GW Leibniz, Philosophical Essays, Hackett Publishing Company (1989)
William Hasker, The Emergent Self, Cornell University Press (1999)
William A Dembski, Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information, Ashgate Science and Religion, Routledge (2014)
Daniel C Dennett, "Quining qualia", in Consciousness in Contemporary Science, Oxford University Press (1988)
Bernardo Kastrup, The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality, Iff Books (2019)
Email Exchange
Here is the after-show email exchange between Josh and I. As I said at the end of the programme, I felt that I hadn't quite managed to put into words what I was thinking about the Trinity in relation to the ideas explored in the conversation. So I carried on thinking about it over dinner after the interview, and—no doubt inspired by the cauliflower cheese (which was really very good that night)—I emailed Josh and we had the following back and forth.
JC: "Many thanks! BTW, I can't stop wondering about that "Trinity" question. Could it be resolved through seeing the Persons of God as deeper, permanentlydifferentiated aspects of the fundamental substance. I guess it's basically a kind of Barth-style "mode of being" that I have in mind. Using my analogy of the hard drive, could we say that the hard drive is eternally composed of three states of the same substance? (To use the popular imagery, maybe it's a weird hard drive made of water, ice and steam!) In that case, those Persons would be eternal, equal and fully open to each other, whereas I (as a created partition) would be finite, dependent and relatively closed (in terms of my access to God's own consciousness)."
JR: "The trinity is a vexing topic, and I have my own questions about it. But I like your illustration (a lot), and relates to a way I've tended to think of things (reminds me of Michael Rea's account of the Trinity). Also, this distinction may be handy (and relates to your thought): there is a difference between grounding distinctions in personas via God's *nature* vs. via God's creative *will*. This distinction was suggested to me by Christian philosopher, Joshua Sijuawade, with an article on the Trinity here: https://philarchive.org/archive/SIJBTM. Since this came up in our discussion, feel free to share any of these notes or references in the show notes if you think that would be appropriate and helpful. The conversation was definitely among my favorites. You clearly have a deep understanding of the topic, and I loved how you concretized things, too, for the audience—such a gift. Thanks again!"
JC: "Oh good, I'm glad my thoughts make some sense! Yes, I've had many conversations with Jehovah's Witnesses about the Trinity over the years, and I've always found it hard to articulate satisfactorily. Thanks for the article; it doesn't look like a breeze, but it looks fascinating—I'll see how far I get! Thanks, yes, especially if I keep that part of the conversation in which we touch on Trinitarian matters, I would like to share the essence of these email exchanges with listeners... Many thanks for your kind words! In return let me say thank you for your humility and willingness to make very difficult ideas accessible to "ordinary" people. As you know, not all academics are good at that! You are, and I very much admire you for that, and your inspiring work. Many thanks again!"
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This Pivotal Moment (https://www.youtube.com/@thispivotalmoment1616)
The Naked Bible Podcast (https://nakedbiblepodcast.com/)
The Bible Project (https://www.youtube.com/bibleproject)
Police agents provocateurs in Qebec (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow)
Dr Steve Quay on Omicron (https://drquay.com/tag/coronavirus/)
Mentioned / relevant books
Toby Green & Thomas Fazi, The Covid Consensus : The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor―A Critique from the Left, C Hurst & Co, 2nd edn. (2023)
Sheldon Wolin, Democracy Incorporated : Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, Princeton University Press (2008)
Mattias Desmet,The Psychology of Totalitarianism, Chelsea Green (2022)
Michael S. Heiser, The Unseen Realm : Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible, Lexham Press (2015)
CJ Hopkins, The Rise of the New Normal Reich : Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III, 2020-2021, Consent Factory Publishing (2022)
Andrew Klavan, The Truth and Beauty : How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus, Zondervan (2022)
Michael Crichton, State of Fear, HarperCollins (2005)
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"James Roguski is a researcher, author, natural health proponent and an activist who believes that the old systems are rightfully crumbling, so we must build their replacements quickly. James uncovered documents regarding proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations and was instrumental in raising awareness about them which resulted in the amendments being rejected. James is now doing everything possible to expose the WHO's hidden agenda behind their proposed "pandemic treaty" as well as the WHO's ongoing attempts to amend the International Health Regulations. James' vision for the future can be summarized by the phrase: "Out of the WHO and in with the NEW."—James Roguski
I particularly recommend David Bell's article on the IHR Amendments and his annotations to the attached PDF at the end. David Bell describes himself as a "former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization".
