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Lila's avatar

Excellent, important piece. Should be required reading for high school graduates in a country where real education matters.

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Celeste's avatar

Facinating. Thank you.

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knightsaberpriss's avatar

Fantastic piece, Joomi. I much prefer reading long form writing over watching a long video. TDS, the pandemic response, and October 7th have been absolutely fascinating (and disturbing) to observe. I remember how all these mainstream news outlets mocked Operation Warp Speed during Trump's first administration and writing pieces about the ugly history of medicine and why we shouldn't trust any drug to come out from Operation Warp Speed. It was actually through them, I heard about the Tuskegee experiment and other horrific experiments. As soon as there was a changing of the guard, they all changed their position.

Sadly, I think humility, curiosity, integrity and critical thinking skills are in very short supply these days. It feels like classic dystopian stories like "Animal Farm", "Harrison Bergeron", and "Brave New World" have become reality.

If you're open to some book suggestions, I think these books might be of interest to you:

1. "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts" by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

2. "Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom" by Katherine Eban

3. "The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History" by Ashley Rindsberg

4. "Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life" by William Deresiewicz

Your article reminds me of these quotes from Einstein and Feynman.

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day, who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives."

- Albert Einstein

"I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb."

- Richard Feynman

"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."

- Richard Feynman

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

- Richard Feynman

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."

- Richard Feynman

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Pierre Kory, MD, MPA's avatar

Amazing. Well done. Kudos!

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Great job. Very interesting.

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A.'s avatar

Thank you Joomi

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Paula Gregg's avatar

Thank you for this piece. The whole denigration of theorizing some conspiracies may be afloat has been confusing me this whole while. Maybe I'm too literal, but I just haven't grasped then what is the difference between a so-called conspiracy theorist wearing the tin foil hat vs the one who is simply following the facts and recognizing when things don't add up in the direction narrated. At all. The degree to which humans conspire to commit or coverup wrongdoing is actually so basic to human nature, it's not even funny. We do wrong because it's tempting and then we don't want to get caught, because the consequences are horrific. C'mon. So, I think we should instead distinguish those who are pretty good at objectively evaluating situations (most of us aren't, as much as we'd like to think), vs those just wildly (and irrationally) going along with any conspiracy accusation that comes along. Telling someone they're a conspiracy theorist to me suggests pure manipulation, a kind of shaming to stop one from thinking or questioning things. That alone is perhaps a tip off that there IS something to see here. It just comes from humans being adverse to questioning authority and being subject to group think (go with whatever the crowd says). Many classic social psychology experiments showing this.

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Neil Creamer's avatar

These days, I consider a conspiracy theorist to be someone who is at least a couple of years ahead of the curve . Anyone using the term as an insult is likely to be either a paid agent or an overgrown baby with a deluded idea of how the world runs.

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Yusuf JP Saleeby MD's avatar

We should in today's day and age refer to them as strictly THEORIES. Many Conspiratory Theories of old have come true. So in our circle we can classify them as theories awaiting proof. Those who use the CT tag or claim may not be a critical thinker and a name caller.

Remember this: At one time Moses was considered a conspiracy theorist up until the time it started raining really hard and the water started to rise. What happened to the people that mocked him?... Well, we know the answer to that one.

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Candy's avatar

Noah

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Joomi - excellent post. I’ve shared widely.

People think the clots embalmers are finding are a conspiracy theory. I can assure you, they’re not.

https://laurakasner.substack.com/p/the-clots-are-still-being-found-a

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Ellen's avatar

*** "Comment on the 2025-2026 Formula for COVID-19 Vaccines for Use in the United States."

Comments received by **Noon tomorrow (May 14) will be provided to the committee**. Comments after that (by May 23), will be "taken into consideration by FDA"

https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/call-for-action-please-submit-public

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/send-your-comments-to-the-fda

(Lots of comments are in favor of COVID vaccination, and are asking for Novavax (also dangerous spike based). A way to meet the "need protection from COVID-19" angle is to emphasize that COVID-19 responds to treatment with repurposed drugs.

A sane way to take it seriously while not maiming and murdering people is for an honest public health system to advise preparation, support access to treatment, not more of this crime against humanity.

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/send-your-comments-to-the-fda

https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/call-for-action-please-submit-public

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/08/2025-08083/vaccines-and-related-biological-products-advisory-committee-notice-of-meeting-establishment-of-a?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

"The https://www.regulations.gov electronic filing system will accept comments until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at the end of May 23, 2025. Comments received by mail/hand delivery/courier (for written/paper submissions) will be considered timely if they are postmarked or the delivery service acceptance receipt is on or before that date.

***Comments received on or before noon by May 14, 2025, will be provided to the committee***. Comments received after May 14 and by May 23, 2025 will be taken into consideration by FDA. In the event that the meeting is cancelled, FDA will continue to evaluate any relevant applications or information, and consider any comments submitted to the docket, as appropriate."

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Dana's avatar

Thank you! You’ve helped me look at conspiracy theories in a different way. I feel humbled and enlightened at the same time.

