https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/grotesque-google-youtube-invest-12-million-in-global-fact-checking-media-network

“Grotesque”: Google, YouTube Invest $12 Million in Global Fact-Checking Media Network

By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., The Defender

Reacting to Tuesday’s announcement that Google and YouTube will fund a global fact-checking network through the media institute Poynter, media expert Mark Crispin Miller, Ph.D., said, “This is grotesque — almost to the point of comedy, except it’s not funny.”

Claiming that “Combating misinformation is an ongoing global challenge for society,” Google and YouTube on Tuesday said they will spend $12 million to create a Global Fact Check Fund that will support a network of 135 fact-checking organizations operating from 65 countries in more than 80 languages.

The money is part of a $13.5 million grant the tech companies awarded the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), a division of the nonprofit media institute Poynter, according to Mashable.

The money will go toward scaling up existing operations of Poynter’s IFCN, and also toward launching new initiatives to elevate what the IFCN deems to be “information” and reduce what it deems to be “misinformation,” the companies said.

“The world needs fact-checking more than ever before,” said Baybars Örsek, executive director of the IFCN. “This partnership with Google and YouTube infuses financial support to global fact-checkers and is a step in the right direction.”

However, Mark Crispin Miller, Ph.D., professor of media studies at New York University, told The Defender he found the development to be “grotesque — almost to the point of comedy, except that it’s not funny.”

Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., author of Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom, also criticized Google and YouTube’s financial partnership with the IFCN, telling The Defender:

Google and YouTube are not purveyors of information; they are tools for the totalitarian control of information. They have engaged in censorship, down-ranking, and black-listing information, likely since their inception.

Their outsourcing of such functions to the IFCN is no surprise at all. The IFCN is merely an agent of the totalitarian regime.

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

Hopefully the past two years have educated the public on how one man’s ‘misinformation’ is another man’s truth.  All this censorship does is make it harder to read dissenting opinions from the accepted narrative, which hurts everyone.  This is causing people to go elsewhere for their information – and rightly so.

After being sued, Facebook admits it’s “Fact checks” are statements of opinion which are protected under the First Amendment.

Poynter, who’s revenue increased 150% since 2017-2022, engages in “double-speak” when it says it “fortifies journalism’s role in a free society” and “champions freedom of expression,” while it censors dissenters, clearly exemplifying the tactic of using the inverse of the truth. 

Now, thanks to this new grant from Google and Youtube, IFCN can expand its “fact-checking.”

Major funders are:

The Defender reached out to Poynter requesting more specific information about its funding sources but Poynter did not respond by the deadline.

For more:

https://danielcameronmd.com/when-babesiosis-turns-deadly/

WHEN BABESIOSIS TURNS DEADLY

babesiosis-turns-deadly
In their case report “Fatal Babesiosis in an Immunocompetent Patient,” Selig and colleagues describe a 48-year-old man who died within days of being admitted to the hospital from babesiosis and yet, he didn’t have any significant risk factors for severe presentation of the illness. [1]

By Dr. Daniel Cameron

The man presented to the emergency department with fatigue, generalized weakness and intermittent subjective fevers. The symptoms had worsened over a 2-week period.

The patient also complained of headaches, vision changes, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. And had a medical history of type 2 diabetes and intermittent asthma.

“He denied any known recent tick or animal exposures, any recent travel, or previous blood transfusions,” the authors write. 

“On arrival to the ED, the patient was tachycardic, afebrile, and normotensive,” the authors write. “A blood parasite smear returned with small ring-form parasites with 25% [red blood cells] infected, consistent with babesiosis.”

“Human babesiosis is an emerging infectious disease with a progressively rising number of cases in the Northeast over the last few decades.”

The patient was admitted to the intensive care unit and began treatment with azithromycin and atovaquone, along with doxycycline for any co-infections, such as Lyme disease.

However, the next day, the patient’s conditioned deteriorated and he required endotracheal intubation with mechanical ventilation. Several days later, he died.

“A few days following the patient’s death, babesia studies returned with PCR positive for B. microti and positive anti body findings (IgG 1:128 and IgM 1:160) confirming the babesiosis diagnosis,” the authors write.

PODCAST: Delayed onset Babesia

The authors suggest, “Clinicians should be aware that even in patients without the classic risk factors of asplenia, advanced age, and immunocompromised status for severe presentations of babesiosis, a deadly case can present.”

They noted that although their patient suffered from type 2 diabetes, an immunocompromised condition, diabetes has not previously been shown to be a significant risk factor for severe babesiosis.

