One more time to take action against the propaganda indoctrination of Maarten Keulemans, a mole pretending to be a science journalist. I always try to keep it neat, but Keulemans gets the blood out from under my nails time and time again with his hypocritical 'I-don't-know-anything-I follow-the-rivm' nonsense.
Op 10 februari schreef hij een column over het "unnecessary scrubbing of shopping carts". Hij verwees daarin naar een artikel uit The Lancet dat toen al meer dan een half jaar eerder was gepubliceerd(!) - over materie die in 2013 al bekend was in de microbiologie. Wat heeft Maarten dan liggen doen het afgelopen half jaar? Het afgelopen decennium dan? Ik heb wel een idee, maar wetenschapsjournalistiek bedrijven zat er niet bij. Als 'coronaverslaggever' hoor je daar bovenop te zitten.
Maarten is missing again, that is striking
Deze week (24 mei) gaf hij zich opnieuw heel erg bloot. Nu met de column "We may have washed our hands for nothing, but no one says it out loud". Hierin staan zoveel leugens dat ik er een paar moet noemen.
- "No one says it out loud" Serieus!? We have known for a year that contact infections are almost negligible, which means that the measures are inadequate, the major danger lies in aerosols. And then that idiot claims that no one says that out loud...!? Nobody says that the measures are no good? Who hasn't been trying to honk in his ear for a year!? Not also someone he has responded to several times and tried to portray as a charlatan? In a newspaper that makes a Nazi caricature of him as a manipulative Jew? What a liar, what a hypocrite, what a coward, I have no words for this.
- Six months ago, he wrote about his unnecessarily scrubbing of shopping carts. (Bad enough that he had fallen for that scam in the first place). That doesn't trigger a thought process for him. After all, he had long since concluded from that knowledge - if only as a hypothesis - that obsessive hand washing will not help much. With a little sense you know that excessive hygiene can even be harmful, especially with the use of disinfectants (which, by the way, help better against bacteria than against viruses).
Regular hand hygiene, before eating, before and after using the toilet is really good. But it wouldn't surprise me if people became infected during prolonged hand scrubbing in a poorly ventilated toilet area. Look, then you are talking about a concept that you understand and about which you can possibly exchange ideas. Keulemans does not have that understanding; he doesn't 'see' it. There is no hope for him, first his entire environment will have to wake up and then he will be one of the last. - His inspiration never comes from a train of thought. He has substantive no added value and that is precisely why it is useful, for example in pre-printing and recording government announcements. After all, he reaches the general public through the renowned newspaper he works for, under a spineless editorial team - ideal. The newspaper functions as the mouth of the government, as the editor-in-chief announced when he explained on Radio1 that they were working together started talking with one mouth.
- Je speelt iemand een verslag in handen en vraagt hem dat door te geven en dat doet hij dan. Dat dekt de titel "verslaggever". Maar niet elke informatie-loopjongen is een "journalist", zelfs niet in een jaar als het vorige; daarvoor zou je ook wel eens zelf een scoop moeten hebben gezien of bedacht. (scoop = primeur van een nieuwswaardig feit). Iets baanbrekends gedaan, iets aan het licht gebracht... niets daarvan.
Het lijkt alsof er niets is wat bij Keulemans een denkproces in gang kan zetten. Behalve als het rivm iets tekstueels doet (of hem misschien wakker belt om dat door te geven), dan komt er plots een denkproces op gang: "Oh ik moet weer een stukje copy-paste doen om het verhaal van het rivm te ondersteunen. Even verslag uitbrengen." Hij schrijft nota bene zelf dat dat de aanleiding is:
"Vorige week heeft het RIVMpublic texts have been adapted, en daar staat nu iets nieuws."
Maarten Keulemans reveals his muse
Keulemans, on the other hand, should have long ago emphasized the fact that the RIVM lacks fundamental knowledge and that they ignore scientific principles. There are things missing from the 'public texts' that should have been there a year ago. Keulemans already wrote six months ago that contact infections are unimportant and will remain silent until RIVM again reluctantly moves a millimeter towards aerosols. Bah. That just costs lives.
This 'journalist' is the quintessential bully, who slavishly follows what his bosses proclaim. He doesn't say things that should be said, especially by people in his position. That's an underhanded form of lying.
Maarten first scrubbed shopping carts, then his hands - when will it be the turn of that massive plank in front of his head?
