Appreciate that, Ferg. You're right that it goes beyond one institution. The silver lining: six years later, millions more people see it clearly. That awareness IS the foundation for fixing it.
This is exactly right. The accountability gap is the real story now. We documented 150+ studies showing the harms — and still, not a single architect of these policies has faced consequences. That has to change, and it starts with never letting people forget what happened.
The COVID and COVID injection frauds have utterly destroyed once considerable credibility of "scientists" and medical "professionals", with a very small number of notable exceptions. They are pathetic.
Good piece, Jim. The 180 on lab leak is one of the most documented reversals in modern science — and the email trail makes it impossible to claim it was just "evolving understanding." They knew what they were looking at and chose to lie about it.
Interesting framing -- and you may be right that focusing on what leaked rather than whether it leaked is the more productive line of inquiry at this point. The WHO response is worth tracking closely. Thanks for staying on this, Jim.
If no consequences are paid by those who did this, it'll happen again, and so far nobody has paid a price - there have been no arrests, no jail times, nobody's even lost their career. They have no shame, they just don't care. To them it's about power and money, nothing else.
And we're not just talking about masking at Walmart's or government funding abuse.
We're talking about deaths in nursing homes due to insane policies enforced by governors I wouldn't trust to care for my dog, people dying on ventilators in hospitals that blindly followed CDC treatment protocols.
And the "vaccine"? Good God that's a whole other book unto itself, it's own hellscape of fraud, death, and blind adherence to "the science". Seeing my fellow Americans act like such lemmings was a real gut punch, definitely an eye opener. We are no longer the free people we once were.
How many died needlessly? Did anyone pay a price? Do those in power even care?
This is exactly right. The accountability gap is the real story now. We documented 150+ studies showing the harms — and still, not a single architect of these policies has faced consequences. That has to change, and it starts with never letting people forget what happened.
Worse still the professionals who tried to help people honestly and competently were attacked.
Those in power are clearly pathological control freaks (sociopaths, psychopaths, etc.). All they care about is being in control. They do not care about anyone other than themselves. Their rhetoric is self serving manipulative nonsense which is why they always resort to censorship.
Like you I was shocked and dismayed by how easily a great many Americans were fooled by those toxic mentally diseased individuals, aided and abetted by corporate media.
Remember those 2 younger docs out in CA early on questioning everything around the covid response? They were driven out of the profession I think.
I have in-laws, who I love dearly, that I think would walk into a spinning fan blade if a doctor told them to. The level of trust in the medical profession may be near zero now for many of us, but it's still sky high for far too many. People need to trust their gut, their 6th sense, we have that for a reason and we need to listen to it.
My sense is most doctors aren't mentally diseased but they have proven to be horrendously cowardly. If they'd shown as much courage as the average young private I served with in the Army (I was a fire platoon leader) this horrific fraud never could have been foisted on society. Most doctors have proven to be pathetic individuals unworthy of respect or trust.
Right after the time that Washington State finally relented and withdrew their "everyone in a healthcare facility or office must wear a mask" requirement, I asked my brother-in-law the anesthesiologist if there wasn't any pushback from his colleagues against how stupid that mandate was.
"Nah," he replied, "Doctors are used to doing what they are told."
That quote is devastating in its honesty. "Used to doing what they're told" — from a profession that's supposed to exercise independent clinical judgment. That's the whole problem in one sentence.
Hard to imagine but perhaps some doctors are actually that obtuse.
Sorting out COVID reality didn't actually require remarkable intelligence or specialized knowledge. Anyone with a reasonable grasp of grade school math could read infection fatality rate data which made it clear very early on that COVID posed no meaningful risk of mortality for the vast majority (zero for healthy youngsters).
The scale of this fraud is almost impossible to wrap our minds around. The early deaths from cancer will be in the millions, on the level of a world war. But very few even want to talk about it.
yes. It's beyond tragic, this is on a scale that rivals some of the largest mass killings in history. And some who took the vax have come to realize that the injections have destroyed their health and they don't know what to do about it. I read an article just yesterday written by a woman whose entire family took several of the shots and now they're dealing with health issues that the doctors "can't explain" and have no idea how to treat. My own sister's health has been a mess since she took the shots in 2021. My nephew, a formerly strong 30 something, now has peripheral neuropathy in both hands and feet that's so bad he can no longer play the guitar. I could go on and on...
