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Along with many, I agree blocking early treatment is murder.

Putting out more fraudulent trials is not going to help their case.

In fact, these fraudulent trials are additional evidence against their crimes.

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I think one of the problems why this is not getting more attention is that there is just too much going on. The reaction of many is, ah well, it can't be that bad. But it is mind blowing.

Since your persistence is amazing, could I recommend to do a spreadsheet like comparison with Paxlovid & Molnupiravirs trials? I am curious to if the rules in those trials were applied to ACTIV-6 and TOGETHER, what result would we've seen?

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Careful. Robert Wright called Bret Weinstein a conspiracy theorist.

He may come for you next. Although admittedly he hasnt looked at any of the data.

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Bret may suffer from motivated reasoning but Wright is unmotivated to reason. What's worse?

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I've actually read Moral Animal by Robert Wright and I really liked his interview series on very early youtube back in 2005.

And I can see why he thinks Bret is crazy if he hasn't been paying any attention. But why isn't he paying any attention?

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Excellent question.

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The 600mg dose Ivermectin for 6 days results are on the ACTIV-6 site now

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With good reasons... I’m suspicious of anything associated with FTX (they funded Together).

https://www.togethertrial.com/

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The PR piece by Together on its FTX funding has this subtitle:

Innovative adaptive platform approach game-changer for the way clinical research is conducted

As the saying goes in the cynical quarters of science, "If you can't dazzle them with data, blind them with bullshit."

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-ftx-foundation-supports-the-global-expansion-of-the-trial-of-the-year-award-winning-together-trial-301547995.html

In reality, "adaptive" means "we can deal from wherever in the deck we find useful for our purposes."

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"This trial is supported with seed funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

All study documents, including the participant information sheet and consent form, can be downloaded from the For Staff area of the site. " October 2020

https://web.archive.org/web/20201030164259/https://www.togethertrial.com/

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I dug a little deeper into other FTX Foundation projects of interest. Scroll thru and Take a peek (followed by a stiff drink).

https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ai-alignment-prizes/

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I understand (and in principle support) a lot of this kind of work. AI alignment is a very very big problem that we'll need to invest in. Thought it would be great if the investing wasn't done by sociopathic scammers.

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I worry about the emphasis on projects involving bio risk mitigation strategies. Sociopaths who are so heavily invested in such work ... I dunno .. maybe I shouldn’t be spooked by the three films they specifically called out (Contagion and Countdown to Zero, and the documentary An Inconvenient Truth).

But sociopaths do like to toy w us.

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Fab find.. always fun to see the technocracy wish lists.. reads like CIA's dream adapted for the younger cyberspace users & micro-dosing consumers.. better living w AI mind control lol

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Not sure which is worse -this FTX stuff or updates coming out of the G20 meeting 🙃.

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Is it possible for an IRB to act independently of Bill and Melinda’s sponsorship expectations? How was the RFA written? Reasonable mechanism and modeling is an ethical responsibility in human subjects testing. What was the state of the art at that time respecting dosing and other issues? What if any, responsibility does the B&MG science office have for human subjects testing violations -- et all the other partners? Like to see Drs Lawrie, Kory, and McCullough weigh in on due diligence and human subjects violations with a class action by RFK.

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"Is it possible for an IRB to act independently of Bill and Melinda’s sponsorship expectations?"

Absolutely anything is possible but rather than try to find plausible explanations for a policy of dying for profits try looking behind the philanthropy facade.

Anyone who has tracked Bill Gates over time has no illusions about BMGF model of operation, it's vast reach to influence both governments and media.

James Corbett has the best one hour education in his meticulously researched and referenced episode "Who is Bill Gates" https://www.corbettreport.com/gates/

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Alexandros,

Amazing work on this substack, truly Feel free to consider submitting a definitive overview of methodological malfeasance in these trials to the IPAK journal, Science, Public Health Policy & the Law for peer-reviewed publication. - James Lyons-Weiler, Editor-in-Chief - https://www.publichealthpolicyjournal.com/

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“game-changer for the way clinical research is conducted” - lol - subtle but accurate

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I read there was a high dose arm of ACTIVE 6. If so, any results?

Have these trials been gamed., as Pierre Kory explains?

Are they double blinded, so as to remove bias?

And as I keep asking, why are they not using multicomponent therapies, like all the successful protocols do. It would be like riding a bicycle without a crank shaft.

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I hope you don’t mind I pinned your report as a response to someone telling Bret Weinstein how great the ACTIV 6 study was. Please keep up the good work.

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Again, why are they not evaluating multi component protocols, like those of Fareed-Tyson, McCullough et al, Zalenko, Chatty, WCH and others?

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Arguably, if one drug is hard to test, multiple drugs are even harder. It's just how it goes. Given the current paradigm, it makes some internal sense.

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I hope you can get this to Senator Ron Johnson and Gov DeSantis who is going to clobber these guys. Get it to both of them -- they will understand the criticism and have major audiences. Gov DeSantis is especially gifted with brief, crystal clear summaries for the average bear -- that truly excoriate the wicked in such a way as to warm the cockles of the heart -- So the Gov gives the same message as the most honorable Senator -- but there some pleasure to offset the bitterness of the truth. If one could elaborate on the hearing -- maybe using SNL writers -- I would like to see ALL the IRBs, University and Health Systems enablers, journal editors and peer reviewers of papers (if there were any), brought into discuss their roles and qualifications for assessing the study design and implementation. Then, call in the academics who taught these slithering science imitators. I could see a major tv series where the public could get lessons on what actual scientific method looks like and maybe some higher level debates on the cultism around RCTs (ie., fueling the madness of ignoring line docs who pulled tens of thousands thru Covid in other study species and observational designs).

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Thanks for pointing this out. The one with the switched Niaee results has "V" as a middle initial

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Thank You !! The principal investigator of this study is Dr. A.V. Hernandez, who was the lead author of the Roman et al meta-analysis with the switched Niaee results

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Different Adrian Hernandez, actually. Weird, I know.

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Is this link legit? I never know anymore.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/952901

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