"The Top 100 Reasons to Stop the Treaty, Stop the Amendments and Exit the WHO", (https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/100-reasons)
David Bell, "Amendments to WHO’s International Health Regulations: An Annotated Guide (https://brownstone.org/articles/amendments-who-ihr-annotated-guide/)
Conceptual Zero Draft Treaty (https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb3/A_INB3_3-en.pdf)
Zero Draft Treaty CA+ (https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb4/A_INB4_3-en.pdf)
International Health Regulations (2005) (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241580496)
The World Health Assembly (https://www.who.int/about/governance/world-health-assembly)
Working Group on the IHR Amendments (https://apps.who.int/gb/wgihr/index.html)
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The Crowdfunder project closes on 19th December 2022 at 9:42 pm (UK time).
"Whilst we were locked down under CV19 rules, MPs attended parties... Whilst MPs wanted to sack care workers and NHS staff for not getting the jab, I was proud to stand with my NHS colleagues and oppose this... As an independent MP, I will oppose any more CV19 restrictions on our lives, and support a public inquiry into the CV19 response... Party politics is broken, it's time for independents."—Paul Greenall
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"Jeremiah is a 42-year-old former US Army soldier and Iraqi war veteran ('04-'05). After leaving military service, he worked as a Computer Network Security Expert for the US Missile Defense Agency. In 2013, he left his lucrative career and relocated his wife & two children to pursue ministry in Belize as an entrepreneur. Jeremiah is passionate about Jesus and sharing the Good News with others by living out the Great Commission in everyday life."
Note
I thought I'd note (for anyone who might be wondering, which I grant might be no one) that I'm not against property dualism. It's just that I'm not currently persuaded that it fits well with a naturalistic worldview. (It may do, so maybe someone could help me with that.) It seems to me rather "convenient" that certain types of complexity (such as the human brain) should actualise a potential for consciousness already latent in the stuff of the universe. Why should that be the case? On naturalism, it seems to me that we should have to say, "Well that's just the way it is", which, to my mind, would leave unexplained why the universe somehow "knew" that we were going to turn up some day. From a theistic perspective, however, this would make more sense (to me at any rate), because that would allow us to understand such a latent property as intended to become active in connection with specific froms of complexity as part of a universal design plan. (And that—to return to the subject discussed in the interview—would leave doubtful that AI would ever meet the specific requirements of that intention.)
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Re UK ONS data see commentary by Will Jones and links therein: "Excess Non-Covid Deaths Top 15,300 in 17 Weeks as Mysterious Wave of Heart Deaths Continues", DailySceptic.org (01 September 2022)
Items mentioned in / relevant to the interview
Jason Jones, "Looking for Le God: The story of Matt Le Tissier’s blasphemous omission from England’s 1998 World Cup squad", via Medium.com (30 May 2019)
"How Good Was Matt Le Tissier Really?", FootballIconic.com (26 June 2021)
Dr John Campbell's video deleted by YouTube (https://odysee.com/@aldo:9d/Dr-John-Campbell-UK-JAB-DEATHS-on-the-increase-(Deleted-by-youtube):1)
Dr Vinay Prasad, "What does the Thailand Myocarditis Study Teach Us?", Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts (13 August 2022)
Fraser Nelson, "The lockdown files: Rishi Sunak on what we weren’t told", The Spectator (27 August 2022)
Craig Murray, "How the Establishment Functions", CraigMurray.org.uk (03 February 2022)
"Ex-England star Matt Le Tissier is blasted for sharing anti-vaccine conspiracy theories amid fears online propaganda is fuelling footballers' Covid jab concerns", Mail Online (12 November 2021)
Paul Knaggs, "Sir Keir Starmer: The Trilateral Commission and Jeffrey Epstein", Labour Heartlands (24 February 2020)
The Crisis of Democracy, The Trilateral Commision (1975) (Wikpiedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crisis_of_Democracy). [JC: To get the gist, look at this comment and these quotes from the document: "The report observed the political state of the United States, Europe and Japan, and says that in the United States the problems of governance "stem from an excess of democracy" and thus advocates "to restore the prestige and authority of central government institutions."
TA Frank, "Jeffrey Epstein and the Decline of the American Expermient", Vanity Fair (04 December 2018)
Mark Crispin Miller's News from Underground,currently featuring a series called "In Memory of" (https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/)
"Sergio Aguero Reveals Threat of Heart Attack Prior to Retirement and Discusses Uncertainty Over Covid Vaccine or Virus Impact", Si.com (22 February 2022)
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Born on the mission field in Asia, Stephen grew up in a family of teachers and preachers. He has previously been part of church-planting leadership and is presently pastor of My King Church in Greater Manchester where he resides with his wife and three children. Learn more at MyKing.com.
