Was it something I said?
Yesterday, YouTube removed the video of my latest episode of This Week in Common Sense. Why? The platform claims I violated its “terms of service” and “community standards” by providing “medical misinformation.”
Funny, YouTube did not specify which statement in the video was incorrect, much less provide any citation to back up its “misinformation” claim.
This sort of authoritarianism is quite common these days. We’re just supposed to take the Authority’s word that It Possesses the Whole Truth.
No debate. No dissent.
There is not even a reference or consult.
Which is what Dr. Byram W. Bridle, PhD, Associate Professor of Viral Immunology Department of Pathobiology at the University of Guelph discovered.
He refused to provide evidence of vaccination. So his Canadian university “banned” him “from campus for at least a year.” And sat by while colleagues and students abused him for being “anti-science.”
Thing is, as he points out in his Open Letter to the academic institution, not one of the tenured immunologists of the University of Guelph thinks there should be mandatory vaccination. All are very concerned about the goal of universal vaccination. Since not one of the available vaccines appears effective enough to produce sufficient immunity in recipients “herd immunity,” the goal must be mere “herd vaccination.”
Dr. Bridle is especially annoyed that the university does not allow him to demonstrate his natural immunity to the disease, which simply does not interest the pro-vaccination bureaucrats.
Worse yet, at no point in the university’s deliberations over the vaccine mandate did administrators consult their own immunology department!
That’s not “following the science.”
Like at YouTube, it’s a political campaign: science not required.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
Note: I first heard about both stories from my podcasting sparring partner, who produced two stories on his website regarding Dr. Bridle and tipped the hat to historian Tom Woods.
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The corporate left is engaged in a go-for-broke strategy, with the collaboration or acquiescence of the vast majority of the rest of the political left. We should not count on their awakening to how terrible they are acting and backing-down; we should anticipate their escalating to the extremes of their abilities. They’ve made the situation do-or-die for themselves, and do-or-die for their opponents.
Note that it says, “our community standards”. Well, their community standards are nowhere close to resembling my standards. Censuring any thing written or said only disallows honest criticism. Some things are best said freely where errors or questions can be asked. Snake oil evaporates in bright sunlight.
Tough! Get vaccinated. Got my booster two weeks ago.
You appear simply to be a troll. You offer arguments when you think that they will fly; you evaporate when they are refuted; and you just baldly cheer for exercises of power that please you.
Stupid is as stupid does! Antivaccer?
Yup. You’re a troll.
(And, if someone wants to know about me, then he or she can investigate me on Google Scholar or read my ‘blog.)
*****Stupid is as stupid does***** You should know.
As was stated above. You offer nothing.
Come back when you can carry on a meaningful conversation.
I’ve countered a few of her screeds, but she never comes back to answer.
That was in answer to Pam. Ended up on the wrong line.
Not So Free, yeah, there’s a problem with the software, which unthreads some comments.
Hey free at last. Oh honey you got the wrong line. Have mommy kiss it.
Dr. Bridle bridled at his ill treatment.
Q: How do we keep people from discovering that they do not develop any meaningful immunity from these experimental injections? And, how do we muscle people around that have recovered and have their own earned immunity?
A: (1) Instruct our minions upon penalty of revocation of licensure or opposition in the next election from our pool and destruction of their careers to ignore antibody tests and to refuse to conduct such tests. (2) Change the definition of immunity a couple of times and pretend we didn’t.