I'm so sorry to hear all that, it's tragic. A 30 yr old man who lost the ability to play the guitar, how do you quantify that? That grim reality won't show up on a stat sheet anywhere, but it doesn't make it less real to him or your family, that's terrible.
My wife's niece died on a ventilator in a hospital in the first yr of this train wreck. She went in with covid, was getting better but then got worse and boom - treatment "protocol" meant she went on a vent. And because of insane satanic hospital policies (one loved one only), her mom was allowed in the room but her dad had to say his last words to his daughter over a cell phone while she lay unconscious on a vent.
The bastards who did this should be in jail, but instead they retired or were promoted. I'll never trust doctors again, even the smell of a medical office makes me want to vomit. They're lying spineless bastards.
yep. incredibly sad about your wife's niece. The sad truth is that hospital nurses have recounted how in March of 2020, patients would come in to the hospital quite sick with "covid" that presented as pneumonia or other respiratory illness. They'd put them on antibiotics an steroids, some would also get oxygen, and after 2 or 3 or 4 days, they'd get better enough and go home! But once the Fauci protocol--a vent and Remdesivir-- was implemented, most died in the hospital. The illness was treatable, but Fauci and the spineless bastards masquerading as health professionals killed them anyway.
I hear the frustration — believe me. But I'd push back: the fact that Bhattacharya is running the NIH, that the lab leak theory went from 'misinformation' to mainstream, that people like RFK Jr. are in positions of power — that didn't happen by accident. It happened because people kept pushing. Keep going.
It’s not what are we gonna do about the fraud, the endemic fraud…it’s who’s going to fix the elections system ? What elected officials will bring back truth and honesty in government?
Every institution is corrupt to the foundation …very good article by the way, right over the target.
Appreciate that, Ferg. You're right that it goes beyond one institution. The silver lining: six years later, millions more people see it clearly. That awareness IS the foundation for fixing it.
I hear the frustration — believe me. But I'd push back: the fact that Bhattacharya is running the NIH, that the lab leak theory went from 'misinformation' to mainstream, that people like RFK Jr. are in positions of power — that didn't happen by accident. It happened because people kept pushing. Keep going.
The fake covid experiment (pandemic) was etched in granite decades ago. The only thing a bio lab can create is FEAR. There is no way any of these cowardly scientists are going to risk their own lives inventing some deadly virus where they are put in the path of the greatest risk.
Explain how a virus can be leaked from a lab. How much virus would be they need to leak to cause a worldwide spread of some contagion? How could it be leaked without those in the vicinity experiencing major effects? If a deadly virus is leaked from a lab, the researchers would be just as much at risk when they leave the lab as anyone else.
Nothing was leaked from any lab other than the FEAR of DEATH from some fake deadly virus. Six years hence, the lie will still be perpetuated by new fake pandemics.
I respect the skepticism, but I disagree on this one. COVID was real — I know people who died from it, and the excess mortality data across multiple countries confirms elevated death rates before any vaccine rollout. The real scandal isn't that the virus was fake — it's that the response was catastrophically wrong: lockdowns that didn't work, treatments that were suppressed, and vaccines that were rushed without adequate safety monitoring. If we deny the virus existed, we lose the ability to hold the people who mismanaged it accountable.
With all due respect, how do you “know” what those people died “from”? Are you the best pathologist in the world that autopsied them? And how do you explain that no excess mortality was recorded until after a pandemic was declared (as per Rancourt et al.)? I don’t think you respect the skepticism enough.
Powerful breakdown of that teleconference moment. The idea that scientists privately saw one thing but publicly wrote another really gets at the core issue here. I remember when censorship was ramping up around this and anyone suggesting lab origins got immediately shut down, felt surreal watching institutional trust crumble in realtime. What bothers me most is how the incentive structures that enabled this are sill intact.
