Dr. Randy Bock

I don't know what an example would be, but, you know, you look at the stock market, what is it today? Oh my God, it's 3000, whatever. Well, what does that mean? What was it last year? What was it, five years ago?

I don't know what an example would be, but, you know, you look at the stock market, what is it today? Oh my God, it's 3000, whatever. Well, what does that mean? What was it last year? What was it, five years ago?

This was not necessarily our press. Brazil has its own issues. And they had an impeached president at the time. It sounds familiar. Dilma Rousseff. And she used this to galvanize troops and galvanize popular opinion because they had kind of an enemy. So they put two and a half...

This was not necessarily our press. Brazil has its own issues. And they had an impeached president at the time. It sounds familiar. Dilma Rousseff. And she used this to galvanize troops and galvanize popular opinion because they had kind of an enemy. So they put two and a half...

a quarter of a million troops on the streets and they did all this mosquito stuff and drained literally drained the swamp as far as they could um but but there was another aspect which is a little bit kind of ghoulish and macabre and as a result there have been you know uh kind of a diminishment in the birth rate in brazil what they did was um they left uh in brazil

a quarter of a million troops on the streets and they did all this mosquito stuff and drained literally drained the swamp as far as they could um but but there was another aspect which is a little bit kind of ghoulish and macabre and as a result there have been you know uh kind of a diminishment in the birth rate in brazil what they did was um they left uh in brazil

has always been clamoring to tear down the abortion statutes. So there are a few states, mostly in previously or currently Catholic Latin America, that have constraints against abortion. So the left and NGOs associated and so forth, they put a lot of money in attention so they could overturn the abortion constraints in Latin America. So they went full force. court press on this.

has always been clamoring to tear down the abortion statutes. So there are a few states, mostly in previously or currently Catholic Latin America, that have constraints against abortion. So the left and NGOs associated and so forth, they put a lot of money in attention so they could overturn the abortion constraints in Latin America. So they went full force. court press on this.

And they went to the Supreme Court in Brazil and they went to all other kind of, you know, judicial actions and legislative so forth to get emergency injunctions for abortion. So they did not want the story to go away because everybody theoretically in the whole country could theoretically have had been bitten by mosquito. You never know. And theoretically have Zika. Nobody could test for it.

And they went to the Supreme Court in Brazil and they went to all other kind of, you know, judicial actions and legislative so forth to get emergency injunctions for abortion. So they did not want the story to go away because everybody theoretically in the whole country could theoretically have had been bitten by mosquito. You never know. And theoretically have Zika. Nobody could test for it.

And theoretically, those cases could have microcephaly. You wouldn't know. There's no way of testing utero. You Anyway, so everybody had to have abortion all of a sudden. And this was the big push. And this is why it never went away, in my view. So the press kind of stuck on this case, even though there's very little science underneath it.

And theoretically, those cases could have microcephaly. You wouldn't know. There's no way of testing utero. You Anyway, so everybody had to have abortion all of a sudden. And this was the big push. And this is why it never went away, in my view. So the press kind of stuck on this case, even though there's very little science underneath it.

Well, I think you're touching on a reasonable point. I think there's kind of a social justice thread through a lot of this, harm reduction and whatnot. There's kind of the NGO world where people get power not by selling things. The shoe companies and the car companies, they actually have to produce a product. A lot of other people have to produce a theory.

Well, I think you're touching on a reasonable point. I think there's kind of a social justice thread through a lot of this, harm reduction and whatnot. There's kind of the NGO world where people get power not by selling things. The shoe companies and the car companies, they actually have to produce a product. A lot of other people have to produce a theory.

and they get wealthy doing that and so the industries where you make money by making money uh are different from those where you have to kind of beg for it in order to beg for it you have to have a reasonable problem and people have to you know stay alert and alarmed and so forth and and then they have some kind of secondary gain that aligns with politics uh in my book uh overturning zika

and they get wealthy doing that and so the industries where you make money by making money uh are different from those where you have to kind of beg for it in order to beg for it you have to have a reasonable problem and people have to you know stay alert and alarmed and so forth and and then they have some kind of secondary gain that aligns with politics uh in my book uh overturning zika

I mentioned Rudolf Virchow. I'm sure you've heard of him. He was the 19th century German pathologist. And he was a physician as well, and probably a really good physician. But he, kind of in a Bernie Sanders mode or mood, he wanted medicine primarily to correct social injustices and social, whatever you want to call it in today's terms, you know, equity and whatnot.

I mentioned Rudolf Virchow. I'm sure you've heard of him. He was the 19th century German pathologist. And he was a physician as well, and probably a really good physician. But he, kind of in a Bernie Sanders mode or mood, he wanted medicine primarily to correct social injustices and social, whatever you want to call it in today's terms, you know, equity and whatnot.

and this uh is is part of where things went wrong with the zika story because the chick v the mission group they were hunting for a virus when there was not not one because they wanted it to be there and what happens is you get uh things perverted you get the wrong results when you go into science hoping for a result you wind up you know with something that's perverted and so there's all kinds of biases that happen the biases that happen all along the way because people wanted this

and this uh is is part of where things went wrong with the zika story because the chick v the mission group they were hunting for a virus when there was not not one because they wanted it to be there and what happens is you get uh things perverted you get the wrong results when you go into science hoping for a result you wind up you know with something that's perverted and so there's all kinds of biases that happen the biases that happen all along the way because people wanted this