Every debunked, over-simplified, pseudo-scientific, quasi-scientific, unsubstantiated, politically motivated myth, excuse and outright falsehood rolled into one easy (very, very easy) read. Useful to know how the tiny minority who make up the other side think (or, in fact, don’t)
I guess this reader wasn’t impressed!
You WILL take the vaccines!!!!
Here’s a nice photo of our favourite Big-Pharma boss – Pfizer CEO Eric Bourla. Eric is pictured with his great chum – EU big boss, Ursula Fond of Lying:
Ursula, as you’ll well know, has helped make Pfizer and her friend Eric Bourla rich beyond most people’s wildest dreams. Ursula has squandered tens of billions of EU taxpayers’ money on Eric’s supposed vaccines which, we now know, are only partially effective for a few months and which have killed hundreds of formerly healthy people.
Hopefully you all remember how we were coerced into taking these ineffective and sometimes deadly fake vaccines by mandates forbidding the unvaccinated from travel, entertainment and many other activities. And in some sectors, anyone refusing these ineffective and unsafe supposed ‘vaccines’ even lost their jobs. Care workers in the UK, for example, were fired if they refused vaccination. Tens of thousands did lose their jobs causing a staffing crisis in the care sector. And then, when care homes could no longer accept more patients, many elderly got stuck in hospitals becoming ‘bed-blockers’ thus worsening the crisis in the NHS and leading to ever-increasing waiting lists for hospital beds and operations.
All this shows that our rulers have found out how to force most of us to comply by taking whatever dubious vaccines they want to foist on us. But they can’t force us to take their medicines, can they?
You WILL take the medicine!!!
Even the conspiracy fanatics couldn’t have made this one up.
Here’s our friend Eric Bourla of Pfizer again. This time he’s taking part in a discussion at a World Economic Forum meeting (probably in Davos?). Eric is explaining that Pfizer have now developed the technology which allows a micro-transmitter to be put in a pill. So, when the pill is ingested, a signal will go to the authorities telling them that you have taken the required medicine.
Here’s a very short (slightly over-dramatised?) video featuring our favourite pharmacist extolling this great medical advance:
Even George Orwell couldn’t have imagined this level of Big-Brother government control.
W.H.O. rules the world?
A few blogs ago, I warned about a meeting of the World Health Assembly (I didn’t even know such an organisation existed, did you?) this week which will hand power to control any new ‘health emergencies’ to the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.). This will give the unelected, incompetent, China-controlled W.H.O. the authority to instruct national governments how to handle the next ‘health emergency’. A ‘health emergency’ will include pandemics. But using ‘scope creep’ the W.H.O. bureaucrats might (will definitely?) also widen the concept of a ‘health emergency’ to include such supposed ‘health emergencies’ like obesity, food availability, migration or, of course, catastrophic man-made climate change.
I haven’t seen this meeting reported anywhere in the mainstream media (apart from GB News). I wonder why not?
Here’s the magnificent Neil Oliver reacting to this latest power grab by the unelected globalist elites:
On my Friday blog about some crazy woke woman claiming that men could get pregnant and possibly need abortions, one reader commented: “How do these people ever get an effing job…?”
I would like to turn this question round: “Do you really think it’s possible to get a job anywhere in the media (apart from, of course, GB News) or the public sector – civil service, education, healthcare, social care, the police and even the military – if you don’t spout woke, progressive, libtard, BLM, trans-adoring, CRT (Critical Race Theory), climate catastrophist, politically-correct nonsense 24 hours a day?”
After all, children get bullied out of school for claiming there are only two sexes, midwives are now being taught how to deliver babies from pregnant males, hospitals are no longer allowed to use words like ‘male’ and ‘female’, our armed forces are trying to ‘go green’, male rapists in high heels are being welcomed into female prisons, university students demand ‘safe spaces’ where nobody disagrees with their (usually pig-ignorant) opinions and have panic attacks every time they think they might have been ‘victims’ of a ‘micro-aggression’, offense warnings are being placed on some of the greatest works of art and literature, if you’re white you’re either a conscious racist or subconscious racist or both, the British police are about to follow the US police in considering any minor shoplifting (in the US minor means less than $1,000) as no longer being a criminal offence ……
I could go on. But there is so much lunacy destroying our once great country and civilisation, that there’s no room to list it all here.
