Logo for The Real Left, who organised the conference discussed below. Introduction I attended the conference ‘The Left Case Against the World Economic Forum’ on the 25th March in London. While I am not going to do an expansive write-up on the conference, I was drawn to respond to a comment made by Dr. Clare Craig in the Q&A portion of the panel regarding paediatric vaccines, as I have some quite significant issues with it.
I agree entirely with you. Assuming that Dr. Clare Craig realizes that paediatric vaccines are harmful, she's arguing in bad faith. To do so is unacceptable, dishonest, cowardly, for anyone, in any context, but for a medical doctor, speaking in a public forum, it's supremely inexcusable. Her position is wrong on every possible account, strategically, morally, ethically, etc., as you point out eloquently in this piece.
On the highwire show, there was some poll or something that pointed out a trend.
CONfidence in the vaccine program over all has dropped dramatically.
It's very much like you mention with the booster uptake being very low.
Even though it was a horrible time of mandates and travel restrictions, this whole thing is waking people up to the bigger sham.
Dr Craig, like most doctors are still kind of stuck in the paradigm.
"The evolutionary psychologist William von Hippel found that humans use large parts of thinking power to navigate social world rather than perform independent analysis and decision making. For most people it is the mechanism that, in case of doubt, will prevent one from thinking what is right if, in return, it endangers one’s social status. This phenomenon occurs more strongly the higher a person’s social status. Another factor is that the more educated and more theoretically intelligent a person is, the more their brain is adept at selling them the biggest nonsense as a reasonable idea, as long as it elevates their social status. The upper educated class tends to be more inclined than ordinary people to chase some intellectual boondoggle. "
I agree entirely with you. Assuming that Dr. Clare Craig realizes that paediatric vaccines are harmful, she's arguing in bad faith. To do so is unacceptable, dishonest, cowardly, for anyone, in any context, but for a medical doctor, speaking in a public forum, it's supremely inexcusable. Her position is wrong on every possible account, strategically, morally, ethically, etc., as you point out eloquently in this piece.
On the highwire show, there was some poll or something that pointed out a trend.
CONfidence in the vaccine program over all has dropped dramatically.
It's very much like you mention with the booster uptake being very low.
Even though it was a horrible time of mandates and travel restrictions, this whole thing is waking people up to the bigger sham.
Dr Craig, like most doctors are still kind of stuck in the paradigm.
"The evolutionary psychologist William von Hippel found that humans use large parts of thinking power to navigate social world rather than perform independent analysis and decision making. For most people it is the mechanism that, in case of doubt, will prevent one from thinking what is right if, in return, it endangers one’s social status. This phenomenon occurs more strongly the higher a person’s social status. Another factor is that the more educated and more theoretically intelligent a person is, the more their brain is adept at selling them the biggest nonsense as a reasonable idea, as long as it elevates their social status. The upper educated class tends to be more inclined than ordinary people to chase some intellectual boondoggle. "
-Sasha Latypova