At this point, I'm going straight back to what I learned with COVID and more recently with this Pentagon leaker: ask what is the source of information.
With COVID, the source of information for "safe and effective" is the pharma company itself. It is the pharma company that generates the data, compiles it, analyzes it, and presents those data to FDA and to peer reviewers of journals for publication. All knowledge we have on these drugs until years after marketing and we can get actual real-world patient data from objective sources comes from the pharma company selling the drug.
If the pharma company lies, like Merck did in the early 2000s with Vioxx and as Pfizer did with its vaccine, and excludes dangerous reactions from its data in order to make the product appear safer and more effective, it can get away with it for a long time. It sends data to the FDA which must assume those data are accurate when deciding whether or not to approve the drug. With COVID, intense political and financial pressures encouraged them to fast track approvals with minimal skepticism. After all, who would lie about something like this right? Lives are at stake. And the same is true of peer reviewers. Unless you were going to do a mathematical forensic analysis to see if the data sets had the right level of intrinsic randomness and these sorts of factors, you simply go back, enter the data into R, use your own software to double-check the calculation, and then certify it. Who would lie? Lives are at stake.
Well, anyone might lie when there are tens of billions of dollars of profit to be made. Anyone might lie when political power was at stake, when opportunities to advance social and political agendas was at stake, when the reputation of an institution, corporation, or nation was at stake.
So, with that lesson in mind, I ask again: what is our ultimate source of information on UFOs. Answer: the Pentagon and other US agencies. These people hold all the physical evidence. These people generate the flight cam videos from naval aviators. They train the aviators and pay their salaries. They're the ones who collected the Roswell crash wreckage. They're the ones who own and run Area 51/Groom Lake.
Do you believe these people? If not, don't let yourself be bullshitted.
Edit: The standard here in thinking is objectively verifiable source data that anyone can look at and evaluate himself. If you can't see it, touch it, examine it, and study it for yourself, freely in order to draw your own conclusions, be skeptical. Videos lie. Hollywood movies are not real.
At this point, I'm going straight back to what I learned with COVID and more recently with this Pentagon leaker: ask what is the source of information.
With COVID, the source of information for "safe and effective" is the pharma company itself. It is the pharma company that generates the data, compiles it, analyzes it, and presents those data to FDA and to peer reviewers of journals for publication. All knowledge we have on these drugs until years after marketing and we can get actual real-world patient data from objective sources comes from the pharma company selling the drug.
If the pharma company lies, like Merck did in the early 2000s with Vioxx and as Pfizer did with its vaccine, and excludes dangerous reactions from its data in order to make the product appear safer and more effective, it can get away with it for a long time. It sends data to the FDA which must assume those data are accurate when deciding whether or not to approve the drug. With COVID, intense political and financial pressures encouraged them to fast track approvals with minimal skepticism. After all, who would lie about something like this right? Lives are at stake. And the same is true of peer reviewers. Unless you were going to do a mathematical forensic analysis to see if the data sets had the right level of intrinsic randomness and these sorts of factors, you simply go back, enter the data into R, use your own software to double-check the calculation, and then certify it. Who would lie? Lives are at stake.
Well, anyone might lie when there are tens of billions of dollars of profit to be made. Anyone might lie when political power was at stake, when opportunities to advance social and political agendas was at stake, when the reputation of an institution, corporation, or nation was at stake.
So, with that lesson in mind, I ask again: what is our ultimate source of information on UFOs. Answer: the Pentagon and other US agencies. These people hold all the physical evidence. These people generate the flight cam videos from naval aviators. They train the aviators and pay their salaries. They're the ones who collected the Roswell crash wreckage. They're the ones who own and run Area 51/Groom Lake.
Do you believe these people? If not, don't let yourself be bullshitted.
Edit: The standard here in thinking is objectively verifiable source data that anyone can look at and evaluate himself. If you can't see it, touch it, examine it, and study it for yourself, freely in order to draw your own conclusions, be skeptical. Videos lie. Hollywood movies are not real.