Woke, yet barely awake, old man Biden saves the planet?
I wonder if any readers can spot a slight problem between the following two phenomena:
Phenomenon 1 – Increasing atmospheric CO2 is greening the Earth:
And this greening is one of the factors contributing to reducing levels of malnutrition:
(left-click on image and then left-click again to see in glorious large technicolour)
Phenomenon 2 – Biden’s great plan to remove CO2 from the Earth’s atmosphere
On May 19th 2022 (just a couple of days ago), the US Department of Energy announced its great plan to invest $3.5bn to develop technologies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere:
Please note that the US Department of Energy calls the life-giving trace atmospheric gas CO2 – “carbon pollution”. I guess that the US Department of Energy must have forgotten that, were CO2 levels to fall below around 200 ppm (parts per million), then all life on Earth would die.
Below (in blue text) is the first part of the Department of Energy’s proud press release. The link to this announcement is:
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a Notice of Intent (NOI) to fund the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s $3.5 billion program to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution directly from the air. The Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs program will support four large-scale, regional direct air capture hubs that each comprise a network of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects to help address the impacts of climate change, creating good-paying jobs and prioritizing community engagement and environmental justice. In addition to efforts to deeply decarbonize the economy through methods like clean power, efficiency, and industrial innovation, the widespread deployment of direct air capture technologies and CO2 transport and storage infrastructure plays a significant role in delivering on President Biden’s goal of achieving an equitable transition to a net-zero economy by 2050.
“The UN’s latest climate report made clear that removing legacy carbon pollution from the air through direct air capture and safely storing it is an essential weapon in our fight against the climate crisis,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is funding new technologies that will not only make our carbon-free future a reality but will help position the U.S. as a net-zero leader while creating good-paying jobs for a transitioning clean energy workforce.”
A witness called by Democrats to a Judiciary Committee hearing in the House on Wednesday 18th May claimed that men are capable of getting pregnant and having abortions if they please.
Aimee Arrambide, executive director of pro-abortion non-profit AVOW was grilled by Republican North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop, who asked her how she would define a woman.
“I believe that everyone can identify for themselves,” Arrambide responded.
This prompted Bishop to further ask “Do you believe then that men can become pregnant and have abortions?”
“Yes,”Arrambide answered.
Oh well, you learn something new every day.
I think I’m going to have to be a lot more careful when having sexual intercourse otherwise my wife might make me pregnant. At my age (over 60) I wouldn’t want another baby and so might have to have an abortion.
If you watch GB News and in particular Mark Steyn at 20.00h each weekday evening, you’ll know all about this story. If you get your information from other sources, you’ll probably have heard nothing at all about this latest horror.
It’s another example of our leaders signing us up to various international treaties without either they nor any of the mainstream media bothering to tell us. After all, how many people know that most Western countries’ rulers signed them up to the July 2018 Marrakesh “GLOBAL COMPACT FOR SAFE, ORDERLY AND REGULAR MIGRATION”?
The Chinese Communist Party’s latest power grab
From May 22-28, 2022, the 75th World Health Assembly will convene at United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, with delegates from 194 nations to formalize an International Pandemic Treaty that will supersede the individual countries’ independence including the US Constitution and centralize certain global powers under the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) – an organisation we now know is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through the W.H.O.’s (IMHO) utterly corrupt, Third-world boss.
On Jan. 18, 2022, officials from the Biden administration quietly sent the W.HO. extensive amendments without an official statement or a single press conference. These proposed amendments are written to strengthen the organization’s ability to unilaterally intervene into the affairs of nations merely suspected of having a “health emergency” of possible concern to other nations. If these amendments are approved, the W.H.O. will have the power to declare an “international health emergency”, nullifying the powers of nation states.
