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  1. Ward van Koperen

    What about the "Disinformation Think Tank"?

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    1. Anton Theunissen

      A reprehensible activist initiative, based on stupid principles, but not a million-dollar institution. In my opinion, it didn't really fit in this list. Idea: I'll mention them at Academia and Medical Industry.

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  2. P Koelewijn

    The role of social media in suppressing counter-information.
    Fortunately, Elon Musk has put an end to this with X.
    Nice overview, Anton. You could write a big book about this, I think.

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  3. Godfather

    CBS, NVWA, KNMP, RIVM, NHG, NVVC, NVCI, NVOA, ASR, CZ, ACHMEA, MENZIS

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    1. Anton Theunissen

      The NHG definitely belongs in the list. With Medical Contact – but they already fall under Medical Industry. I'll mention them there.
      Insurers, well. They do not have a duty of care. The settlement of what excess mortality means for the premium. Of course, you could also blame them for that.

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      1. Godfather

        I have been cured of the illusion that insurers would have an interest in our health by Suneel Dhand, among others; Sick is a business model, not health.

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    2. AnneG

      Tadaaa! A ribbon for the professor

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  4. Willem

    I've been sending letters to all those experts who appeared in the media at the time, asking them all kinds of critical questions. Experience shows that for the most part you will no longer get an answer post 2023, while before 2023 these experts had no trouble taking the measure of someone else, which speaks volumes....

    I intend to post all these letters on my blog: https://maartenleeflang.blogspot.com/?m=1

    Here's a sneak peek: it's part of a letter I sent to my former manager: an epidemiologist who appeared in the media more than 100 times during the corona war years, and told me in response to this letter that he no longer wanted to talk about covid.

    Volumes...

    Dear 'Fons',

    On Tuesday 30 May, we will have a meeting at the HUMC, which I am very much looking forward to. I hope we can talk about the implications of the 'conventional wisdom' as written down by JK Galbraith in this case covid. Within that conventional wisdom lies the reason why I left the academy, and within that conventional wisdom I see an opportunity to return to the academy, as a BIG registered doctor and epidemiologist, without anyone being left unscathed, which is my goal.

    We've talked about Galbraith's essay on conventional wisdom before (pre-covid) and that essay is in the book: The Affluent Society (book we both have on our shelves). I won't quote extensively (you can read it for yourself there), but I will quote a few quotes that I find quite striking:

    'Audiences of all kinds must applaud what they like best. And in social comment, the test of audience approval, far more than the test of truth, comes to influence comment.'

    'Just as truth ultimately serves to create a consensus, so in the short run does acceptability.'

    ‘Numerous factors contribute to the acceptability of ideas. To a very large extent, we associate truth with convenience – with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. We also find highly acceptable what contributes most to self-esteem.’

    ‘Because familiarity is such an important test of acceptability, the acceptable ideas have great stability. They are highly predictable. […] I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the Conventional Wisdom.’

    ‘The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.’

    I want to talk to you about 'the march of events'. In the following (and attached) you can see how I am compiling this course of events. A 'smoking gun' is the covid 'gives' pulmonary embolism story about which 'Richard' published at the time (and 'Marleen' in his entourage, and with it: the entire world of thrombosis experts), and of which 'Miranda' just can't find the cause despite the tons of subsidy she gets for this research (because she searches in all places except the right place, i.e., negligent acting) and what I presented to you in April-May 2020 as a typical covid example of medical negligence. And to which you responded by email that you were 'not an expert'. I understand all this very well from Galbraith's conventional wisdom. Relating Covid to medical negligence does not fit conventional wisdom, especially in April-May 2020. But it does fit within the march of events.

    With that course of events, which I summarize as covid=flu + medical negligence, I am working on it by talking about it with anyone who wants to know, which has now led to parliamentary questions and publications. I talk about it with everyone and also with the media, politics, IGJ. The only party with whom I don't really talk about it yet (because of my voluntary excommunication = voluntary resignation HUMC) is the academy. I want to lift that excommunication by talking to you about it. I hope you are open to this.

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    1. Anton Theunissen

      And in response, don't want to talk about it anymore... How convenient. I understand very well. No one has to actively participate in their own condemnation, that's what it is.
      What a huge iatrogenic scam it is.
      I read your blog last week. Impressed! It's nice that there are 'awake' doctors. 'Awake', a word I've been muttering about for a long time...

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  5. Hans

    It would be worth a lot if the information flows concerning 'whatever' were free and could not be guided by invisible (but evident) interests.

