The Science Cartel

Matthew Crawford

The idea that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in a laboratory, and then escaped accidentally, always had a certain plausibility. The virus first appeared in Wuhan, China, where there is a laboratory that conducts research on bat coronaviruses — one of only a handful in the world to do so. Yet this possibility was dismissed quite forcefully and from the beginning of the outbreak by prominent virologists.

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Speaking of which, Lomborg on Scientific Americans new editorial policy.

34 Replies to “The Science Cartel”

  1. Never forget that Trudeau’s government was complicit in the manufacture and global spread of the CCP Virus!

  2. So in other words these people are all Mengele’s and should be treated as such.

    1. Ahh & Paul

      Absolutely. And there are many in North American who Have intimate knowledge of what was being worked on, where and by who. Most have been ostrasized, imprisoned and called Conspiracy theorists since Day 1 of this plandemic. Judy Mikovich comes to mind, Dr Lee Merritt & numerous others who have spoken out about North American involvement of gain of function research performed at Ft Detrick, Winnipeg and Wuhan.

      Along with reports that Dr Fauci himself ensured the provision of funding for said research via the NIH. Fauci the same POS who engineered the fraudulent trashing of Ivermectin & HydroxyChloroQuine I might add

      We all know about the 2 “visiting Communist Chinese “scientists” who worked at Winnipegs Level 4 lab and were subsequently kicked out (likely only cause the media found out I’m thinking – their last kick at the investigative can ever.)

      Dr Mengele’s …?? damned straight. Far too many threads leading to a PLANNED RELEASE for a twofold exercise: Destroy Donald Trump and a full takeover by Marxist (Deep State), forces of the US govt.

  3. Good post. But we’re still looking for way to excuse a bio weapon attack on the West. The timing alone makes it obvious. Kinda like the Chamberlain response to Germany reoccupying the Rhineland.
    “Who can blame Mr. Hitler for taking a walk around his own backyard”

    1. A bio-weapon with a 99.8% survival rate, for which a “vaccine” can apparently be whipped up in no time. It is the western regimes that are committing crimes against their own people; it ain’t Chinese troopers arresting pastors, shutting down churches and businesses, arresting kids playing hockey, fining anti-lockdown protesters, implementing snitch lines and harassing conservative journalists. This is all being done at the behest of western elected officials.

      1. The Chinese knew what our response would be. They knew and probably promoted stuff like Speaker Pelosi calling Trump a racist xenophobe for shutting down the air travel. The response of our politicians was perfectly predictable.

        1. Thud:
          Its them Chinese mind-control rays!
          Way to excuse your own leaders for screwing you right up the wazoo.
          The Turd, Ford, Kenney, Biden, etc thank you for your loyalty.

      2. Yeah, too bad the damn virus would not wipe out all those who are terrified of the virus. Yes, 99.8% recovery. W T F, who cannot understand that? I am immune. You will never see anything that says this old fart died from the whu who flu. Spent the afternoon with my son and his kids and the kids think it is bullshit. Now that folks is a commentary that you can take to the bank.

  4. Science, or, more specificially, research, isn’t just a cartel. In practice, it’s more like a cult with membership being by invitation only.

    That’s one reason why I saw a lot of grad students butt-kissing their supervisors. Without the blessing of those supervisors, the chances of getting a faculty position become asymptotically close to zero. The main reason for getting that faculty position is to gain tenure and a seat at the golden “job for life” hog trough.

    The cultish aspect of research became apparent to me during my Ph. D. work. One must only investigate that which brings in lots of funding. Never be too original in one’s research, as one’s fellow cult members won’t understand it. Also, independence in thought is discouraged. Forget the notion of curiosity and going wherever the data leads.

    By extension, one can see what I noticed in how the scientific community handled the phony plague. Anyone with an independent opinion was either reprimanded or silenced. Original approaches to dealing with it were quickly rejected and only those which were well-financed were pursued.

    1. Yup. Don’t see any dropout kids working at gas stations or whatever doing groundbreaking work, like a certain patent clerk did.

  5. Science is now a commodity to be bought and sold. Leftists railed against private research saying buyers influenced outcomes.
    At least the so-called robber barons were trying to make a profit, not trying to rule the world. Notice how globalism is ok now?
    Now we have a scientific establishment that uses the almighty dollar to wield their partisan power, yielding to their benefactors.
    Who are? HInt: most if not all roads lead to China, strip mining the world of intellectual property, fentanyl markets and liberty.
    With us over their energy barrel if we’re stupid enough to go big on wind/solar, with China monopolizing rare earth minerals.
    Useful idiots in tow. How long before Dustin solves two problems in one by appointing Meng Meng as our next Governor General?
    You heard it here first. LOL at the dystopia.

    1. “Science is now a commodity to be bought and sold.”

      Well, not science exactly, science expertise.
      The opinions of scientists, to be specific, are being bought to influence the political arena.

      That said, “SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in a laboratory, and then escaped accidentally,”

      None of the result seems accidental to me.

      1. Fair enough, I too have respect for the silenced science rank and file. But it’s always elites who mispresent their members, who gum up the works forwarding their own agendas. Union leaders versus workers voting are another example.

  6. Yesterday, the BC school district announced that kids 12 yrs and up don’t need parental permission for the jab.

    Told my 13 yr old son to say no if any of his teachers suggest he register.

    Today on the am news, they spoke about offering incentives for people to get their second dose. Very suspicious.

    They are pushing the hard sell.

    1. Hey, if kiddies “know” what their “true gender” is, they are definitely wise enough to get vaccinated without parental consent, right?

  7. The editorial staff at Scientific American need to step up. They must volunteer to have their hearts cut out and be sacrificed to the sun god. It is an emergency, after all.

