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April 20, 2019
I've got mail. (20/4/2019) The mail keeps coming in and someone else is upset about what I had to say about anti-vaccination liar Archie Kalokerinos. From: Sales HealthShopCY Hello nameless person you make the other DEBUNKERS look like rose baby bunnies Thank you. I strive to be the best at what I do. LOL I laugh so much at ignorance on the highest level . Thank you so much for showing me that facts can be totally ignored IF one wants to be " a academic person " .... basically you got complexes for failing in academia and now you try to cling on by regurgitating other BS I'm not an "academic" person and I never failed "in academia" because I never worked there. I was, however, successful in my academic studies. Ohh and Kalokerinos , I mean you are the dirtiest slimy little fuck on the web .... 4 sure . I think I will have that compliment printed on a t-shirt. Thousands were saved by him , they made him a "this is my life" .... he had 2 adopted Indigenous Kids .... He was THE ONLY WHITE person to be accepted by them Perhaps this is the time and place to mention Gough Whitlam, who was very much accepted by indigenous people. And he was just one of those who were. http://guides.naa.gov.au/gough-whitlam/chapter7/7.8.aspx
He showed how Pedo Australia runs it all & how they got rid of them . Oh he even stood up to cops selling Booze to them . Ahhhh you are th eleast of the least in kingdom DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU ANYTHING ELSE Your faceless garbage just cost me 15 minutes I'm faceless? I can see my face in a mirror. Of course, if I were a vampire ... By the way, you didn't tell me your name. COWARD YOU ARE AS WELL ! I'd bitch slap you for days for slandering Kalokerinos the bravest man in Australia! And now that he's among the deadest children are a lot safer. You a BITCH .... 10 000 will agree .. Thank you for your comments. Suggestions and criticisms are always welcome here, even if they can be ignored as yours will be. By the way, as you sell colloidal silver along with other useless and even dangerous quack products you site has been added to the Health Fraud collection here. Useful medical advice (20/4/2019)
Warning from anti-vaccinators (20/4/2019) I'm impressed by this list of vaccine ingredients. I especially like the silkworm DNA, because people usually forget about this (probably because of the chemtrails and fluoride working on their brains). I had a flu shot a few days ago and I meant to ask my doctor about what he was injecting straight into my bloodstream but I forgot (we just got fluoride in our town's water) so I'll make a note for next time I have to go there. And what about that "etc"? That stuff would kill a brown dog, as we say out here in rural Australia.
In case the real horror is lost on you, here is a picture of a vaccine ingredient factory. I can't tell you where I got it because I don't want Big Pharma coming around to my house and disappearing me.
But wait, there's more (20-4/2019) Anti-vaccination liars love to tell us about how all the dangers of vaccines are revealed in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. The problem is that, as it says clearly and prominently on the VAERS site: When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associations between vaccines and adverse events (possible side effects) are filed in VAERS. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event. and VAERS is a passive reporting system, meaning that reports about adverse events are not automatically collected, but require a report to be filed to VAERS. VAERS reports can be submitted voluntarily by anyone, including healthcare providers, patients, or family members. Reports vary in quality and completeness. They often lack details and sometimes can have information that contains errors. Of course, as anti-vaccination liars tell lies as a matter of principle it should come as no surprise to find that spurious claims are submitted to VAERS all the time and then these spurious claims are used as "evidence" that vaccines are harmful. Liars gotta lie. Someone bothered to collect some of the reports, just to see how serious these 'adverse events" might be.
I checked some of these just to make sure that the person making the image hadn't been trying to discredit anti-vaccination liars (as if that were even possible) by making stuff up. These are actual reports made by people who believe that lying about vaccines is an acceptable thing to do, because the ends justify the means. I'm reminded of being told about the deaths from the HPV vaccine which included a 9-month-old baby, a 73-year-old man and a woman who was killed as a passenger in a car crash some months after getting the vaccine. Have I already said that liars gotta lie? The self-dug hole gets deeper (20/4/2019) Last week I mentioned the OMICS conference and journal scam and how an Australian university had paid $3,000 for a student to attend a meaningless and valueless conference. I've found a report from my journalist friend Rick Morton about this. You can read "University paid for anti-vaccine student to attend conference" here.
