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Old 3rd March 2022, 05:05 AM   #121
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Originally Posted by Bubba View Post
MSM and Pharma guys:

Re prostate cancer claims against Zantac, Maybe there is a better search term, or a better search engine, because no msm pages were seen on google for the search term


Zantac linked to prostate cancer on abc, cbs, nbc..


Maybe there is something to the claim that MSM favors big pharma?
Nope.
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Old 3rd March 2022, 05:28 AM   #122
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I know you're mad at me for not warning you earlier. It's too late for you now. But you have to make the effort to remove the poison from your body, there is always hope, my friend.
If we're all about to be devastated by a massive but invisible cosmic object in... 18 days now, why would we worry about COVID-19 or vaccines?
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correcting misinformation re Christine Massey

The world contains several people named Christine Massey. One of them, a resident of Brampton, Ontario, has submitted numerous FOI requests to obtain blandly uninformative formal responses, which conspiracy theorists such as Petra have been citing as though they were evidence against the very existence of SARS-CoV-2.

Both Petra and smartcooky have mischaracterized that person's professional and educational background. I quoted smartcooky's mistake without checking it:

Originally Posted by W.D.Clinger View Post
Originally Posted by Petra View Post
Microbiologist, Christine Massey,
No:
Originally Posted by Planigale View Post
Christine Massey is not a microbiologist.
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Christine Massey is NOT a microbiologist! She holds an undergraduate degree (B.A.) from the University of Ottawa and a Master’s degree (M.A.) from Simon Fraser University... in psychology!

If you can't tell the difference between a microbiologist and a psychologist, then its no wonder you have trouble understanding anything. Planigale is better qualified to pontificate on microbiology than Massey!

In reality, the Christine Massey of FOI infamy, who resides in Brampton, Ontario, is neither a microbiologist nor a psychologist. In her own words:

Originally Posted by Christine Massey
I am a professional biostatistician working in the field of cancer research, and earned my Master􏰀s degree at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.

...snipped 7 pages of ranting against fluoridation of water...

Best wishes,
Christine Massey, M.Sc.
Brampton, ON
Spokesperson, Fluoride Free Peel
So the Christine Massey cited by Petra and her fellow travelers is neither a microbiologist nor a psychologist, but a soi-disant biostatistician and inveterate nutjob in the tradition of General Jack T Ripper.

I apologize for my error.
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Old 3rd March 2022, 07:30 AM   #124
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Vaccine Goes Into Liver Cells and Is Converted to DNA -permanent chromosomal change.
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I know you're mad at me for not warning you earlier. It's too late for you now. But you have to make the effort to remove the poison from your body, there is always hope, my friend.

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(for certain definitions of "permanent chromosomal change") I guess.
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Old 3rd March 2022, 09:03 AM   #126
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Originally Posted by Emre_1974tr View Post
I know you're mad at me for not warning you earlier. It's too late for you now. But you have to make the effort to remove the poison from your body, there is always hope, my friend.
You said in another thread that the vaccine would tear us apart from the inside. Do you know how long after receiving it this is supposed to occur? If the evil doers are bent on reducing population, why would they target people who comply more easily? Wouldn't it be smarter to truly vaccinate the compliant and then kill off the ones who refuse? Why fill the world with those they can't easily control?
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Old 3rd March 2022, 09:43 AM   #127
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Originally Posted by Disbelief View Post
You said in another thread that the vaccine would tear us apart from the inside. Do you know how long after receiving it this is supposed to occur? If the evil doers are bent on reducing population, why would they target people who comply more easily? Wouldn't it be smarter to truly vaccinate the compliant and then kill off the ones who refuse? Why fill the world with those they can't easily control?

Deaths and injuries have already begun and are increasing rapidly.

The answer to your 2. question is from the Qur'an:

Holy Quran

6:137 And it was adorned for the polytheists, by their partners, to kill their children in order to turn them and to confound their system for them. Had God willed they would not have done this, so ignore them and what they invent.

14:46 Andthey schemed their scheming, and their scheming is known to God; and their scheming was enough to make the mountains cease to exist.

2:205 And if he gains power, he seeks to corrupt the earth and destroy its crops, and the lineage. God does not love corruption.
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Originally Posted by Emre_1974tr View Post
Deaths and injuries have already begun and are increasing rapidly.
Nope.
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Old 3rd March 2022, 09:48 AM   #129
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Originally Posted by Emre_1974tr View Post
Deaths and injuries have already begun and are increasing rapidly.
No they haven't, but you should be able to tell us when we can expect to die if we've been vaccinated. How long after injection? Why do we need boosters?