"Britain's Anglican, Catholic and Methodist churches face extinction but find out which denominations ARE actually growing", Premier Christian News (30 May 2022)
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Dr Piers Robinson is a co-director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies and was Chair/Professor in Politics, Society and Political Journalism, University of Sheffield, 2016-2019, Senior Lecturer in International Politics (University of Manchester 2010-2016) and Lecturer in Political Communication (University of Liverpool, 1999-2005). He researches and writes on propaganda, media, international politics and conflict.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Real Anthony Fauci, Skyhorse (28 April 2022)
Yuval Noah Harari (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Noah_Harari) [JC: I note, with some amusement, that Yuval's website has the strapline: “History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods.”]
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Adeyinka Makinde trained for the law as a barrister. He lectures in criminal law and public law at a university in London, UK, and has an academic research interest in intelligence & security matters. He is a contributor to a number of websites for which he has written essays and commentaries on international relations, politics and military history. He has served as a programme consultant and provided expert commentary for BBC World Service Radio, China Radio International and the Voice of Russia.
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Kirill Kalinin (2019), "Neo-Eurasianism and the Russian elite: the irrelevance of Aleksandr Dugin’s geopolitics", Post-Soviet Affairs, 35:5-6, 461-470, DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2019.1663050
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"In addition to having held numerous senior academic positions in universities, Dr. Roberts was an associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and was appointed by US President Reagan as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during Reagan's first term in office, following which he served as a consultant to both the US Department of Defense and the US Department of Commerce. Dr. Roberts is now the Chairman of the The Institute for Political Economy.
"Ukraine war: Russian soldiers fire on Kherson protesters", BBC News (21 March 2022) [JC: As I said in the conversation, what annoys me is that the BBC claims this video establishes that Russian soldiers were "firing shots at protesters". We hear machine gun fire. People run and walk. Then, astonishingly, the video ends with, "It's reported that at least one person has been left injured." At least one? After being shot "at" with machine guns? How does that make sense? I'd have thought it should say, "It's reported that everyone died except three who are currently fighting for their lives in intensive care." Maybe (though I currently doubt it) Russian soldiers are under orders to shoot civilians, but I fail to see how this video evidences that.]
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"Dr Colin Alexander is Senior Lecturer in Political Communications within the School of Arts and Humanities. He works in Communication and Society subject team and contributes teaching to the BA Joint Honours Humanities, BA Media Communication and Culture and the MA Media and Globalisation degree programmes."
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"David is the founder of Reaching People. His background involves 25 years consulting to multinational clients and one on one with individuals from all walks of life. These include mums and dads through to athletes, high performers and business leaders. David has been fortunate to work with notable people; one interesting project related to sustainable communities and included Bruce Lipton and Graeme Sait (sustainable farming expert). David skills include NLP, EFT, General Semantics, System Theory, Process Mapping, Dynamics and Communication. He has built a unique model of communication bringing together models form numerous fields to form unique and simple-to-explain systems. These models have been shown to various experts globally and have been recognised in providing significant value in understanding human behaviour, especially as it relates to communication. This allows for the development of powerful messaging and creates the conditions for successful dialogue."—Reaching People
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"Hi, I'm Cory. I'm a software developer and entrepreneur. I also write occasionally. These days I mostly work on SaaS Pegasus: the Django SaaS boilerplate. I also made Place Card Me—what I hope is the best way to make printable place cards on the internet. My website originated during a six-month sabbatical I took from my day job where I tried to launch a profitable product. I also write occasionally about building software. Oh, and I'm a one-man open startup. From 2007-2017 I served as CTO of Dimagi and led the team that builds its flagship product: CommCare. I'm now an advisor to the organization."—Cory Zue
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“Phill is a Christian minister. He is ordained in the Church of England and spends about two days a week in a parish on the Essex coast. The rest of the time he works on his online ministries: Understand the Bible and Sacred Musings : Making Sense of the World from a Christian Perspective.”
Notes
Please note that nothing said in this conversation is medical advice.
Please also note that my statement about COVID-19 vaccination and conscience is an entirely personal matter. I am making no comment about anyone else's decision to be COVID-19 vaccinated.
I also think I should clarify that, when I say some may feel that the government has been put in place by God, I am referring to a particular theological view that I do not share, and that my comment was specific to the issue of Civil Religion (which I consider to be a distortion of true spirituality).
