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Buying the Truth: Peer reviewers have made over a billion dollars from the top four medical outlets

I read a fascinating book this week that I thought was very revealing about the field of anthropology by a professor of that field called Weaponizing Anthropology, which is about how the CIA has infiltrated that science and the colleges that teach it to shape narratives to build a social narrative.  The book by David Price, I think, explains a lot about just how wrong it is that we establish what we think of as a fact.  And it reminded me of the problems revealed during Covid from the Lancet in England, a very respected medical publication, where Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci found ways to manipulate the important news of hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to prevent and treat Covid-19.  And to take away that hope from millions of people suffering from the artificial virus, let loose from a lab in China to spread around the world, from gain-of-function research.  Regarding the field of anthropology and the related sciences, I have complained a lot about some of the ridiculous assumptions made about the mound building culture in the Ohio Valley for instance that steers concern more toward a hunter and gatherer mindset of gradual evolution when in fact we are looking at a Vico Cycle of continued decline and rebirth from cultures extending deep into the past, well beyond the Archaic Period.  And recently, we learned that peer reviewers for four of the top medical journals have received payments from drug and medical device manufacturers totaling around 1 billion dollars from 2020 to 2022.  This has opened the door to what big business it is to be in the peer review business.  People tend to trust information that is associated with an expert opinion.  But the deceit is that when that expert is paid to have an argument that the people writing the checks want them to have, the information is meaningless.  And in the context of the value of helpful information, we are finding that what we assume to be a reality is, in truth, only shaped by those paying for the definition of that reality, which endorses a need they have for mass public opinion to shade in their direction. 

This morning, I had 337,000 unread emails, and about a quarter of those are from people who offer peer review services and want me to pay them for their expert opinion to lend to the credibility of my material.  Or, they want me to review their material and are willing to pay for it.  It is an enormous business, and many people make a lot of money offering nothing more than an opinion, and the fee for being an expert in a field is very valuable.  But I don’t get into that money game for many reasons.  For a long time, I have not trusted peer-reviewed opinions for many reasons.  This recent information from the Weaponizing Anthropology book and this report on the peer review contributions to the top four medical journals has only solidified my opinion.  Which is sad because I would like to see the system work.  I read a lot of information, and I have my trusted sources.  I think the information is more credible when I see their name next to an article or a book.  But that’s how this whole racket got started in the first place.  Trust was for sale, and there were a lot of evil characters in the world willing to exploit it for all kinds of nefarious reasons.  That was indeed happening in the medical field.  And it was happening in large doses in anthropology and archaeology.  Those who pay for an opinion get to shape what that opinion is. 

I think we were a lot better off in the sciences when adventurers through discovery would publish wild finds in a search for fortune and glory.  The idea of profiting off finding a new treasure in the world and becoming rich in the process was more honest than what we have now, where experts are paid to shape an opinion and steer people as sponsored spokespeople toward some treatment that might not be good for them.  A good example is in the diagnosis of diabetes, for instance, where pancreatic health can be self-generated.  However, the medical approach shaped by paid experts wants to steer patients toward pharmaceutical treatments because that’s where the profit is.  The goal is not in saving lives with real and permanent treatment, it’s in keeping people sick so that pharma companies can profit off the demise of those patients.  The ability to purchase a peer-reviewed opinion then shapes reality, not toward the truth but toward the desire of profit seekers at the expense of honesty.  How often have I heard that the Clovis people migrated into North America across the frozen land bridge from Russia to Alaska 20,000 years ago?  When none of the expert opinions can begin to explain why there were such large skeletons found in Indian mounds all over North America from a people with very precise understandings of mathematics, and were certainly not hunters and gatherers, but sophisticated city dwellers, such as at the Cahokia site just outside of St. Louis that had cities larger than what was found in Europe at the time.  Most of that information has been suppressed by the peer review process, and only old-fashioned passion projects from seekers of fortune and glory have been able to shake that information loose from the world.

