No Conspiracy Required For Truth

Lies don’t hang together naturally and often contradict each other, so conspirators have to speak to each other to get their stories straight and be on the same page to carry secret activities. This is what is called a “conspiracy theory”. It is a conspiracy, because nefarious actions require actors to collude. Truth hangs together, lies fall apart.

Thinking for ourselves is discouraged. Recognising historical patterns of behaviour is becoming dangerous. Mavericks who think outside the box, use imagination or connect the dots are labelled conspiracy theorists, along with people whose ideas have nothing to do with planning in secret with criminal intent.

The policework carried out by Jim Garrison and his team, who investigiated the murder of JFK was to uncover surrounding events which weren’t disclosed to the American people, worked from witness statements, timings, re-enacting movements, testing the weapons used, physical evidence from James Tague who was clipped by a bullet and video footage by Abraham Zapruder.

The only “conspiracy theory” to involve collusion, secretive action and far-fetched projections was the “single bullet theory” reported in the Warren Commission. The theory of a second shooter behind a fence was dismissed out of hand by the official investigation and Lee Harvey Oswald was killed before he could speak out. The word “conspiracy” is used to shame “using our heads, ears and eyes”.

Think of art education today. Students are expected to express verbally every thought, idea, plan, intention and practice. I find time again that success comes from doing, not theorising. The more I do something, the more confident and better I get at it. I need to keep failing until I find my balance. I need to keep practicing until a tool becomes familiar and natural to use. If I just intellectualise about it, no results can be produced. No learning from mistakes or failures. No improvements can be made. Yet academia has put theory above practice. This takes the imagination hostage.

Calling a suspicious event a “conspiracy theory” is like calling what we feed our canine friends a “dog’s dinner”. It’s over-egging the pudding. It’s a biased term, which like political correctness, hints at what is implied by the speaker, instead of them declaring their position and inviting discussion. Using a slur or label slides views under the table. It is snide, underhand, petty and cowardly. Humility is absent. I assert that no major event, from a terrorist attack to an assassination could go undetected if one ordinary person, without influence, wealth or power had acted in isolation without any help. Just colluding with one other person, means there has been a conspiracy.

Those who can’t influence public opinion use propaganda

A theory is just a theory to be discussed and doesn’t claim to be a fact. Projection is involved in accusing “conspiracy theories” of having over-reach or influence. Conspiracy theorists are accused of influencing others, therefore dangerous. They’re just ideas, speculation or suggestions of secretive, suspicious activity. Writing off a movement such as those who oppose child vaccination and blaming these people for measles outbreaks will only exacerbate this dissent.

Responsible leaders would communicate to find out why people feel as they do, instead of alienating them further with accusations, finger-pointing and name-calling. Every search result for “conspiracy theorist” is in one voice from one homogenous point of view, which instructs readers how to deal with this wayward person, instead of addressing speculators directly. People in positions of responsibility ought to recognise public outcomes from their actions, be able to listen to people and answer questions at the very least.

When Did Conspiracy Theory-Calling Propaganda Start?

Since January 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak has been a very fertile period for accusations of believing conspiracy theories. There has been this type of rhetoric eminating from secretive activities at the Pirbright Institute in Surrey. If you want to stop public speculation, you need to confront it and communicate clearly and transparently. Instead, the Pirbright Institute wrote to parliament to complain and ask for Google, Twitter and Facebook to remove opinions they did not like.

Pirbright Institute – Written Evidence to Parliament has contributed into the Online Harms Bill, which was passed in 2023, supposedly to protect children against explicit, pornagraphic and other dangerous content but available for use for online content suppression and suspending accounts on social media.

There is a complete contradiction on Pirbright’s own website:

“Our Coronavirus Hub provides an overview of how the Institute is aiding the pandemic response, including Pirbright’s COVID-19 research on vaccines, understanding how the virus works, and exploring diagnostic solutions, as well as the support we are providing to the UK diagnostic effort.”

The Pirbright Institute’s Coronavirus Hub – on why they’re helping the fight against COVID-19.

Please note that our scientists are predominantly experts in animal diseases, which means they may not be able to comment on questions relating to COVID-19 in humans.

The Pirbright Institute’s media section in their Coronavirus Hub

Let us look at some articles where the Pirbright Institute used the word conspiracy theory or crazy conspiracy theorists. Firstly, On 31st January 2020, Buzzfeed wrote the following, mentioning the target of their attack in the headline.

