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Distinguished writers and Honorable Delegates
I want to start with a short thought experiment.
This is called COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. You convince yourself something is true when you when you know it is a lie.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE was noticed during the Vietnam war
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. Hold that at the back of your mind
Did Covid change our world?
1. Some 7 million people died from Covid
The world must have changed for their loved ones.
2. Schools were closed for 2 years and education went online.
It was all right for those with smartphones, tablets, and such devices, but for millions of the poor in villages, it was the end of their hopes for literacy and education. They never went back to school.
3. It started the trend of work-from-home, saving long commutes to and fro to work, and reducing traffic pollution. But millions lost their jobs and their livelihood and became dependent on 5 kg of free rations given by the government.
4. Because humans were in lockdown, birdsongs could be heard again in cities.
5. We started online shopping.
no chance against this competition. They joined the masses of the unemployed or started selling samosas.
3 weeks ago, on December 4, 2024, under the Biden administration, the Congressional Committee Investigating Covid gave its 520 page final report of its 2 year long investigation.
What I am to describe is now part of the Congressional Records, which you can find if you Google the Final Report of the Covid Investigation of the Congressional Subcommittee.
1.The investigation has revealed the virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. A single gene was inserted in the spike protein
Dr Antony Fauchi, the head of the US National Institute of Health, sent US taxpayer money through Peter Dazac of the EcoHealth Alliance and outsourced this research to be done in China.
Why did he do this reckless act?
Perhaps he felt that the Gain-of-Function research would help to understand mutations which may become dangerous in the future
Cognitive dissonance
The report says that the new experimental virus developed in this Chinese Lab escaped from the Wuhan Lab evidenced by the fact that several lab workers were affected many months before the pandemic started
2. Antony Fauchi then got a group of scientists to publish a letter in the
3. The committee found that the vaccine was rushed in under Emergency Use Authorisation with The adverse effects like heart attacks and brain clots were disregarded
4. no evidence that the six-feet social distancing or Masks were any use but it was enforced.
All eroded trust in the authorities
5. There was an effort to downplay the effectiveness to drugs like Ivermectin and Vitamin D whose patents had expired
6. What is worst it how they destroyed scientific enquiry.
In their effort to propagate their chosen narrative, they labelled all other views as fake news and conspiracy theories.
Editors refused to publish anything other than the official viewpoint. You were not allowed to question the science.
This runs contrary to the very method of scientific enquiry.
If I want to publish something I must come up with some new and novel hypothesis.
Then I must devise an experiment designed to falsify my own hypothesis.
If I can’t falsify it, it may be true and I can publish it.
After it is published it is open to the world to try and falsify it. If no one can prove it wrong only then does it become valid science.
The moment you say you cannot question science, you have killed scientific enquiry and all progress and advancement in science.
Now you can Google Event 201
On 18 October 2019 3 months before the first cases of the pandemic were recorded
Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum and Johns Hopkins held a simulation of what to do if there was a Covid Pandemic.
Remember this was months before the first case in the pandemic was recorded.
All 6 sessions of this exercise is available online.
How to shut down the world.
How to shut down air travel in anticipation of a vaccine.
One entire section is on how to manipulate social media.
They practised exactly how to suppress dissent,
or any opinion was termed as ‘misinformation’ if it deviated from the official WHO line.
Many doctors had their licence to practice Medicine revoked in the USA, Europe Australia and New Zealand because they dared to question the science – the usefulness of masks, for example
Story 1
Stanley Milgram’s Experiment at the Yale University decided to do an experiment.
I am not interested in that 65%. I am more interested in the 35% who defied orders – who stand up for moral values and for what they see as right. As people who have come to this meeting you must surely belong to that 35%
Story 2
The Millgram experiment is essential reading for psychology students. It is the subject of Yale folklore.
There is a small Epilogue to the story from 40 years later.
Lauren Slater
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But Jousha was a really defiant. The next day he went to Stanley Milgram to protest the experiment.