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The answer to your 2. question is from the Qur'an:

Holy Quran

6:137 And it was adorned for the polytheists, by their partners, to kill their children in order to turn them and to confound their system for them. Had God willed they would not have done this, so ignore them and what they invent.

14:46 Andthey schemed their scheming, and their scheming is known to God; and their scheming was enough to make the mountains cease to exist.

2:205 And if he gains power, he seeks to corrupt the earth and destroy its crops, and the lineage. God does not love corruption.
That doesn't answer my questions in the slightest. How about you tell me in your own words.
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Originally Posted by Disbelief View Post
You said in another thread that the vaccine would tear us apart from the inside. Do you know how long after receiving it this is supposed to occur? If the evil doers are bent on reducing population, why would they target people who comply more easily? Wouldn't it be smarter to truly vaccinate the compliant and then kill off the ones who refuse? Why fill the world with those they can't easily control?
How dare you bring logic into God's house!
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Old 3rd March 2022, 10:08 AM   #131
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Originally Posted by Emre_1974tr View Post
Deaths and injuries have already begun and are increasing rapidly.
Source? Numbers? How many have died so far?

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The answer to your 2. question is from the Qur'an:

Holy Quran

6:137 And it was adorned for the polytheists, by their partners, to kill their children in order to turn them and to confound their system for them. Had God willed they would not have done this, so ignore them and what they invent.

14:46 Andthey schemed their scheming, and their scheming is known to God; and their scheming was enough to make the mountains cease to exist.

2:205 And if he gains power, he seeks to corrupt the earth and destroy its crops, and the lineage. God does not love corruption.
I've got books, too!

The Peripheral, by William Gibson - page 329:

"Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated **** actually is than they ever are about whoever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy."
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So, this means that 'cos I'm an atheist I'm OK, as that line from the Qur'an only mentions polytheists.

It gets even harder to keep up with these conspiracies when religion is dragged into it as well, because the levels of incomprehensibility expand and expand and expand...
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Old 3rd March 2022, 10:34 AM   #133
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Originally Posted by Foster Zygote View Post
Source? Numbers? How many have died so far?



I've got books, too!

The Peripheral, by William Gibson - page 329:

"Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated **** actually is than they ever are about whoever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy."
I have a load of books also.

Currently I'm reading Ronald Hutton's The Witch - A history of fear from ancient times to the present. This has a lot of stuff about folk believing that others (witches) can cause harm and illness to other people at a distance. Just waiting for Covid to be put down to witches...
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Originally Posted by Emre_1974tr View Post
Deaths and injuries have already begun and are increasing rapidly.

The answer to your 2. question is from the Qur'an:

Holy Quran

6:137 And it was adorned for the polytheists, by their partners, to kill their children in order to turn them and to confound their system for them. Had God willed they would not have done this, so ignore them and what they invent.

14:46 Andthey schemed their scheming, and their scheming is known to God; and their scheming was enough to make the mountains cease to exist.

2:205 And if he gains power, he seeks to corrupt the earth and destroy its crops, and the lineage. God does not love corruption.
As I've said in your Quran thread where you keep running away from arguments, the Quran is poorly written self insert fanfiction.

It's meaningless. Allah isn't real.
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Old 3rd March 2022, 11:02 AM   #135
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So, this means that 'cos I'm an atheist I'm OK, as that line from the Qur'an only mentions polytheists.

It gets even harder to keep up with these conspiracies when religion is dragged into it as well, because the levels of incomprehensibility expand and expand and expand...
Look. It's quite simple.
If the Qur'an says something obviously stupid, like the sun setting in a muddy pool, and Emre doesn't like it, then the Qur'an doesn't say that: you have to change the interpretation so it says what Emre wants it to say, and only Emre is allowed to say what that is.

If the Qur'an says something cruel and vicious, like a command to cut the hands and feet off of those who oppose you, and Emre doesn't like that either, then the Qur'an doesn't say that either: it only applies to certain people at a certain time, and anyway, Arabs are wrong and stupid, because Emre says so.

If, on the other hand, the Qur'an says something that might support whatever Emre is saying, then it absolutely does mean what it says, and says what it means, because Emre likes it and now it's the clear and unarguable word of god that applies universally and needs no interpretation, because Emre said so.
See? Simples.
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Old 3rd March 2022, 12:32 PM   #136
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Originally Posted by Emre_1974tr View Post
I know you're mad at me for not warning you earlier. It's too late for you now. But you have to make the effort to remove the poison from your body, there is always hope, my friend.