The U.S. amendments delete a critical existing restriction in the regulations: “WHO shall consult with and attempt to obtain verification from the State Party in whose territory the event is allegedly occurring…” This enables the Director-General to declare health emergencies at will and can be used to justify ostracism and economic or financial actions against any nation.
Does the W.H.O. really need more power?
“Covid-19: Make It the Last Pandemic,” a report published by the United Nations in May 2021, laughably claims that the pandemic would have been prevented if the W.H.O. had been given more global authority. The report states, “In its current form, the W.H.O. does not possess such powers …To move on with the treaty, W.H.O. therefore needs to be empowered — financially, and politically… The treaty should possess an adaptable incentive regime, [including] sanctions such as public reprimands, economic sanctions, or denial of benefits.”
Remember, this was the W.H.O. which praised the CCP’s handling of the Wuhan lab-leaked plague, which advised against an international travel ban, which claimed that the Wuhan lab-leaked plague was not infectious and which has done all it can to cover up the fact that the WuFlu leaked from a Chinese Wuhan lab.
Fatties watch out – the W.H.O. is coming for you
It’s perhaps interesting that the W.H.O. uses the term “health emergency” rather than the word “pandemic”. After all, the term “health emergency” can be worryingly broad in its interpretation.
For example, in June 2021 the W.H.O. declared that obesity and overweight were a “health emergency”.
And previously the World Health Assembly agreed a political declaration on non-communicable disease (NCDs). The “W.H.O. Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health” describes the actions needed to support healthy diets and regular physical activity. The Strategy calls upon all stakeholders to take action at global, regional and local levels to improve diets and physical activity patterns at the population level.
Does this mean that soon the CCP-controlled W.H.O. will be empowered to instruct individual countries on new taxes and other means to reduce their populations’ weight?
W.H.O. to jump on the climate change bandwagon?
But perhaps most worrying is the possibility that the useless, corrupt, CCP-controlled W.H.O. may be about to hijack the climate change madness. Here’s an article from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) 30 March 2020
The article’s authors claim that: “Rapid and potentially irreversible climate change poses a direct threat to global public health. Andrew Harmer and colleagues argue that W.H.O. should recognise this in the same way as global threats from specific diseases”.
If the W.H.O. leaps into the catastrophic man-made climate change lemming-like rush to societal suicide and if the Biden administration’s proposals to give the W.H.O. powers to over-ride national governments’ authority are approved over the next week, then theoretically the W.H.O. could start imposing rules on things like how we heat our homes, what kind of cars we can drive, how often we could take flights and how much energy each of us is allowed to use.
Then we really would have the one-world government conspiracy theorists keep warning us about.
We were warned
I haven’t seen this rather important story mentioned by any of our politicians nor covered anywhere in the mainstream media.
So, here’s a lovely lady on Mark Steyn’s programme from a couple of days ago explaining this impending disaster that our rulers are foisting on us. Enjoy!
Of all the possible areas for scientific research, examining any links between intelligence and ethnicity must surely be the most reliable road to guaranteed career and social suicide. It’s an even more heinous crime than daring to question the climate change nonsense pumped out by the climate catastrophist crazies enthusiastically supported by the climate propagandists at the BBC.
But I don’t have a career and don’t have any friends so here goes.
Gardner’s ‘Multiple Intelligences’ model
One approach used for classifying human intelligence is the model of multiple intelligences proposed by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner in his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
Gardner suggested that all people have different kinds of “intelligences.” To broaden this notion of intelligence, Gardner introduced eight different types of intelligences consisting of: Linguistic, Logical/Mathematical, Spatial, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal and Naturalist:
The main implication of this ‘Multiple Intelligences’ model was that people could have successful, fulfilling lives in many different ways depending on which type of intelligence they excelled at.
IQ tests – toxic and despised
We can all see that different ethnicities vary in their physical characteristics. But we are browbeaten into accepting that it is simply impossible that there might be any differences between ethnicities in any of the eight intelligences mentioned above. Yet anyone who is interested in music, sport, business, art, dance or whatever might have noticed that certain ethnicities seem to perform better in certain areas than others.