Zero Hedge linked to a Wuhan Institute of Virology press release from January 2019 that says the scientist was studying why bats who carry the coronavirus don’t get sick from it. What the Zero Hedge article does not state is that studying a form of a virus strain found in animals is a standard way to make vaccines, whether for the flu or polio.

Buzzfeed, 31 January 2020.

Note that Pfizer, Moderna and Oxford University, at the Jenner Institute on the Pirbright Campus started work on covid-19 vaccines on 10 January 2020 with the gene sequence released by GISAID, before COVID-19 even had its “name”. See this link and scroll down to see what logo is at the bottom of the page. Pirbright Institute. Check out the worldwide COVID-19 infection scoreboard on 31 January 2020. “The outbreak has grown to more than 9,776 cases, with 118 outside of China. The coronavirus has killed 213 people, all in China.” (BUZZFEED, 2020).

The victim-playing, defensive actions of the Pirbright Institute to deflect public attention away from their chimpanzee adenovirus vector, chimaeric protein, attenuated live infectious bronchitis virus, mutant spike protein and other patents are surrounded by inflammatory language. It cannot be denied they were cooking unnatural coronaviruses up in the lab. Why did they need to do this? Do pigs and poultry need this? Is there not a risk that a highly transmissable virus will infect lab workers, who will then spread it out in their communities?

In the winter of 2019/2020 how many excess deaths were there? I found this in a PDF report from Surrey in 2013: “Last winter (2012/13) in the UK, there were 31,000 deaths linked to the cold weather.”

A 2019 series called Pandemic, which cites the “anti-vax” movement as the reason for the first outbreak of measles in American children for 20 years and calls these dissenters selfish, draws a clear link between livestock such as pigs and poultry and human viruses. See again this statement: “studying a form of a virus strain found in animals is a standard way to make vaccines.” Let us now see some real propaganda about crazy conspiracy theories.

One label attached to someone called Jordan Sather is “QAnon Supporter”. On 23rd January 2020. less than 2 weeks after work on the Gates Funded Oxford University chimp adenovirus vaccine was started on 10th January 2020, Buzzfeed wrote:

QAnon Supporters And Anti-Vaxxers Are Spreading A Hoax That Bill Gates Created The Coronavirus

Buzzfeed, 23 January 2020. Ryan Broderick

There is an article called SARS-CoV-2 and Patent Activity covering patents for vaccines from 2016 to 2020, which has the following citation: 13. VESTIRU. Antivirus with Complications: Oxford Vaccine Turned out to be Unsafe, 09/10/2020. Below it is: 14. CN Patent 111218459B, 2020. The discussion became about whether a chimpanzee adenovirus as used by Oxford University posed more risks than the human adenovirus vector used in the Russian Sputnik V vaccine (see the Vesti article above in Chrome for English translation). When I posted the article on Facebook it was immediately censored for being suspected Russian propaganda. Despite information to the contrary, the Pirbright Institute’s FAQ page says;

The Pirbright Institute carries out research on infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), a coronavirus that infects poultry, and porcine deltacoronavirus that infects pigs. Pirbright does not currently work with human coronaviruses. The Institute holds Patent no. 10130701 which covers the development of an attenuated (weakened) form of the coronavirus that could potentially be used as a vaccine to prevent respiratory diseases in birds and other animals. Many vaccines are made in this way, from flu to polio.

The Pirbright Institute’s FAQ page about “misinformation” regarding work on covid-19 vaccines 2020.

People have understandably speculated about the origins of Monkeypox (MKPV) and been shut down by authorities. Transparency and open communication to provide factual information can stop public speculation. Not dictation, propaganda and censorship. Here is an article called “A review of experimental and natural infections of animals with monkeypox virus between 1958 and 2012“, which reveals:

Experimentally, MPXV can infect animals via a variety of multiple different inoculation routes; however, the natural route of transmission is unknown and is likely to be somewhat species specific…records pertaining to natural or experimental infections of animals with MPXV have been extensively researched…In the 2003 shipment of African rodents that introduced MPXV into the USA

Feb 1, 2013 A review of experimental and natural infections of animals with monkeypox virus between 1958 and 2012 Scott Parker¹ and R Mark Buller^*,1

The article quoted above is worth reading, particularly the paragraph below:

Have we been fed blatant lies or is there information we are not being given? Whichever way, public speculation about the origins of COVID-19, side effects from vaccines and the shingles and monkeypox outbreaks are totally understandable. People need to be allowed to protect their health and avoiding suffering and premature death.

