So I just published one of the most important pieces I’ve ever written. A piece that, because it is quite critical of the Claremont Institute, some of my friends wish I had never undertaken, and which has cost me good deal of sweat, as I have striven to hit the right tone between fair yet firm judgment.
I draw it to your attention to it here because it became too long for the usual Substack procedure of emailing it to subscribers, and I don’t want my mailing-reliant readers to miss it.
Much of the length is due to its extensive footnotes. A key strength of the piece, I think, is the way it pairs documentation of Claremont’s blank avoiding of the issue of the Covid-19 vax-harm claims, with documentation of the many ways in which various vax-harm dissidents have built-up the case for them. The piece thus provides, especially through its reliance on two important videos from Peter McCullough and Naomi Wolf, a summary picture of where the evidence stands at this point.
It also shows why there has been a moral duty to publicize the dissidents’ claims and facilitate fair debate of them, especially given the organized suppression of them, and how most conservative leaders, as represented here by Claremont, have failed to rise up to this duty.
But one additional note: I was stunned and moved as I labored on the piece, to learn that the great pathologist Arne Burkhardt, the key pioneer of the autopsy techniques that could establish causality in the cases of persons who had unexpectedly died soon after receiving the injections, himself passed away, at an elderly age, this May. He is a true hero of our age, for he came out of retirement at the request of friends and acquaintances desperate for answers in the early days of 2021, back when most persons, myself included, did not know that the adverse events, including the many fatal ones, were racking up quickly. The hard work he did to establish the needed autopsy techniques, and to with his team to perform 51 very careful autopsies, as documented in this video, likely shortened the final days of his own life. He gave it to others.
I leave you with this tribute, which some of his colleagues participate in, including Sucharit Bhakdi. Of course it is not on youtube, but is on Rumble. For a youtube video, this shorter one from Phillip McMillan is excellent, and he makes a key point at 7:03-8:03 against the many “elites” who found a way to dismiss Burkhardt, and justify censorship and persecution of him, in early 2022.
I am so grateful for Dr. Burkhardt’s work. As stark-evil-cold-dark as events have been the last few years, they would have been even worse without the initially very small flame of his work, which began to give us answers. Indeed, it was one of the key sparks which woke me up.
A giant has passed. Statues of him in our public squares will one day stand tall.
Condolences to his colleagues and loved ones, and RIP.