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  • People Would Rather Die Than Be Wrong - The Semmelweis Reflex Was Just the Beginning

    06/24/2026 11:18:29 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 27 replies
    Behind the Narrative 📣 ^ | 24 Jun, 2026 | Yama Bar
    In the first Maternity Clinic of the Vienna General Hospital, one in eight women died after giving birth. They called it childbed fever, marked by days of fever and severe pain, and explained it as miasma, bad air, or God’s will. They called it anything except what it was. Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that doctors who moved between patients and performed autopsies — and walked straight from the corpses to the delivery room — without washing their hands. He introduced mandatory handwashing with chlorinated lime. The death rate collapsed immediately. The medical establishment dismissed him and attacked his methods, his tone,...
  • New mothers who died of herpes could have been infected by one surgeon

    11/22/2021 2:10:22 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 7 replies
    BBC News ^ | James Melley & Michael Buchanan
    The doctor performed Caesareans on both the women in 2018. The families, who were told there were no connections between the deaths, are calling for inquests to be opened. The East Kent Hospitals Trust says it could not identify the source of the infection, and the surgeon had no history of the virus. Deaths caused by HSV-1 - one of two strains of the herpes simplex virus - are almost unheard of in healthy people. It is a common infection that can cause sores around the mouth or genitals. Yet, in May and July 2018, two young mothers died from...
  • This tech millionaire went from covid trial funder to misinformation superspreader

    11/01/2021 7:19:22 AM PDT · by David Chase · 82 replies
    MIT Technology Review ^ | October, 2nd, 2021 | Cat Ferguson
    He’s also publicly railed against what he claims is a campaign against drugs like fluvoxamine and ivermectin. And, according to three members of CETF’s scientific advisory board, he put pressure on them to promote fluvoxamine for clinical use without conclusive data that it worked for covid. More recently, he’s adopted extremist positions on covid vaccines, which he alleges are “toxic.” He has claimed that one in 1,000 people who have received mRNA vaccines have died as a result, and even claimed the vaccines “kill more people than they save” at an FDA public forum, which was first reported by the...