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Aye, I wrote immediately to the Spiked editors to challenge them on several of the straight up factual inadequacies in Myers piece. Unsurprisingly, I received no reply. The most astonishing thing about all this is the blind faith in vaccination that those otherwise open to critical reflection possess. How did we reach a point whereby faith in magical science is so strong that even evidence cannot puncture it...?

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Hi Chris, still haven't got round to replying to your comment on my previous piece...(!) But I will. Just to say that (here) my first response is how trusting of you to imagine that Spiked were genuinely interested in the truth! On this of all matters, a magazine of their type and stature (even) must grasp by now that something foul smelling is going on. It's not that they're not doing their job properly, rather, they're doing it only too well, in accordance with some unmentioned paymaster, surely. The other observation concerns the bigger question of how we understand 'truth' which is one that rumbles through a lot of the work flowing through Substack in my view. Evidence. Whatever you thrust into their ('normies') purview will not be looked at. Recall Myers's comment about sending him 'as many papers as you like' because he already decided what is true. This is the way of things right now. We inhabit a mediated world which is very dangerous. This forms part of my hypothesis regarding idolatry - which I am still trying to research and write about!

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Idolatry! A favourite topic of mine. I'm sure you've come across Owen Barfield's Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry. Worth a read if you haven't. A little incoherent in places and I think overly complicated, but still fascinating. We should chat about the subject...

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Many thanks for that recommendation, it certainly looks like one to add to the growing list! Perhaps a discussion would be possible at some point. (I think the term is misunderstood to a great extent).

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These days, it is mostly sci-dolatry.

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Spiked gets funding from the Charles Koch institute, which allegedly was predicated in this case on the magazine's support for free speech... which of course is a rather more flexible concept these days. But the editorial core are supposed to be Marxists (they used to be Living Marxism magazine). What has the world come from when even the Marxists are propping up the pharmaceutical corporations...? Dearie me.

Also, please don't feel obligated to reply to everything I write - my output is torrential (one might even say dysenteric!), and nobody can keep up with it... I would hate to delay you on your new essays just for the triviality of responding to my 'scream of consciousness' comments. 🙂

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(Laughs) your comments are always thought provoking, and I, too have to do something with all that thinking!

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Agreed. And why is it better to die of vax than virus? It's bizarre that folks believe that a medical intervention on a healthy body that causes injury or death is perfectly okay. In conversation with a believer the other night, I was told that vaccines never prevented transmission, they just diminished symptoms. The other fiction this believer reported was that vaccines for humans were never tested on animals. Why? She asked. What would be the point or purpose? Her mother developed a vax for animals, so she's getting this BS from a practicing vaccinologist. Used to be we weren't so concerned about "viruses": the issue was illness. Slight change of subject and the whole discourse has gone off the rails.

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Great comment which mirrors so much of what we're experiencing right now.

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Funny the mag is called "Spiked." Quite the protein: seems to spread everywhere, including the brain. Not sure which is worse, brain or heart. In any case, we're screwed.

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Yes, in my effort to keep this essay concise I neglected to play more with that 'Spiked' point (!). It's as if someone is having an elaborate joke at our expense. To me, the 'spike protein' image that appeared everywhere for a while represents the multi-pronged attack on our culture that is clearly happening.

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I miss the days when heresy was merely a theological concept.

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Brilliant!

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