That last line is the key. The incentive structures are still intact. That's why we keep documenting — so when the next 'emergency' comes, there's a record that can't be memory-holed.
the reckoning that still has not come. Not only should the players you mentioned be horse whipped and jailed for a long time, but the pushers of the injections should be drawn and quartered. But instead, nothing has happened to them and nothing will. I don't know what the answer is. I have no doubt that those responsible will have their day or reckoning, but it probably will not be in this world. Meanwhile, how do we keep something like this from happening again?
The answer is structural: transparency that outlasts any single administration. Real-time adverse event reporting like Denmark does, mandatory publication of all grant funding chains, removing the revolving door between regulatory agencies and pharma. And critically -- a public that never forgets. Thats what Rational Ground exists for.
So much damage done by these absolutely horrible people. As a practicing physician, I get to try to undo all the lack of trust and try to establish rapport with my patients so that we can treat them appropriately. This crew makes me so angry - I survived the pandemic by listening to Vinay Prasad, Marty Makary and Jay Bhattacharya, along with Zubin Damania, who gave them a platform to share truth. They were my true north when I was upset and frustrated with having to force our employees to get vaccinated. I'm still recovering. I can only hope that some day these evil people get what they deserve.
Laura, thank you for this — and for being one of the good ones. The doctors who kept their integrity through all of this are the reason any trust in medicine survives at all. Prasad, Makary, and Jay were lifelines for a lot of us too. Glad you found them.
Research by Dennis Rancourt and his team shows there was no pandemic! The excess deaths that some countries had were caused by assault. In the US that assault happened in hospitals where they rammed tubes down patients' throats and then injected them with the poison Remdesivir. Rancourt remarked on how "amazing" it was that the virus respected boundaries of countries, how one country had excess deaths, but the country right next door had none. It was as if the virus needed a passport to enter that country next door! There was no pandemic!
Appreciate that, Ferg. You're right that it goes beyond one institution. The silver lining: six years later, millions more people see it clearly. That awareness IS the foundation for fixing it.
This is exactly right. The accountability gap is the real story now. We documented 150+ studies showing the harms — and still, not a single architect of these policies has faced consequences. That has to change, and it starts with never letting people forget what happened.
The COVID and COVID injection frauds have utterly destroyed once considerable credibility of "scientists" and medical "professionals", with a very small number of notable exceptions. They are pathetic.
Until someone pays a price and they admit their mistakes, I'll never trust the medical profession again.
why the virologists did a 180 turn on lab leak:
https://jimhaslam.substack.com/p/6-if-you-believe-the-wiv-engineered
Good piece, Jim. The 180 on lab leak is one of the most documented reversals in modern science — and the email trail makes it impossible to claim it was just "evolving understanding." They knew what they were looking at and chose to lie about it.
the bigger story is what leaked, not lab leak. the WHO responded:
https://jimhaslam.substack.com/p/the-most-plausible-origin-of-sars
Interesting framing -- and you may be right that focusing on what leaked rather than whether it leaked is the more productive line of inquiry at this point. The WHO response is worth tracking closely. Thanks for staying on this, Jim.
feel free to republish anything on your Subtack. I think we can stick it to Fauci et al with this story
If no consequences are paid by those who did this, it'll happen again, and so far nobody has paid a price - there have been no arrests, no jail times, nobody's even lost their career. They have no shame, they just don't care. To them it's about power and money, nothing else.
And we're not just talking about masking at Walmart's or government funding abuse.
We're talking about deaths in nursing homes due to insane policies enforced by governors I wouldn't trust to care for my dog, people dying on ventilators in hospitals that blindly followed CDC treatment protocols.
And the "vaccine"? Good God that's a whole other book unto itself, it's own hellscape of fraud, death, and blind adherence to "the science". Seeing my fellow Americans act like such lemmings was a real gut punch, definitely an eye opener. We are no longer the free people we once were.
How many died needlessly? Did anyone pay a price? Do those in power even care?
This is exactly right. The accountability gap is the real story now. We documented 150+ studies showing the harms — and still, not a single architect of these policies has faced consequences. That has to change, and it starts with never letting people forget what happened.
Worse still the professionals who tried to help people honestly and competently were attacked.
Those in power are clearly pathological control freaks (sociopaths, psychopaths, etc.). All they care about is being in control. They do not care about anyone other than themselves. Their rhetoric is self serving manipulative nonsense which is why they always resort to censorship.
