Coronavirus: Fuelling The Conspiracy Theories – 21 April, 2020

 

Scientific Evidence for Coronavirus Response Will Be Kept Secret Until Pandemic Is Over

Makes us wonder what they’re hiding – editor.

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from Breitbart Europe

The government has decided to keep the scientific evidence upon which it is basing its response to the Chinese coronavirus secret until the pandemic subsides.

Boris Johnson’s administration is facing increased calls for transparency on the actions being recommended by the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) that is heading the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, records from the group’s meetings and the identity of its members will be kept secret until “Sage stops convening on this emergency”, the UK’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said […]

Conservative MP Greg Clark said that the identities of the scientists should be revealed “in order to have some visibility into what institutions and disciplines are represented, it would be extremely useful to have the membership known”, The Times reports … Continue reading >>>

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Paris Police Fire Tear Gas As Minorities Riot Over “Racist” Lockdown Treatment

from Zero Hedge

French police officers ise tear gas guns against rioters (Picture: Daily Mail / AFP)

Lockdown protests across the Western world have become more widespread. Economies have crashed, unemployment is soaring, and people are losing their minds in quarantine.

France is the latest country to observe social unrest, more specifically in Paris, as the second night of riots unfolded across the capital.

Riots broke out in the suburbs of Villeneuve-la-Garenne and Aulnay-sous-Bois, northern Paris, over the weekend, and continued through Monday, the Daily Mail reports.

The spark that lit the powder keg was due to an incident involving an Arab Muslim male on a motorcycle who was critically injured in a collision with an unmarked police car on Saturday in Villeneuve-la-Garenne … Continue reading >>>

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UK Authorities Unable To Prove Novichok Nerve Agent Was Made In Russia

In a major embarrassment to the UK political establishment after Prime minister Teresa (the appeaser) May, several senior members of her government and a multitude of media commentators from across the political spectrum had accused Russia of being responsible for the attempted murder of former double agent Sergei Skripal, with some ever going as far as to name Vladimir Putin as the person who ordered the hit, the chief scientist from the UK’s Porton Down military laboratory facility, Gary Aitkenhead, told Sky News that they had been unable to prove that the novichok nerve agent used to poison Sergei and his daughter Yulia Skripal came from Russia.

“We were able to identify it as novichok, to identify that it was military-grade nerve agent,” Aitkenhead said. “We have not identified the precise source, but we have provided the scientific info to government who have then used a number of other sources to piece together the conclusions you have come to.”

The chief scientist said that establishing the Novichok’s origin required “other inputs,” some of which are intelligence based and which only the government has access to.

Aitkenhead added: “It is our job to provide the scientific evidence of what this particular nerve agent is, we identified that it is from this particular family and that it is a military grade, but it is not our job to say where it was manufactured.”

Oh good, at least Europe did not expel most Russian diplomats based on a Tony Blair style assumption that since Russia is the only possible source of Novichok. As well informed people (i.e. those of us who do not dumbly swallow the propaganda pushed out by mainstream media,) novichock can be made by any competent chemist from easily obtained ingredients.

Of course, this humiliation to the official narrative that Putin was clearly behind the assassination attempt all along also begs the question: whose job is it to say where the Novichok came from?

That said, it was also noted that the nerve agent involved required “extremely sophisticated methods to create, something only in the capabilities of a state actor,” and that there is no known antidote to Novichok – nor was any administered to either of the Skripals.

Aitkenhead would not say whether the Porton Down facility had manufactured or maintained stocks of Novichok – long rumored to be the case.

“There is no way anything like that could have come from us or left the four walls of our facility,” said the chief.

News of the UK’s inability to trace the origin of the Novichok comes as a chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is set to hold an executive council meeting in The Hague on Russia’s request.

Court documents cast doubt on Boris Johnson’s claim nerve gas is in ‘no doubt’ Novichok
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Prime Minister Teresa May have in the past two weeks both gone out on a limb to accuse the Russian government and Vladimir Putin himself of having engineered the chemical attack in Salisbury UK which almost claimed the lives of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter and led …

Doubts Raised About Salisbury Nerve Agent Attack. UK Government Narrative Questioned
Since Teresa May stupidly decided to pick a fight with Russia over the alleged Kremlin sanctioned murder of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy who while spying for his homeland on Britain was also passing Russian secrets to MI5, the governments “It’s the Russians” narrative has started to look more motheaten than a one armed piano players dinner jacket.

May ‘under incredible pressure’ from colleagues to blame Russia in ex-spy poisoning
British Prime Minister Theresa May came as close as possible to blaming Russia for the murder of former double agent Sergei Skripal and the poisoning of the spy’s daughter Yulia as possible without actually declaring war. The attack is believed to have been a result of pressure put on her by members of her government and opposition eager to find a scapegoat and mainstream media hungry for sensation.

Russia Threatens UK: “One Does Not Give 24Hrs Notice To A Nuclear Power”
Following on from the above story of Teresa May’s pointing fingers at the Russian government for the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, UK, and a similar accusation accomanied by veiled threats from Germany, and Germany’s pressure this morning, Russia has cranked up their response to ’11’ on the Spinal Tap amplifier of global armageddon.

Poisoned Russian Spy Linked To Christopher Steele
The alleged Russian double agent poisoned along with his daughter in Salisbury, England last weekend has been linked to former British Spy Christopher Steele, who was paid by Hillary Clinton’s people to compile the dodgy dossier on Trump in the 2016 US election, according to financial news site Zero Hedge. Steel’s dossier led to the idiotic attempts by the US Democratic Party to have Donald Trump removed from office,

A Definite Maybe Is Scientific ‘Proof’?

Intrigued by this headline, only to find the story under it is another illustration of what a bunch of reality challenged clowns theoretical physicists are.

Lab-Created ‘Sound Black Hole’ Could Prove Hawking’s Theory

Digital facsimile of a black hole (Source: MacDonald Observatory)

Professor Stephen Hawking could finally win a Nobel prize, as an Israeli scientist proves the professor’s theory may be correct by creating a black hole in his laboratory.

A scientist from Israel may have finally helped to prove one of the world’s most famous theories is in fact, correct.

Research by Professor Hawking, a cosmologist at Cambridge University, disputed the notion that black holes are a gravitational sink hole that pulls in matter and never allows anything to escape, even light.

Back in 1974, Professor Hawking made groundbreaking claims that black holes are actually slowly evaporating.

His theory said particles could rob black holes of their energy, making them disappear at a minuscule rate as they release everything they had once swallowed in a trickle of dust.

For years scientists have been plagued by the existence of black holes and have questioned whether Professor Hawking’s theory is in fact true. Read all >>>

So let’s just step back and take another look at that.

“an Israeli scientist proves the professor’s theory may be correct”

He’s proved its may be true? Is that a definite maybe then?

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At Last A Scientist For Whom We Would Buy A Drink

Yes, we can be pretty hard on scientists here at Boggart Blog but when you get people like the twat I saw in a TED video lecturer earlier today who claims to have made the amazing scientific discovery that when we see stuff, it isn’t really stuff but simply electro magnetic energy hitting our nerve sensors at certain frequencies, I want to bang their face against a wall and say “Look you tit, if you did a bit of reading instead of watching Dara’s School Of Hard Sums or Brian Cox Has Another Wank all the time, you would know you haven’t discovered anything, you are simply repeating in scientific jargon what Immanuel Kant told us in simple terms 200 years ago.

The most important discovery made by scientists in the latter half of the twentieth century was that if you make something sound complicated enough, politicians will throw money at you.

In what looks like being the most important scientific discovery of the twenty first century however, former World Health Organisation alcohol expert Dr Kari Poikolainen has analysed decades of research into the effects of alcohol on the human body.

His conclusion – drinking is only harmful when you consume more than 13 units a day – that’s four to five pints of beer or more than a bottle of wine – which typically contains around 10 units.

He also believes that drinking more than the current recommended daily intake may in fact be healthier than being a teetotaler. Read more on this at The Independent

Great news. We would gladly buy that man a drink, he is one of the few living scientists who understands the purpose of scientific research is to make life better. And by shutting up the health fascists,that is what Dr. Poikolainen has done. Now if he can find a way to make Lenny Henry shut the fuck up, he’ll deserve a chaser Poole’s pie too.

We did think of suggesting that as a punishment for having stopped being funny twenty five years ago, Henry should be sent to live in Africa. But we are not racists and African people have done nothing to warrant such inhumane treatment.

The Scientific Dictatorship Is Here

What did I tell you? Never trust a fahkin’ scientist.

When a scientific dictatorship was first mooted over a century ago the great obstacle to “going beyond existing permissions” as supporters of global government coyly put it, in imposing authoritarian laws without having to seek the consent of voters was seen as the rights and freedoms enshrined in the US constitution.

Apparently those rights and freedoms are no longer seen as a problem because in February 2012 a group of American scientists called for the establishment of a global totalitarian government in which unelected academics would work alongside elected representatives to ‘engineer compliance with new social and behavioural norms’ the goal of which would be saving the planet from ecological disaster.

Read Ian Thorpe’s expose of a proposal to be published in March 2013 which proposes using scaremongering tactics to establish such a fascist regime.