See the link to the patent above 1013070 and you’ll see it’s assigned to the Pirbright Insitute but filed in the USA. Then if you navigate from this, you can find another live attenuated infectious bronchitis virus patent assigned to the Pirbright Institute filed in Chile which mentions “patients” instead of “subjects”. Going back to the GB patent in 2014, then one can navigate to other patents assigned to the Pirbright Institute, such as this Chinese one. Try “find in page” for the Chinese patent searching for the word “humans” and have a look around. It does not seem to be exclusively for the protection of pigs and chickens. If the Jenner Institute started work on an chimpanzee adenovirus vector vaccine on 10 January 2020, they MUST have had access to a patent to do this. Which patent owned by whom?

Therefore, it appears that the public speculation taking place in January 2020, when few cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed and before the World Health Organisation officially called it “Coronavirus Disease 2019” could not be disproven. I’m not saying there’s any link here between an IBV patent made in China and infections among the general public in Chile, but this is interesting:

According to the researchers, although the incidence of influenza-associated hospitalizations in Chile was four to six times lower in 2022 than it was during the 2017-2019 seasons — before the COVID-19 pandemic — it was “much higher” than in 2020-2021

Data from Chile suggest an early atypical flu season for US. October 28, 2022 Infectious Disease News by Stephen Feller

I believe that truth can be approached by setting out facts related to a topic for readers to fill out the picture for themselves by considering diverse viewpoints on the information available. Conclusions from the information can then be provided by the author. This would not create cognitive dissonance if opinions resonate with the evidence. Truth fits together, lies fall apart. People don’t need to talk in secret and get their stories straight or misdirect the public with labels, name-calling or personal attacks. Contradictions don’t appear in factual evidence.

Let us look at who leads the chorus of “crazy conspiracy theorist” so repeated in the echo chamber of online content suppression. “Bill Gates was ‘very surprised’ that ‘crazy’ Covid conspiracy theories targeted him and Dr. Fauci”. If you search for Bill Gates on X, you will see how few eyeballs have seen any of posts mentioning his name, whether praising or criticising him. He must be so proud of his achievements and modest about his giving to not want anyone to mention his name. I wonder why? The following article has interesting information at the end.

Here is an article on ABC, which has been funded by the Gates Foundation since 2010 when it blurred the lines between media and education. Gates says:

“There’s a constant dialogue of anybody who gets, you know, this crazy stuff published, going to the digital platforms and saying, ‘Hey, look at this, look at that.'”

Bill Gates complained to tech companies about ‘laughable’ COVID-19 conspiracy theories. ABC 30 January 2023. Myles Wearring and Sarah Ferguson

Here is an article by Michael J Wood on Wiley Online from 2016, which describes uses of Conspiracy Theory:

Conspiracy theory” is widely acknowledged to be a loaded term. Politicians use it to mock and dismiss allegations against them, while philosophers and political scientists warn that it could be used as a rhetorical weapon to pathologize dissent.”

Some Dare Call It Conspiracy: Labeling Something a Conspiracy Theory Does Not Reduce Belief in It. 2016. Michael J Wood. University of Winchester. Accessed on 4 December 2023 via Wiley Online.

There are other voices, which agree but they didn’t seem to appear when I looked on Google and Startpage recently. There is this article in the Charlotte Observer:

I dislike the term conspiracy theory because it is premised on a misuse of the word theory. According to my well-used copy of The Merriam Webster Dictionary, a theory is “a plausible or scientifically accepted general principle offered to explain observed facts.”

We should stop using the term ‘conspiracy theory’ Charlotte Observer. Mark I West, 28 November 2021

I don’t know why the burden of proof is only on one side. Surely Bill Gates has an onus to disprove rumours or speculation about his activities when they affect so many people’s lives. We can’t let people be unaccountable or secretive when they’re playing with global health for profit.

This took some searching. Only yesterday I found the following article on Readtangle by Isaac Saul called “Let’s stop calling everything we don’t like a conspiracy theory” posted on 20th January 2023. I can’t quote from it so it’s linked if you’re interested.

The amount of search results, which talk about delicately challenging the beliefs of people labelled conspiracy theorists is staggering. They all seem to come from one voice or a very narrow section of society. All we can do to sort out truth from noise is see what hangs together and can be questioned without shade.