.In the end he was obedient.
The world depends on the 35% who defy. They are those who see what is right and what is wrong. But they need to speak up. They cannot be like Joshua They need to protest. They need to stand up for their ethical values. The future depends on you
Story 3
Milgram’s experiment has been repeated in different countries and the results are always similar. Two-thirds of the population is obedient.
Milgram experimented with another variation. He introduced a second teacher a sham teacher. This person was a plant and she would object early on to experiment. ‘This cannot be ethical’ she would say. Milgram found that obedience was reduced to 10% when the other teacher objected.
All we have to do is to object. It reduces obedience.
The Congressional Report has a subtitle
Final Report on Lessons Learned and the Path Forward
They do not mention the lesson taught by Milgram. Never again must we allow this.
We cannot allow one group to dictate terms to the rest of the world.
We have to inculcate defiance if we do not want to repeat what we saw with Covid.
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Distinguished writers and Honorable Delegates
I want to start with a short thought experiment.
Suppose I plan to spread some falsehood, a lie, some fake news.
And I am willing to pay for this.
Suppose I tell the people to the right of the aisle that I will pay them Rs 2 for every time they repeat the lie. (I understand is the going rate for the troll armies)
Now I tell the people on the left that I will pay them Rs 100 for each time they repeat the lie to someone new.
Who do you think will do a better job for me?
The people paid Rs 100?
The answer is counterintuitive.
The person who was paid Rs 100 thinks “I know this is a lie, but the money was good, so what the heck?”
The guy who was paid Rs 2 feels so bad that he has sold himself for such a paltry sum that he convinces himself there is truth in what he says – that what he says has intrinsic value for his audience – and he makes a more convincing liar.
This is called COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. You convince yourself something is true when you when you know it is a lie.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE was noticed during the Vietnam war
The Vietnamese held the US prisoners of war. The US held Vietnamese prisoners
The Americans lived like their Vietnamese captors – the facilities were very basic, compared to the comforts the luxuries afforded in the US camps.
But ever so often you would see US prisoners on Vietnamese TV denouncing their country and the war. No Vietnamese prisoner spoke against their country.
The US thought the Chinese had some potent brainwashing technique till after the war when the prisoners were exchanged.
What was the brainwashing technique?
On days when they had little else to do , say a Saturday afternoon, the Vietnamese captors would engage them. An essay competition - Write an essay on the failures of capitalism.
The best essay would be read out to the rest and the prize winner got some trinket like a lapel pin or an extra bowl of kangee. The person who won the prize felt so bad about denouncing his country that he convinced himself that what he wrote was true – and he was willing to go on TVs to explain his viewpoint.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. Hold that at the back of your mind
Did Covid change our world?
Some 7 million people died from Covid
The world must have changed for their loved ones.
Schools were closed for 2 years and education went online.
It was all right for those with smartphones, tablets, and such devices, but for millions of the poor in villages, it was the end of their hopes for literacy and education. They never went back to school.
It started the trend of work-from-home, saving long commutes to and fro to work, and reducing traffic pollution. But millions lost their jobs and their livelihood and became dependent on 5 kg of free rations given by the government.
Because humans were in lockdown, birdsongs could be heard again in cities.
We started online shopping. Blinkit would deliver in 10 minutes flat. The wealth of Jeff Bezos of Amazon doubled to $ 200 billion while hundreds of thousands of small businesses were closed down because they had no chance against this competition. They joined the masses of the unemployed or started selling samosas.
3 weeks ago, on December 4, 2024, under the Biden administration, the Congressional Committee Investigating Covid gave its 520 page final report of its 2 year long investigation.
What I am to describe is now part of the Congressional Records, which you can find if you Google the Final Report of the Covid Investigation of the Congressional Subcommittee.
The investigation has revealed the virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. A single gene was inserted in the spike protein and this allowed the virus to affect human beings easily and spread from person to person.