Like you I was shocked and dismayed by how easily a great many Americans were fooled by those toxic mentally diseased individuals, aided and abetted by corporate media.
Remember those 2 younger docs out in CA early on questioning everything around the covid response? They were driven out of the profession I think.
I have in-laws, who I love dearly, that I think would walk into a spinning fan blade if a doctor told them to. The level of trust in the medical profession may be near zero now for many of us, but it's still sky high for far too many. People need to trust their gut, their 6th sense, we have that for a reason and we need to listen to it.
My sense is most doctors aren't mentally diseased but they have proven to be horrendously cowardly. If they'd shown as much courage as the average young private I served with in the Army (I was a fire platoon leader) this horrific fraud never could have been foisted on society. Most doctors have proven to be pathetic individuals unworthy of respect or trust.
Right after the time that Washington State finally relented and withdrew their "everyone in a healthcare facility or office must wear a mask" requirement, I asked my brother-in-law the anesthesiologist if there wasn't any pushback from his colleagues against how stupid that mandate was.
"Nah," he replied, "Doctors are used to doing what they are told."
That quote is devastating in its honesty. "Used to doing what they're told" — from a profession that's supposed to exercise independent clinical judgment. That's the whole problem in one sentence.
Hard to imagine but perhaps some doctors are actually that obtuse.
Sorting out COVID reality didn't actually require remarkable intelligence or specialized knowledge. Anyone with a reasonable grasp of grade school math could read infection fatality rate data which made it clear very early on that COVID posed no meaningful risk of mortality for the vast majority (zero for healthy youngsters).
At least 20 million deaths globally from the covid injections and hundreds of millions of severe life-changing injuries.
The scale of this fraud is almost impossible to wrap our minds around. The early deaths from cancer will be in the millions, on the level of a world war. But very few even want to talk about it.
yes. It's beyond tragic, this is on a scale that rivals some of the largest mass killings in history. And some who took the vax have come to realize that the injections have destroyed their health and they don't know what to do about it. I read an article just yesterday written by a woman whose entire family took several of the shots and now they're dealing with health issues that the doctors "can't explain" and have no idea how to treat. My own sister's health has been a mess since she took the shots in 2021. My nephew, a formerly strong 30 something, now has peripheral neuropathy in both hands and feet that's so bad he can no longer play the guitar. I could go on and on...
I'm so sorry to hear all that, it's tragic. A 30 yr old man who lost the ability to play the guitar, how do you quantify that? That grim reality won't show up on a stat sheet anywhere, but it doesn't make it less real to him or your family, that's terrible.
My wife's niece died on a ventilator in a hospital in the first yr of this train wreck. She went in with covid, was getting better but then got worse and boom - treatment "protocol" meant she went on a vent. And because of insane satanic hospital policies (one loved one only), her mom was allowed in the room but her dad had to say his last words to his daughter over a cell phone while she lay unconscious on a vent.
The bastards who did this should be in jail, but instead they retired or were promoted. I'll never trust doctors again, even the smell of a medical office makes me want to vomit. They're lying spineless bastards.
yep. incredibly sad about your wife's niece. The sad truth is that hospital nurses have recounted how in March of 2020, patients would come in to the hospital quite sick with "covid" that presented as pneumonia or other respiratory illness. They'd put them on antibiotics an steroids, some would also get oxygen, and after 2 or 3 or 4 days, they'd get better enough and go home! But once the Fauci protocol--a vent and Remdesivir-- was implemented, most died in the hospital. The illness was treatable, but Fauci and the spineless bastards masquerading as health professionals killed them anyway.
I hear the frustration — believe me. But I'd push back: the fact that Bhattacharya is running the NIH, that the lab leak theory went from 'misinformation' to mainstream, that people like RFK Jr. are in positions of power — that didn't happen by accident. It happened because people kept pushing. Keep going.
It’s not what are we gonna do about the fraud, the endemic fraud…it’s who’s going to fix the elections system ? What elected officials will bring back truth and honesty in government?
Every institution is corrupt to the foundation …very good article by the way, right over the target.
Appreciate that, Ferg. You're right that it goes beyond one institution. The silver lining: six years later, millions more people see it clearly. That awareness IS the foundation for fixing it.
