Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t James Delingpole / Brietbart; 2013 Nobel Prize winning Stanford Biophysicist Michael Levitt has been disinvited from a bio-design conference, because other speakers threatened to quit rather than share a stage with a Covid-19 heretic.
Delingpole: Nobel Winner Michael Levitt Cancelled for Coronavirus Wrongthink
JAMES DELINGPOLE
20 Oct 2020A Nobel Prize-winning chemist and Stanford professor has been cancelled for wrongthink on coronavirus.
Professor Michael Levitt, who won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 2013, was due to be the keynote speaker in December at a virtual conference on his areas of special expertise – computational biology and biodesign.
But the First International Biodesign Research Conference withdrew his invitation – according to Levitt because they had received ‘too many calls’ from other speakers ‘threatening to quit’ because of his views on Chinese coronavirus. He has long maintained that the threat is overblown and that ‘we’re going to be fine.’
My keynote uninvited from https://t.co/KhepqykXW8
— Michael Levitt (@MLevitt_NP2013) October 18, 2020
“… too many calls by other speakers threatening to quit if you were there. They all complained about your COVID claims”.
Computational biology & biodesign are based on my work. Time to cancel them & me.
New Dark Age Cometh.…
Remember a few decades ago when it was OK to disagree with someone? How can science possibly progress if nobody is allowed to disagree, if any dissent from group think is punished by social exclusion and bullying?
Yep. When I was young we had a few mantras one of which was:
As I write this, the reported COVID-19 death toll stands at nearly 225,000 in the U.S. I however cannot help but wonder if many of those deaths are being counted because they died WITH the viral infection as opposed to dying BECAUSE of it. Who is doing the counting? What are the criteria for counting someone as having died OF the virus as opposed to WITH IT?
https://tinyurl.com/y5uf9256
I doubt if anyone is going to question the death toll when this thing as all over and done with. No investigation is likely to be done, especially if Biden wins next month. Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree here. If this is a significant overreaction though, it demonstrates how we humans can easily go into panic and mass hysteria mode from listening to people we perhaps should not be. That goes for the CAGW narrative as well.
I would be interested in knowing what the mortality rate is going to be in the U.S. at the end of this year and how it compares with say 2015-2019.
And many of them were because of the utter idiocy of sending Covid patients into nursing homes.
The people who did that should be in jail for man-slaughter.
W.H.O. Has killed more than a million people a year for decades, killing 2.5 million with SarsCov-19-2 A,-F, varieties isn’t unexpected. 99% of the [snip] don’t even understand that you can’t actually immunize against coronaviruses.
If you could we’d have no common colds.
[I mean, you DO know we have profanity rules, right? -mod]
And HCQ remains an effective early treatment for the Wuhan Virus. A proven, cost effective drug has been cancelled because Orange Man Bad. Further, no one can make Oprah Money from HCQ, so its scattered defenders could never neutralize the toxic brew of greed and religious zeal bubbling forth from its haters.
HCQ as border guard, Zn to reduce viral viability, and Az to control inflammation and infection in a planned pathogen protocol. This cocktail works in vitro, it has a long-term established minimal risk profile, and has bee been demonstrated effective as an early treatment to mitigate disease progress.
Cancel Culture is the tactic of the UIC (University Industrial Complex). See the documentary “The Red Pill” where a feminist loses her religion by the tactics they learned in sanctioned Uni.
Thanks for the tip. link
We see over and over that the new left is malign.
These “scientists” prove, that some sciences degenerate to a religion, where heretics get excommunicated, for the moment, what will follow later, we can’t even guess.
Religious/moral philosophies vary. Most notable are the ostensibly “secular” religions that are selective, opportunistic, relativistic (“ethical”), or quasi-religions. The issues here are the creation of constructs and indulgence of practices exploited for political (e.g. social) and economic leverage.
Einstein certainly had to contend with a lot of adversity and unpopularity on and off campus leading up to WW1 and afterwards. He managed to advance science amidst all of that and get out of harms way. A lot of others did not make it through, including many who were in that 97 percent who opposed Einstein in the early round. You never know who the victims will be in a multi-round of witch hunt and lynch mob.
I hate bullies. It’s never a good idea to back down to them because then they just get emboldened. Better to stand your ground and risk a bloody nose. At least you can maintain some self-respect that way. Lately the Tom Petty song “I won’t back down” has become my mantra.
Cancelled, huh. A witch trial, a warlock judgment, a protest, and so it progresses.
If this nobel winner (a real one unlike mickeymann) made some mistakes regarding covid, why would this preclude him speaking on his specialty
No one gets everything right just as no one gets everything wrong.
There are brilliant people that comment on here, but on some subjects they seem a little out there, but that is fine as many people feel the same about me.
That is the problem with having an opinion, no matter what it is someone is going to be offended.
Makes it hard at parties, i want to be interesting like anyone else and i have no time for inane small talk, not my thing, so sometimes i stay silent.
That is wrong too.
It just seems like having an opinion is a human right, and that is being taken away
The Roman Intellectual Dark Age (ie Christian Orthodoxy) took around 1,000 years to reverse. Let’s hope the anti-enlightenment does not take too much of a hold.
It never ceases to amaze me how anti-Christian bigots are so eager to re-write history.
Christian orthodoxy preserved knowledge (e.g. scientific, religious/moral, art, medical) to mitigate progress during the Dark Ages, thereby preparing humanity to leave the twilight fringe, and return to the dawn of an enlightened era.
What a bigoted and ignorant comment
“the threat is overblown”
I guess that depends on how many eventually die from this and exactly what threat he is referring to. The threat of a health-care crisis was very real and some areas ran out of hospital beds and supplies. Slowing down the spread helped to prevent extra deaths caused by over demand. The harm to the economy is hard to judge…had we not isolated how many more would have died (due to over demand of health care)? How many lives will end up worse off (or even dead) due to the harm to the economy? There will be lots of opinions, but no way to actually know this.