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/31127539

LymeX prize competition announces ten Phase 1 winners

Carl Tuttle

Hudson, NH, United States

NOV 30, 2022 — 

Please see the following letter sent to all winners of the LymeX prize…

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “contact@steveandalex.org” <contact@steveandalex.org>
Cc: The Tick-Borne Disease Working group and all winners of the LymeX prize
Date: 11/30/2022 1:12 PM
Subject: LymeX prize competition announces ten Phase 1 winners

November 7, 2022

LymeX prize competition announces ten Phase 1 winners
https://www.lymedisease.org/lymex-phase-one-winners/

“The ultimate goal of the multiphase competition is to nurture the development of diagnostics toward Food and Drug Administration review.” 

To all winners of the Phase 1 LymeX Diagnostics Prize competition,

After spending the last thirteen years studying the mishandling of Lyme disease, I felt compelled to share the following facts (and supporting documentation) regarding prior attempts to introduce “new and/or improved” diagnostic detection methods. I concluded that a chronic relapsing seronegative disease does not fit the business model of vaccine development, patent royalties and pharmaceutical profits so laboratory confirmation of persistent infection after antibiotic treatment must be squelched/suppressed at all costs.

Examples

1. Culture: Advanced Laboratory Services

Barbara J.B. Johnson, microbiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed laboratory contamination in reference to positive test results (Chronic Lyme) found in Advanced Laboratory Services’ Borrellia culture test. If this is the case, why didn’t the CDC work with Advanced Laboratory Services to perfect its culture test and resolve the so-called “contamination” issues?

New Lyme Culture Test Failed CDC Analysis Aug 20, 2013
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/809626

New CDC/FDA Warning Against Unapproved Lyme Culture Test
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/823840

“Dr. Nelson emphasized that for Lyme disease diagnosis, the CDC recommends a 2-step process of serologic testing: first, an FDA-cleared enzyme immunoassay, followed in immunoassay-positive or equivocal cases by confirmatory Western blot. Only patients positive on both tests are considered to have Lyme disease.”

Carl Tuttle’s comment: Current FDA approved Lyme disease tests (Antibody tests) cannot be used to gauge treatment failure or success which makes them ideal for concealing an antibiotic resistant/tolerant superbug allowing the thirty-year-old dogma to remain intact.

2. PCR testing:

We have seen similar actions from the CDC with PCR testing as well. In May of 2012 the CDC announced the Development of a Novel Genus-specific Real-time PCR Assay for Detection and Differentiation of Bartonella Species and Genotypes:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22378904

Here the CDC is using PCR for a definitive diagnosis of Bartonella however, according to the CDC and the ALDF group on June 11, 2012 PCR cannot be used for Lyme diagnosis per the CDC expert commentary posted on Medscape below:

PCR for Diagnosis of Lyme Disease: Is It Useful? Christina A. Nelson, MD, MPH
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/764501

Quotes from Christa Nelson: (Medical Officer in the Bacterial Diseases Branch of CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Disease)

“Is PCR useful for the diagnosis of Lyme disease? In general, the answer is no.”

“Two-tiered serology remains the mainstay of laboratory testing for Lyme disease.”

Carl Tuttle’s comment: PCR is acceptable for Bartonella but not Lyme disease. Double standard here?

3. Nested PCR and DNA sequencing: Milford Molecular Diagnostics

In September of 2012 the CDC entered into an agreement with Dr. Sin Lee to evaluate the viability of his DNA sequencing technology. Martin E. Schriefer, Ph.D., the chief of the CDC’s diagnostic and reference laboratory, stated the following: (from the attached court document)  https://www.dropbox.com/s/8irsb6oqunwy3zq/Notice%20of%20Appeal.pdf?dl=0

“So wherever possible we encouraged and required other non-serologic-based tests in addition to clinical presentation so that might have included PCR or culture or both. . . . And again I’m looking forward to seeing a greater utilization of PCR as a diagnostic tool in the future.” -Martin E. Schriefer, Ph.D.

When Dr. Lee published a case of persistent infection (Chronic Lyme disease) in 2014 all communication with the CDC ended abruptly with no explanation.

DNA Sequencing Diagnosis of Off-Season Spirochetemia with Low Bacterial Density in Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi Infections  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4139787/

Carl Tuttle’s Comment: It should be noted that the chronic Lyme disease case identified in this publication was found in blind-coded serum samples sent to Dr. Lee’s laboratory from the CDC’s Lyme disease serum repository and other species of Borrelia were found within these samples using DNA sequencing; the CDC had no idea that multiple pathogens were involved.

Has the CDC purposely discredited other innovative technologies which are in competition to the invention being patented by Theresa M. Russell and Barbara J.B. Johnson of the NCEZID under Pub. No. WO 2013110026 A1 entitled “Compositions and methods relating to Lyme disease”?