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"I was born in Detroit, lived my formative years in Ohio and Minnesota, and stayed in America long enough to get in the basic rituals of high school and college. I graduated from the U of Minnesota/Twin Cities with a B.A. in International Relations. I settled permanently in Madrid in the 80s and keep my bread buttered by teaching English courses on a freelance basis in Spanish companies. I give an hour, maybe two, of class, then pack up my briefcase and leave behind my students clinched to their computer screens; I can never be too grateful to teaching. I usually have just one or two classes in the morning, then sit down to write between the hours of 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. (the Spanish lunch hour), since at that time Spaniards are too busy raising company profits to ponder the mysteries of the verb Get. I also publish satirical verse – op-eds, really – about domestic and international politics, on my own and different progressive websites in the U.S. I used to write normal op-eds, but branched into this new form a few years ago and enjoy it much more."—Philip Kraske
Book
[Please be aware that this book contains "strong language" and material of a sexual nature.]
"Missing in Action: Will We Ever Know the Truth Behind the Vietnam Live-POW Claims?", M-VETS, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University (2018)
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I've tried to find James's commentary on "Just", but I can't locate it. If you can find it, please let me know. It was from many years ago. (https://www.corbettreport.com/)
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"The Vaccine Control Group is a worldwide independent long-term study that is seeking to provide a baseline of data from unvaccinated individuals for comparative analysis with the vaccinated population, to evaluate the success of the Covid-19 mass vaccination programme and assist future research projects. This study is not, and will never be, associated with any pharmaceutical enterprise as its impartiality is of paramount importance. The VaxControlGroup is a community cooperative, for the people. All monies raised will be re-invested into the project and its community."—VaxControlGroup
"Diny previously worked as a corporate IT trainer and web designer before leaving to have children. She is currently a home-educating mum to two of her three daughters and a creative writing teacher, author and poet, although most of her writing work has been put on hold due to the commitments of the Control Group."—Diny
JC: For some reason, the editors at The Conservative Woman seemed to think that Diny had written the article, as they explicitly credit her as the author. It is therefore understandable (at least initially) why Hugo thought that she had written it. However, in our interview Diny explains that she was not, in fact, the author.
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Sacred Musings : Making Sense of the World from a Christian Perspective (https://www.youtube.com/c/SacredMusings) [Update: This channel used to be called "Phill Sacre : Making Sense of the World from a Christian Perspective".]
“Phill is a Christian minister. He is ordained in the Church of England and spends about two days a week in a parish on the Essex coast. The rest of the time he works on his online ministries: Understand the Bible and Phill Sacre : Making Sense of the World from a Christian Perspective.”
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"Dr. McCullough is an internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist, and Professor of Medicine at Texas A & M College of Medicine, Dallas, TX USA. Since the outset of the pandemic, Dr. McCullough has been a leader in the medical response to the COVID-19 disaster and has published “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection” the first synthesis of sequenced multidrug treatment of ambulatory patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the American Journal of Medicine and subsequently updated in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has 40 peer-reviewed publications on the infection and has commented extensively on the medical response to the COVID-19 crisis in TheHill and on FOX NEWS Channel. On November 19, 2020, Dr. McCullough testified in the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and throughout 2021 in the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, Colorado General Assembly, and New Hampshire Senate concerning many aspects of the pandemic response."
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, FACP, FACC, FAHA, FCRSA, FCCP, FNKF, FNLA Professor of Medicine, Texas A & M College of Medicine Board Certified Internist and Cardiologist President Cardiorenal Society of America Editor-in-Chief, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine Editor-in-Chief, Cardiorenal Medicine Senior Associate Editor, American Journal of Cardiology
"Born in Dallas, Texas, John Leake studied history and philosophy with Sir Roger Scruton at Boston University. After moving to Austria on a graduate scholarship, he remained in Vienna for over a decade working as a freelance writer and translator. His first book, Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer, was a New York Times Sunday Book Review "Editors' Choice," a Men's Vogue "Best Book of 2007," and the inspiration for The Infernal Comedy, starring John Malkovich. A film adaption of Entering Hades, starring Michael Fassbender, is currently in preproduction.
His second book, Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery, won the 2012 Independent Publisher Award, and the German translation, Eiskalter Tod, received extensive media coverage in Austria and became a bestseller. His investigative work for the Jack Unterweger, Duncan MacPherson, and Angelika Foeger stories has been the subject of numerous television documentaries produced by A&E Biography, Discovery, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "Fifth Estate," and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation's "Am Schauplatz Gericht."
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"Jeremiah is a 41-year-old former US Army soldier and Iraqi war veteran ('04-'05). After leaving military service, he worked as a Computer Network Security Expert for the US Missile Defense Agency. In 2013, he left his lucrative career and relocated his wife & two children to pursue ministry in Belize as an entrepreneur. Jeremiah is passionate about Jesus and sharing the Good News with others by living out the Great Commission in everyday life."