I'm not mad at you, I'm laughing at you because I think you might actually believe the nonsensical claptrap you have been posting.


18 days to go!
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I know you're mad at me for not warning you earlier. It's too late for you now. But you have to make the effort to remove the poison from your body, there is always hope, my friend.
FYI, the only poison of serious concern in MY life is the misinformation you, like all the rabid propaganda zombies of the internet, attempt to spread.

Hmmmm...a little aside here. As a homage to old sci-fi movies of the 50s - 60s, that would make a good title - "Rabid Propaganda Zombies of the Internet".

Back to the point. Fortunately, my precautions of being educated, logical and of a sound critical-thinking mind have provided me with a strong immunity to your particular disease. I see there are many others in this forum, who have taken or exhibit similar preventative techniques, so it seems the only reason you continue to even be responded to is as a case study of your nefarious actions. That's MY reason, anyway.
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If we're all about to be devastated by a massive but invisible cosmic object in... 18 days now, why would we worry about COVID-19 or vaccines?

Wait, did I miss a doomsday prophecy?
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Wait, did I miss a doomsday prophecy?
This one (don't get your hopes up, it's just a reboot, and kinda squirrely on the details already).
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FYI, the only poison of serious concern in MY life is the misinformation you, like all the rabid propaganda zombies of the internet, attempt to spread.

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You explained yourself. This is you.
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You explained yourself. This is you.
I know you are. But what am I?
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Plague rat doctor pleads guilty to Jan 6 charges.
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Simone Gold, the founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, a group notorious for questioning the safety and effectiveness of COVID vaccines and promoting unproven drugs, has pleaded guilty to participating in the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

As part of an agreement with the government, Gold pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, a misdemeanor offense. She had been facing four other charges, including the felony of obstruction of an official proceeding.
Because of course.
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telemedicine and ivermectin

"ABC News was able to obtain 28 pills of ivermectin for a total of $339, including a $90 telemedicine consultation fee and a charge of $249 from an online pharmacy -- which included a $25 shipping fee for overnight delivery -- after filling out an application and providing a medical history through a telemedicine platform, and having a brief conversation with someone who claimed to have no knowledge about the drug or COVID-19." ABC news

Nice work if you can get it.
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You explained yourself. This is you.
Naw. Unlike you, I can come up with my own descriptions of things I actually experience (e.g., engaging contaminants such as you in this forum), and in so doing, can easily distance myself from such rabble as you - unable to form an original thought, and even less likely to understand the logic in coherent discourse that differs from your programming.
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Originally Posted by Chris_Halkides View Post
"ABC News was able to obtain 28 pills of ivermectin for a total of $339, including a $90 telemedicine consultation fee and a charge of $249 from an online pharmacy -- which included a $25 shipping fee for overnight delivery -- after filling out an application and providing a medical history through a telemedicine platform, and having a brief conversation with someone who claimed to have no knowledge about the drug or COVID-19." ABC news

Nice work if you can get it.
Sales to the gullible

In New Zealand, you can walk into a vet and buy a 5 pack of Ivermectin wormer for your horse for $14.95 including tax.
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Originally Posted by W.D.Clinger View Post
The world contains several people named Christine Massey. One of them, a resident of Brampton, Ontario, has submitted numerous FOI requests to obtain blandly uninformative formal responses, which conspiracy theorists such as Petra have been citing as though they were evidence against the very existence of SARS-CoV-2.

Both Petra and smartcooky have mischaracterized that person's professional and educational background. I quoted smartcooky's mistake without checking it:




In reality, the Christine Massey of FOI infamy, who resides in Brampton, Ontario, is neither a microbiologist nor a psychologist. In her own words:


So the Christine Massey cited by Petra and her fellow travelers is neither a microbiologist nor a psychologist, but a soi-disant biostatistician and inveterate nutjob in the tradition of General Jack T Ripper.

I apologize for my error.
Thank you for pointing out the error, Clinger, however, I think you tend to miss the forest for the trees. The main point is the FOI campaign she has organised, not her qualifications, and when you say "to obtain blandly uninformative formal responses" you need to be more specific.

To me, what would act as a criticism of her campaign is the explanation of why the criteria she has specified are not relevant to virus isolation but I see no evidence of it. I would have thought at least ONE institution who's responded to her FOI request would have said, "No, we have no evidence of what you request, however, X, Y and Z" explaining that whatever they do possess does indeed reflect the correct scientific method used to to perform isolation of the alleged virus but I'm not aware of such a response.

