CDC, Center for Democracy Corrosion
Reflections Prompted by the Agency's Plans for a Disinformation-Predictor "Tool"
Natalie Winters noticed something creepy in the November additions to the Federal Register:
The Centers for Disease Control is planning to hold a confidential meeting to address “developing a public health tool to predict the virality of vaccine misinformation.”
So, some big-wigs want an AI program developed, and/or, a team set-up, which will look over new content from, say, Igor Chudov or Alex Berenson, or some medical researcher we have never heard of, and do “pre-virality” analysis of it?
What will the “tool” be analyzing? The accuracy, quality, and testability of any new scientific research being presented? Ditto for mere hypotheses not yet tested? That’s presumably impossible for AI.
So will it be analyzing the potency of the rhetoric used?
Will a red flashing light come-on at CDC headquarters when their AI detects “LINCOLNIAN LEVEL” argumentation?
DANGER. DANGER. HIGH VIRALITY-POTENTIAL DETECTED.
And, er…what possible “use” would such a “tool” have? As Winters points out, no definition of “misinformation” is provided.
Well, surely we’ll learn more. Or not:
The meeting, set to take place on March 7th, 2023… “will be closed to the public in accordance with the provisions set forth in sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C….”
This is particularly creepy in the context of the recent revelations of the frontal/serial violations of the First Amendment’s prohibition of government abridgement of the freedom of speech/press, by the Biden administration. And of old Twitter’s willing participation in these fascism-like betrayals of our nation’s free-speech tradition. These revelations are due to the discovery growing out the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, and of course, due to the “Twitter files.” Here are a couple of the recent stories:
“Missouri v. Biden: More Stunning Developments.” By Tracy Beanz.
Efforts to secretly suppress “misinformation” were initially justified on public health grounds, and thus centered on protecting the unholy sanctity of the mRNA meds’ repuation, but of course, once would-be despots in our government got wind of what was happening in this one policy area, they wanted it extended to their pet areas, namely, to discourse on the 2020 elections, on J6, on specifics of climate change policy, on specifics of drugs and treatments for the transgendered, and even to who could speak about Senator Adam Schiff.
Facebook should be abandoned by the American public, hammered by existing anti-trust and communications laws, and subjected to newly-tailored ones. Rob Flaherty, White House director of digital strategy, should be fired, become socially ostracized, and subjected to lawsuit after lawsuit until his dying day.
As for the impeachment of Joseph Biden, its occurence or non-occurence will be driven by political calculations, but no president in our history has deserved it more, as none until now dared to openly attack the First Amendment’s protection of free speech and press, and to set-up an indefinitely-empowered censorship apparatus. John Adams’ case is special, because so early, and prior to consensus on the First. Wilson’s bad WWI actions do not approach what Biden has done. And Nixon’s crimes targetted a select set of political opponents, not every internet-using American wanting to investigate or opine-upon one of the leading issues of the era!
Biden is not merely the most embarrassing President of our history. He has proven the one most dangerous to our basic liberties.
But amazingly, that is nearly beside the point.
For who was it that most led our dear idiot-bully President and his minions/handlers into this morass of First Amendment violations? Into becoming Big Brother?
That’s right, it was the CDC!
More broadly, it was our epidemiology “experts,” with not a little prodding by vile Big Pharma bribesters, and sinister DOD/DARPA types, and then also, the professional associations funded and supported by most of our doctors!
As I wrote in my August piece on National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy, who I labelled a “Traitor to the First Amendment” for her unforgivable efforts to expand the government’s shadow-banning actions:
…let’s not forget the key precedent for this entire Biden WH pattern: the social media companies’ willingness to suppress speech about Covid-19. They did this at the request of once-respected medical associations—it led to tens-of-thousands, likely millions, of future instances of social media censorship, continuing to this day with respect to the widespread vax-harms, but the Day of Infamy, April 27, 2020, showed us how deep the betrayal of the Spirit of the First Amendment by the tech companies would go—they removed a viral video by Bakersfield doctors Erickson and Massihi that questioned lockdown policies. It was a day that shocked me to my core.