April 6, 2019
Advance apology (6/4/2019) There might not be an update to this site next week. I think I've mentioned that since I retired I added another hobby to offending the offensive. It's doing media work at forest car rallies and next weekend I'll be driving around taking pictures with my new Nikon camera and writing things about the second round of the NSW Rally Championship. I start getting involved on the Friday and the deadline for copy for the paper is Monday so time will be a bit tight. To get everyone into the mood, here is a photo of me in one of the forests that will be used next Saturday when I was walking the walk, not just talking the talk. (University Car Club Winter Rally, 1979). We should have won the event but a bit of carelessness by the codriver attracted a penalty that dropped us back to fifth outright. There was someone else in the second chair in rallies from then on. (I would have forgiven him, but he wouldn't forgive me for being a bit disappointed.) I must have bumped the bank on the side of the road before entering the creek, but I didn't know about the angle the car was at until the photographer rang me a couple of days later to say "Wait until you see what I've got".
Metaquackery. A quack adjusts a quacker. (6/4/2019)
I saw it but I don't believe it. (6/4/2019) One of my pet dislikes is the fad for selling tap water in small bottles to people with more money than sense. Another thing that annoys me is advertising where the ad makers leave their brains at home and nobody notices something stupid. I'm always fascinated when I hear popular songs in advertisements where it is obvious that nobody at the ad agency or the client has actually listened to the song. Ford once used the David Bowie song "Heroes" in an ad for the Focus car. Extrapolating from the meaning of the song this would indicate that driving a Focus is an act of desperation that is almost certainly suicidal. It gets even better when there are actual lyrics in the song that defeat the message. Microsoft bought the Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up" for the launch of Windows 95, and it was almost a complete nanosecond before members of the Cult of Apple were singing "It makes a grown man cry". A few years ago a bank promoted their loan products using the Al Stewart song "1 2 3". They only heard the words "It's so easy" but the rest of us filled in "Like taking candy from a baby". The latest effort is an ad for McDonalds featuring Meatloaf"s "I would do anything for love". The ad follows a child's progression through life showing all the embarrassing things that a father has to do at various stages. The ad ends with Dad sitting down in Maccas with the offspring. The soundtrack goes "I would do anything for love". The next line if it came along would be "But I won't do that". Getting back to the bottled water, I came across this advertisement on the big screen over the escalators when I went grocery shopping.
It was actually an ad promoting recycling, but that isn't the first impression. Stupidity squared. And speaking of bottled spring water, a few years ago a bottling company from Perth made an offer to take over the company that was dominant in the Sydney market for supply to office water coolers. The offer was rejected (the incumbent was making a lot of money for not much input product cost) so the Perth crowd announced they were going to come into the Sydney market and drive everyone out of business with the quality of their spring water. They set up a bottling plant in Sydney just near where I was working at the time, and as Sydney is many thousands of kilometres away from the spring in Perth high traffic of water tankers was predicted for the Nullabor Plain. Everyone who has ever lived in a house with town water supply will know that the water supplier likes the meter and master control tap to be near the front of the property for convenience. Did I laugh when I walked past the factory bottling all this Perth pure spring water and noticed an extremely large pale yellow pipe with a big red shutoff tap on top of it and a sign saying it all belonged to Sydney's water supply service? Why, yes I did.