Of all the eight intelligences (or skills) on the Gardner model, one in particular has been declared a taboo by those who decide what we are allowed to think and say. Political correctness has decreed that IQ tests – which mostly measure logical/mathematical intelligence – have become an anathema in case they do show any differences between different ethnicities.
Here’s a shortish (about 7 minutes) video of someone entering the ‘ethnicity and intelligence minefield’ of IQ tests. Rather him than me.
The only comments I would make are:
I have checked the references he cites to confirm that the figures he quotes are genuine
I have absolutely no opinion on the matters he discusses but believe that free speech should be permitted unless it is intended to cause harm or violence
Following my previous blog in which I pointed out that 89.5% of all African-Americans murdered in the USA were murdered by other African-Americans, a reader asked “why is there a high crime rate among black Americans?”
So, let me start to suggest an answer for the US and also make some observations about the UK.
What about Afro-American culture?
Let’s look at a few charts. We’ll start in the USA where all the recent Black Lives Matter looting, murder and mayhem started.
Here’s a chart of the percentage of children in the US by race born into single-parent families from 1940 to 2010 by main racial group:
More recent figures show that by 2018, the share of families headed by single parents had risen to 75% among African American families, 58% among Hispanic families, 37% among white families and 21% among Asian families.
Or how about this one? It’s the proportion of US children born out of wedlock:
I find the above figures both eye-opening and truly shocking. And, of course they’re never mentioned by the people playing the BLM blame game who keep screaming that Afro-Americans are victims of poverty and poor education and lack of opportunity and racism etc etc etc.
In an interview, African-American actor Denzel Washington said something along the lines of he was fortunate to have grown up in a home with both parents and to have been sent to a highly-disciplined school otherwise he would have possibly ended up on the street or in prison like many of his contemporaries.
I ain’t no sociologist. But I wonder if some of the underachievement of African-Americans has nothing at all to do with beastly Whites’ slavery or racism or whatever and everything to do with the total breakdown of the traditional family structure? Single-parent families are likely to be more economically-disadvantaged that two-parent families. Moreover, having no father has left far too many African-American children without a father role model and without parental guidance and control.
In addition, as the US doesn’t have a good social safety net for poorer families, I suspect that many Afro-American single mothers are working one or even two low-paid jobs to pay the rent and put food on the table. This would be a further factor leading to their children being unsupervised for much of the day and therefore more likely to fall in with gangs than children from two-parent families.
So, could it be the fact that over 75% of African Americans are born into single-parent households, rather than supposed racism, which has created a massive, too often criminal, Afro-American underclass?
Meanwhile back in Britain
The proportion of single parent families in the UK is much lower than in the US.
The single parent statistics published on the gov.uk site in 2019 show the percentage of different ethnic groups which were lone parents according to the 2011 census. Within each ethnic group monitored, the percentage of family types which are single parents were as follows: black (24%), mixed (19%), ‘other’ and white (both 10%) and Asian (8%).
But there’s another possibly interesting chart published by the Office for National Statistics
This shows the proportion of households by ethnic group which are ‘workless’. You’ll notice that the lowest number are in Indian (probably mostly Hindu or Sikh) households. You’ll also see which ethnic groups and religion have the highest number of workless households. For obvious reasons I will not comment on those as that would be ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobic’ or both.
But if we’re really all ghastly ‘racists’ in Britain, it’s rather odd that Indian families seem to be much more successful than even white British families. A cynic might even conclude that the failure of certain ethnic or religious groups has nothing at all to do with supposed racism and everything to do with different cultures. A cynic might even conclude that Hindu families have a strong work ethic, a strong belief in the value of education and a strong belief that female children should have the same education and life chances as males. A cynic might even conclude that the relative failure in Britain of Blacks and our friends from our favourite religion compared to British Indian Hindus has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with culture.
