Hi Melanie,
the passage below could be straight out of your book The World Turned Upside Down and be about the whole Global Warming Cult.
From science to scientism
The art of medicine — which is not science, but the application of scientific principles to different cases each time, on an experiential and experimental basis — seems to have renounced its prudence, in the name of an emergency that has risen to the level of priesthood of a religion — the religion of science, in fact — which in order to be such has cloaked itself in a dogmatism bordering on superstition.
The ministers of this cult have constituted themselves as a caste of untouchables, exempt from any criticism even when their claims are denied by the evidence of the facts.
The principles of medicine, considered universally valid until February 2020, have given way to improvisation, to the point of being advised to vaccinate at the height of the pandemic, the obligation of masks being imposed although they are useless, the arbitrary mandating of bizarre distances, the prohibition of treatments with effective drugs and the imposition of experimental gene therapies in violation of normal safety protocols.
And just as there are new Covid priests, so there are also new heretics, that is, those who reject the new pandemic religion and want to remain faithful to the Hippocratic Oath.
Not infrequently, the aura of infallibility that surrounds virologists and other more or less titled scientists does not seem to be questioned due to their conflicts of interest or by the substantial financial benefits received by pharmaceutical companies, which under normal conditions would be scandalous and criminal.
What many fail to understand is the inconsistency between the stated aims and the means that are adopted in a constantly changing manner in order to achieve them.
If in Sweden the absence of lockdowns and masks did not lead to higher infection rates than those in countries where people have been confined to their homes or where they have had masks put on even in primary schools, this element is not considered as proof of ineffectiveness of the measures.
If in Israel or in Great Britain mass vaccination has increased infections and made them more virulent, their example does not induce the rulers of other countries to be cautious in the vaccination campaign, but rather pushes them to evaluate the mandatory nature of their giving of the vaccine.
If ivermectin or hyperimmune plasma prove to be valid treatments, this is not enough to authorize them, let alone recommend them.
And those who wonder the reason for this disconcerting irrationality end up refraining from judgment, giving a sort of fideistic acceptance to the pronouncements of the Covid priests, or conversely considering doctors as unreliable sorcerers.
But it is from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, one of the most senior Archbishops in the Catholic Church. A man who held the most senior Vatican diplomatic post - Apostolic Nucio (Ambassador) to the United States and has exposed not just one, but two, major Vatican scandals in recent years.
See: @valued-customer/archbishop-viganos-letter-of-august-2021
https://odysee.com/@WakeUpMirror:3/DRM-TVTCI:0
Despite his extraordinary record, he is tarred with the brush “conspiracy theorist”.
I call it “Speaking Truth to Power”.
Melanie, in your recent Covid related posts:
https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/our-pandemic-of-unreason
https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/an-acceptable-level-of-deaths
you are not only on the wrong side of history and morality in celebrating Israel’s utter policy failure on Covid (while ignoring India’s huge success with Ivermectin), you are supporting those very same evil people and dangerous ideas that you railed against in your previous published works.
Make no mistake, those people pushing the establishment Covid narrative are no friends of Israel or of the Jewish people. They are the same globalist, global warming cultists and warped Darwinist that seek to destroy Israel, create victims out of heinous murderers and oppose the existence of The Jewish State as a thorn in the narrative that nationalism and patriotism are bad.
Trump was a true friend of Israel. Biden is a puppet of some very evil people.
Facebook and Google ban Trump, allow Holocaust denial and give a platform to terrorists and Iranian genocidal leaders but ban anything challenging the establishment Covid narrative, as well as ads for cryptocurrency (which can bring true decentralized freedom and financial inclusivity to the world).
Whereas globalism, global warming cultism and warped Darwinism have made little headway in Israel, Covid tyranny has split the Israeli people (and many other “free” peoples) like no issue before it, destroying lifelong friendships, families, many lives and faith in government and previously trusted public health systems.
You have been a great intellectual leader in the fight against the dangerous ideas that have turned the world upside down.
Please reconsider your position and do not fail us in this greatest battle for freedom, reason and Judeo-Christian values.
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