Those who control Peter Daszak and GOF research probably control the Nobel prizes also

The article below I photographed from Science
magazine, 1 week after Trump said he was taking away a grant to
EcoHealth Alliance for its work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on
coronaviruses.

Below,
the Defender today reprinted an article by Rob Verkerk published
initially by the Alliance for Natural Health. I had been waiting for
something like this.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/nobel-prize-summit-real-science/

How the Nobel Prize Summit Sold Out on Real Science

Despite
noble ambitions, the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit in Washington, D.C.,
looked more like a breeding ground for artificial intelligence-infused
dogma and big corporate-backed pseudoscience.

By Rob Verkerk, Ph.D., and Paraschiva Florescu

The Nobel Prize Summit
held May 24-26 in Washington, D.C., showcased how the war against the
“viral infection” of misinformation and disinformation is to be fought
by academic institutions, the mainstream media, social media companies
and governments.

The summit’s title, “Truth, Trust and
Hope” is a reflection of a view held by the organizers and their
backers. They uphold that unless this war is won, public trust in
science is done for.

You may not be surprised to learn that cancel
culture and artificial intelligence (AI) are expected to play key roles
in the battle strategy against “scientific misinformation.”

“The great thing is not having a mind,” writes Nobel Laureate Louise Glück, in her poem “The Red Poppy.”

And
what a great thing indeed, for having a mind is perhaps one of the
biggest obstacles in the way of authoritarianism and the hunger of a few
for extreme power.

People’s minds can be either a tool to further
an agenda, or a hindrance to achieving it. It depends on what
perspective you choose to look at it. We’ll explore the idea of
perspectives throughout the article.

Mouthing off, Beckett-style

The
Nobel Prize Summit began by putting the assembled in-person and virtual
audience into an almost trance-like state with a performance piece
about mis- and disinformation by film producer Smriti Keshari.

Warning:
don’t be put off by the performer’s disembodied mouth, the words which
emanate from it are too insightful to be ignored — this is art, for
corporate science protectionism’s sake!

Extracts of the monologue from Keshari’s performance piece at the Nobel Prize Summit:

“Were
their eyes or ears or nose or memory, playing tricks on them? … Did
they see something that wasn’t there? … What were they to believe? …

“Disinformation’s web, tangled threads of falsehood spread, truth obscured, misled.”

It turns out Keshari’s piece was inspired by Samuel Beckett’s 1971 monologue “Not I” which is delivered in a similar way: via an illuminated, seemingly disembodied mouth.

Keshari
borrowed another idea from Beckett’s work in which the previously
voiceless protagonist begins to doubt her ability to find her voice as
well as her own memory, coming to the conclusion that “memories could be false.”

Nobel
Prize Summit listeners were taken on an emotional journey, which
included 130 years of Nobel prizeworthy discoveries as well as an
“experience” of what some may consider misinformation and disinformation.

Reading between the lines

The objective of the performance piece was clearly to show how people can be misled into believing conspiracy theories.

The
proposed mechanism for misleading people, which has a cogent scientific
basis, involves juxtaposing fear through fear-mongering with the
exploitation of our innate attraction to the unexpected.

Surprise and anticipation, like fear, are actually primary emotions
and therefore are very powerful drivers of human behavior. With careful
calibration of these various factors, people can be led to believe all
sorts of things, some of which will turn out not to be true.

While the mechanism is widely recognized, we were concerned about the assumptions
being made over who is deploying which type of misinformation or
disinformation, consciously, subconsciously and unconsciously, and to
what end.

To be more specific, and by way of example,
the scientific establishment represented at the Nobel Prize Summit
would likely argue that any view that purported that lockdowns, masks or
vaccines did more harm than good during the COVID-19 pandemic period (2020-2022) should be categorized as scientific misinformation….

Here is the rest of the article.