Hello,
Not that I think anyone much will read this and think I am speaking the truth but hopefully at least one person will not be lead into a false reality spun from absolute falsehood, nonsense, and/or just greed and ego. However, I will say my thoughts in the hope it helps someone learn to parse fact & fiction.
I must begin by confessing that I do not know the host’s credentials or experience and have only personally listened to one podcast. I am going to change that with very much haste and intention. Should I come to a different conclusion, which I can almost certainly assure you from reading what the other episodes are about I will not, then I will gladly change all of this and eat crow and apologize to the host. (My personal education and hobby in my spare time was a degree in and the continued study of a branch of philosophy called Metaphysics primarily although another branch called Epistemology is also part of my personal experience. Metaphysics is essentially the study of reality and existence. Epistemology is basically the study of knowledge. For example what can we know? How can we know it is real? Can we trust certain things to be fundamentally real because it seems to be that way to us? and so on.
In philosophy an argument (As I say the word argument I do not mean a screaming match between you and your spouse or the crazy uncle you don’t like. I mean argument in the academic sense so that it only means a set of statements given at the beginning by one side to support their final conclusion. Usually done to persuade that what they said is true.
Arguments must be Valid, Sound, and Relevant to truthfully and logically explain and support the idea that the person is trying to support as the truth. For example the thing about this podcast that focuses on Germ Theory being a lie medicine is based on. Germ Theory is a real and extremely important world altering discovery or idea that made our life spans so much longer and healthcare so much more capable. It does not matter what some author selling a book says or that a podcast host being sponsored with ads and listeners tells you or how they twist data and statistics and partial truths to make anyone believe otherwise. It is as true as the statement “The Sun has risen every morning of my life in the lower United States. Sometimes it is daylight longer than other times. Some places are so close to Earths pole that they may have to experience nights without end for longer than most of the planet. However I know in the lower United States where I live I can say with almost certainty short of some devastating life ending unseeable event the sun will rise for me tomorrow.”
Valid= “The Sun has risen every morning of my life in the lower United States. Sometimes it is daylight longer than other times.” These statements are valid because they support my conclusion: I know in the lower United States where I live I can say with almost certainty short of some devastating life ending unseeable event the sun will rise for me tomorrow.”
Had my two statements been cows produce milk and monarch butterflies migrate therefore I know the sun will rise here tomorrow then my argument would not be valid. Also important on validity is: “My father wanted to be Superman as a child. When I was a child he told me his study of Superman taught him how to fly. So then he taught me to fly.” All this can be said is a valid argument. The two false premises support the false conclusion.
However the I can fly argument is not sound. The premises are false and the conclusion is false. Valid argument can be false but not sound.
Lastly is relevance: “Over history we have developed into divisions of labor. This has allowed us to raise our civilizations. This division of labor does rely on people being able to believe in someone else’s opinion that is specialized in a labor different than theirs. Sometimes this has historically either through mistakes or bad actors led to devastating consequences. The Tuskegee Experiment is a dark and devastating example where our disease leaders and doctors were trusted by a group of 400 African American Men to be the good faith knowledgeable actors on matters concerning disease and medicine. This was a large study of Syphilis on those poor unknowing men that were assuming the correct thing that should have been true. That the disease and medical experts involved knew the best and were acting in good faith. We have used vaccines for hundreds of years. Vaccines are not 100% foolproof for everyone. Vaccines also are commonly known to have ill side effects, some vaccines worse than others. The Covid Vaccines were not completely effective and stopped everyone from getting Covid. The Covid Vaccines had a certain percentage risk of causing dire health outcomes sometimes even death.
NONE OF THAT IS RELEVANT TO ANY ARGUMENT ABOUT WHETHER TAKING THE VACCINE IS IN YOUR BEST INTEREST REGARDLESS OF IT BEING TRUE OR YOUR FEAR OR WHAT YOUR PASTED AND THE LADY RUNNING A REGISTER AT THE PHARMACY OR EVEN SOME DOCTORS AND SOME THOUGHT LEADERS LIKE THIS HOST MAY SAY!!!!
The efficacy of the Covid vaccine varies by manufacturer and person and that person’s environment and health. The Covid vaccine has a very minute chance of causing severe blood clots and/or death. You may fear needles. You will possibly have an incredibly sore arm or flu like symptoms for a few days after it. (All the above are true statements). However, the chances of an unvaccinated person contracting Covid and having serious complications such as blood clotting pneumonia and death is statistically much more unsafe than for one that does take the vaccine. (If all other factors are even such as the two patients being the same general age and health and access to healthcare etc). If the only variable between two identical twins with no differences in life except the vaccine the unvaccinated is less safe and has a higher risk of mortality