Prominent American Scientists Call For Global Dictatorship Under UN Rule “To Save The Planet”

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Transhumanism: The Elite Total Control Agenda
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Freak Weather Events In USA Are Due To Geoengineering – We Can Expect The Same
American scientists, egged on by a psychopath President who boasts that he is good at killing people are pressing ahead with experiments in controlling the climate. They have no idea what the outcomes may be because as we know, mathematical models used to predict climate trends are hopelessly inaccurate. But when have scientists ever stopped to give a moments thought to consequences.

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Becoming Sceptical About Scepticism
There are a lot of people around the web who call themselves skeptics. They mostly seem to be focused on the argument between Biblical creationism and Darwinian evolution, are far from being truly skeptical or sceptical their minds are absolutely closed to any idea that challenge their own. Thus science, properly the territory of open minded enquiry, is taking on dogmas and finding fanatical followers as if it were a religion …

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Not like a bat out of hell. Songs to drive safely by.

In yet another scientific research project aimed at proving science is a career for tossers who like to have lots of time on their hands and do not have enough imagination to fill it intelligently, a bunch of scientists have been researching which songs are the safest to drive to.

Each of the songs in the top ten have an optimum tempo of a song for safe driving, mimicking the human heartbeat at around 60 to 80 beats per minute.

Among the top ten safest songs to drive to are Come Away With Me by Norah Jones, I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith and Tiny Dancer by Elton John. Anyone who would listen to that crap would never dare risk going above 30 mph of course so we must assume the science did not extend to looking at the risk of being rear ended by Jeremy Clarkson. Actually I wouldn’t mind read ending Norah Jones myself.

The Scientist by Coldplay and Justin Timberlake’s Cry Me a River also appeared in the top 10. A song called The Scientist? And it’s by Coldplay. What kind of driver would listen to that? They don’t sell Ladas in this country any more do they? Morris Minor drivers maybe? Tofu noshing G Wiz drivers?

The study, conducted at London Metropolitan University, also revealed the type of songs that cause motorists to drive dangerously.

Now this is what really pisses me off about scientists. FFS why do they insist on trying tell us what we already know and then getting it wrong.

The songs most likely to result in a write off, as any fule kno, are:

Bat Out Of Hell – Meat Loaf,
Paranoid – Black Sabbath,
Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen,

none of which were named by the study.

Having said that, I’ve always like to get my wellie down to O Fortuna from Carmina Burania.

When Did You Stop Having Sex With Knuckle Draggers

“Are you guys getting obsessed with sex in your old age?” You might well ask. A lot of our recent posts have dealt with sex related stories, it’s true but there seems to be little in the news at the moment other than politics, the economy, war and sex. What do we fun loving Boggarts write about? It’s a no brainer.

Today’s story concerns some scientific research (science does do useful things sometimes) that reached the conclusion out ancient European ancestors stopped having sex with knuckle dragging football supporters neanderthals around 25,000 years ago, soon after they came into contact with the people of the Indian sub continent.

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Left: Neanderthal beauty, Right: Indian beauty

Look at the pictures above and see if you can guess why we abandoned our knuckle dragging lovers. Should be another no brainer really.

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Cavemen and Coppers

I decided to take a break from the quality news sites today and look at mid market tabloids instead. A rewarding exercise it was too.

Thae Daily Mail ran a story about how cavemen were better parents than their modern counterparts and asks how this could be.

Simples:

(a) Cavemen did not have to compete with negative role models such as Katie Price and Wayne Rooney who are looked up to by modrern kids thanks to the efforts of papers like The Daily Mail.

(b)Cavemen could administer a quick slap if the kids were being little shits without fear of ending up in prison.

(c)Cavemen did not have to contend with pokenose social workers.

(d)Jamie fucking Oliver did not know how to cook Manmmoh steak.

(e)There was no school system run by Marxists and dedicated to filling pupils little heads with bullshit about rights, tolerance and equality. Those who would not listen to their parents learned the hard way that Sabre Toothed Tigers are not tolerant and do not respect the rights of anything unless it is bigger and stronger.

In short Cavemen could look after their kids in practical ways while teaching them the realities of life such as, “If you see any of those flatheads from across the river kill them, they’re bastards and if they get over here they’ll be seducing our women, drinking our mushroon juice and taking our flints before you can say “Gronk.”

It may not be politically correct but they survived.

Meanwhile in the Express the lead story falls into the “Utterly gobsmacking scientific breakthrough of the week” category.

Scientists have found out that talking to yourself is actually a good thing.

Right so.

It’s when you have an argument with yourself and send yourself to Coventry you need professional help.

Mad Science: Personal Popularity – The Eyes Have It

Most Amazingly Stupid Scientific Study Of The Week award goes to a new scientific study published on Thursday (19 Aug) shows children with a condition called strabismus, (cross – eyed little bleeders), may be less likely to be invited to birthday parties than other children.

