Carl D wrote on Dec 13
th, 2024 at 11:30am:
Quote:Unhinged Hotez--Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex to Unleash New Viruses on Trump Administration January 21, Senate Confirmations, Fate of Direct-to-Consumer Pharma Advertising
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Peter A. McCullough,
MD, MPHDoctor of Medicine + Master of Public HealthStay curious.......unlike how members like
Carl D.......would want
you to be.
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"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever."
- [from] 1984 - George Orwell
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.
- George Orwell
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
- George Orwell
"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
- George Orwell
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell [even if this quote is mis-attributed to Orwell, the pursuit of truth remains a great virtue]
"I consider that willingness to criticize Russia and Stalin is the test of intellectual honesty."
- George Orwell, to his friend John Middleton Murry, a wartime pacifist
"Nothing is gained by teaching a parrot a new word. What is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from any side."
- George Orwell
ideology vs. truth
"To admit that an opponent might be both honest and intelligent is felt to be intolerable.
It is more immediately satisfying to shout that he is a fool or a scoundrel, or both, than to find out what he is really like."
- George Orwell
“Power is not a means; it is an end.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution.
The object of torture is torture.
The object of power is power” - George Orwell
We shouldn't be frightened of those who ask questions,
we should only be frightened, of those who want to stop the questions.
- Yadda
"diversity" does NOT mean that only people you agree with can speak.
- ?
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
- Herbert Spencer
"There are two ways to be fooled [deceived].
One way is to believe what is not true.
The other is to refuse to accept what is true."
- Soren Kierkegaard
Speaking to the blind and fundamental [extremist] error, of those who worship, within the temple of Political Correctness [who are against open enquiry or transparency]....
"If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."
- J.S. Mill - English philosopher -
on people who try to silence opinions with which they disagree