Bret Weinstein

I radically prefer that style of method rather than the fancy stuff.

And I think people are just addicted to the highest tech version of everything, whether it's a drug or stats or whatever.

Right.

I call it the game of pharma.

And the idea is they are trying to own a piece of intellectual property to find a plausible use case for it, to portray it as safer than existing drugs, whether or not it is, to portray it as more effective than existing drugs, whether or not it is.

And if they manage to do those things, it starts spitting out money.

Well, right.

And I mean, the short answer in that case is it's an inappropriate test because what it is is an amplifier.

And if you turn the cycle threshold up, it can amplify absolutely anything to a positive level.

Well, this is why when you say

it was about the money that I'm just not convinced, is I can certainly tell a story about lots of places where a huge profit was made, but the commitment across the board to making sure that

Certain things happened that we were maximally spooked.

And what's more, not only maximally spooked, but primed.

Before the thing supposedly hit our shores, we were primed to be expecting a certain disease.

And so we hallucinated that disease.

Doctors were primed to imagine that they were about to be dropping like flies because they were going to be forced to deal with these sick people who had this very destructive disease.

And I don't know why this happened.

For one thing, I don't think we have properly figured out what the meaning of tabletop exercises is.

You remember Event 201?

Yes.