Such research on viruses where genes are inserted to make them dangerous to humans is called gain-of-function research (viruses are made to gain functions they did not possess earlier in nature) Such gain-of-function research was banned in the United States.
Dr Antony Fauchi, the head of the US National Institute of Health, sent US taxpayer money through Peter Dazac of the EcoHealth Alliance and outsourced this research to be done in China.
Why did he do this reckless act?
Perhaps he felt that the Gain-of-Function research would help to understand mutations which may become dangerous in the future
Cognitive dissonance
The report says that the new experimental virus developed in this Chinese Lab escaped from the Wuhan Lab evidenced by the fact that several lab workers were affected many months before the pandemic started
Antony Fauchi then got a group of scientists to publish a letter in the Lancet saying the Lab origin theory was crazy conspiracy theory. After it was published this was used in fact-checks to censor any news about the lab leak.
The committee found that the vaccine was rushed in under Emergency Use Authorisation with inadequate testing.
The adverse effects like heart attacks and brain clots were disregarded
They report that there was no evidence that the six-feet social distancing or Masks were any use but it was enforced. All eroded trust in the authorities
There was an effort to downplay the effectiveness to drugs like Ivermectin and Vitamin D whose patents had expired and so were less expensive for new patented drugs like Remdesivir, even if ineffective and had serious renal toxicity.
What is worst it how they destroyed scientific enquiry.
In their effort to propagate their chosen narrative, they labelled all other views as fake news and conspiracy theories. Editors refused to publish anything other than the official viewpoint. You were not allowed to question the science.
This runs contrary to the very method of scientific enquiry.
If I want to publish something I must come up with some new and novel hypothesis.
Then I must devise an experiment designed to falsify my own hypothesis.
If I can’t falsify it, it may be true and I can publish it.
After it is published it is open to the world to try and falsify it. If no one can prove it wrong only then does it become valid science.
The moment you say you cannot question science, you have killed scientific enquiry and all progress and advancement in science.
Now.you can Google Event 201
On 18 October 2019 3 months before the first cases of the pandemic were recorded
Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum and Johns Hopkins held a simulation of what to do if there was a Covid Pandemic.
Remember this was months before the first case in the pandemic was recorded.
All 6 sessions of this exercise is available online.
How to shut down the world.
How to shut down air travel in anticipation of a vaccine.
One entire section is on how to manipulate social media.
They practised exactly how to suppress dissent, or any opinion was termed as ‘misinformation’ if it deviated from the official WHO line.
It did not happen so much in India, but many doctors had their licence to practice Medicine revoked in the USA, Europe Australia and New Zealand because they dared to question the science – the usefulness of masks, for example
Story 1
In 1961 people were still coming to terms with the happenings of the second world war. How 6 million Jews were killed on the orders of one man.
Stanley Milgram’s Experiment at the Yale University decided to do an experiment. Put an advertisement in the local papers that he required volunteers to study learning. The experiment would take an hour. He would give the participants $ 4 for their time a substantial sum in those days.
Suppose for a moment you saw the advertisement and for want of anything better to do on a Sunday afternoon, you volunteered.
At the door to his office you would be greeted by Milgram. He would introduce himself and take you in. Then he would hand you $4 and say – no matter what happens this is your to keep. The experiment requires one more volunteer. If he does not come in the next hour, you are free to leave.
But soon enough another volunteer walks in. Milgram goes over to him and introduces himself and hands him his $ 4. Now he says they are ready to begin. The experiment on learning requires one person to be learner and the other teacher. That was to be decided by drawing of lots. As you came first you get to draw first. You pick the chit to be teacher. The second volunteer will be learner. You then go to the room below and the learner is seated on a chair. He is strapped on, you notice. Then you realise this is an electric chair. Jelly is placed under the electrode and they are also strapped on. The learner is not very perturbed, so you feel it will be fine.