And here we are, in January 2023, not surprised by the Twittergate revelations, nor by the fact that many prominent “Democrats” dare to defend the revealed speech-suppression actions!
(And do note, regarding that 2020 beginning-point of the present censorship regime, neither Trump nor his people lifted a finger against it.)
Like many in that town in Stranger Things discovered, there is a cancer of evil hidden-away in the midst of our national community, and yet ever-spreading its despotism, and its spiritual and physical poisons.
Call it the “Biomedical Security State,” as Aaron Kheriaty does. For obviously, it is not the CDC alone, but involves Fauci’s NIAID, NIH, HHS, FDA, DARPA, and God knows who else.
But symbolically, and quite directly, let’s focus upon the CDC.
Its officers have repented of nothing, nor admitted a thing. Fired not a single villain responsible for their multiple failings, failings which are silently killing American after American. Fired not a single official tainted by his or her recommending of censorship. In fact, they are plotting more censorship and control for us, and since some regulation required them to report it, they had to put their notice out there for this planned new “tool.” Regardless of whether this particular plan would ever have amounted to anything signficant or not, it shows us clearly that even by November of 2022, the agency had been not at all chastened by the unfolding revelations of the CDC-urged treason against the First Amendment.
And, isn’t its mission supposed to be the protection of American citizens’ health?
Where is the announcement of a plan to commission a major study of the Richard Hirschman clots? To incentive autopsies of the suspiciously-deceased nationwide to see if their cadavers also have the strange clot-stuctures?
Where is the announcement of a plan to similarly incentivize the more complex histopathological autospsies which pin-point spike-protien contributions to fatalties pioneered by certain German scientists?
Where is the announcement of a plan to duplicate the Thai myocarditis study, but with a vastly larger sample?
I am mentioning merely three research programs among hundreds the CDC could do to get us closer to being able to definitely know what is going on with the increased rates of excess (and non-Covid) mortality that are remaining elevated across the world.
Or, where is the annoucement of major studies which would thoroughly investigate, and thus hopefully debunk, the findings of the Hirschman-supporting embalmers, of the German doctors, or of the Thai scientists?
Or of an event in which CDC representatives would publically debate figures like Steve Kirsch?
Instead, they quietly advance plans for a virality-predicting tool?
The CDC issues proclamations against “disinformation,” and funds a project whose only possible application would be the suppression of any speech/press they define as such, but it does nothing that would allow us to thoroughly debunk the most important claims of leading critics of the experimental mRNA meds.
Recently, the tireless Scott Johnson of Powerline wrote this, in a Twittergate story:
As I have observed several times in this series, we owe the publication of the Twitter Files to Elon Musk. It is a project that I believe to be the biggest story out there. [emph. added]
In the comments, I objected. No, the larger Covid/Vax Disaster is the biggest story out there by far.
And that is because you cannot even understand the First Amendment story without seeing how the cancer of censorship-orchestration and censorship-acceptance began with Covid-19 policy. Began in institutions like the CDC, which apparently managed to only promote leaders who knew nothing, or who held nothing sacred, about the American political tradition. Indeed, writers like Kheriaty can show you how devious actors in our CDC, DOD, Pharma, WHO, and various “philanthropath” organizations, were talking about the need to use methods of lockdown, information control, and “citizen”-tracking in various scenarios many years prior to Covid-19’s release.
Bottom-line: there can be no understanding of the Free Speech Suppression Disaster without understanding of the Covid/Vax one. They are linked at every point. To this day, newly-proposed desecrations of our free-speech tradition are coming out of the CDC and its ilk. And no, professional conservatives who-silence-themselves-on-the-vax-harms, that second Disaster cannot be limited to convenient-to-now-denounce things like the lockdowns and Antony Fauci. At its dark black heart is the concoction of the poisonous new meds, and the present cover-up of their harms.
You have to go into investigation of the mRNA-vax-harms, or into reporting on those investigations and debates. You have got to stop seeming to implicitly endorse, by means of your ostentatious silences, the agencies’ crude claims that dissident vax-harm discussions generally constitute “disinformation.”