Dr. Lee although participated in the competition, was not awarded the LymeX prize. Does anyone believe that this decision was just a coincidence?

4. NIST

New Experimental Test Detects Signs of Lyme Disease Near Time of Infection February 11, 2016
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/02/new-experimental-test-detects-signs-lyme-disease-near-time-infection

“The current standard blood test for Lyme disease exposes the infection only after antibodies have accumulated to detectable levels, which can take up to 4 to 6 weeks. If patients exhibit a telltale bull’s-eye rash, diagnosis and treatment can begin earlier. But the rash does not occur in 20 to 30 percent of Lyme disease patients, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Rather than waiting for an infected person’s immune system to produce noticeable amounts of antibodies, the team chose to home in on the bacteria itself—specifically, proteins the bug sheds when attacked by the body’s defenses.

“From many candidates, we chose one that is both easily distinguished from human serum proteins and an unambiguous indicator of the bacteria,” Turko says. “This protein, which resides on the outer surface of membranes, became the target of our search in serum samples.”

Carl Tuttle’s comment: Response from Dr Illarion Turko; “This project did not receive further development and is on-hold for now.”

So, who at the CDC got to Dr. Turko and discouraged further development?

Other examples of interference/intimidation

In 2008 Nordin Zeidner published his study regarding single dose Doxycycline for tick bite. Pamela Weintraub interviewed Zeidner for her book:

Cure Unknown (Revised Edition): Inside the Lyme Epidemic

By Pamela Weintraub

https://books.google.com/books?id=

Excerpt:

“Immunologist Nordin Zeidner, chief of the CDC’s Vector-Host laboratory in Fort Collins, Colorado, told me internal agency studies had found the strategy questionable, and definitely ineffective in mice.”

“With the support of his CDC colleagues, Zeidner had begun to work with industry to develop an alternative: a form of injectable Doxy that could be sustained in the body for nineteen days.”

“Trying his formulation on mice, Zeidner found that 100 percent were protected from Lyme as well as the coinfection, anaplasmosis.”

“…..single dose doxy stopped Lyme disease not in 87% of mice, but rather, in 20 to 30 percent at most.”

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Dr Gary Wormser of New York Medical College (who has controlled the Lyme disease narrative for the past three decades) published a study earlier promoting the use of single dose Doxy for tick bite. (See Wormser’s 2001 flawed NEJM article)

I understand that it was Wormser who called Zeidner’s superiors at the CDC to put an end to Zeidner’s work. Zeidner was told to discard the mice sera instead of testing for antibodies as he had promised.

Zeidner’s research was terminated for “lack of industrial support” Mead, and he was promoted, and his email address inactivated. The CDC stopped his research and sent him to Europe

I have attached Zeidner’s 2008 study for your review:

A sustained-release formulation of doxycycline hyclate (Atridox) prevents simultaneous infection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted by tick bite
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jc0h9g9arjhc8l1/Zeidner%202008.pdf?dl=0

Questions for LymeX prize competition winners:

Are all of you confident that the current pandemic was handled properly by our Public Health Officials? Was diagnostic testing controlled/manipulated in any way? Have lifesaving therapies been suppressed over pharmaceutical profits (vaccines)?

I ask the competition winners to be suspect of HHS oversight for this LymeX prize competition and if any dishonest/suspicious activity is experienced as described previously in this letter, please seek early legal counsel, (perhaps collectively) and involve your state senators to expose the ongoing corruption hell bent at maintaining the false thirty-year Lyme disease narrative: “Lyme is Hard to Catch and Easily Treated” (with a 2-4wk antibiotic treatment mandated by the Infectious Diseases Society of America)

Respectfully submitted,

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

Cc: All LymeX prize competition winners, All members of the 2022 Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation

More examples of interference/manipulation as reported through the experience of a clinician on the front lines:

2018 ILADS Webinar – History of Lyme Disease by Joseph J. Burrascano, Jr. MD. (Video Recording)
https://vimeo.com/306846706  Summary:

Joseph Burrascano, MD’s cogent history of Lyme: East Hampton, Long Island NY had the highest rate of Lyme in the world. 1965 internist Sidney Robin coined the term “Montauk Knee”.

1985   87 seronegative patients all had spirochetes produced using Alan McDonald’s culture technique. “Seronegativity is real”

@7:00  re: PTLDS – “There’s never, ever, ever been a description of this Post Lyme Syndrome from an immunological point of view that clarifies what it is and applies to every single patient”.