Swiss researchers digitally altered photographs of six children from six identical twin (the study did not involve real people in the real world then) to create inward and outward types of strabismus. They asked 118 children, aged 3 to 12 years, to look at these altered photos as well as the unaltered pictures of the children with normally aligned eyes and select whom they would invite to their birthday party.

Children under 6 years of age didn’t have any preference between the photos of the kids with strabismus or normally aligned eyes. But children 6 and older were much less likely to select the photos of the children with strabismus, Dr. Daniel Mojon, of the department of strabismology and neuro-ophthalmology at Kantonsspital in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and colleagues found.

Was it the strabismus that made certain kids unappealing we wonder, or might it have been the warts, festering sores and vampire fangs digitally added at the time the eyes were being crossed.

Once again as we face up to the prospect that in the wake of this gobsmackingly important revelation the would will never be the same again, we can only ponder one of the great unanswerable mysteries of the Universe.

Why do we keep giving these fuckers money?

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Your Shit Is Unique: More Shit Science From The No Shit Sherlock School Of Science

Boggart Blog must now be one of the leading sources of information on scientific research in the blogosphere. We have in the past reported on Snack Science,Mouse Science, Fish Science, Crocodile Science, Hockey Stick Science, Cosmic Science, Blundering Around In The Dark Science and many other backwaters of research that the mainstream media will not trouble themselves with.

From the satirical tone of many of our reports and the headline above you might well think we take the view that all science is shit but you would be wrong. There is a lot of research going on of which we wholly approve. Projects aimed at making fatsally’s and my cars use less fuel and go faster are always welcome. Some areas of medical research (though not the project to grow human sperm in mouse testicles) are very worthwhile especially if they offer the prospect of achieving the greatest good for the greatest number rather than simply swelling the profits of pharmaceutical corporations and giving nerdy, publicity seeking, money grubbing world domination freaks a crack at (Ig)Nobel Prizes.

One type of science not mentioned in the list above and of which we wholly disapprove is the science of stating the absolutely effing obvious. An example of this is the scientific breakthrough of the week revealed in the online science mag livescience.com Your poo is unique) They publish a report claiming your shit is as unique as your fingerprint or your DNA.

Really? No shit Sherlock. After spending the last few years telling us we are all automatons, preprogrammed machines whose individuality is an illusion and for who a one-size-fits-all solution to every problem can be provided by “science” now they seem to be falling over themselves to tell us how different and unique we are. Obviously they science community have mustered enough nous to understand that we know we are not all the same, we are not just a number or a set of numbers and if they keep insisting we are we will believe nothing the blinkered, reductionist little shits tell us. And so they are finally getting their shit together and starting to acknowledge the truth.

A recent study by neurologists showed we are not all biological computers who if we can be taught to give up religion, superstition, love of football, golf, reading, beer or music could be reduced to mathematical equations but highly complex life forms driven more by experience and emotion than by logic and reason. As if that did not come as a big enough blow gastrologists (shitologists) have found the scientific maxim “everybody’s shit stinks” in not necessarily true. Everybody’s shit is different, some stinks to high heaven, some smells like a freshly mown meadow and legend has it that former England footballer Gary Lineker’s was scented with perfume.

The research shows the bacteria that colonise the intestine are even more unique and identifier than DNA. While identical twins will share identical DNA according to experts, the genetic skidmark of faecal matter is absolutely unique to the individual. This PooNA is formed of viruses that inhabit the digestive tract. Viruses consist of genetic material packaged inside a capsule structure and can only reproduce inside a host cell. Thus the viruses formed inside and individual and passed out of the body in poo can never be the same in two individuals.

The report goes on to say:

“The study sheds light on the largely unexplored world of viruses living in the lower intestine. Most of these “friendly” viruses, which don’t cause diseases, make their home inside bacteria already living in the gut. These viruses are thought to influence the activities of gut microbes, which among their other benefits, allow us to digest certain components of our diets, such as plant-based carbohydrates, that we can’t digest on our own.”

Unexplored worlds eh?. This is really clever stuff. Wasn’t their a movie once about a team of scientists who shrank themselves and took a trip in a microscopic submarine through somebody’s veins? We could build a similar vehicle to explore somebody’s poo. I guess it would have to be more like one of the boring machines used in making tunnels. Constipation can get pretty bad in people who don’t get enough fibre.

So as we the punters have been telling these reductionist scientists for years we are all different, we are all individuals (Haven’t they seen Monty Python’s Life Of Brian) what will we learn that may be of benefit to the human race from this new awareness of the way our individualism is expressed through our ploppies? Not much apparently, but we will learn a lot about the lifestyle of intestinal viruses and how they interact with intestinal bacteria.

Which is nice.

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