  8. Like I said,this “accidental” escape followed by the most strange “mitigation” panic by our governments,starts to make very good sense.
    If Covid-19 was manufactured in Wuhan China to the specifications provided by Western Idiots,funding said research.
    All normal and rational methods of pandemic response were cast aside.
    In favour of massive Bureaucratic control..
    Why?
    Well if covid is their creation,the fear of being found responsible and held to account.
    Second,the bureaus thought they knew was coming..
    Due to computer modelling,they knew Covid 19 was unique.
    A novel and more lethal virus..designed to clean up the old folks rolls.
    Planned to kill the Obese,the mortally ill and the old..
    All computer simulations said so..
    This is Iraq weapons of mass destruction all over again..”We know Sadamn has these weapons,we have the receipts,from when we sold them to him”.

    So based on Sim World from their computer modelling experts,Covid was the end of civilization.
    Too bad,for their fears and hopes, our immune systems saw it as “Just another Cold Virus” with over 80% of those contacting it showing no surprise or symptoms.

    But now the evidence is leaking ..It seems our Parasitic Overload so hates us and is so loath to reduce their stealing,that they would plan “Gain of Function” for mass extermination.

    The result of the Dread Covid Theatre,all masks are off,every murderous,power hungry twit is now exposed to sunlight.

  9. If you follow Jennifer Zeng on Gab, who reports daily on what the CCP is doing, you would read that a top chinese academic declared that China has won a “biological war” in 2020. What does that tell you? I have said all along this didn’t escape.It was deliberately turned loose.

    1. This is also an Information War.

      Who is paying the social media companies to use CCP style censorship tactics? Who pays the MSM to straight out lie?

  10. Other than in a few private labs and institutions, “science” is under the dead hand of governments everywhere. Academics are mostly whores (more evil than the media who are inherently ignorant) who happily tow the party line as they live and work in the natural habitat of Marxism and when the state is controlled by their “in-crowd”, so much the better. The same general mass hysteria of Covid as that of CAGW is employed and perhaps combined by the “in-crowd” to control the serfs. Lysenkoism is alive and well in the West. The “in crowd” is now synonymous with the institutional left. As Doug Casey is fond of saying, “there are more communists on American university campuses than all of Russia”. This has consequences and anyone paying attention can now easily see them.

    1. John Chittick

      YES, Dwight Eisenhower who is justly famous for his coinage The ‘Military-Industrial* complex’ in his departure speech of 1956 also warned about gubmint funding of science.

      * Now the Military-Industrial-Security-Public Health complex.

  11. It seems that 50 years of Global Cooling/Warming Activism was a trial run where inputs were calibrated, cultural control knobs were fine tuned and the soil was tilled for the planting of a fully Technocratic approach to controlling the masses that could be applied to any and every perceived need of the Anointed.

  12. Avoid the vaccinated.
    They have The Plague.
    Not too bright either.

    “Luc Montagnier, a French virologist and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has recently exposed the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccines.

    Montagnier argues the coronavirus had escaped in an “industrial accident,” while Chinese scientists at the Wuhan city laboratory were trying to develop a vaccine against HIV.

    Back in April 2020, Montagnier urged people to refuse vaccines against COVID-19 when they become available, because “instead of preventing the infection, they [would] accelerate infection.” Today, the newly occurring variants of SARS-CoV-2 that affect vaccinated people prove his thesis. In this case, mass vaccination may cause a new, more deadly wave of pandemic.

    The same thesis is shared by the Belgium virologist Vanden Bossche, who is also calling for a halt to the mass-vaccination programs. He believes that if the jabs are not halted, they could lead to the evolution of stronger and stronger variants of the virus until a “supervirus” takes hold and wipes out huge numbers of people.”

    https://thenewamerican.com/french-nobel-prize-winner-warns-vaccines-facilitate-development-of-deadlier-covid-variants-urges-the-public-to-reject-jabs/

  13. It still is no more dangerous than a seasonal flu. That countries may be attempting to go to war about this is insane. A civil war, damn right. A global war, bullshit. This virus has been and continues to be no worse than the seasonal flu. And NO ONE HAS PROVEN ME WRONG. Now that in and of itself is a sad commentary on the intellectual abilities of the assholes who are pushing the, “VIRUS IS GOING TO KILL US ALL”, bullshit. It will not do any such thing, and I don’t care how many grandmothers died as I am as old as most of them. Golf booked for Tuesday.

    1. Their intellectual abilities are fine, it’s their morality that is the problem.

    2. If a seasonal flu kills .1% of it’s victims, but only infects 20% of the population, and Wuhan Flu kills the same .1% of its victims, but infects 60% of the population, it’s going to kill three times as many people, even if it’s “no more deadly”

      Definitions matter.

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  15. “The idea that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in a laboratory, and then escaped accidentally. . .”

    How about as a result of a tornado?

    Don’t know how authentic this is, since I don’t recall seeing it on any news broadcast over the last week, but it seems that central China was hit by some major wind/rain/hailstorms including a tornado in Wuhan last week. This video reports on the damage to several cities/provinces over the period of May 14 to May 17. Looks like lots of major flooding and damage resulted. See map of affected areas at the 7:49 point of the video.

    Tornado Hit Wuhan, Yangtze River Basin Flooding | China flood 2021 | Rainstorm

  16. “certain plausibility”?

    It’s the only plausible explanation. The idea that this was one of those couple time a century somewhere in the world type wild animal to human transmissions that just happened to happen right in the same town as a lab that has a CRISPR machine and handles bat viruses is as far fetched as they come. So far the only argument they seem to have that it wasn’t a lab leak is that if it were one, it would make China look bad, and that would be racist.

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