@9.05 Stony Brook study of 21 day doxycycline “… had a 100% FAILURE RATE… THEY KICKED ME OUT OF THE STUDY AFTER THAT; AND THEY NEVER REPORTED THOSE RESULTS.”

@9.35 Patient Evaluation: “I took advantage of Dr. McDonald’s culture… after treatment ended, if you waited a few weeks, they [patients] were all culture positive. It was failed treatment and a persistence of the infection.”

@12.45  Late 1980’s “Rocephin came onto the scene… 100% failure rate of 2 weeks of Rocephin, even at high dose… Duration of treatment is really, really what’s important.” Findings presented @ 1990 Stockholm International Conference.

@13.50  633 patient records reviewed indicated at least 4 months treatment for those “with multiple bites, Lyme arthritis, heart murmurs, hormonally active women, those sick for more than 1 year, age over 60, acute carditis, documented immune deficiency, failed oral treatment.”

@26.50 Discovered on lecture circuit Dr. Ed Masters from MO, John Druhl, NJ & Paul Levy, San Francisco all independently concluded higher doses and longer treatment necessary. They’d never met or communicated previously.

1990 NIH Gold Stain – 73 chronic patients, 13.5 months mean treatments. Discovered blebs and biofilms.

@31.19 “So, whatever happened to this great gold stain? Know what? Nothing. NIH stopped the funding… closed the whole thing down and never again did they ask front line Lyme doctors to contribute specimens to their studies. So, there’s some politics one more time.”

@32.58 Co infections seem to affect only chronic Lyme patients.

@34.19 Lyme is the thing that takes over the immune system, weakens our defenses….

@36.52 Lyme is an immune suppressive illness….

@38.25 McDonald presented cultures at “… a meeting of NYS Medical Society… detractors were people from Yale and Stony Brook who didn’t want their patented serologic tests to be usurped, and they started claiming that McDonald was falsifying his data and so forth.”

**UPDATE Feb. 2023**

“NO STUDY IN THE WORLD THAT SHOWS THAT MASKS WORK THAT WELL.”

  • Yet, despite a meta analysis and the admission by the White House COVID adviser, the CDC is the ONLY national or international public health agency that recommends masking two year old children.  Listen to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky ramble on and on with pure & utter nonsense.  In this important video, Dr. Prasad reads a statement from CDC director Rochelle Walensky and then states the following:

“She’s just making things up.  She’s good at making things up. She made up the fact that there’s credible data that we should mask kids between 2 and 5 even though UNICEF and the WHO said not to do that. She made that up.  She makes up lots of things, because she doesn’t actually use science to guide decision making, she just likes to make things up.” ~ Dr. Vinay Prasad  

Fauci’s deposition was just released.  Go here to read the 446 page document.

https://brownstone.org/articles/faucis-7-hour-deposition-what-we-know-so-far/

Fauci’s 7-Hour Deposition: What We Know So far

(See link for article)
Summary:
  • Fauci is accused of colluding with Big Tech to suppress dissenters, violating the 1st Amendment
    • Dr. James Lyons-Weiler exposes 72 pages of emails proving collusion on the COVID narrative  (Scroll to minute 37 to hear Weiler)
    • The reason we have the emails are due to a FOIA request by a freelance journalist
    • Another FOIA request shows that while Fauci stated in the deposition he doesn’t have “time to worry about things like the Great Barrington Declaration,” he and Collins colluded with the media to shut it down by engaging in a smear campaign against the authors by calling them “fringe” scientists.  Sorry, but that took time.
  • Fauci knew the lab-leak theory had merit from the beginning but immediately discredited it,  despite it having less than a 1 in 100 million chance of having a natural origin
  • He defended lockdowns, masks, and school closures with very little evidence
    • Under oath, Fauci could not provide a single study showing masks are effective against COVID
    • The 1st randomized controlled trial of more than 6,000 people found surgical masks did not statistically significantly reduce incidence of COVID infection. Video of study here.
    • This recent study shows “close to null effect” of medical masks (10.46%) compared with fit-tested N95 respirators (9.27%) in more than 1,000 healthcare workers working directly with patients
    • Other data analyses support theses findings including Yinon Weiss’ work which shows that a states’ masks rules have nothing to do with infection rates.
    • Go here to see studies on the ineffectiveness of masks, as well as the dangers
    • Yet, tyrants are still pushing ineffective, dangerous masks – and still ignorantly suggesting them for children whom have essentially zero COVID risk
    • Medical rags like MedPage Today brag about costly yet ineffective hospital entrance screenings which resulted in 62,009 masks being given out (despite the fact they don’t work, yet they continue to insist that they do)
    • During the deposition, Fauci insisted a court reporter, who sneezed due to allergies, wear a mask even though nobody else did (Rules for thee but not for me)
  • Fauci et al. desire to emulate China’s zero-COVID, draconian lockdowns, even though they haven’t worked yet and they are being widely protested by utilizing incredible creativity to bypass censorship, which appears to be working.  Perhaps our “authorities” should have a chat with laypeople who actually live in China.
    • For example, here some poor, sorry sucker is being blamed for spreading COVID for simply taking a 30 minute jog in the park without a mask!  (Thank you, contact tracing)  Even the corrupt CDC states transmission is low outdoors, and this study shows probable aerosol transmission in patients who had no direct contact and lived on different floors, through the floors and walls of a QUARANTINE hotel.  Hello?
  • The WHO, WEF, world leaders, and other elite, unelected leaders want to emulate China in every way
    • “I’ve seen the future, and it is Wuhan.” ~ WHO report
  • Please read this detailed observation proving Fauci is a skillful liar (He’s had nearly 40 years to perfect his craft)
  • FUN FACT: Until very recently, Fauci’s daughter worked for Twitter
  • Fauci is an expert Wordsmith and refuses to discuss “gain of function” by objecting that the term is too broad to be defined
  • Fauci repeatedly claimed he “couldn’t recall” or “couldn’t remember,” and pretended he didn’t understand questions
  • Fauci repeatedly threw subordinates under the bus (Go here for mysterious “suicides” of scientists under Fauci)
  • Fauci argued HCQ was “dangerous,” had “toxic” side effects, and was ineffective in treating COVID, but couldn’t cite a single study to support his claim. He rejected the list of 371 studies showing effectiveness.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/expert-confirms-fda-trying-to-rewrite-covid-history-on-prohibiting-ivermectin

