Isn't he the dude who thinks the Queen et al. are secretly reptilian lizard people? That's pretty damning for his credibility, IMO.
Unfortunately yes that's what people use to discredit him and all of his other ideas (even the ones that are accurate). In fact that's a common thing for people to do in order to justify ignoring someone who challenges their beliefs. Do I think the elites are shape-shifting reptilians? No. Do I think that they could be influenced in some way by higher, negative forces including ones that we would deem extraterrestrial or hyperdimensional? I think that is quite plausible.
However Icke's latest interview didn't mention anything crazy like that. He speaks about the virus and also points out things that he predicted decades ago that are now coming to fruition. Hard to argue with that, and if David Icke turns out to be the sane one then we're in for a hell of a ride.
Everyone tunes their "bullshit filter" a little differently: for some, a belief can be formed with as little as a piece of "he said/she said" hearsay. Some of us set the bar a little higher and prefer to stick to facts in peer reviewed publications and the like instead.
That's true and some people just have terrible bullshit filters or they're too indoctrinated with mainstream thinking so they'll even discard or discredit evidence simply based on the source. For eg I grew up a devout Zionist and I did not want to accept that those guys had a hand in 9/11. Most of my ilk instantly dismiss those allegations but my desire for truth is far stronger than any cultural or societal programming. Also recently it came out that half of peer-reviewed papers aren't actually replicated. So for me personally I like to dig deeper which involves looking at problems and corruption within the peer-review process. That's why an understanding of politics and human nature is essential. It's often just as important to evaluate the origins of a study as the results.
So what sort of hardboiled evidence do you have that makes you deem vaccination "not good"?
Was there a vaccine thread on here? Pretty sure I've made tons of posts regarding vaccines. But I would start with the doco called VAXXED. That includes the story of CDC whistleblower William Thompson and Andrew Wakefield's work. The producer of that film is named
Del Bigtree who has a podcast called The High Wire. This guy has won lawsuits against government agencies using science so he's definitely a credible source (YMMV).
From what my parents have told me, polio (as one example) was at one time a nasty scourge of human life and a major cause of paralysis and disability, and thanks to a fairly wide-spread vaccination effort, it is no longer quite the problem it once was.
Or that's due to improved collective hygiene. Correlation isn't causation. Were you aware that the WHO reluctantly admitted that
mutant strains of the polio vaccine now cause more paralysis than wild polio? Should I have a choice to vaccinate my child if that's the case? How much do you like gambling?
At one time people would be forced to live in "iron lung" negative-pressure ventilators... now iron lungs are seen as a crude tool of a bygone age.
I believe vaccines will be looked at the same way in the future. I bring this up a lot - how advanced, progressive and intelligent we think of ourselves these days and it's worth noting that people in a century or two from now are going to look back at us like we were fucking retards.
It seems reasonable to me to ascribe the disappearance of polio to the vaccination effort, rather than it being a serendipitous miracle that just happened to occur the same time as a vaccine was deployed.
See my quote above. Maybe this isn't true but it's a nice correlation.
How Plumbing Eradicated Disease, Not Vaccines
From what I have read and studied, the logic and theory behind vaccination makes sense as well.
I agree with this. I'm not against the
concept of vaccination. But I do not trust Big Pharma, I think it's criminal how they are not liable for any injuries their vaccines cause, I understand psychopathy at the highest levels of industry and I've seen the revolving door between politics and pharmaceutical companies. Not to mention doctors and nurses who have spoken out regarding the dangers of vaccines. There are credible accusations saying that they are downplaying or actively suppressing the actual rate of vaccine injuries and if parents knew the real numbers then they'd understandably be kicking up more of a stink about them. So just because the concept of vaccinating is legitimate, that doesn't automatically mean that companies aren't knowingly inserting things into vaccines which they know will cause harm (or that they don't have ulterior motives).
Agree. Read the vaccine insert. They're insane. It says it can potentially cause death on there ("blah blah a few deaths is worth protecting millions of others blah blah" tell that to the faces of parents with vaccine-injured children")
but overall vaccination reduces human suffering
Disagree. And parents should have the choice without being basically forced (coerced) to vaccinate their children. But that's where the insidious concept of 'herd immunity' comes in - "my vaccinated child is not protected, even though they've been vaccinated. You must also vaccinate your children". But what if I've got a long list of doctors who are vaccine-skeptics and who warn against doing it? They don't matter? No, only doctors who promote vaccines are credible.
Manmade global warming is similar: I know that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, CO2 levels are rising quite rapidly, we are burning fossil fuels of all sorts at a crazy rate (think of the number of container ships out there, with humongous engines, burning crude bunker oil, and running 24/7), other greenhouse gases also play their part (CFCs, nitrous oxide), weather patterns are changing, global temperatures are rising in general. All of these seem to provide supporting evidence that human usage of fossil fuels is having at least some effect. I find it hard to believe that the massive rise in global temperatures, changes in weather intensity, and elevated atmospheric CO2 are all exclusively natural fluctuation and humans have no effect whatsoever. Given the scale of human habitation and the volumes of gases we emit, it seems foolish to assume it has no impact at all.
I bolded the key part. If I fart into a hurricane I'm having some effect on the wind. Not much though. There "CO2 warming the Earth" theory has not even been proven and there's reliable data to show that the world is in fact
cooling right now, or at least plateauing. I've covered this extensively in the anthropogenic global warming thread and I'm glad you brought it up because this is an issue that's promoted by the mainstream, media, politicians, bureaucrats yet I'm quite certain that they're lying about that. So if they could be lying about climate change then I'm also open to them lying about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
And why is that a problem? Just because you have claims or ideas that "go against the grain" so to speak, does not neccesarily elevate those claims in an argument. Part of why the "establishment narrative" is a thing, is because it's the consensus observations of many individuals, and is backed up by appropriate theoretical grounding, proven by experiment and observation.
Or they're generally paid off and pressured to promote a certain line of thinking (see the Harvard-sugar lobby scandal from the 50's). If someone you know has been proven to consistently lie, then why would you continue to believe them, and why would you trust them to tell you who the real liars are? I'm not saying everything the mainstream says is wrong but a large chunk of it is and what they're most guilty of is
lying by omission.
Usually the onus for proving extraordinary claims falls on the claimant. If you are claiming that e.g. the President is actually three midgets in a trenchcoat, I want to see some proof. Calling someone an establishment shill and brainwashed etc is not really constructive at all.
My role is not to force people to believe things or think like me. I actually think doing so goes against my best interests. I'm here to offer information, ask questions and then anyone is free to believe what they believe. But if someone is to personally attack me or attempt to character assassinate me because I say something that might me true and makes them uncomfortable, well they can **** *** and I will tell them to do so (unless that will result in me being banned/silenced/censored).
"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient."