Many readers will already follow Alex Berenson, but for those who don’t I’d like to point you to this very important post of his. For anyone who has done an undergraduate course in statistics, as I have, you will know that the numbers can be manipulated in a multitude of convenient ways. To really understand the numbers you need to have the raw data, understand the methods of the study, and reconstruct the analysis. Who has the knowledge and time to do that? Not many - certainly not me. But Alex (an author and reporter, but not a statistician as far as I know, but a history and economics major) has a knack with this sort of thing.

Joost Meerloo explains that “he who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind.” We could also add that he who formulates the statistics is master over our current perceptions when it comes to covid.

And again Meerloo says the totalitarian “strategy in public relations has people conditioned more and more to ask themselves, “What do other people think?” (And here we could also add “What does the CDC think?) As a result, a common delusion is created: people are incited to think what other people think, and thus public opinion may mushroom out into a mass prejudice.”

So what the CDC says is of great importance and only scrutinised by a few.

Alex explains:

Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control, America’s not-at-all-politicized public health agency, released a new study purporting to show that vaccination protects against Covid infection better than natural immunity. Of course, a wave of stories about the benefits of mRNA vaccination followed.

To do this, the CDC used some magic statistical analysis to turn inside raw data that actually showed almost four times as many fully vaccinated people being hospitalized with Covid as those with natural immunity - and FIFTEEN TIMES as many over the summer.

Here’s the post: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-cdc-hits-a-new-low/comments