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"M R. X. Dentith, PhD (Auckland), is the author of The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories (Palgrave, 2014), the first single-author book-length treatment of the philosophical issues surrounding conspiracy theory, and editor of Taking Conspiracy Theories Seriously (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), an edited collection of the most recent work on conspiracy theory theory. They have been a Fellow in the Institute for Research in the Humanities (ICUB) at the University of Bucharest and the New Europe College in Bucharest, and they are currently Associate Professor in the International Center for Philosophy at Beijing Normal University. Their current research project focuses on conspiracy theory, conspiracy theory theory, and secrecy."
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"Dr Malcalm B. Splead is Head of Snow Studies in the University of Devizes, UK. Despite leaving school at the age of sixteen with only one qualification—a City and Guilds Certificate Level 1 in Home Economics*—Malcalm quickly matured into one of the most outstanding scientists of his generation, completing a BSc in Snow Studies (First Class Hons) in just three weeks and writing up for a PhD on the theory of the snowosphere in an incredible two months. After a three-year postdoc at the Technical University in Swanage (Dorset) in which he worked on various methods of weighing snow at different altitudes, Malcalm was appointed as Head of Snow Studies at Devizes in 1998. Dr Malcalm is widely acknowledged to be one of the few top experts in the world on the snowosphere."
[* Dr Malcalm would also like to add that he almost passed his Cycling Proficiency Test.]
Fredrick T. Morris & Edwin Judd, The Snowoshere Hypothesis, Oxford University Press (1854)
Sebastian Hardwick & Bartholemew C. Mayer, The Snowosphere Observed, Brill (1957)
Cynthia K. Goodman, The Unspoken Sphere and the Mathematics of Infinity, STUP (Swanage Technical University Press) (1948)
Cynthia K. Goodman, "Weight and Unweight : the Mathematics of Snow as Antimatter", in Malcalm B. Splead & Iain C. Flake, New Approaches in Snow Studies, University of Devizes Press (1989), pp. 126 - 144
Thorn, Colin (1978). "The Geomorphic Role of Snow", Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Iain M. Livermore, ed., An Introduction to Snow Studies, OUP (2009)
Zawadski et al, "Snow Studies. Part I : A Study of Natural Variability of Snow Terminal Velocity", American Meterological Society (May 2010)
Szyrmer & Zawadski, "Snow Studies. Part II: Average Relationship between Mass of Snowflakes and Their Terminal Fall Velocity", American Meterological Society (October 2010)
"Mobeen Syed M.D, MS graduated from King Edward Medical University in 1994. After practicing clinical medicine for a few years, he continued his studies in Computer Science with the goal of merging innovative technologies and healthcare. Dr. Mobeen's dedication for teaching began at Horizon Medical Institute, where he and his world-renowned brother Dr. Najeeb focused on teaching basic sciences to medical students. Dr. Mobeen's unique skillset as a physician and software engineer enabled him to innovate several products, including a portable 3D ultrasound system designed by MediTeQ RI. His experience as a high tech executive includes time at Staples, Kohl's, Rue Lala, Gemvara, TJX, and most recently e-commerce giant, PayPal. Dr. Mobeen's dedication to innovative and pioneering medical education has been a mainstay in his life. At Drbeen corp, he strives to create a managed marketplace for medical providers that enables them to learn medicine in conjunction with new technologies. Dr. Mobeen loves painting, music, medical illustrations, teaching, reading, and playing ping-pong. Dr. Mobeen, his wife Hina and his two sons currently live in the heart of Silicon Valley, Cupertino, California."—from drbeen.com
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Nothing said in this podcast should be understood as medical advice.
Please consult your doctor before taking any medications or making any changes to your diet by way of supplementation.