Then there’s one more chart readers might find interesting. It shows the percentage of males and females from each ethnic group who go to university:
(If you left-click on the chart once, wait a few seconds and then left-click again, it becomes huge and blindingly legible)
The red bars are for children from deprived backgrounds – defined as receiving free school meals (FSM). The blue bars are for children from non-deprived households
This shows that starting at the most likely to go on to higher education are:
Asian females
Black females
Mixed-race females
Asian males
White females
Asian females from deprived backgrounds
Black females from deprived backgrounds
Black males
Mixed-race males
White males
Black males from a deprived background
Asian males from a deprived background
Mixed-race females from a deprived background
Mixed-race males from a deprived background
White females from a deprived background
White males from a deprived background
So there are four ethnic/sex groups more likely to go on to higher education than white females and nine ethnic/sex groups more likely to go on to higher education than white males. Moreover, Asian females from deprived backgrounds and black females from deprived backgrounds are more likely to go to university than black males from non-deprived backgrounds. There are other interesting conclusions you can draw from this chart yourselves.
Perhaps all the idiotic, West-hating, fascist, ignorant, mutton-headed twats from Black Lives Matter and those ‘taking the knee’ could explain how so many more people from different ethnic groups than white ethnic Brits in Britain are going on to higher education if we’re all Klu Klux Klan, BNP mouth-frothing racists and all BAME people in Britain are horrifically oppressed?
From what I can see from the two UK-based charts above, there are so many opportunities for BAME people in Britain – even for those from deprived backgrounds – that some groups are now starting to outperform white ethnic British.
As for those groups which are failing to take advantage of those opportunities – I humbly suggest that is their fault and their fault alone and nothing to do with supposed white racism.
We all know that we ghastly white people are all racists. Apparently, we’re either ‘conscious racists’ or ‘subconscious racists’ or perhaps both at the same time. Who knows?
And we all know that US police are even more racist than anyone else as they all leave home each morning for work hoping they get the chance to shoot a few African-Americans. Or at least, I think that’s what the progressive, lefty, virtue-signalling, West-loathing, BLM libtards want us to believe.
Being a really boring person, who tries to understand the actual data before coming to any conclusions about who the real racists are, I started to briefly look at a few figures to see just how racist the US police and white US citizens are.
Who is getting killed in the US?
The US population is about 60% white, 18.5% Hispanic, 12.2% African-Americans and 9.2% others:
In 2020 (the latest year for which we have reliable figures), the US police killed 1,021 people. Of these, 45% were Whites, 17% Hispanics, 24% African-Americans and 14% either not identified or from other ethnicities:
(left-click on image and then left-click again to see in huge, glorious technicolour)
So, we can see that African Americans only make up 12.2% of the US population but 24% of those killed by the police. Clearly there seems to be a bit of an issue as to why African-Americans are over-represented in the numbers killed by the police.
But now let’s look at some other figures. These are from an FBI report in 2016. But there’s no reason to believe the situation has changed significantly since then.
According to the FBI report, there were 6,676 murders in the US in 2016. I have found other figures which put the US murder toll at over 17,750. I’m not sure why there is such a large difference. But I’ll stick with the FBI report for the purposes of this blog as these were the first figures Google gave me and these are the most complete figures I’ve seen.
Of those murdered (using the FBI report), 3,499 (52%) were Whites and 2,870 (43%) were African-Americans. Then there were 307 (5%) from other ethnicities.
That means that African-Americans make up 12.2% of the US population, 24% of those killed by US police but 43% of those murdered. (The other figures I found suggested that African-Americans make up 55% of murders in the US)
Are you with me so far?
Those murderous white racists?
Now let’s look a who is actually murdering these 2,870 African-Americans. It turns out that just 243 (8.5%) were murdered by us horrible (supposedly ‘racist’) whiteys and 2,570 (89.5%) were murdered by other African-Americans.
Admittedly there have been a few horrible cases where white racists have murdered African-Americans. And, of course, these get massive coverage in the progressive, anti-American, woke, mainstream media. But, given that 89.5% of all African-Americans murdered in the USA were murdered by other African-Americans, the narrative that African-Americans are being slaughtered by white racists falls apart.