It has been a house of cards that was always going to fail, and that one billion dollars reported just for those four publications is just the tip of the iceberg.  This same practice is occurring in all our professional fields that produce experts.  Being an expert pays a lot of money once you establish yourself.  And as I said, I get a lot of offers, which I turn down because I don’t like the process, and would never take money for it.  Because I see it all as a huge problem.  These latest reports only confirm what I always suspected.  When you can pay cash to create a truth, can you say that a truth is real?  When opinion is for sale, I don’t see that it has any value.  An expert might work hard to build up credibility to put their name next to something, but the minute people discover that the opinion was purchased, all merit for the contents flies out the window.  That is what the CIA has been doing in the field of anthropology to shape social discourse by controlling the narrative with people on their staff, or with money paid to experts through black budgets not regulated by members of an elected body of government in Congress.  And since many people got caught over the Lancet issue regarding COVID, I don’t think the expert class will ever gain credibility back.  It will take more than time to get people to trust in the system again.  And the peer review process is now broken forever.  And that might lead to wild theories and speculations from a hungry public.  But honestly, that information is more valid than the opinions of people paid to shape a truth that might have no basis in reality.  But it might serve the plots of more scandalous people who do not have our best interests in mind. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Collapse of the Communist Left’s Expert World: Never stay in your lane, always challenge the “experts”

Another one of the reasons that the communist left will never recover from their present condition, which they put themselves in, is that trust in an expert class will never return.  The grand failure was in what they tried to do with COVID-19, but the general attitude toward a credentialed class of experts has been falling apart for many decades.  The fantasy that communists had of a world run by experts has blown itself apart in America, and the rest of the world is following our example.  And that is a power that will forever be gone from society building.  During COVID-19, we were told to “trust the experts,” and the experts then ran us all over a cliff toward social destruction.  America was designed as a decentralized country that promoted people within its society through merit, not expert status.  In America, being good at many things is very fashionable, not just one specific thing.  Of course, Dr. Fauci was the ultimate example of an expert society people put too much trust in, who abused that leverage for personal reasons and became a menace to society.  That was the last straw for many people in the wake of that activity.  But the first began a long time ago as the labor movement tried to apply to society, in general, this ridiculous notion they have afflicted culture through labor unions, where only specialists in work performed a task.  An engineer didn’t do labor.  Labor didn’t do engineering.  And management stayed in an office somewhere and practiced for the next golf game.  Everyone had a specialty, and they stayed in their lane.  But the needs of human beings are much more dynamic than that.  And people are not happy with such a cap on limited knowledge.  People are happiest when they know many things and can approach life with curiosity and vigor. 

My personal approach to life is based on the 9 Ways of the Samurai from The Book of Five Rings, which says, “develop intuitive judgment and understanding for everything.”  And “know the Way of all professions.”  A long time ago, I worked as a machine refurbisher at Cincinnati Milacron down in Oakley, Ohio, in its prime years, and I had a big toolbox that had those 9 Ways attached to my toolbox lid, where most of the other guys had cutouts of nude women from Penthouse Magazine.  They thought I was a weird young man, but I loved my samurai books and read them every day on my breaks during those years, and it used to drive them crazy that I wasn’t interested only in my primary job.  They used to tell me to “stay in my lane” all the time and not to disrupt the apple cart.  Make your living, go home, sleep on the couch like everyone else did, and don’t try to change it.  Well, that was never good enough for me; I wanted to know something about everything, so I read many weekly books on various subjects.  Technically, these days, I could claim to be an expert in more fields of endeavor than I have fingers on my hands.  And I think that’s how the human condition wants it to be.  We have curious minds and want to learn as many things as possible.  At least we start that way as kids.  Most people hit puberty and throw that curiosity away forever once they start chasing after sexual pursuits.  But that is more of a biological surrender than the mind’s condition.  But to pull off their grand scheme on the world, global communists needed people to stay in their lane, do only what they were good at, and wait for an expert to tell them all the other things in an interdependent society of specialists trained in liberalism at the local college.  And to stay that way forever. 