Then you go to the adjoining room. Here there is a two-way microphone. You are told that you have to read sets of two words at a time and the learner must repeat it correctly. Monkey: Donkey, Paper: Telephone, Algebra Camera etc. If he makes a mistake, you press a little red button, and it delivers a mild electric shock. 15 V. Hardly a tickle. The next time he makes a mistake, it goes up to 30 V. Then 45 and so on. Just to show you how it feels Milgram gives you a little shock of 45V. Not terrible, but not pleasant.
Now you start. The learner is very sharp. He gets it correct each time. Later he does make a mistake. You press the red button. You can hear from his voice he is more serious now. Then he makes another mistake 30V. Then 45V and so on. At 90 he shouts get me out of here. You turn to Milgram and say he is asking to be let out. Milgram asks you to continue. You continue. At 120 he shouts he has a heart condition, and he will die. You turn to Milgram. Milgram says the experiment requires you to continue and that he won’t come to any long-term harm.
At 150V there is a scream and then silence. You turn to Milgram. Milgram says to treat silence as a wrong answer.
As you go out you see the other volunteer come out. He is not particularly damaged.
The whole experiment was a farce. No electric shock was delivered. The shouting and screaming were all recorded sounds. But by this experiment Miligram showed that 65% of the population would give what they thought were lethal levels of eclectic shock to a fellow human on the orders of someone in authority. The experiment has been repeated in many other centres. Everywhere about 65% of the population are obedient.
I am not interested in that 65%. I am more interested in the 35% who defied orders – who stand up for moral values and for what they see as right. As people who have come to this meeting you must surely belong to that 35%
Story 2
The Millgram experiment is essential reading for psychology students. It is the subject of Yale folklore.
There is a small Epilogue to the story from 40 years later.
Lauren Slater a young psychologist was very keen on meeting the people who defied Stanley Milgram. She put it out that she wanted to meet any survivors. When she got a phone call, she drove all the way to meet him. His name was Joshua Chaffin. He was 78 years old now. He remembered the experiment. He remembered the atmosphere He remembered everything about the experiment. So Lauren was very excited and asked him what it was that allowed him to defy Stanley, where the majority did as they were ordered.
He said I went up to 120 volts and then I stopped. Lauren asked him why did you stop.
He said the whole experiment was so stressful. I was shaking. I was sweating. My heart was going so fast I thought I was going to have a heart attack. And besides the man was screaming. Lauren noted that the first reason why he stopped was that he felt he was going to get a heart attack. The man’s screaming came second.
But Jousha was a really defiant. The next day he went to Stanley Milgram to protest the experiment. He told Stanley that this is an experiment on obedience not an experiment on learning as advertised. That he was not testing the people to know whether they would get a heart attack. They may well get a heart attack because of the stress of the experiment. Stanley got up from his chair and went over to Jousha’s side and shook his hand. He congratulated Joshua on his defiance. Stanley agreed with him that it was an experiment on obedience. He told Joshua that he would appreciate it if he kept this to himself and did not tell anyone because he still had some more people to recruit.
Joshua went home. He was angry as hell. He could not get sleep. He could go to the police and blow Stanley’s cover. He thought and thought. In the end he did not go. In the end he was obedient.
The world depends on the 35% who defy. They are those who see what is right and what is wrong. But they need to speak up. They cannot be like Joshua They need to protest. They need to stand up for their ethical values. The future depends on you
Story 3
Milgram’s experiment has been repeated in different countries and the results are always similar. Two-thirds of the population is obedient.
Milgram experimented with another variation. He introduced a second teacher a sham teacher. This person was a plant and she would object early on to experiment. ‘This cannot be ethical’ she would say. Milgram found that obedience was reduced to 10% when the other teacher objected.
All we have to do is to object. It reduces obedience.
The Congressional Report has a subtitle
Final Report on Lessons Learned and the Path Forward
They do not mention the lesson taught by Milgram. Never again must we allow this.
We cannot allow one group to dictate terms to the rest of the world.
We have to inculcate defiance if we do not want to repeat what we saw with Covid.