Wagstaff, et al, "Ivermectin is a specific inhibitor of importin α/β-mediated nuclear import able to inhibit replication of HIV-1 and dengue virus", Biochemical Journal (2012) (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3327999/)
Steven Lehrer & Peter H. Rheinstein, "Ivermectin Docks to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Receptor-binding Domain Attached to ACE2", In Vivo (September 2020) (https://iv.iiarjournals.org/content/34/5/3023)
Xinxin Ci, et al, "Avermectin exerts anti-inflammatory effect by downregulating the nuclear transcription factor kappa-B and mitogen-activated protein kinase activation pathway", Fundamental & Clinical Pharmacology (2009) (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19453757/)
Ananta Swargiari, "Ivermectin as a promising RNA-dependent RNA polymerase inhibitor and a therapeutic drug against SARS-CoV2: Evidence from in silico studies", Research Square (September 2020) (https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-73308/v1)
Ahmed, et al, "Vitamin E and selenium administration synergistically mitigates ivermectin and doramectin-induced testicular dysfunction in male Wistar albino rats", Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy (2020) (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31972360/)
"Repurposed Approved Therapies for Outpatient Treatment of Patients With Early-Onset COVID-19 and Mild Symptoms", ClinicalTrials.gov (2021) (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04727424)
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"Dr. Marik received his medical degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He was an ICU attending at Baragwanath Hospital, in Soweto, South Africa. During this time he obtained a Master of Medicine Degree, Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacology, Diploma in Anesthesia as well as a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr Marik did a Critical Care Fellowship in London, Ontario, Canada, during which time he was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeon of Canada. Dr Marik has worked in various teaching hospitals in the US since 1992. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Neurocritical Care and Nutrition Science. Dr Marik is currently Professor of Medicine and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr Marik has written over 450 peer reviewed journal articles, 80 book chapters and authored four critical care books. He is also the second-most published Critical Care doctor in the world."
Important Notes
Nothing said in this podcast should be understood as medical advice.
Please consult your doctor before taking any medications or making any changes to your diet by way of supplementation.
"An Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) is a mechanism to facilitate the availability and use of medical countermeasures, including vaccines, during public health emergencies, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. Under an EUA, FDA may allow the use of unapproved medical products, or unapproved uses of approved medical products in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions when certain statutory criteria have been met, including that there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives." [emphasis added]
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[JC: Please note that I have included a large number of Wikipedia entries on this page purely for convenience. I (and Philip Cross) are aware of Wikipedia's many shortcomings, especially on matters political and controversial, so please understand that I'm including these links simply to serve as a "a first port of call" for looking into things.]
On Roald Dahl: "The Devious Bachelor", The New York Times (2008), a review of The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington by Jennet Conant
Acknowledgements
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The Gold Opinion : Facts Lead, Opinions Follow - Five Minutes with a Doctor-Lawyer - Conventional Wisdom Debunked (https://thegoldopinion.com/)
"Simone Gold, MD, JD, FABEM, is a board certified emergency physician. She graduated from Chicago Medical School before attending Stanford University Law School to earn her Juris Doctorate degree. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital in New York. Dr. Gold worked in Washington D.C. for the Surgeon General, as well as for the Chairman of the Labor & Human Resources Committee. She works as an emergency physician on the frontlines whether or not there is a pandemic. Her clinical work serves all Americans: from urban-inner city, to suburban, to the IHS. Her legal work has focused on conflicts between hospitals and insurers. She writes on a number of policy issues relating to law and medicine. She always leads with the facts."—(from Dr. Gold's website)
Important Notes
Nothing said in this podcast should be understood as medical advice. Please consult your doctor before taking any medications.
Please also understand that, although Dr. Gold suggests legally obtaining hydroxychloroquine in advance of contracting COVID-19, she does NOT recommend taking it without a doctor's supervision.
Update (05.07.2020):
A listener kindly drew my attention this clinical trial—https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04370782—with the title: "A Randomized Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine and Zinc in Combination With Either Azithromycin or Doxycycline for the Treatment of COVID-19 in the Outpatient Setting". To my untrained eye, it looks hopeful. The doses look reasonable (to me), zinc is included and the study is in an outpatient setting, so prior to hospitalisation. When the results are published (possibly near December 31, 2020), I hope that this study will receive the same kind of media attention as those we discussed in the interview. (Thank you, Pauline, for sending the link.)
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"Mobeen Syed M.D, MS graduated from King Edward Medical University in 1994. After practicing clinical medicine for a few years, he continued his studies in Computer Science with the goal of merging innovative technologies and healthcare. Dr. Mobeen's dedication for teaching began at Horizon Medical Institute, where he and his world-renowned brother Dr. Najeeb focused on teaching basic sciences to medical students. Dr. Mobeen's unique skillset as a physician and software engineer enabled him to innovate several products, including a portable 3D ultrasound system designed by MediTeQ RI. His experience as a high tech executive includes time at Staples, Kohl's, Rue Lala, Gemvara, TJX, and most recently e-commerce giant, PayPal. Dr. Mobeen's dedication to innovative and pioneering medical education has been a mainstay in his life. At Drbeen corp, he strives to create a managed marketplace for medical providers that enables them to learn medicine in conjunction with new technologies. Dr. Mobeen loves painting, music, medical illustrations, teaching, reading, and playing ping-pong. Dr. Mobeen, his wife Hina and his two sons currently live in the heart of Silicon Valley, Cupertino, California."—from drbeen.com
Important Notes
Nothing said in this podcast should be understood as medical advice.