Perhaps you can enlighten me Clinger.
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Thank you for pointing out the error, Clinger, however, I think you tend to miss the forest for the trees. The main point is the FOI campaign she has organised, not her qualifications, and when you say "to obtain blandly uninformative formal responses" you need to be more specific.

To me, what would act as a criticism of her campaign is the explanation of why the criteria she has specified are not relevant to virus isolation but I see no evidence of it. I would have thought at least ONE institution who's responded to her FOI request would have said, "No, we have no evidence of what you request, however, X, Y and Z" explaining that whatever they do possess does indeed reflect the correct scientific method used to to perform isolation of the alleged virus but I'm not aware of such a response.

Perhaps you can enlighten me Clinger.

Petra could you please, in your own words, explain the steps of the scientific method?
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[South African soccer field grass rustles in fear]


I remember that one!
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Thank you for pointing out the error, Clinger, however, I think you tend to miss the forest for the trees. The main point is the FOI campaign she has organised, not her qualifications, and when you say "to obtain blandly uninformative formal responses" you need to be more specific.

To me, what would act as a criticism of her campaign is the explanation of why the criteria she has specified are not relevant to virus isolation but I see no evidence of it. I would have thought at least ONE institution who's responded to her FOI request would have said, "No, we have no evidence of what you request, however, X, Y and Z" explaining that whatever they do possess does indeed reflect the correct scientific method used to to perform isolation of the alleged virus but I'm not aware of such a response.

Perhaps you can enlighten me Clinger.
Against my better judgement, and more for the benefit of others rather than any expectation of a coherent response from Petra- which in any case I will probably ignore (Sauce for the goose, and all that, Petra):

Petra is ignoring the fact that W.D. Clinger linked to the actual FOI requests, and the actual answers, from each institution. It really can't get any more specific than that.
Had she actually bothered to read them, she might have discovered this:

Originally Posted by Sinai Health, in the link Petra couldn't be arsed to read
I have been engaging with our experts at Sinai Health regarding your request. We are not clear on the records that you are requesting, as we are not aware that isolation of a virus in the manner that you have described is possible for any virus; it is not within the scope of current scientific processes.
On this basis, we are not able to process your request as it is currently worded.
We wrote to you on July 30 and August 8, 2020 seeking clarification of your request, however you declined to speak with us and did not provide a substantive response.
Pretty much says it all: the request is either deliberately dishonest, so as to provoke answers that can be spun into a conspiracy theory, or based on a profound ignorance of the science in question. It could, of course, be both- i.e., ignorant and dishonest.
Note also that Petra has relied heavily on a lack of response as a form of positive evidence. That criterium should also be applied here as well, then.

In any case, I think this should provide an answer that would satisfy any reasonable person.
No doubt Petra will find some reason to continue being unreasonable.
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It could, of course, be both- i.e., ignorant and dishonest.

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Indeed. It is a well-understood fact that ignorance and dishonesty are not mutually exclusive, a fact had has been demonstrated plentifully and repeatedly in this thread!
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Indeed. It is a well-understood fact that ignorance and dishonesty are not mutually exclusive, a fact had has been demonstrated plentifully and repeatedly in this thread!
If a person knows enough about a topic to be dishonest about it then the ignorance they display is both willful and feigned.

And most frequently displayed by those who reside under bridges.
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How dare you bring logic into God's house!
Just curious how true believers answer. As expected, gibberish was the result.
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Just curious how true believers answer. As expected, gibberish was the result.
That and dead silence. They don't seem to realize that the questions they completely ignore often say far more than any of their actual posts.
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That and dead silence. They don't seem to realize that the questions they completely ignore often say far more than any of their actual posts.
With the right skillset, by even distantly looking at rocks, we can literally glean exponentially more valid information than from their posts.
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Fauci knew

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said he believes the 90 pages of communication records between the NIH and the Wuhan lab show that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s agency, NIAID, has been “hiding information on China’s failure to provide essential data on COVID-19.”

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) also sent “experts” from the NIH-supported P4 lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch to train Wuhan Institute of Virology technicians in “lab management and maintenance” – nearly two years before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic – the records obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit show.


https://www.nationandstate.com/2022/...ocuments-show/

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Missouri Attorney General Sues CCP & Wuhan Lab

Missouri Attorney General Serves Chinese Communist Party, Wuhan Institute of Virology in COVID-19 Lawsuit


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If a person knows enough about a topic to be dishonest about it then the ignorance they display is both willful and feigned.

And most frequently displayed by those who reside under bridges.
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ts;di;dr.

There, better.
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