FDA Trying to Rewrite COVID History on Prohibiting Ivermectin, Dr. Atlas Says

By Katie Spence
November 28, 2022

Boyden Gray & Associates filed a lawsuit in June on behalf of three doctors who allege that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) illegally interfered with their doctor–patient relationships, resulting in harm. They also claim that the FDA broke the law when the agency issued statements prohibiting the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

In response to the lawsuit, lawyers for the FDA claimed that its guidance for people to “stop” taking ivermectin for COVID-19 was informal and just a recommendation; as such, they weren’t mandating against it.

However, in an interview that aired on NTD’s “Newsmakers” on Nov. 23, Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, confirmed that the FDA did, indeed, take an “unprecedented” approach against ivermectin and said that their defense amounts to the FDA trying to rewrite COVID-19 history.  (See link for article and video)

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Important quote:

“What we’re seeing is a complete Orwellian rewrite of all kinds of things during this pandemic,” Atlas told NTD. “Many colleagues of mine were always saying the truth will prevail. And once the truth comes out, that some of these drugs were either useful or safe …  there’s a lot of ‘cover your behind.’”

And no wonder they are covering their tracks….

Back in January, 2022 Project Veritas uncovered government documents showing ivermectin, HCQ, and interferon work for COVID.  As Project Veritas wrote:

Project Veritas has obtained startling never-before-seen documents regarding the origins of COVID-19, gain of function research, vaccines, potential treatments which have been suppressed, and the government’s effort to conceal all of this.

The documents in question stem from a report at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, which were hidden in a top secret shared drive.

Project Veritas has obtained a separate report to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense written by U.S. Marine Corp Major, Joseph Murphy, a former DARPA Fellow.

The information relating to IVM and HCQ are found on page 4 of a document whose subject is, “SARS-CoV-2 ORIGINS INVESTIGATION WITH US GOVERNMENT PROGRAM. UNDISCLOSED DOCUMENT ANALYSIS” (emphasis in original) and which is dated August 13 2021. The relevant portion reads (note that the coronavirus is called “SARSr-CoV-WIV” in the document):

Because of its (now) known nature, the SARSr-CoV-WIV’s illness is readily resolved with early treatment that inhibits the viral replication which spread the spike proteins around the body (which induce a harmful overactive immune response as the body tries to clear the spikes from the ACE2 receptors). Many of the early treatment protocols ignored by the authorities work because they inhibit viral replication or modulate the immune response to the spike proteins, which makes sense within the context of what EcoHealth was creating. Some of these treatment protocols also inhibit the action of the engineered spike protein. For instance, Ivermectin (identified as curative in April 2020) works throughout all phases of the illness because it both inhibits viral replication and modulates the immune response. Of note, chloroquine phosphate (Hydroxychloroquine, identified April 2020 as curative) is identified in the proposal as a SARSr-CoV inhibitor, as is interferon (identified May 2020 as curative). [Emphasis added.]

For more: