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Source: The Highwire with Del Bigtree

FDAs CALIFF CALLS FOR MORE CENSORSHIP

May 7, 2023 · 13m 2s

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Let's stand this idea of the Constitution and the First Amendment. So outside of religion, there's another thing in that First Amendment, which was freedom of speech. And the people in America right now are at an inflection point across roads with that point, that direct point. Their speech, their open debate has been whittled away, has been chipped away at and outright censored over the last three years

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in ways that we've never seen before, particularly in the area of health. And that is why we've had the hardest mandated medicine push the world has ever seen. And with, and this whittling away of free speech has, there's been an open purpose of the people doing that to change people's thinking and behaviors. Now we have to have an open debate about this. And let's start with

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the commissioner of the FDA right now, Robert Califf. So he was a paid consultant, a long time paid consultant with Merck, J&J, GlaxoSmith Klein, Eli Lilly, he was also a lead strategy and policy advisor for Alphabet's health subsidiaries. Now Alphabet's a holding company. They have Google in there, a lot of Google companies as well. But he was a full time ahead of strategy and policy for

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Google's life science and health divisions. So we have in Califf. He's only been there for just over a year now at the FDA as this position. We have a curious new hybrid. We have a three way revolving door with Big Tech, Big Pharma and Big Government. And he's going to have something to say about this debate around health. Take a listen. One thing I learned in

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my work at Alphabet, which I did between my two FDA stance of Google would be the company people recognize within the Alphabet family. You know, people come to the clinician. They have a very limited amount of time. There's a little bit of discussion. Then they leave. They're immediately inundated with information they're getting on the internet. If you're not thinking about that, talking with your patients about

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it, asking them where they're getting their information. You're really missing the 95% of the time they're getting other information compared to the 1% of time that they're spending with you as a clinician. How did your experience working in the tech industry, working at Alphabet, impact how you think about the role of the tech industry in helping try to stop some of this misinformation or disinformation? I

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think there is a real need for better regulation of how we deal with this complex information. You know, if our health was better than anyone else's in the world, I'd say, okay, we'll just work this out over time. But our life expectancy is going in the wrong direction. And we need to think hard about what we can do about it. I mean, I have to say,

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as a same argument, I make because you're killing us. The FDA, the CDC is poisoning us on a constant basis. It's amazing that he thinks it's those who are trying to resist that are what's causing the health problems. Exactly. And so there's further conversation during that interview. This is one of the headlines that came out of that interview. FDA Commissioner calls for crackdown on health misinformation

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claims it reduces life expectancy. He says in this article in that interview, why aren't we using medical products as efficiently or effectively as our peer countries, Calif said, a lot of it has to do with choices that people make because of the things that influence their thinking. Well, let me just hold on to that point for a second and go to that. So the United States

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and New Zealand allowed direct consumer marketing. So where is that in the conversation? And then let's talk about how much pharmaceutical companies spend worldwide. I have a chart here. I want to show you the United States makes up roughly 41% of total pharmaceutical spending worldwide. China comes in second with a market share of nearly 12%. But understand China has 1.4 billion people roughly. United States has

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just under 332 million. So you can see the offset there of the spending. And so I don't know what he's talking about that. We're not using the pharmaceutical products enough or we're not taking them enough or people are getting their information in strange ways. The United States is over-farmate. I mean, this would be the exemplary country if there was ever one on the globe. So let's

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just look back. It's a promise to the lot. Should we should be the healthiest people in the world? We are drugged more than anyone else in the world using far more drugs on every single level there is. It's talking about how we're on drugs and need more drugs to survive. It's total insanity. It's killing us. In the world and really the history of the world when

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it comes to the digital aspect of this. Let's just go through what we had. Now he's calling for a double down on this because I guess it didn't work. But let's look at this. Let's look at the CDC. The CDC provided 156 million in funding. Here's a little infographic. And this is a fiscal year of 2021 to 500 plus other partners at the national state and

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local levels. So you can see that this influence here. And this is all funding for partners specifically for increasing vaccine confidence and uptake. So what we're looking at, you can see there that little red box is the CDC foundation. Interestingly enough, that's a nonprofit organization that was created by Congress as a go between. So instead of the CDC directly interacting with big pharma or big tech,

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which wouldn't be that good with the integrity piece, they have this CDC foundation, this nonprofit, that's a go between. So this nonprofit can interact directly with any corporations that wants, any NGOs and do this type of work. So that's interesting. But then we have studies upon studies of hired out third parties saying, well, if we were to censor, how would we go about doing that? What

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would that look like? We have Stanford's virality project. Now this was a pilot program. Here's one of the headlines that came out of this latest Twitter files tackle great COVID-19 lie machine flagging true content as disinformation. This virality project was a seven month project from Stanford University to monitor anti vaccine narratives as they call it. And what happened was a journalist Matt Taiibi, he gained access

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to the Twitter files, these are the internal files, the emails that were going back and forth before Elon Musk take over. And he found some curious things. This is what he reports reports of vaccinated individuals contracting COVID-19 anyway, natural community, suggesting COVID-19 leaked from a lab or even worry some jokes, all were characterized as potential violations. He writes, or disinformation events by the virality project, a

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sweeping cross-platform effort to monitor billions of social media posts by Stanford University, federal agencies and a slew of often state funded NGOs. But here, Dell is the golden nugget. Virality project, he writes emails were found in the Twitter files describing stories of true vaccine side effects as actionable content. It says true content which might promote vaccine hesitancy. That's the bullet point underneath that. It says viral

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posts of individuals experiencing vaccine hesitancy or stories of true vaccine side effects. This content is not clearly mis or disinformation, but it may contain malinformation, exaggerated or misleading, also included in this bucket are often true posts which could fuel vaccine hesitancy. I hate making this comparison, but I have to. And this is what happens when you have Nazi Germany and some journalists wants to say, look,

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there's these concentration camps and though it's true, it's going to create hesitancy towards our job to try and clean the bloodline of our nation. I mean, this is how scary this is. They're saying these are true. These are real vaccine injury stories, but people should not be allowed to tell their stories to each other or they might just start causing hesitancy. This is really, really scary

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stuff. Right. And you know, this project, when they talk about it, it's not some neutral project. Let's just going with an open mind. Let's see what's going on here. Clearly from those data points, this is a very targeted actionable events that are targeting true stories. We've talked, I mean, we've interviewed so many parents that have said they've been censored for just telling their story about how

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their child was harmed by a vaccine or how, you know, an adult, how they were harmed by a vaccine. No longer. And we've seen Facebook take those stories off. We knew this was happening, but now we haven't black and white. So the reality projects over. That was just a fun little experiment. But now what appears to be replacing it is something a little more permanent. This

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is the mercury project. And here's a press release from the mercury project, mercury project to boost COVID-19 vaccine rates and counter public health and misinformation and 17 countries worldwide. So they're researching. This is a research initiative on how this myths and disinformation that they call it spread and also how to combat it. So let's look at the research framework here. Again, all this is not enough

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for Dr. Califf. We need more of this. I mean, what I want to point out here is that I think the one thing I will agree is I think they named it properly as being one of the most toxic substances on earth in mercury. It's exactly the toxicity with which this type of government intervention will be upon our constitutional rights. I mean, it's really, really far

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behind. But go on. Yeah. Yeah. So we look into there. We'll dig into their research framework. This was published on their website on March of 2023. And it says here, I mean, right off the bat, first line, vaccination is an action with clear health benefits. Well, if you're not, if you're not on board with that, Del, you're clearly going to be a target for this research

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initiative. And it goes on to say, but individuals may face a variety of barriers to realizing those benefits. Including the direct and opportunity costs required to search for accurate vaccine information. They call those quote search costs. And then another is to assess the accuracy of multiple forms of vaccine information. They call those decision costs and to acquire the actual vaccination itself, which is a logistical cost.

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But you know, so okay, we have search costs. So they in that they wrap that in that takes cognitive efforts. Well, that's tough. And then in their decision costs and when people are deciding, they said, well, one way we can help them to decide is to flag content that is misinformation. Well, they've been doing that for three years. And that actually had, you know, I can

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save them a lot of money here. That has the opposite effect of what you're trying to do. And if you're talking about cognitive effort, shouldn't you be investing in the cognition of the people to make their own decisions to develop their own intuition about what to do with their own bodies? That seems like that would be better for Americans and be a better investment than just

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labeling some things misinformation. So let's look at this funding. It always goes back to who's funding these projects. Where's the money coming from? So here's the snapshot on their own website. We have, oh boy, don't say it. Bill and the Gates found. There we are. Rockets, Bellar Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, which is interesting. Because that is that is funded each

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fiscal year by Congress. So now you have direct government, US government involvement in this initiative, which, you know, is very, very interesting and worrisome and problematic. And so we're at a space here. Where we have literally tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of, you know, we'll call them now citizen journalists. These are just normal people sharing accurate information. And we have this, this censorship industrial complex,

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as it's been called by Taipei and Michael Schellenberger, that's coming down and saying, you know, one of the tip of the Spirits is Robert Califf saying, we need, we need more of this. We need more censorship. And this is the battle right now. So it's the humans really versed the, first the algorithms on this digital space. And right now the message is getting out. We have

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this, this moment of breath. We're, we're winning. We're really showing people what is. Yeah. I mean, and that's the problem they talk about, right? I mean, they are looking, they've got the sights on us. This is why we are investing a lot in our infrastructure and technology here at the high wires. There will always be able to broadcast to you. But while you're going to work,

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you know, all week, we are trying to figure out how they're going to try and stop us from being able to communicate with you. This is getting serious. Folks, it's really happening. And when you see these politicians, and we watch someone like Califf, who is now, he literally in a human body represents this horrific merger between, you know, medicine and AI and technologies, very, very dangerous

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and scary things ahead. If we don't, you know, take back, control the system and get people that actually believe in our constitution, our rights to freedom to be running this country against crazy. Once you die, you're back.

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