Please consult your doctor before making any changes to your diet by way of supplementation.
It is my understanding that the doses for food supplements described in this conversation apply to adults, not to children.
A few Drbeen Lectures (for more detail)
(Please only follow these links if you are happy for YouTube to place cookies on your computer.)
[JC: Please note that none of these links is endorsed by Dr. Syed. They are simply links to materials I used in preparing the interview.]
"Vitamin D", NHS website. [JC: As of 13 June 2020 this webpage makes no mention of immunity with respect to vitamin D. This was the top webpage to come up when I searched for "Vitamin D NHS".]
"The new guidelines on vitamin D - what you need to know", NHS website. [JC: As of 13 June 2020 this webpage makes no mention of immunity with respect to vitamin D. This was the second-to-top webpage to come up when I searched for "Vitamin D NHS".]
N-acetylcysteine (NAC): Thisexternal PDF mentions the slight possibility of negative reactions to NAC. [JC: Hence, we stress the importance of seeking medical advice before experimenting with food supplements.]
Marielle Breau et al, "The antioxidant N-acetylcysteine protects from lung emphysema but induces lung adenocarcinoma in mice", JCI Insight. 2019;4(19):e127647. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.127647.
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Patrick M. Wood is an author and lecturer who has studied elite globalisation policies since the late 1970s, when he partnered with the late Antony C. Sutton to co-author Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II. An economist by education, a financial analyst and writer by profession, and an American Constitutionalist by choice, Wood maintains a biblical worldview and has deep historical insights into modern attacks on sovereignty, property rights and personal freedom. A frequent speaker on radio shows around the U.S., Wood's current work centres in Technocracy, Transhumanism and Scientism, and how these are transforming global economics, politics and religion. As he says, the endgame is scientific dictatorship; we ignore it our peril.
Global Biodiversity Assessment, published for the United Nations Environment Programme, Cambridge University Press (1995); see p. 773 in particular for the global human population assessments.
Club of Rome (https://clubofrome.org/). [JC: According to the facty-fact-fact website Wikipedia, the Club was formed in 1968 at Villa Farnesina in Rome. However, according to the Club of Rome's own website, the Club had its informal beginnings in 1965: "Concerned that governments were unable to solve the world’s most pressing problems or to engage in thinking about the long term, an Italian industrialist, Aurelio Peccei, and a Scottish scientist, Alexander King, convened a group of like-minded thinkers to deliberate on the causes and potential solutions to the great problems of mankind." Whether or not David Rockefeller was present, or that they met in his villa, I don't know. Maybe someone can help with that?]
Cory Morningstar, The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg, (2019)
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John H. Walton (PhD, Hebrew Union College) is professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College and Graduate School, Illinois. His primary interest is in comparisons between the Old Testament and other Ancient Near East literature. Previously, he was professor of Old Testament at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for twenty years.
Walton's career has been characterised by a passion to show students and readers the importance of learning the Bible: "I am saddened by how little exposure to, and understanding of, the Old Testament many Christians have, but I am passionate in doing whatever I can do to remedy this spiritual and theological loss."
Walton has published extensively, and some of his books include: The Lost World of Scripture (co-authored with D. Brent Sandy), The Lost World of Genesis One,Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament, The Essential Bible Companion, Genesis (NIV Application Commentary) and The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament (with Victor H. Matthews and Mark W. Chavalas).
Walton's ministry also extends to church classes for all-age groups, high school Bible studies and adult Sunday school classes. John and his wife, Kim, live in Wheaton, Illinois, and have three adult children.
Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is Distinguished Scholar of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is also visiting professor of Old Testament at Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and adjunct of Old Testament at Fuller TheologicalSeminary. He lectures regularly at Regent College in Vancouver and the Canadian Theological Seminary in Calgary.
Longman is the author or co-author of over twenty books, including How to Read Genesis, How to Read the Psalms, How to Read Proverbs, Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation, Old Testament Essentials,and co-editor of A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible. He and Dan Allender have co-authored Bold Love, Cry of the Soul, Intimate Allies, The Intimate Mystery, and the Intimate Marriage Bible studies.