Disreputable publications (6/4/2019) I've had a page here listing bad scientific journals for some time, but I've decided to leave that particular field of battle because there are just too many examples and other people have built really comprehensive lists of journals that can't be trusted to contain worthwhile information. You can see the page here. One of the organisations into the fake journal market up to their eyebrows id OMICS, based in India. Not only do they publish a plethora of journals where passing peer review just means that the cheque has cleared (you can name your own reviewers, but maybe that costs extra) but they also run conferences famous for saying that famous scientists who have never heard of OMICS or the relevant conferences will be speaking. Attempts by scientists whose names have been borrowed to disassociate themselves from the fraud are rarely successful. Put briefly, OMICS makes a lot of money by lying about the quality of their journals and conferences and by relying on people who take "publish or perish" a little too literally without regard to where the publishing happens. OMICS journals are not included in the Thomson Reuters impact ratings so OMICS just makes up their own impact factors, and they love to talk about Medline and PubMed despite not being indexed. The US Federal Trade Commission finally got sick of all this deception and has fined OMICS $50 million. The little fact that OMICS is in India and can stick a middle finger up at the FTC is probably a hurdle to anything really happening, but at least it might be a warning to universities and funding bodies that OMICS is not anyone they need to deal with. One Australian university paid $3,000 to send a PhD student to an OMICS conference, but as the student's research was later revealed to be rubbish anyway they probably don't care. You can read about the FTC's action here. It is interesting to note that someone has suggested that the FTC's action might be in conflict with the free speech part of the First Amendment to the US Constitution. Of course, the rule can hardly apply to action against a foreign based company operating outside the US, but it is an example of how some people don't really understand what the rule means. A few years ago some quacks tried to get a judge to rule that it was unconstitutional for there to be laws against lying in advertisements, this being Congress making laws restricting freedom of speech. The judge was sane and ruled that the action and penalty for the lying would stand.
March 30, 2019
Busy, busy, busy. ((30/3/2019) One of the things I did while this site was having a holiday was to retire from my IT consulting business and become a man of leisure. Someone once told me that after he retired he wondered how he ever had the time to go to work, and I know how he felt. Back in the Middle Ages I used to compete in and organise forest car rallies, and a lot of this took place around Oberon where I now live. To fill in my spare time I got back into the game as a journalist, and my hobby is now travelling all over the place watching rallies and writing about them for newspapers and my own web site over there. At the last event in 2018 I managed to destroy my very nice camera (I tripped on some blackberry vines and the camera broke my fall) and when I went out a few days later to make some in-car videos of stages my action camera dropped dead after recording 5 minutes out of twenty minutes of driving, during which I managed to dislodge the radio aerial on the car, get a repairable puncture in one tyre and totally destroy another. For reasons that don't matter now I had to drive about 15 kilometres out of the forest on the flat tyre.
Updating to today, with the first rally I'll be attending this year happening in two weeks and the local paper expecting some journalisting and with the saving up for new gear at a suitable point, this week I acquired a new Nikon DSLR camera and a new GoPro for the in-car stuff. And the time disappeared.
And here it is. Those wacky anti-vaxxers (30/3/2019) Anti-vaccination liars would make us laugh sometimes if they weren't making us vomit at their callous disregard for the lives and feelings of sane people. I've seen them compare themselves in the past to the victims of the Holocaust, but now they have cranked the offensiveness up to 11. Here is Del Bigtree, one of the producers of the lie-filled film "Vaxxed", wearing a yellow star. The difference is that during the Holocaust the people who wore the stars were the victims, but it's vermin like Bigtree who want to do the killing of millions today.
And here's a political party which will be standing candidates in the coming Australian federal election. I hope none of them campaign in my town, because the urge to commit criminal assault might overcome my normal reticence about doing things that might get me locked up.
These people have no right to live among a sane, civilised population. Oh, and if Laura and Trev object to seeing their names here they can find a fire and die in it. And just to show that the New Zealand Prime Minister's brilliant response to the Christchurch shooting atrocity doesn't mean that every politician in the country is sensible and of value to the world, Hamilton City Councillor Siggi Henry wore a t-shirt advertising the film "Vaxxed" to an event. The event was part of World Autism Awareness Day. She wore a t-shirt promoting lies about autism to an autism support function. This goes beyond tone deafness into the area of total stupidity, and as she said that she didn't mean to cause offence that stupidity is reinforced. But on a lighter note ... (30/3/2019)
But wait, there's more ... (30/3/2019)
Chiropractors crack me up (sorry!) (30/3/2019)
The CBA has led to the creation of a new simile - "As useless as a warning from the Chiropractic Board of Australia". Australia's most trusted current affairs television program decided to take a look at some of the excesses of chiropractic, and I assume that chiropractors aren't happy about the result. Of course, anything that makes chiropractors unhappy makes me happy. You can click on the image to see the program. Note the prevarication from the man from the CBA.
