Posted on 09/20/2024 9:35:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I am a physician and a scientist. Over 12 years, I had the privilege of serving Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden as the director of the National Institutes of Health. Before that, I led the U.S. component of the Human Genome Project.
I am amazed by the medical progress that has been possible in the past few decades, both in alleviating suffering and saving lives. But I am also deeply troubled by the growing distrust of science in our society, just at the time when its insights are most needed. No recent experience highlights that disconnect more starkly than the last five years of the Covid pandemic. From my vantage point on the front lines of that battle against a dangerous virus, let me highlight both the triumphs and tragedies, and propose some actions that we can all take to re-anchor our troubled society to truth, science, faith and trust — and put us back on an individual and collective journey that might be called the road to wisdom.
Go with me back to early 2020, as the worst pandemic in more than a century was spreading across the globe, and deaths in the United States were in the thousands every day. For me and hundreds of scientists who joined together during Operation Warp Speed, the most hopeful strategy was to develop a vaccine. We all worked to be sure the large-scale trials were scrupulously conducted, and that they involved a wide range of men and women of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
What would success look like? The Food and Drug Administration had set the threshold for approval of this effort at 50 percent efficacy, about what the flu vaccine achieves most years...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The reason we don't trust "scientists" anymore is because the new DIE breed of "scientists" lies and fabricates evidence, which is why so many "scientific articles" have to be retracted and so many "scientific journals" are shutting down. "Peer review" has become a bad joke. If articles are being competently "peer reviewed," why are so many of them fraudulent?
“Beware those scientific studies—most are wrong, researcher warns”
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-beware-scientific-studiesmost-wrong.html
“So much for ‘peer review’ — Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers”
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/so-much-for-peer-review-wiley-shuts-down-19-science-journals-and-retracts-11000-fraudulent-or-gobblygook-papers/
A little CYA attempt?
The TRUTH is the NYT cannot be trusted, is a propaganda tool of the Deep State, 3-letter agencies, leftists, satanists, and democrats.
Francis you are part of the deep state that created & conducted the democide! All of you in the quasi gov’t alphabet agencies knew Ivermectin would stop the pandemic. I am looking forward to Nurmberg 2.0 trials & RFK dealing with you murderers.
How come unvaccinated Africa fared pretty well since this most devastating pandemic in more than a hundred years hit? I still believe the Hong Kong flu of the 60s was worse as it struck all ages and health. This time all deaths were Covid. Even if you had an automobile accident with severe brain injuries - yep he died of Covid. Stick virus carriers in nursing homes and see what happens. I don’t trust any doctor now since Covid.
“I am a physician and a scientist. Over 12 years, I had the privilege of serving Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden as the director of the National Institutes of Health. Before that, I led the U.S. component of the Human Genome Project.
I am amazed by the medical progress that has been possible in the past few decades,”
In other words, you presided over the period of history during which life expectancy went from a taken-for granted inevitable increase to an alarming decline. And you are proud of your service. You ought to be covered with shame if not tar and feathers.
After seeing how “studies” were used to vilify both HCQ and ivermectin and to force people into death by ventilators, remdesivir and the clot shots, it’s going to take a lot of apologies, firings, and new checks and balances before I trust any of these “experts”.
I’m hoping RFK Jr can dig into this in Trump’s administration
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
We can NOT solve the Trust Issue until we hold Nuremberg II Trials and hold the Guilty accountable for their Fraud and Lies that injured MILLIONS of innocent people.
The “truth” is rarely found while toeing the party line.
I would say the best description of covid was it was a political plague for the most part.
So this is the same National Institute of Health that is conducting biological warfare research in China across the street from their CCP counterparts. They won’t admit it because we are signatories to a non-research treaty so we do it outside the USA and share results with China so they don’t feel threatened. That’s why we had a “vaccine” so quickly for Covid 19.
I do trust science but coercion is not science, censorship is not science, faked data is not science, manipulating results is not science, cherry-picking studies is not science, and fear-mongering is not science.
"Trust the science" is the most anti-science statement ever. Questioning science is how you do science! If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore; it’s propaganda…That’s the truth.
Trust the science?
Coercion is not science.
Withholding data is not science.
Manipulating data is not science.
Cherry-picking studies is not science.
Social conditioning is not science.
Fear—mongering is not science.
Pharma propaganda is not science.
What refutes science?
Better science
What doesn’t refute science?
Your feelings
Your religion
Your favorite politician
Your half-baked opinion after watching YouTube videos.
When they say, “Trust the Science" what they really mean is don't think critically or ask questions. Just do what you're told to do based on what they say is science.
If you believe in the science of masks but not in the science of life beginning at conception, then you do not believe in science. You believe in a political ideology.
The debates over of rate of miscarriages, charges of autism in children, instances of blood-clotting, heart failure in young men, permanancy of MRNA in the blood system are, frankly, beyond me. Its highly technical literature, which my everyday life does not allow me to follow in depth.
I believe problems exist, but I do not know from what baseline or to what extent.
But there ARE some very obvious, admitted lies we DO know, which logically throw EVERYTHING into question
- the coverup and lies over origins of covid
- the coverup and lies over gain of function research in exactly the furin cleavage sites prominent in SARS-Co-Vs
- the fact Fauci and NIH broke the law to pay Ecohealth Alliance to do this research in Wuhan
- the lies about mortality among young people
- the lies and randomness over selection of “social distancing” requirements.
- the chaotic and random statistical record-keeping over “covid deaths”
So knowing that the Govt narrative of origin, spread and mortality were FAKE - what should we make of this man’s claims about “science” and the vaccine?
I'm assuming your question is rhetorical, but I'll answer it anyway: Francis Collins is a fraud and a liar. That he holds himself out as a follower of Christ makes that fact all the worse. Collins and his ilk should face justice in this world, but I'm skeptical that they will. I do know that Collins and his ilk will face justice in the next.
Collins is a profoundly reprehensible man.
Tell that to Walter Duranty and the Ukraine famine NYT. Duranty was a paid whore of the NYT, paid to lie. The NYT does mot know what truth is. Screw the NYT, a worthless rag.
That was what I noticed first, that this article was related to the NYT. Too many times, the public seems to be duped by what some “scientist” deems as fact when we don’t know what his/her area of expertise is. True science is not normally questioned in my opinion.
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