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Hesperado's avatar

Ironically, most if not all of the government conspiracies Kim discusses were, in intent and execution (omitting mistakes made), conducted against Communist subversion -- the same subversion that in later decades has largely succeeded to infiltrate most of the West, even if it hasn't yet realized its dream of total takeover and transformation of the West (and the Rest of the world) from an organic civilization into an artificial transhumanist technocratic totalitarian slave Empire.

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mani malagón's avatar

"Conclusions: These findings highlight repeated vaccination as a poor prognostic factor in PC [Pancreatic Cancer] patients and suggest that IgG4 is induced by repeated vaccination and may be associated with a poor prognosis in these patients." ¹  is.gd/5gttGo      «And that just with 3 or more doses, compared to 2 or fewer. Imagine the odds vs. those who had zero mRNA jabs.» —16 Mar 2025, SmokingHotkova, is.gd/7xoqly       

That messing with the signalling of protein production to make a viral simulacrum might have serious unintended consequences was the reason this <conspiracy theorist> assidiously avoided the Frankenjab. is.gd/JNqCxX     

¹ M Abue, M Mochizuki, R Shibuya-Takahashi, K Ota, Y Wakui, W Iwai, J Kusaka, M Saito, S Suzuki, I Sato, K Tamai (15 Apr 2025) Repeated COVID-19 Vaccination as a Poor Prognostic Factor in Pancreatic Cancer: A Retrospective, Single-Center Cohort Study, is.gd/5gttGo

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Ghostfromthefuture's avatar

Interesting that you are writing this. I have been trying and emailing you under my real name to explain some other conspiracies, which you have not mentioned. I will show you the two I have been emailing you about and add some thoughts to one you elaborate here, the assassination of JFK.

How is it, that people, when asked, understand and know what happens in a country after the head of government is taken out by a coup d'état, as has happened many times in South America and the Middle East/Africa. The result is always that the new incoming government is controlled by the groups that were responsible for the coup in the first place. So how is it that people still think that the US was and is a real Democracy after JFK was assassinated, where the votes of citizens actually make a difference?

The first that I emailed you about is one dealing with the the first big event in the new millennium: 11th of September 2001 and the destruction of the three WTC towers. For any scientist, capable of understanding the concept of what models are used for in science, what I write about here should be obvious, clear and easy to understand: https://ghostfromthefuture.substack.com/p/i-know-i-know

To give you a short summary: All you need is the cover of the NIST report on WTC7, and two videos, which you can find through NIST's own webpage, the first is their video of the model they used to explain observed reality and explain how the building collapsed, the second is https://archive.org/details/nsia-CBSNetNISTDub5/CBS-Net+Dub5+09.avi (you can also find it on NIST's google drive but it is not easy...). If you just look at the top right corner of the WTC7 building, as seen on the cover of the official report from 2008, their video of the model and the CBS video of the real event, I am absolutely certain that you can see an issue with the model. And when a model is used to recreate observed reality and you see that it fails to do so, then, in science anyways, you throw the model out! You do not use it for explaining reality! But that is what NIST did!

The second conspiracy that I tried to show you deals with the time immediately after WW2 and the lies that the world has been told about what happened to the bad, no good Nazis, that everyone hates and why everyone is calling for Nuremberg style trials. Four examples of what the public has been lied to about. First one is Eberhard Taubert, information on him can be found in the German Bundesarchiv (the equivalent to the National Arcive in the US), if the service is not down. Since it is today, here is a snapshot of the page: https://archive.org/details/taubert-volksbergerichsthof. To be clear, he worked for Goebbels, created one of the most atrocious nazi propaganda movies and still was hired by the the defense minister Franz Josef Strauss to work in the section Psychological Warfare, even though he had been a judge in the Volksgerichtshof and as such was responsible for numerous death sentences. Second example: Kurt Blome, we know he worked for the US government after WW2, to this day all we get is a glomar response. https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/foia-request-regarding-kurt-blome-files-8638/. Third example: Otto von Bolschwing, worked with the father of Gavin Newsom and travelled through Europe in the early 70s. https://archive.org/details/rg-80.18.07-san-jose-mercury-article-november-20-1981. And fourth example Otto Ambros. I will let you figure out what that creature did yourself.

Sadly most of what I write about people like you and all the others that are involved in laying open the lies we have been told about what happened the last 5 years are mostly unaware of of understand t he consequences. One more hint of why what happened after WW2 is important today: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049882684&seq=7, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/nato-article-5-and-911, https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/azovreplist.html, https://archive.is/edNIT, https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/operation-unthinkable-churchills-plan-world-war-three/#:~:text=churchill%E2%80%99s%20top%20secret%20plan%20to%20attack%20the%20soviet%20empire%20was%20scheduled%20for%201%20july%201945.%20british%2C%20us%2C%20polish%20and%20german%20forces

I hope you understand that the fast majority of the worlds population is completely unaware of any of the above facts.

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