Moreover, one could even claim that the fact that African-Americans make up 12.2% of the US population, 24% of those killed by US police but 43% of those murdered suggests that even the police aren’t as racist as the BLM, defund-the-police mobs like to claim.
The people who are killing African-Americans are predominantly (89.5%) African-Americans. I doubt you’ll see this being mentioned in any of the mainstream media.
But this does bring us back to the question in the title – Are African-Americans who murder other African-Americans “racists”?
I realise that most of my readers are highly intelligent and well-informed. They are certainly much more intelligent and better-informed than the politicians who have somehow crawled their way into lucrative positions of power over us and the media prostitutes who regularly preach to us unwashed, pig-ignorant plebs about how we should think and what views are acceptable.
So I’ll keep this blog really really simple in case there are any dumb politicians or media prostitutes reading it.
Where does our oil and gas come from?
Here’s a simple chart. It shows the main oil-producing countries:
(left-click on chart and then left-click again to see more clearly)
This shouldn’t be too difficult for incompetent, intellectually- and morally-challenged politicians and lying, self-serving supposed ‘journalists’ to understand.
And here’s a chart showing the main natural gas producing countries:
These charts show where geo-political power currently lies – with the OPEC countries and Russia
The “Energy Transition”
But as we all know, for some incomprehensible reason, our useless, scientifically-challenged rulers and our equally useless and equally scientifically-ignorant mainstream media are convinced that humans using fossil fuels are causing the Earth to overheat with some of the more extreme climate catastrophists even suggesting that Global Warming will be so disastrous that Antarctica will be the only habitable continent by the end of this century – in 78 years time:
In vain, I have tried to demonstrate that the whole climate catastrophist cult is a load of unadulterated, foul-smelling nonsense:
I have sent copies of my book to more than 10 supposedly ‘leading’ journalists. But none of them dares question the climate catastrophists’ doomsday bunkum. I have also sent copies to 5 or 6 key Tory MPs. But given that Carrie Johnson seems to be deciding government environment policies, they too have ignored my book.
It seems that our rulers have swallowed the climate catastrophist hogwash hook, line and sinker and so are leading us into the “Energy Transition” – replacing energy from fossil fuels with energy from supposedly ‘environmentally-friendly’ sources – wind, solar, batteries etc.
But the ‘Energy Transition’ will require massive amounts of materials such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and manganese plus a bunch of rare earth metals whose names I can never remember.
And guess where these will come from:
This chart shows two things:
on the left that China currently produces abut 120,000 tonnes of rare earth metals – around 71% of global production
on the main map, that China holds 44 million tonnes of rare earth metals reserves. Though, as Chinese companies (controlled by the Chinese Communist Party) have bought up the mining rights to rare earth metals around the world, China probably controls more than half of the world’s rare earth metals reserves on which our rulers’ wonderful, planet-saving ‘Energy Transition’ depends.
There is apparently a little bit of lithium somewhere in Cornwall. But no doubt the eco-crazies will block any attempts to mine that as they block everything else which contributes to other people’s wellbeing.
As developed economies look to lessen their dependence on fossil fuels and, by extension, on the political goals and whims of major oil and gas resource holders such as Russia and the members of OPEC, the geopolitical influence of the petro-states will likely wane over time and the geopolitical influence of the mineral-producing countries will grow. I’ve called this the “Resources Powershift”.
I guess your children and grandchildren had better start learning how to beg in Chinese. I’m not sure what the Chinese is for “please sir, can we have a little of your rare earth minerals?”
Am I really the only person who thinks that our rulers’ cunning, Baldrickian plan to supposedly save the planet by weaning us off fossil fuels hasn’t been properly thought through?
We have almost destroyed our economy and burdened the next 5 to 10 generations with unrepayable levels of debt in order to fight a virus leaked from a US-funded Chinese lab which has a mortality rate of less than 1%. To put the WuFlu’s mortality rate into context, the 1917/18 Spanish Flu had a mortality rate of possibly up to 30%
We are continuing to wreck our economy due to a ludicrous ‘original sin’ superstition that human activities are causing supposedly catastrophic changes in the Earth’s climate
Our rulers are genuflecting to a West-hating doctrine blaming white people for all the world’s problems rather ignoring the fact that almost every advance in science, technology, medicine and art for at least the last 2,000 years has come from white people
To adapt to this wonderful new world, there may be some words, with which not all readers may be familiar, which help explain what is happening.