By decentralizing information and making it so that people could acquire as much knowledge over a lifetime as they dared to pursue, the concept of an expert class has collapsed.  In frustration, you could see them draw that line in the sand in late 2019 when they unleashed COVID-19.  I was sitting at a bar in Orlando, Florida, watching the news of the unleashing of Covid from Wuhan, China, and I knew right away what it was because my base of knowledge was not expert-driven on a single source of wisdom but was applied over many interconnecting fields from psychology, philosophy, to essential medicine, law, politics, strategy, and military history.  And I knew it was an attack by a frustrated group of experts who were like union stewards in a typical manufacturing facility, upset that someone not qualified to do mechanical work picked up a wrench to fix something themselves instead of waiting on the union worker to stop watching television during his long break, and come and perform the work as needed.  Trump was in office and shaking up this world of experts, and they unleashed COVID-19 out of frustration to get the world to listen to them, the experts in the medical profession.  All it did was make everyone frustrated and angry because, in America, we had access to all the information we could ever hope for, and people could learn more about COVID-19 than the “experts” wanted us to know.  And they lost massive amounts of power during this period.

That was always one of the keys to the success of the United States as opposed to other countries that were much less dynamic.  Waiting for a class of experts would not work in an impatient world where progress was measured in seconds, not days and years.  The complaints about this fast-moving world always come from the sluggish communists who want a world of experts to stay in their lane and provide specificity on only the topics they are credentialed for from a local university.  I hear it probably a thousand times a week; “what makes you think you have a right to provide expert opinions on law, medicine, or political strategy?  What university did you attend that provided you with a degree in those fields?”  And my answer is that I have done more work in those fields than most people with six-year degrees combined perform over their entire lifetimes.  And that real-world experience doing real things that matter is a far better education than a liberal arts major in a specified field that limits you for the rest of your life.  And more people are figuring that out for themselves, and they are much happier.  Doing for yourself is much more rewarding than hiring an expert.  America used to be known for its self-reliance, for the backyard mechanic, and the craftsman who could build a dining room table on the weekend for their family.  The world of experts has not been rewarding, and most people who have stuck to the rules have grown into miserable adults and boring spouses.  Look at the divorce rates of most people, and you will find that most of them are drowning under the burden of an expert life where they learn their little things, stayed in their lane as they were told to all their lives, and end up brain dead by their 40s because they lose interest in life because they are so bored.  So they develop sex addictions and other detriments to fill their vacant lives with something interesting, which never works because all the effort is misapplied.  That is the world the communists wanted to give us, and it has been soundly rejected in America.  And that movement is moving to the world as a whole.  And not a moment too soon. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Enemy that BlackRock Has Been: Using “experts” to destroy our country and to leave the infrastructure behind intact

The good news is that Florida is moving over 2 billion dollars of investments away from the money management firm BlackRock. And that other states, like North Carolina, are starting to understand the picture. BlackRock is an enemy of American sovereignty, and it must be defunded. They are hostile to American concepts and have committed treason and sedition against the idea of a nation-state regulated by the Constitution. There is nothing good about BlackRock as Larry Fink has run it. So moving money away from them and into alternatives such as Vivek Ramaswamy’s new Strive money management is the best thing anybody could do to fight back against a hostile insurgent. And BlackRock is feeling the pain, as much as the finance industry wants to laugh at the political effort to designate BlackRock as an enemy of America. BlackRock has been spending a lot of money lately on commercials, especially on Fox News, to repair its image after a rough year where large portions of the public have finally figured out what they’ve been up to. But all the public relations in the world can’t fix what they have done by using ESG scores to perform political tasks that no elected government body could ever legally do. It’s one of the most extensive hostile actions ever attempted against the human race, and Larry Fink knew what he was doing from the outset. Working directly for the interests of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, for nothing less than a complete takeover of the world’s currency systems, then to crush the American dollar and resurrect a global currency under China, for which BlackRock is the first financial firm allowed to operate in that country for this exact purpose, we are dealing with maniacal forces here that have purposely intended harm to our country. It’s more than time to fight back.

