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James Shaw's avatar

If you ever tire of Academia then with lines like this 'drug-pushing speedo-wearers', I think a career in comedy could beckon.

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epimetheus's avatar

Hahahaha, as an academic, I do appreciate the flattery (but I honestly doubt I'm funny enough).

I am glad, though, that you liked the quip. I think it fits professor Klein well.

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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

Pushing drugs in speedos is a fine Australian tradition, sir.

It is also tradition to vote in Speedos to 1. show one's contempt for the political circus or 2. be obnoxious as voting(tm) is compulsory here: https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/why-aussies-are-voting-on-election-day-with-no-pants-on/news-story/02f376617dbeb1e1fdc7b6c032bf7cc2

As my personal contempt has reached incredible levels, I believe I shall vote(tm) wearing nothing at all in the next federal election.

Edit: please kindly watch for me on the news.

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epimetheus's avatar

I shall certainly keep an eye out!

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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

Being in the southern hemisphere and having recently been through the severe winter of death(tm), it is always good to remind my friends in the north to stay out of the hospitals, and that I survived without the jab...however, if I had gone to the hospital as an unjabbed person my survival would have been less assured: https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/remdesivir-and-covid-protocols-in

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epimetheus's avatar

Well, what can I tell you: what's a valid reason to talk to a 'doctor'?

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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

One has an axe lodged somewhere on one's person?

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epimetheus's avatar

Other than that, I don't see any reason at-all.

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Terje M's avatar

They keep releasing puff pieces where apparently the journos are too stupid to have learnt anything since 2020.

Today in the local paper (AN), it was Malin (26) from Trondheim, who was "infected in September 2020, right after they opened up a bit. I got a positive test on my 22nd birthday. September 2020. Until then, she had been careful to wear a mask, keep her distance and not travel unnecessarily. "

Eventually she was diagnosed with "late sequelae after covid-19" and tachycardia.

And so forth. No mention of her jab status. The piece is obviously part of this autumns injection campaign.

The piece whips out an "expert": "It is unknown how many Norwegians experience long-term health problems after covid-19, but doctor and senior adviser Jan Himmels at NIPH said in an interview in April that this is a significant number."

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epimetheus's avatar

Oh, I recall a by-chance chat with a Norwegian woman on a train from Zurich to Milan in mid-June this year: she told me that her period was way off for months after 'vaccination'--so I asked her if she registered her apparent adverse reaction with the Legemiddleverket. She looked at me, briefly thought about what to say, and told me, 'well, now that you mention it…'

I can't even begin to enumerate all the other utter nonsense I'm reading, but since you live in Norway, too, you perhaps know what I mean.

As to my main conclusion: I do think that the people over at the Folkehelseinstituttet know more than they tell everybody, if only to keep their jobs and stay out of trouble, legally speaking.

Finally, one more word about the 'journo™' who wrote that (and a few other comparably bad) pieces: he, too, knows who pays his salary.

How these people can stand their reflection in the mirror is beyond me.

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Martin Bassani's avatar

Funny how espousing one set of beliefs will get you fired (or worse) while espousing utter vaccine nonsense keeps you perfectly secure. This clearly shows who is buttering their toast. ;-)

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Eva's avatar

Long live your snark!

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epimetheus's avatar

Cheers!

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Mickeyd's avatar

Great to be reminded of these people. When I read about these people I wonder if there is credence to the conspiracy theories about human clones who really dont care about humanity but seek to destroy it. He would fit the bill. Thanks for article.

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epimetheus's avatar

I'm hesitant to respond with 'my pleasure', if only it provides none doing so.

As to the 'conspiracy theory' you allude to, we may as well throw in reptilians wearing masks, couldn't we? At this point in time, I won't rule out anything, although I'd add, for good measure, that severe neuro-cognitive impairments following repeat administration of, e.g., modRNA poison/death juices might also work as an explanation. Or funding by Big Pharma and the like.

I've looked at a few of his recent publications (three from 2024, according to his faculty profile). Funders incl. the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) through the NORAD-II Program under the project Climate Change and Infectious Diseases Management - A One Health Approach (CIDIMOH); and UVMedico. Needless to say, all authors declared 'no conflict of interest'.

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Rikard's avatar

Somewhere in my stash of old books is an old one about how to use Bromide (in different forms) to cure virtually everything. The author of it, a doctor of some kind or other, uses the tone of a newly converted fanatic in his praises of Bromide, this wonderful substance that cures everything from cancers to angina to heartburn to dandruff.

Granted, the book predates the 20th century by a couple of years so the writer may be allowed some slack given how the medical science of that time was, but still!

Anyway, virtually every article like this, the experts quoted (and bedecked with acronyms and titles they are too!) make me think of that book and other older works. Every text, the writer is 100% convinced that remedy X is cured in total with no problem by substance Y, gee-you-are-an-teed. Only for a later book to decry cure X as "old superstition" - it's cure Z and none other that is the one true one.

It's not good, when a medical scientist and researcher sounds like a 13th century Inquisitor (or a present-day moslem) preaching the Word to the Cathars.

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jan van ruth's avatar

why?

bonhoeffer on stupidity....

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epimetheus's avatar

Possible and plausible, yet somehow I'm unsure 'stupidity' is 'good enough' in these cases here.

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