Junk Science and Expertocracy

Q: What is the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth?

A: 6 months

   The above makes most of us chuckle, because it’s meant to be a joke but sadly, it has a bitter after taste because like many jokes, it recognizes truth. If someone had told any person living in the western word two years ago that governments would be placing their citizenry under house arrest, asking them to wear face coverings or face a fine, be prevented from travelling and visiting loved ones interstate and overseas and face dismissal from a work place if unwilling to undergo a medical treatment, that person would have been laughed out of town and called a conspiracy theorist. Today, this has become reality.

   Not many of these almost unbelievable changes to our lives have been genuinely debated in the mainstream media. Very few media outlets, at least in Australia, have done more than perhaps question the lockdowns as too harsh. But I don’t want to have a debate about the harshness of our lockdowns. I feel that a far more fundamental debate needs to be had about the following two issues:

1. The role of science and the medical profession in our society

AND

• The emergence of expertocracy and the surrender of critical thinking.

So many pronouncements in the media are superficial catch phrases. The one we hear a lot these days is “Follow the science!” But are we following the science or is it junk science we are fed? For example, everything to do with Covid depends upon correct diagnosis of the illness. The test that has been used to diagnose Covid is the now famous PCR test. Yet how many people know that the PCR test ist the wrong test for the job? The creator of the PCR test, Kary Mullis stated that it

“doesn’t tell you that you are sick.

These tests cannot detect free, infectious viruses

at all.”

How many people know, that the manufacturers of the PCR test usually place disclaimers on the packaging explaining that they are not suitable for diagnostic purposes and that they are non-specific to SARS CoV2?

Add to that the further problem, that in order to accurately detect the genetic material of SARS CoV 2, the virus would have to have been fully sequenced. Unfortunately, this has not yet occurred.

Even Dr Michael Laue from the very prestigious German Robert Koch institute stated

“I am not aware of a paper which purified isolated SARS Cov2”.

So we find ourselves in a situation where all public policy and public health decisions are made on the basis of a test that can neither accurately diagnose disease or indeed even reliably show genetic material of the SARS CoV2 virus because that virus has never been sequenced.

Watch this educational video to understand how the PCR test works. https://youtube.com/watch?v=EWNkJUDctdk&feature=share

A proper understanding of the science of the PCR test and the lack of genetic sequencing of Covid leads to the asking of a number of pertinent questions:

1. How is it, that a test whose maker has categorically stated that it is not a diagnostic tool and cannot detect disease, is being used to constantly tell us about case numbers, people with disease and death by Covid numbers? How can this pass for reliable and accurate science?
2. How is it, that a virus which has not even been genetically sequenced and therefore cannot be detected is claimed to be killing people by the millions?
3. How is it that countries around the world are being shut down, people are being robbed of their civil liberties and a vaccine is being rolled out for a virus that has not been sequenced and cannot be tested for accurately?

HOW HAS THIS ANTI SCIENCE PASSED FOR SCIENCE? “Follow the science!” is the catch phrase in the media, yet when you do follow the science of the PCR test it leads to some alarming realisations.

Which brings me to the second part of my first question, ie what is the role of the medical profession in our society and in this Covid crisis? Doctors and scientist are held up as the experts we must listen to.                             Yet how many of them understand how the PCR test works (or rather doesn’t work)?

How is it that doctors send patients off to have a PCR test to find out if they are sick with Covid, when the science clearly tells us that the PCR test cannot do that?

How can doctors recommend treatment and vaccines for a virus that has never been successfully isolated?

How can doctors diagnose Covid when the symptoms are unspecific, common to many other illnesses and unable to be accurately tested for? Other than clinical diagnosis, which in the case of non-specific symptoms is difficult, there is no way to diagnose Covid.

Why are so few doctors speaking up? Is it hubris? Is it ignorance? Is it apathy? Is it greed? Is it fear of stepping out of line? Serious questions, all of them.

Closely connected to the catch phrase of “Follow the science” and its buddy “Trust your doctor” is the question of our reliance on experts. For a long time now, the media has manipulated people into believing that they are not entitled to an opinion if they are not an expert in a given field. In all areas of life, the finger is wagged at us if we step outside the publicly sanctioned rhetoric and dare to do our own research. Who do we think we are? How many times have I been scolded and told “If your car was broken, you’d take it to a mechanic”. Apparently, this is a reminder that sensible people defer to experts. Yet we all know that there are dodgy mechanics out there. Most of us trust that we are smart enough to work out if our mechanic is dodgy and we need to take our car to another expert. Most of us are familiar with the practice of asking others for recommendations regarding all manner of experts, be they accountants, a tutor for our child, a financial adviser, a plumber, an electrician or a doctor. Many of us also understand that if we feel all is not right with a doctor’s diagnosis that we can ask for a second opinion.

When did people abdicate their right to think critically for themselves?

When did we fall for the mistaken belief that bureaucrats are the fount of wisdom?

When did we stop understanding that majority is not a measure of accurate science and that listening to dissenting voices is part and parcel of being a well-informed human being?

When did we begin to abdicate out civil liberties to politicians and bureaucrats who know just as little about “following the science” as we do?

When did we decide that scientists, doctors, politicians and bureaucrats who don’t even know (or perhaps they do know but find it expedient not to admit it) that the PCR test cannot diagnose SARS CoV2 are the right people to make major decisions about civil liberties, your human right to pursue a living, to visit your loved ones, to bury your dead, to marry your sweetheart, to invite friends to weddings and funerals, to ban kids from school to prevent the young from celebrating milestones and now to potentially mandate an un-tested, unproven and experimental vaccine?

Ask yourself, when did the science that we were supposed to follow become junk science and when did you abdicate your right to decide when you could question and dissent from the junk?