Snake Oil...Er...Venom
Someone is being charmed.
Ok, when I clicked on the highly controversial “Water Video” yesterday, the first two minutes were filled with Qcumber bullshit. As such, my Red Flags went up. Then, I heard both the host and “Dr.” Ardis mention Stew Peters who is a purveyor of bullshit. More flags. Next, the theatrics came. The amount of “you guessed it!” or “guess what it was?” was staggering. It was lots of guesswork emphasis on guessing. I don’t even know how to discuss my disappointment in wasting that many hours of my life listening to… how do I even describe it? Hallucinations?
I’ll try to say it better.
Imagine a horse with blinders on. It can only see what is directly in front of it. Then, imagine taking a carrot on a stick and putting that directly in front of the horse. You could have orchards of apple trees with ripe fruit which the horse would prefer and actually be able to eat on either side of your path, but that horse is only going to see the carrot and move in the direction of the carrot even if it can never catch it. The more the stick holder wiggles the carrot, the more excited the horse gets. The more twists and turns happen, the more the horse feels he’s getting somewhere, even if he ends up exactly where he started. He’s not really looking where he’s going, after all. He’s just following the carrot.
That’s what that video was. Dr. Ardis was the guy with the carrot. And the audience was the horse. The blinders were the audience’s preconceived notions that they are being lied to by various mainstream media outlets and government agencies which gives them a bias toward anyone who appeals to their frustration tolerating massive lies day in and day out. Ardis starts out leading the audience to put on their blinders by saying something to the effect of, “I believe the exact opposite of whatever the NIH and CDC tell me to do.” That’s not scientific. They may lie about something, but there aren’t two choices. This is called an either/or fallacy. He implies that if what they are saying is a lie, then everything else out there, infinite possibilities are true. But he only gives you one other option: snake venom. If it’s not this, then it’s that. It’s either/or. That’s the set up. This is the first time he presents the carrot, and the moment the horse is prompted to move forward on a journey of the intellectually dishonest leading the blinded.
Next, he purports that if the fact checkers are putting a flag on a post that it must be true. Again, this is overly generalized. If someone lies, we can’t assume they always are lying. If someone hides the truth, we can’t assume they always hide the truth in every circumstance. Every fact check isn’t wrong or misguided or even misguiding for that matter. The assumption that the reverse of a fact check is true or a fact check of false is verification of it’s truth it is both an either/or fallacy and an inverted appeal to authority. I’m not saying that a statement can be both true and false in its entirety but most of what fact checks do is beat a strawman or go after a red herring. Sometimes they actually find fallacies. But now, conveniently, all of Ardis’s video posts will contain a fact check flag, and the throngs of people too stupid to notice that you can’t rely on fact checks alone to decipher truth will believe this proves the doctor’s own veracity. In his mind, they are telling us the truth by lying to us. This assumes they are consistent. Remember, monkeys flying out of my butt might be the source of the virus. If I say that, the fact checkers will refute it, so therefore, it must be true. The fact checkers are inconsistent. If they were consistent, it would be convenient and easy. It almost looks like you could catch the carrot if you believe this is true.
So, I listened to the evidence, no blinders. Ardis lays out the foundation for his theory. There’s some evidence relating venom symptoms and Covid symptoms: some. I look at the links and research papers he speaks of. Snakes mentioned, but in many cases, among a gazillion other things: the apples. He’s left out that almost every drug that treats Covid also treats malaria, parasites and riverblindness, and in each case, more notably so, more prevalently so. Even the so-called “antidote” brought up by Mikovich, suramin is again primarily used to treat riverblindness. There seems to be far more relevant correlation of parasites which can cause riverblindess considering almost all the other treatments primary use is riverblindness. Again, this disease is caused not by crate snakes nor cobras, but parasites.
He could have just as easily made a case for parasites, but he doesn’t because that would be complicated. Complicated gets frustrating. It loses the excitement of the audience that they are getting somewhere. He needs to keep it easy so you’ll keep following the carrot thinking you can actually get it.
Something should be pointed out that several people caught. There’s a gaping hole in his theory obvious to everyone in the audience who got Covid in the past two years (like 80-90% of us) that never drink tap water. I have a Berkey with gobs of filters both the charcoal and the fluoride. Technically, it should clean anything. My kids and I have been sick 8 and 7 times respectively over the past 2 and a half years with Covid symptoms. We have immune issues, so natural immunity is not likely attainable for us. I personally drink, wait for it, exclusively distilled water. I am not getting tested. The tests mean nothing anyway. However, two of those times, I have had illnesses like nothing I have ever experienced in my life. They were both extremely painful and lasted 5 weeks of severe fatigue and inflammatory symptoms. All over social media, critical thinkers are asking the question today: who got Covid and do you drink tap water? The overwhelming number of people who got Covid never drink tap water.
Oopsie!
Predictive programming may exist. It is hard to prove it exists. It’s a pretty crazy coincidence sometimes. I’ve never heard a single TV show writer or screen writeer for films come forward and say, “I was handed this plot for The Last Kiss Goodnight (as an example) by the CIA.” Hasn’t happened. Is the art imitating reality or reality imitating art? We don’t know. We can guess. What you can’t do is use something you suspect may be predictive programming like an episode of a fictional TV show to prove your guess of what might be happening, no matter how fun this little exercise may be. That’s not evidence. That’s a wild conspiracy theory being used to prove a weakly researched guess. But these are Qcumbers. They’ve been chasing “easy” carrots without any nuance or skepticism for three years. Last I checked, not a single happy horse has caught a carrot.
Now, they’ll all tell you such and such was right or there’s so much proof now. But what’s their proof? It’s this same garbage. They use conspiracy theories, wild ones, ones that are not proven to be true and certainly not in every case, to prove a guess. It’s all nonsense. But you put a guy with the word “Dr” in front of his name (appeal to authority) and he’s stroking your hot button about the lies you’ve been told (confirmation bias), and it all starts to sound like it’s going somewhere if you aren’t looking around.
The icing on the cake was that he found some corollary data to show the audience. He said, here’s some evidence. It doesn’t prove anything, but it’s worth investigating. But then after each piece of evidence is revealed and he talks about it for a few minutes how he found it, what it could mean, he summarizes, “Now, we know that Covid is venom. The venom is in the water. The vaccine is venom.” Yada, yada, bullshit, bullshit.
Do we know what he is saying we know? I didn’t. And as I was looking past the venom carrot, I saw a bunch of other stuff Covid could be.
The foundation of scientific research is uncertainty. He has nothing, but he’s telling you he’s certain something is there. Carrot, carrot, carrot. Keep chasing it with your hungry bellies. You’ll be hollow when it’s all done.
Ok, so why I wanted to discuss this today is because one, you should by this time in history not accept easy answers. Two, after Q conspiracy theorists told us from the start that two weeks to flatten the curve was a “good thing” being used to round up child sex traffickers and then they switched up to pretending Trump was awesome and did nothing to create the inflation we now see as a result of it, they need to be more aware of the pitfalls of relying on confirmation bias. I won’t say they are always necessarily wrong. I will say, they show little reliance on logic, reason or common sense. If they get something right, it seems more like a blind squirrel getting a nut. Trump gave trillions of dollars of stimulus money to Pfizer to crank out a vaccine in Warp Speed and gave the Biotech companies the emergency use authorization to bypass all public safety protocols, but these people still act like he is a hero who could have stopped the vaccine mandates or the inflation which he literally started. Again, what’s that saying about a broken clock? These are not the times of day it was right, and neither is the snake venom theory.
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