Here are just a few:
A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century. In the 1960s and even 1970s, we had ‘conviction politicians’ – people who had entered politics due to a genuine desire to improve the lives of their voters. Moreover, these were often people who had genuine work experience before becoming politicians. But many of today’s politicians are ‘career politicians’ who only enter politics for power, vanity and the opportunities to become wealthy and have seldom any practical work experience. As one civil servant explained to a parliamentary enquiry: ‘very few ministers have ever run anything. There is no way you are going to convert them into good managers’:
Apophenia (/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. The term (German: Apophänie from the Greek verb ἀποφαίνειν (apophaínein)) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia. He defined it as “unmotivated seeing of connections [accompanied by] a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness”. He described the early stages of delusional thought as self-referential over-interpretations of actual sensory perceptions, as opposed to hallucinations.
Apophenia has also come to describe a human propensity to unreasonably seek patterns in random information, such as can occur while gambling or seeing a connection between atmospheric CO2 levels and global temperatures.
Here’s a typical chart supposedly ‘proving’ that atmospheric CO2 levels are causing global warming:
But here are three charts showing that we could just as easily compare the rise in atmospheric CO2 levels to rising life expectancy or rising literacy and claim increased CO2 makes you live longer and improves your reading skills:
In fact, the Earth cooled in the 1960s and 1970s causing ‘scientists’ to predict a new Ice Age that would devastate agriculture and lead to mass starvation and wars:
So the rising trends in life expectancy and literacy both provide a better match with rising CO2 levels than the trend in the Earth’s temperature. But this is something climate catastrophists tend not to mention.
The antidote to Apophenia is to remember that correlation does not always imply causation.
Agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of deliberate, culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, typically to sell a product or win favour, particularly through the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.
Coined in 1995 by Stanford University professor Robert N. Proctor, along with linguist Iain Boal, the word is based on the Neoclassical Greek word agnōsis (ἄγνωσις, ‘not knowing’; cf.Attic Greekἄγνωτος, ‘unknown’) and -logia (-λογία). Proctor cites as a prime example the tobacco industry’s 40-year public relations campaign to manufacture about the adverse health effects of tobacco use.
Active causes of culturally-induced ignorance can include the influence of the media, corporations and governmental agencies, through secrecy and falsification and suppression of information. We can see how culturally-induced ignorance has been effectively used to terrify us into giving up our most basic freedoms due to supposed threats like the Chinese lab-leaked plague and the climate catastrophist doomsday preachers:
Oikophobia (Greek: oîkos, ‘house, household‘ + phóbos, ‘fear’; The term has been used in political contexts to refer critically to political ideologies that are held to repudiate one’s own culture and laud others. One prominent such usage was by Roger Scruton in his 2004 book England and the Need for Nations. For reasons that I do not comprehend, it has become fashionable in the developed West for people to indulge in narcissistic displays of loathing of all aspects of Western civilisation. Douglas Murray’s new book -THE WAR ON THE WEST – explores this strange phenomenon which is tearing Western societies apart while a self-confident, resurgent and aggressive China takes over the world:
Here’s the amazing Tony Heller of realclimatescience.com debunking the latest pack of climate-catastrophist lies from the supposed ‘climate scientists’ and the climate-crisis propagandists in the mainstream media.
Tony Heller’s research skills are quite extraordinary.
Unfortunately, due to YouTube censorship, this latest Tony Heller video is not available on YouTube.
By the way, if anyone should buy my latest book – THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS – during the month of May, I’ll be donating what little money I earn (about £0.60 per book) to a Ukrainian student, Nikolai Nizalov studying at Cambridge University who has gone back to Ukraine to defend his country against Putin’s barbaric invasion. Or else you can donate to him directly at:
David Craig, on May 23rd, 2022