While watching a school board member in my local community try to justify why they had wasted so much money on legal fees, I thought about this BlackRock case. He said that he was not an expert in the field of law, so when needed, he sought “expert” advice and that he thought everyone should. Well, experts cost money, a lot of money. And anytime we allow experts to isolate the big picture into the scope of a particular set of concerns, we open ourselves to mass corruption. A broader theft of a grand idea will be completely invisible to the untrained eye. That is why legal bills are so high in public schools because they rely on experts too much, and the experts know it, and most of them take advantage of the weakness. The best thing to do is to be well-read on just about every topic so that you know something about everything and can develop a nice bull crap meter to know when one of these experts is trying to pull the wool over your eyes with a criminal scam. The legal profession is full of these types of people. So is finance. People who work in finance assume that the people they are dealing with a glaze over at the sight of numbers leaving the door wide open for fraud. The medical industry is another field where experts routinely abuse their power.

People too often surrender their opinions to “experts” essentially because they are too lazy to learn for themselves what’s really going on with their bodies, their money, or their society of law and order. Turning anything over to the “experts” is a surefire way to lead to a disastrous society.   And companies like BlackRock have purposely exploited this human trait into knowingly sabotaging the American way of life for its purposeful destruction. Larry Fink never wanted to be rich; he wanted to be a political activist from southern California. He’s a hippie who happened to get rich, and the Federal Reserve did him a big favor after the housing collapse of 2008. He was the only one dumb enough to carry the bad loans, and the Fed made him a deal nobody else would have taken. And in that way, the government used American monetary policy as a weapon to do what no amount of troops, tanks, or weapons could ever hope to do, and that was to destroy America from within.

You can see BlackRock’s destructive force most on large corporate boards where they have attempted to use their vast financial power to buy up company leadership to guide them into a progressive direction controlled by the World Economic Forum, which Larry Fink sits on the board there to do precisely what he has been doing. You can see the damage in companies like the Disney Company, which have fully adopted ESG scores as their measure of value, replacing it with dollar-type movement where financial rewards only were the measure of success. With ESG, it’s all about environmental concerns and social governance, such as they do in China, and large companies have followed Larry Fink and the gang to their own doom. Disney is making movies with ESG scores in mind, where the people who buy the tickets still measure things in dollars and cents. Disney has had a tough year, and they are hoping that the new Avatar film will bail them out because the world is still traditionally judging value. And that is where the real war is in all this financial business. It’s a world run by scandalous experts for the purpose of national destruction of the money supply, then to force the world to adopt these ESG values as a replacement for the classic Cloward and Piven strategy of mass destruction while leaving the infrastructure of the country intact. The people, the homes, and the businesses are left intact in such a war. It’s not like Berlin after World War II. Everything is still there; only the values of what they represent to society have changed. It’s a new kind of war that many didn’t see coming, yet it’s in front of all our faces now.

Most of the money management firms have been pulled into this game. Strive by Vivek Ramaswamy, operating out of Columbus, Ohio, is one of the few who can be trusted with investments in the traditional way. This has forced one of the big ones, Vanguard, to see the writing on the wall, and they are moving away from ESG values in investments. It’s still early, and many are reporting that BlackRock doesn’t need Florida’s 2 billion dollars; they currently manage over 8 trillion in assets, giving them massive amounts of power over American companies, such as the Disney Company. That is why there are so many movies about gay rights, environmental concerns, and other liberal political platforms. The Fed committed a lot of crimes by recklessly printing money and distributing that money to Larry Fink on Wall Street to essentially money launder by propping up the money management firms so they could then have the financial power to buy up majorities of stock options in publicly traded companies and replace their board of directors as majority owners into ESG machines, which is destroying them all from the inside out. Destroy the culture, and preserve the infrastructure. But because people are catching on and pushing back, some of the prominent money managers are leaving ESG behind. And currently, there is no better than Strive. Vivek knows the Wall Street game, has written a few books on precisely this problem and knows what he’s doing. And that pressure is already forcing firms like Vanguard to reexamine their ESG policies. Yet, there needs to be more than that. Companies like BlackRock need to be defunded entirely and destroyed for the hostile insurgents that they have been toward American interests. And nothing less. They knowingly attacked our country using our own money to do it, and a punishment for that action is mandated and coming soon to an investment firm near you. 

Rich Hoffman

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