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Dr. Bret Weinstein: ‘Perverse Incentives’ in the Vaccine Rollout and the Censorship of Science
The Epoch Times ^ | July 3, 2021 | AMERICAN THOUGHT LEADERS

Posted on 07/04/2021 2:04:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

“We are exposing a huge fraction of the population to what is in effect a scientific experiment, except that it isn’t a scientific experiment because we are deliberately avoiding collecting data that would allow us to evaluate the impact,” says Dr. Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary biologist and co-host of the DarkHorse podcast.

In this deep-dive with Dr. Weinstein, we discuss COVID-19 vaccine safety, the efficacy of repurposed drugs, the Wuhan lab leak theory, and this new age of censorship. What scientific data and information is currently being denied to the public?

 

Below is a rush transcript of this American Thought Leaders episode from July 3, 2021. This transcript may not be in its final form and may be updated.

Jan Jekielek: Bret Weinstein, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

Dr. Bret Weinstein: Thanks for having me.

Mr. Jekielek: Bret, I think what we have to talk about today is censorship, and actually kind of a myriad of forms and some things which seem like censorship, but I’m not even sure if that’s the right thing to call them, but it’s certainly heading in that direction. You’ve been demonetized on YouTube recently.

Your DarkHorse channel is in jeopardy from what I understand. One of your recent guests, Dr. Robert Malone, he seems to have been kicked off LinkedIn. I think he’s appealing and might come back. We don’t know. As we’re filming here, that’s the state of affairs. Hopefully they will change. What’s going on?

Dr. Weinstein: Well, what’s going on is something is attempting to retain control of the narrative. I think in some sense, it has been stung by being forced to backtrack on the lab-leak hypothesis and it is attempting to keep discussion within certain bounds on other topics.

Mr. Jekielek: That’s a… What is it?

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bretweinstein; censorship; chinsvirusvaccine; conspiracytheory; interview; podcast; thoughtleaders; vaccine

1 posted on 07/04/2021 2:04:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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And know the steep, linear SARS case & fatality decline beginning January preceded the sluggish vax rollout.


2 posted on 07/04/2021 2:13:58 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Bret and Heather 83rd DarkHorse Podcast Livestream: Doing Science in an Emergency
3 posted on 07/04/2021 2:16:21 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
From the article:

There was then a headlong rush by all of those who had gotten the story wrong to explain themselves and their explanations made less than no sense. They seemed to center on the fact that because Donald Trump had been favorable to the idea that this might have emerged from a lab that that made it not true, which of course is such an illogical conclusion that it’s hard to imagine how anybody who considers themselves a journalist could for a moment have been misled.

At worst, if you thought everything that Donald Trump said was a lie, at worst, you would have to take it as no evidence either way.

But that’s not how people treated it. They treated it almost as if the truth was always the opposite of what he said. And in any case, when the story changed, I had the distinct sense that what had happened was those of us who had been dogged about revealing the evidence and discussing what it meant and pointing to the implications of it, the implications being that although there is no conclusive proof, there is good reason to think that this emerged from a lab, that that is actually the most likely explanation.

Eventually, I think we made it impossible to maintain the public lie that a laboratory origin was somehow obviously in conflict with the evidence. And we now know from Dr. Fauci’s emails that behind the scenes, the top people didn’t believe it either. They were just simply feeding the public a lie that they had their own reasons for wanting the public to believe.

But I think the answer to your question is simple. There comes a point at which you’re caught lying and your best move is to revise the story. And that’s what happened to them.


4 posted on 07/04/2021 2:22:52 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bret Weinstein is the proverbial liberal who got mugged.


5 posted on 07/04/2021 2:27:36 PM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: Fido969

I’m pretty sure he would still call himself a liberal and I doubt that he would vote other than Demoncrat, but he has been very clear eyed about the plandemic, it’s origins and the issues with the “vaccines”.


6 posted on 07/04/2021 2:49:42 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mr. Jekielek: You’ve called the mass vaccination of COVID-19 the biggest gain of function experiment ever. What does that mean?

Dr. Weinstein: Well, what we are doing is unusual. We are deploying a novel technology that contains the code for a very narrow antigen signal, and we are deploying it into an active pandemic. And because the vaccines are not perfectly effective at preventing breakthrough cases, they are effectively exerting a very strong kind of selection on the virus.

And there’s every reason to worry that this selection will drive the evolution of escape mutants. That is to say selection in favor of mutations that make the virus invisible to the aware immune system that has been alerted by the vaccines. And that could produce an ongoing pandemic where we might end the pandemic if we were to approach it differently.

Hello, Delta Varient.


7 posted on 07/04/2021 2:50:38 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: allblues

He has repeatedly said that he remains “on the left” politically, but that he refuses to follow a party line, and will continue to seek the truth, and speak out about what he believes to be true.

He’s invaluable, and the fact that he will probably be silenced on Youtube should concern everyone, regardless of political affiliation.

There’s a lot of good stuff in that podcast. This bit is particularly apt, discussing the tech giant’s censorship:

“Well, unfortunately what you get is the worst of both worlds, because on the one hand, you don’t get the necessary conversation about whether the apparatus that’s supposed to keep us safe is still functioning in our interests. And that leaves those who detect that something is wrong to fantasize about what may be going on.

And so the understanding of how bad things are, what the nature of them is runs wild, because the only conversations in which the fact of a discrepancy between the evidence and the policy can be discussed are also conversations in which people are undisciplined and are allowing their imaginations to get the better of them.”


8 posted on 07/04/2021 2:53:31 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Flick Lives

And precisely why we are starting to see articles from the propaganda press blaming the variants on the unvaccinated without any basis or evidence.


9 posted on 07/04/2021 3:00:25 PM PDT by Treeless Branch
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To: Fido969

Brett is the tip of the spear on this front and Americans owe him and his wife a great debt of gratitude.


10 posted on 07/04/2021 3:24:56 PM PDT by tatown
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To: Gene Eric

FACT: 82% of Pregnant Women in Study Had Miscarriage. WHY is the ‘Media’ Hiding THIS?

https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/07/fact-82-of-pregnant-women-in-study-had-miscarriage-why-is-the-media-hiding-this/

COVID-19 vaccine reactions: Families describe adverse responses to shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp_zNSEW1wc

Time will tell whose right and whose wrong. Pray you’re on the right side.


11 posted on 07/04/2021 3:45:18 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Ping


12 posted on 07/04/2021 5:56:14 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
 
 
 
 

13 posted on 07/04/2021 6:33:27 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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