“we will be fine”
Well, yes of course the living will be fine. This disease never threatened the human race, it was just more deadly than any modern Flu virus. It WAS/IS overblown in my own opinion, but towards the beginning there was no way to know that.
Why someone expressing their own opinion is “shunned” is more troubling to me than the Covid-19. It’s like some kind of mental disease spreading and killing off free speech, individuality, and the right to think for one’s self.
The second White Coat Summit was held in Washington D.C. October 16-17, 2020. Its purpose was to have frontline doctors talk directly to the American public, educate and inform policy leaders, and create alliances to enable physicians to heal our nation. Its emphasis was on the proven success of early treatment.
Here is the vimeo link, now removed:
SCOTUS Press Conference October 17, 2020 – 12pm ET
Here is a page with full AFLDS Summit II Sessions
https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/summit2/
(an email address is requested, but not required to access the page)
Another option:
https://12bytes.org/news-bytes-must-see-americas-frontline-doctors-hold-2nd-press-conference-17-oct-2020/
The common denominator that CC and COVID share is their ability to be used as control levers for those seeking to change the system. This COVID consensus, which has Sweden sitting as a negative proof point, having emerged from the other side of the virus without significant economic damage, is demonstrating what we know about CC. It’s all built on lies and hides behind what used to be the truth of science.
Science in the U.S. is headed for the same outcome as general education and health care. It spends twice as much in each category and gets less out of it than peer countries.
More censorship, it seems.
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1319012799104847874
It will be fine , when more people are canceled than cancelers we will wake up , what we have at the moment is grown ups that never lost at anything always a prize earned or not , just children allowed to play grown up games.
ole hillbilly common sense = it is difficult to get a vaccine to protect against a virus, IF it was easy the common cold would be a thing of the past that nobody ever gets……OR the chicken pox virus couldnt live dormant for decades and then give a person shingles…..the fella is right we can live with this virus just like we live with all the other versions that have been encountered.
I wonder if he was one of the scientists that Naomi Seibt referenced in her speech to the German Parliament last week. She spoke of her study/research of the PCR method for testing for the virus along with detecting RNA – the test being flawed.
Here is a recent interview by a South African who interviewed her:
Fast forward to 35 to get the gist of her speech and listen for the first 9 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nyLrmEcEhI
BTW, Naomi has done many interviews but I and her mother think that this is the best interview she has ever done!
Some years ago there was a coal conference in Australia, where someone got up and started talking about Noah’s flood. The paper he sent to the organisers didn’t mention he was going to talk about the flood. So the people at the conference had to calmly sit through and listen to all the coal in the Sydney Basin being formed from Gods wrath a few thousand years ago. Of course, the creationists can then claim they have had their papers spoken at ‘International Conferences’ etc, legitimising it.
It’s a fine line.
Nobel-laureate Dr. Michael Levitt (Chemistry and structural biology at Stanford):
July 25, 2020: “US COVID19 will be done in 4 weeks [Aug 25] with total reported deaths below 170,000. How will we know it is over? Like for Europe, when all cause excess deaths are at normal level for week. Reported COVID19 deaths may continue after 25 Aug. & reported cases will, but it will be over.”
It appears that Dr Levitt was off by a month. LOL. Better up your game doc. How did the predictions of all the other “experts” do?
Here is the USA (scroll down to graph)
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
I wonder if this was what he got cancelled for?
“Countering the Second Wave with Facts, not Misconceptions”
By: Udi Qimron, Uri Gavish, Eyal Shahar, Michael Levitt
https://www.dropbox.com/s/72hi9jfcqfct1n9/Haaretz-20Jul20_ENGLISH%2012082020%20v3.pdf?dl=0
Some highlights for you:
Pre-immunity. No country has got more than 20% infected before it died out.
In several closed communities that underwent testing, the infection rate was always capped at 20%, which statistically aligns with maximal infection rate in these communities rather than recurring coincidences.
In Sweden the infection rate did not exceed 20% and the percentage of people who survived the epidemic exceeds 99.9% of the population.
In Belgium, the country with the highest population mortality rate, where less than 20% were infected, and more than 99.9% of the population has survived.
Immediate removal of most restrictions on the economy, immediate return to normal life of low-risk population while helping high-risk groups reduce the rate of social contacts is in order.
The Office for National Statistics in Britain gives the latest (next numbers tomorrow) monthly overall mortality analysis:
‘In August 2020, there were 34,750 deaths registered in England, 2,060 deaths fewer than the five-year average (2015 to 2019) for August; in Wales, there were 2,379 deaths registered, 116 deaths fewer the five-year average for August.
The leading cause of death in August 2020 was dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in England (accounting for 10.9% of all deaths) and ischaemic heart disease in Wales (11.0% of all deaths); both leading causes of death were the same in July 2020.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) did not feature in the top ten leading causes of death in August 2020, in England or Wales. In England, COVID-19 was the 24th most common cause of death’
Errrrrr…….the numbers in Britain are with the legendary Dr Levitt.
Oh! He’s a Nobel Laureate with an academic background in applied mathematics……..
When total expected deaths from any cause by age as well as totals returns to normal, the pandemic is over. Yes people will still get COVID-19 from the virus and some will be very sick, but statistically, the pandemic will be over. If this Nobel prize winner is off by a few months or even a year, that is not outside of the norm for predictions based on models of pandemics.
Science is not about disagreeing without evidence/proof, it is about disagreeing with evidence/proof. Opinion is fine but proof is best.