Writing this substack was always going to be about therapy or more accurately cold turkey. My enforced withdrawal from academia and principally time spent at the bench in discovery was always going to be painful and this blog serves to numb the pain. An anaesthetic not a cure. I did not start with a plan hence the initial reference to musing. I would write about what came into my head. More often the science that had dominated my previous life but also, for want of a better description, the politics infiltrating science and science life. Increasingly, censorship raises its ugly head and once again I find myself musing on something that has no part in science and scientific discovery. In my experience, today censorship of science and scientific expression is rife and its injustices are a significant and burgeoning side effect of the era of covid.
A recent example that has come to my attention is that of my friend and co-conspirator of truth Dr Ahmad Malik. Dr Malik is one of a very few medical professionals who has dared to speak out about medical freedom here in the United Kingdom. He is not a retired medic revelling in a new found freedom on YouTube or other social media platforms. He is a successful surgeon with a young family and a mortgage who can no longer grace the medical profession with his skills and abilities because he has integrity. You can read his story here.
I hate these injustices and have to believe that the perpetrators of such will not prevail.
A slightly different manifestation of censorship is mentioned in my book though even those brave few who have toiled through my aluminium manifesto may not know the whole story. Just a few years ago and a year before my Marie Celeste-like departure from science I was contacted by an organisation called People Behind the Science. I have to say that I was somewhat flattered by their invitation to an interview. Ostensibly, they interview the person and not the science and it seemed that they wanted to know more about me and less so the science that I represented. I agreed to the interview and enjoyed the hour long experience. Who doesn’t enjoy talking about themselves! The interviewer thanked me and told me that the interview would be aired in about a month’s time. What followed was quite remarkable. I received an email from People Behind the Science telling me that my interview would not be aired on their podcast. No explanation was given and no replies were received to my emails asking for an explanation. Similarly there was no reply when I asked for a copy of the taped interview. A lawyer friend in the US offered to help and a demand letter resulted in a copy of the taped interview but with a difference. Only my voice could be heard on the tape, all traces of the interviewer and the questions asked had been removed!
You can listen to the tape here and perhaps come to your own judgement on why I was censored by this organisation. My guess is that someone (moi) who is censored by Google is also on a number of blacklists and the owners of People Behind the Science were not aware of this when they invited me for interview. Only later did someone or some organisation inform them that they should not air my interview. Being weak and dependent upon income from various podcast providers they agreed to my censorship.
One has to wonder how did Mr Aluminium become so powerful that even his backstory is considered malevolent and a danger to society. Could it be that his science is the reason and that aluminium truly is inimical to all living things including humans and that this is a truth we cannot afford to know.
Truth is the ultimate conspiracy theory and censorship endeavours to keep it such.
Thanks for this and the best of good luck to you. Aluminium is not something I want injected into myself or my family and if anybody asks me why I refer them to you. That is why you are - rightly - famous.
I am reminded of Ralph Nader’s campaign against the auto industry in the 60s and 70s. He wrote a book called “Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile” most of which was targeted at the Chevrolet Corvair.
Wikipedia describes GM’s response as follows
“In response to Nader's criticisms, GM attempted to sabotage Nader's reputation. It "(1) conducted a series of interviews with acquaintances of the plaintiff, 'questioning them about, and casting aspersions upon [his] political, social, racial and religious views; his integrity; his sexual proclivities and inclinations; and his personal habits'; (2) kept him under surveillance in public places for an unreasonable length of time; (3) caused him to be accosted by girls for the purpose of entrapping him into illicit relationships; (4) made threatening, harassing and obnoxious telephone calls to him; (5) tapped his telephone and eavesdropped, by means of mechanical and electronic equipment, on his private conversations with others; and (6) conducted a 'continuing' and harassing investigation of him."
On March 22, 1966, GM President James Roche was forced to appear before a United States Senate subcommittee and apologized to Nader for the company's campaign of harassment and intimidation. Nader sued GM in November 1966 for invasion of privacy. He won the case on appeal in January 1970 and was awarded $425,000, which he used to establish the Center for Auto Safety, a non-profit advocacy group. He went on to lobby for consumer rights, helping drive the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air Act, among others.
Former GM executive and Chevrolet's general manager John DeLorean asserted in the book On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors (1979) that he believed Nader's criticisms were valid in the context of the rigidity and short-sightedness of General Motors' corporate culture.
In reference to this corporate culture, author Mike Knepper, in his book The Corvair Affair (1982), contends that GM executives never meant for harassment of Nader to go as far as it did, and instead intended to simply gather routine data about a critic, but that like a game of "telephone", the mandate for their private investigators ballooned out of proportion.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed:_The_Designed-In_Dangers_of_the_American_Automobile