    It should be the case that missteps can be brought into the limelight to such an extent that those responsible are looked down upon if they persist in being right. And here a heavy responsibility lies with the media/critical journalists/.....

    This is a bit like how people in Germany eventually (had to) face what had gone wrong in the thirties and afterwards and then in such a way that those responsible were interrogated by their own children and did not allow themselves to be fobbed off

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  6. Ed Sonneveld

    'Intensive supervision', wonderful term!

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    1. Anton Theunissen

      Yes, I'm going to use it more often. The logical consequence is therefore to reduce the number of civil servants! fun

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  7. C

    They do not go beyond March 2022. Also interesting is the period before the corona crisis. See WOB/WOO researcher Cees van den Bos. The piece can also be found at maurice.nl. Put all off the list and all followers imprisoned in the EU province of the Netherlands converted to 15 minutes city. "We" on the Wadden Islands start again in freedom and peace. In recent years, it has become clear to me that in every profession, expertise, scientists, etc., there are awake people walking around, so we make something beautiful out of ;). Happy (almost last???) King's Day!

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  8. Cees Mul

    Nice summary, Anton. Of course, the narrative is rattling on all sides, we don't need to convince each other about that. Your list is very extensive. It is striking that the exact same pattern, but with different abbreviations (CDC, FDA, MHRA etc.) has manifested itself in other countries. Then you quickly move towards conspiracy. Or not, and then we call it mass hysteria.

    During this period, I have come to realize more than ever that it is impossible to see things from someone else's perspective. I seriously don't understand how all these agencies went along with a narrative that was so nonsensical. In the end, all these institutions are made up of people. People with an average reasonable intelligence, we can hope. Yet, like tame sheep, they have started to implement a completely nonsensical narrative. My friends (most) and family the same. That's the big question for me.

    I specifically felt very alone once. When I was not accepted at the award ceremony of a tennis tournament in which I had participated. Had gone home to take a shower. There was a lady with a QR scanner at the entrance. This was before the official introduction of the CTB (2022). At one point there was a nice crowd around me. The weather was beautiful, everyone was standing outside with a well-behaved wristband on. Several people apologized. They also thought it was nonsense, but yes, suppose the BOAs would come (meeting of more than x people), then fines and such. Narrow!
    Then went back home without making a scene. But it did feel like apartheid. Of all those dozens, maybe 100 people, I was the only one who had trouble with this.

    That is why I welcome forums of this kind where we can express our surprise. In fact, all I see are sensible, well-founded comments. And we are the wappies?

    I think this self-inflicted crisis was inevitable. The WHO had been insisting for a long time on the next pandemic that just wouldn't come. A spark was enough to set off the alarm. Over the years, all these bodies have grown into huge bureaucracies, and they must have something to do. I have now come to the point where I assume that there has never been a pandemic in the old sense of the word. It's an inflated story. The reasonable voices (Ioanidis) in 2020 have been shouted down and censored.

    This is not to say that it was a conspiracy. More like a technocracy that has gone completely off the rails and is self-reinforcing. And that's much scarier than a respiratory virus. That's why it's not over.

    I'm definitely going to check out Maarten Leeflang's site

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    1. C

      Cees, it's also a mystery to me why people are like this. So recognizable your story in tennis. I then sent an email to our club about that "fear of the boas" because it was "necessary for a virus, wasn't it?". They then started to stick to the rules instead of that "overdrive" so that the top athlete of our family could participate in training again, but had to stay in front of the crowd barrier in the open air with the people with wristbands on the other side of the fence at a few centimeters distance during meetings. The vast majority of them did not believe in a pandemic themselves, but walking along was more important and also the holidays etc. So important that they have put their health and that of their children at risk. There is a lot of suffering around us now, but no one wants to talk about the (possible) cause or even know what causes extra misery because there is no progress in looking for the right treatments. Also suffering where treatment is no longer possible... I was never bullied at school but also never participated in bullying and that also felt like being excluded. That feeling times a thousand is still there today.

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  9. Theo

    As requested by Anton, I made a suggestion. And it has already been removed.

    Yes, what do you want Teunissen: Active thinkers or just syrup spreaders?

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    1. Anton Theunissen

      Ik heb niets verwijderd…? Niet zo agressief svp. Of was het off-topic? Kan het mij niet herinneren. Zou je het nog eens willen proberen?

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  10. Anton Theunissen

    Ik heb niets verwijderd…? Niet zo agressief svp. Of was het off-topic? Kan het mij niet herinneren. Zou je het nog eens willen proberen?

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