Willy-nilly, you’ve become part of the censorship problem. You’re contributing to it.
Scott Johnson, that means you. And to repeat, Victor Davis Hanson, Michael Anton, American Mind, The New Atlantis, WSJ, Fox News, etc., that means you also.
(On that front, I hope that the recent uptick of Daily Signal stories touching on the vax-harm issue indicate that the Heritage Foundation has finally changed course on this. I am noticing encouraging signs over at First Things also.)
As for the CDC itself, it is time to say what Cato the Elder repeatedly said of Carthage: it must be utterly destroyed. Everyone fired, 10-20% of its lower-levels rehired at a new agency, and nearly all of its directors—there might be two or three disconnected from the Covid-19 directives who are simply too valuable to do without—fired and blacklisted, as far as conservatives are concerned, from any future government appointment.
The CDC is against democracy, of the American natural-rights kind, and even of the old Periclean kind, in which Pericles could talk-up the way the Athenians valued discussion. On Covid/Covid-Vax issues it has nearly totally botched its protection of our bodily health, and in large part because it has committed itself to methods of governance that reject the ABC principles of our body politic. Write your representative to demand an 80% halting of its funding immediately, and investigations galore. (And what the heck, demand a 100% halt for DARPA funding while you’re at it.)
Addendum: Just read Eugyppius’ piece on this, wherein he makes some obvious observations about the proposed tech I did not, and wherein he writes this paragraph for the ages:
Still: It’s interesting to consider that the CDC was founded in 1946 as an outgrowth of a malaria eradication programme, and that it took less than three generations for it to metastasise from those small beginnings into the hypervaccinating mass-containing thought-policing pharmaceutical scam-promoting multidimensionally tentacled tumorous vampire squid that it is today. With every crisis, every crusade and every bad flu season, it’s gotten just a little bigger, a little more comprehensive, down to the present moment, in which it’s soliciting an algorithm that will identify opinions it doesn’t like, in advance of anyone even having heard of them.
Great commentary. “Professional conservatives” have only begun to scratch the surface of what they are up against here from the nexus of the pharma/medical/DoD/Deep State secret bio-weapon/vax research. They really need to have some deep chats with Dr. Malone and Dr. David Martin, who have actually swam in those waters. They (like most Americans) really been brainwashed into what I call the “Cult of Scientism”, which, due to their lack of scientific expertise, they never dreamed of questioning. Now they are beginning to question what’s been happening but aren’t sure whom to trust. A lot of people might label them “controlled opposition”, but I really think they’re just naive about certain extremely important information. They’re brains are not yet ready to acknowledge these things as facts. VDH is starting to address these things as questions that are reasonable to ask (as opposed to conclusions people like you and I have already drawn from available info). For some, waking up to this scam is a momentous event. For most, I’d say it’s more like a process. My awakening happened four years ago by what I learned from a YouTube chiropractor Dr. Eric Berg, followed by Dr. Mercola (of the infamous “Disinformation Dirty Dozen”). Their information has helped me vastly improve my health. Lost 50 pounds in 3.5 months without effort and Haven’t had so much as a cold symptom in almost 4 years. Nor have I visited a doctor in that time. Results speak for themselves. Disinformation indeed…
We have been abused, manipulated, and gaslit into compliance: https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/what-happens-to-vaccine-clinical?utm_source=cross-post&publication_id=583200&post_id=97110787&isFreemail=true&utm_campaign=748806&utm_medium=email
Almost every abusive relationship follows a similar pattern: the abusive partner lures the abused party into the relationship with lavish promises, and then once they are ensnared, finds reasons to renege on those promises and justifications to be a little bit abusive. The abused party will try to resist this shift, but the abuser will find some way to overcome that resistance (e.g., they will gaslight the partner into believing the abuse isn’t even happening).
In turn, that small amount of abuse will become the accepted standard for the relationship and if the victimized partner ever attempts to resist the new standard, the abuser will throw a fit until compliance is restored. That cycle will repeat and repeat until a high degree of abuse (be it physical or emotional) becomes the norm, and the abused individual is trapped and has to go along with it.