As my friend Mr (he's a surgeon!) John Cunningham was in the piece it's probably time to revisit his famous facepalm when asked about chiropractic in a previous show.
Then there's pyramid schemes (30/3/2019) One thing that didn't go away while this site was resting was the proliferation of pyramid scheme scams, sorry, I meant multi-level marketing opportunities. Because I wasn't paying attention I missed this news about Herbalife in 2016, but I can now make amends.
$200 million to be paid out! It's like Christmas and my birthday all rolled into one and the parties are repeated every day for a year. You can read the story here. And one last thing (30/3/2019)
March 14, 2019
It's back! (14/3/2019) The first six words of the first song on what many consider to be the greatest rock or popular music album of all time are "It was twenty years ago today". Well, it was twenty years ago today that The Millenium Project started to play, so I thought it was a suitable time to bring it back from the extended sabbatical. (Note: For some reason I had thought that the birthday was March 13. A bit of research showed that the original launch date was March 14, 1999. I was pleased about this because March 13 is the birthday of L. Ron Hubbard, inventor of Scientology, and who would want to share a birthday with him?) I hope the loons welcome me back, because without them there is no Millenium Project.
A lot happened while I was away and I will catch up with most of these things over the next few weeks. A couple of notable changes have to do with how I can get some money to help with the running costs of the site (including legal fees, of course, because I expect that I'll be offending some thin-skinned people who need to be offended). As well as making me sort of lawyer proof it would be handy to have some spare cash to attend quackery and pseudoscience events and to subscribe to some publications and organisations that require money to get inside. I'm no longer going to attempt to run advertisements. Google have twice cancelled my account, once for mentioning that I was showing ads on a page which had ads showing - apparently this is encouraging people to click on advertisements which for some reason is against Google's rules. The second time was because Google thought that my page about penis enlargement spam was actually a sales outlet for penis enlargement products. Changing that page to not show advertisements wasn't good enough, and I ended up giving up. The money that came in from the advertisements didn't cover the cost of the coffee I drink while working on the site anyway. (As with commission on Amazon book sales, the income gradually reduced to almost nothing over the years as the original high rates were eroded in the cause of greater profits.) I've also had two methods over the years to collect donations. I originally used PayPal, but they decided I must be running a money laundry and insisted I incorporate as a non-profit organisation, with all the associated costs and bureaucracy. While I was running my IT consulting company I could collect donations through the company's secure site and credit card facilities. Now that I've retired I don't need to keep the credit card thing going. I'm now using Patreon, which allows people to be patrons of the site by contributing a small amount each month (or even once only, because I'm sure you can opt out at any time). Look for the buttons all over the site. I'll say "Please" now, with an implied "Thank you" afterwards.
Another change is the method of notifying people that the site has been updated. The company who provided a service to notify visitors when the front page changed was taken over by someone who broke the system, so that's gone into the bin. Updates will be announced on Facebook and Twitter, so follow me there to get the latest news. (I might even add some other social media sites one day if I can get the young folk to tell me how they work. Apparently I have 122 followers on Instagram even though I've never posted anything there.) Updates might be a bit irregular until I get my rhythm back, but again Saturdays will be the preferred option. As part of the resurrection, I've been going over every page in the site (there are lots of them!) looking for style, grammar and spelling problems, and I've also been fixing all the links that have died or changed in the last three years. If you see anything I've missed, please let me know. And I've already received my first hate mail. I'm back in business. You can click here to see everything that has appeared on the front page over the last 20 years.
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