Kevin McKernan
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 5 Dec
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Well, zero-knowledge proofs are a different form in cryptography, and I'm not the best person to ask about this, but I did have some Zcash at one point in my life because I like what was going on there. But there are some weaknesses, I understand, in that cryptocurrency, only in that if you do have a zero-knowledge proof system, you can't be 100% certain that there wasn't a founder bias.
You know, the people who booted the coin up, did they put any coins aside, and will they ever liquidate them on you? But I understand it's a very powerful... uh, uh, system for cryptocurrency and that it's anonymous and it's better than the anonymity you have in Bitcoin. Um, yeah.
So, uh, but no, that, that's, uh, I think it's along the lines of the analogies to crypto is that, um, in, in, in crypto, you can have decentralized people, um, all weigh in on a consensus from all over the world. And science very much should be run that way. It shouldn't be top down where, uh, This is fringe thinking according to Anthony Fauci, and he is the science, and this isn't.
I mean, this is – we've seen this problem with like the Gutenberg printing press, right? When that came out, the church wanted to grab hold of it to control how – which Bibles were printed, right? It was a power grab on how do we preach to the masses. The same thing is happening with peer review today. The Gutenberg printing press now is science and nature and all these institutions. Right.
And if you look at those institutions, they have better profit margins than Google, right? Elsevier, if you look at them, they have remarkable profit margins. It's because everyone in academia is paying them to print in their journals and none of that money goes out the door to any of the reviewers who do the work.
So they have a remarkable business that needs to be completely dismantled and obliterated with a peer-to-peer system that can do this on chain, if you will. We have the tools to do it.
We just have to – as scientists, we have to have the courage to want to step out of that cloth of everyone in academia has kind of weighed like did you get your paper into Nature or was it into some predatory journal or some sort. And so it's really risky for someone to say, hey, I'm just going to go over here and print this on chain and do a crypto-funded incentivized peer review. Right.
and my paper will probably never get cited and rot type of thing. But I think the pandemic probably opened, at least I saw it open up many of my peers eyes to how broken peer review was. And that this is now on the table, people are talking about it.
A little bit. A little bit. It's to me that was – they're well-spoken. I like their story. It's interesting. Of course, we've got to look at health in this regard. But I look at things – the things that you eat are less damaging to you than things that you inject.
You've got to be much more careful with things you inject than the things you eat. And for you to get chronic disease over things you eat, you need to be eating a shitload more of it than anything you inject. And so I share some of the concerns that Jack has raised and others that – These people marched into the scene at the 11th hour. Don't know where they came from.
Super popular.
Exactly. And very well spoken. And they have valid points. And, you know, I don't I don't want to doubt or skimp on any of that. But they're missing the boat if they aren't talking about vaccines, because vaccines are being forced into people. No one's forced to eat Frosted Flakes.
And the vaccines are far more toxic than than chronic exposure to frosted flakes or these other things they're concerned about.
I mean, that's one theory. I think Jack has another one that maybe there's some ties.
Yeah, I'm sure. And I think if Jack dug into my history, you could you could put the same spider web on me. That's that's why I get a little more cautious on those things. Only that, you know, I came out of being funded by Francis. Why? Why am I giving a hall pass? Right. Uh, you can do a spider web diagram on anyone who's, who's been in the research field that will tie you to agencies like that.
So I, I sometimes approach that with a little bit more caution, but, uh, I a hundred percent agree with him that, um, that's a smoke grenade. Like that doesn't matter right now. I mean, I'd love to solve that. And if you get rid of fluoride, cool. But like, uh, I've been talking with Peter just this weekend, he was like,
We've got to be really careful that if you march into this new government agency, if you will, with Bobby and Trump, if you go in and you be autocratic over things like fluoride, you're no better than them. Right. If you just go in and like clean house, like we're just going to rip fluoride out like things like fluoride are. Yeah, they've been around forever.
And I don't doubt that there's there's toxicity there and there's probably issues with IQ. But but you don't need to go in and be an autocrat to get rid of it. Like that's the scenario where you can be like, like, hold some panels and let's show them how to do this correctly with a little bit of peer review and perhaps, you know, some some group buy in.
I think the things where they're forcible mandating and injections onto kids, you can get autocratic on that. But I don't think you want to set the tone that, okay, the next dictator that comes into power is just going to clean house and everything Trump did. That this comes every four years, we just nuke everything and start over.
There should be, I think, some sanity and some priority to the things we're doing. And I didn't see the stuff that the means were bringing forward necessarily as like hair on fire urgency. I'm like, yeah, that's important stuff.
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