on the spot, then personally drives him to his death just two hours later.

This is the shocking true story of Thomas Dillon and how Canada’s MAID program has spiralled into drive-thru death assessments, casual coffee shop evaluations, families ignored, and vulnerable people fast-tracked to lethal injection.

The same doctor had previously botched another MAID killing: he skipped the paralytic drug, declared a cancer patient dead and left the house, only for the man to start breathing again on his own.

In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth proves that what was sold as compassion has become a deadly culture of death on demand and it must be stopped!

Watch until the end. This should disturb every Canadian.

Share this video if you believe life still matters.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

"This will really change my life!"

[David Bell @bell00david]

This makes no sense. Yes, it is good to have multilateral cooperation in health. But it is net harm to fund that from private sources and vested interests who see healthcare as a market, and direct WHO accordingly.
The current WHO is a terrible model for coordinating global health.

[Les Funk @lesmfunk]

@stephanieseneff I thought "alpha-gal" had to do with all of the female celebrities who were getting lyme disease a few years back.

[Dr. Kat Lindley @DrKatLindley]

Interesting. We were told it cannot happen, but here we find out, it does.