True dat jimmy
What are we suppose to do about it?
Nothing and no one’s efforts have worked so far.
I hear the frustration — believe me. But I'd push back: the fact that Bhattacharya is running the NIH, that the lab leak theory went from 'misinformation' to mainstream, that people like RFK Jr. are in positions of power — that didn't happen by accident. It happened because people kept pushing. Keep going.
The fake covid experiment (pandemic) was etched in granite decades ago. The only thing a bio lab can create is FEAR. There is no way any of these cowardly scientists are going to risk their own lives inventing some deadly virus where they are put in the path of the greatest risk.
Explain how a virus can be leaked from a lab. How much virus would be they need to leak to cause a worldwide spread of some contagion? How could it be leaked without those in the vicinity experiencing major effects? If a deadly virus is leaked from a lab, the researchers would be just as much at risk when they leave the lab as anyone else.
Nothing was leaked from any lab other than the FEAR of DEATH from some fake deadly virus. Six years hence, the lie will still be perpetuated by new fake pandemics.
I respect the skepticism, but I disagree on this one. COVID was real — I know people who died from it, and the excess mortality data across multiple countries confirms elevated death rates before any vaccine rollout. The real scandal isn't that the virus was fake — it's that the response was catastrophically wrong: lockdowns that didn't work, treatments that were suppressed, and vaccines that were rushed without adequate safety monitoring. If we deny the virus existed, we lose the ability to hold the people who mismanaged it accountable.
With all due respect, how do you “know” what those people died “from”? Are you the best pathologist in the world that autopsied them? And how do you explain that no excess mortality was recorded until after a pandemic was declared (as per Rancourt et al.)? I don’t think you respect the skepticism enough.
Powerful breakdown of that teleconference moment. The idea that scientists privately saw one thing but publicly wrote another really gets at the core issue here. I remember when censorship was ramping up around this and anyone suggesting lab origins got immediately shut down, felt surreal watching institutional trust crumble in realtime. What bothers me most is how the incentive structures that enabled this are sill intact.
That last line is the key. The incentive structures are still intact. That's why we keep documenting — so when the next 'emergency' comes, there's a record that can't be memory-holed.
the reckoning that still has not come. Not only should the players you mentioned be horse whipped and jailed for a long time, but the pushers of the injections should be drawn and quartered. But instead, nothing has happened to them and nothing will. I don't know what the answer is. I have no doubt that those responsible will have their day or reckoning, but it probably will not be in this world. Meanwhile, how do we keep something like this from happening again?
The answer is structural: transparency that outlasts any single administration. Real-time adverse event reporting like Denmark does, mandatory publication of all grant funding chains, removing the revolving door between regulatory agencies and pharma. And critically -- a public that never forgets. Thats what Rational Ground exists for.
If there is money to be made, the majority within the medical establishment goes along with the lie.
Those people should have all been prosecuted for their lies.
So much damage done by these absolutely horrible people. As a practicing physician, I get to try to undo all the lack of trust and try to establish rapport with my patients so that we can treat them appropriately. This crew makes me so angry - I survived the pandemic by listening to Vinay Prasad, Marty Makary and Jay Bhattacharya, along with Zubin Damania, who gave them a platform to share truth. They were my true north when I was upset and frustrated with having to force our employees to get vaccinated. I'm still recovering. I can only hope that some day these evil people get what they deserve.
Laura, thank you for this — and for being one of the good ones. The doctors who kept their integrity through all of this are the reason any trust in medicine survives at all. Prasad, Makary, and Jay were lifelines for a lot of us too. Glad you found them.
The question is: what are we going to do about it? NOTHING. Those who believe they need to be led will be bled.
Do you belive there was a pandemic caused by a virus or do you need us to believe there was a pandemic caused by a virus?
Research by Dennis Rancourt and his team shows there was no pandemic! The excess deaths that some countries had were caused by assault. In the US that assault happened in hospitals where they rammed tubes down patients' throats and then injected them with the poison Remdesivir. Rancourt remarked on how "amazing" it was that the virus respected boundaries of countries, how one country had excess deaths, but the country right next door had none. It was as if the virus needed a passport to enter that country next door! There was no pandemic!