See Article XIII: "We affirm the propriety of using inerrancy as a theological term with reference to the complete truthfulness of Scripture. We deny that it is proper to evaluate Scripture according to standards of truth and error that are alien to its usage or purpose. We further deny that inerrancy is negated by Biblical phenomena such as a lack of modern technical precision, irregularities of grammar or spelling, observational descriptions of nature, the reporting of falsehoods, the use of hyperbole and round numbers, the topical arrangement of material, variant selections of material in parallel accounts, or the use of free citations." (Emphases added)
William Ryan & Walter Pitman, Noah's Flood : The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History, Simon & Schuster (1st edn., 1998)
John C. Whitcomb, Jr. & Henry M. Morris, The Genesis Flood : The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications, (1961)
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It seems the history of the Worldwide Church of God is complex. Although (according to the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Communion_International), there are congregations that continue the teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong in one form or another, the organisation itself in the years following Armstrong's death in 1986 abandoned many of his unbiblical teachings and—understandably enough—renamed itself Grace Communion International. As they state on their website: "The church is now in full agreement with the statement of faith of the National Association of Evangelicals."
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Alan 'Howling Laud' Hope, now retired, has worked in the entertainment business and as a hotel proprietor. He has, for many years (and always on the OMRLP ticket), served on town councils in various capacities, including a stint as Town Mayor in Ashburton, Devon between 1998-2000. In 2017, the 25th time he has stood for UK Parliament, he ran against Prime Minister Theresa May alongside Lord Buckethead in the Maidenhead Constituency.
Please note that, although the character Lord Buckethead has condescended to join the ranks of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, the person who played the part of Lord Buckethead during the 2017 General Selection has decided to create a rival character—Count Binface—for the current vote. The story behind this can be read in the Guardian column mentioned below and at Count Binface's website. This being so, we leave it to listeners to decide which is the real Lord Buckethead. Is it the latest "incarnation" standiing in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip Constituency? Or the rival Count Binface, also standing in that constituency against Boris Johnson?
Update
Since the interview, TMR has been supplied with a short history of the Lord Buckethead saga. With the permission of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, TMR here presents the words of the official historian of the party.
"Count Binface in 2019 is Jon Harvey who was Lord Buckethead in 2017 at Maidenhead. Lord Buckethead is a character from the Gremloids films, and this character is owned by Todd Durham, a US film maker who produced all of the Gremloids films.
A copyright issue broke out earlier this year involving Jon Harvey using Lord Buckethead to crowdfund his EU Election campaign. Todd Durham withdrew his permission, so Jon Harvey was unable to use the Lord Buckethead character anymore. David Hughes then stepped in and got permission from Todd Durham to stand as Lord Buckethead in the 2019 General Election against Boris Johnson at Uxbridge. This time, Lord Buckethead is representing the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and not the Gremloids Party (as was the case at the three previous Lord Buckethead General Elections in 1987, 1992 and 2017). David Hughes was the Election agent for Lord Buckethead when he stood in 1992 against John Major.
It was Jon Harvey at Maidenhead against Theresa May in the 2017 General Election that really gave Lord Buckethead a high profile and put the character back on the map after a gap of 25 years. When Jon Harvey heard that somebody else was standing as Lord Buckethead against Boris Johnson in the 2019 General Election at Uxbridge, Jon decided to stand as Count Binface and go head-to-head with Lord Buckethead and Boris Johnson in Uxbridge.
So far, with less than a week of the Election Campaign to go, Count Binface has been very visible and high-profile in Uxbridge, and Lord Buckethead has not been seen. Jon Harvey holds the record for the most Lord Buckethead votes, and the questions are: Will David Hughes as Lord Buckethead beat that record this year? And will he get more votes than Jon Harvey as Count Binface?
There have been three different people who have appeared as Lord Buckethead in four General Elections against the current Prime Minister. The details follow.
Mike Lee in 1987 against Margaret Thatcher at Finchley
Mike Lee again in 1992 against John Major at Huntingdon
Jon Harvey against Theresa May in 2017 at Maidenhead
David Hughes at Uxbridge against Boris Johnson in 2019"
Catmando [The Party Pet Cat]
"At the conference of 1999, when the “election” came up for the new leader, it was a two-sided race between Howling ‘Laud’ Hope and Catmando. The voting was very close; they each got 112 votes. It was decided that they should both become Joint Leaders of the first political party to be ruled by man and beast, until somebody at the back of the room shouted: “No you're not, what about Margaret Thatcher and John Major?” Alas, Catmando met a lorry one day, and the lorry won!"
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"Ian Hutchinson is a plasma physicist and professor of nuclear science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in England, educated at Cambridge University, and received his doctorate from Australian National University. His research group explores the confinement of plasmas hotter than the sun's center, aimed at producing practical energy from nuclear fusion reactions, the energy source of the stars.
A frequent Veritas Forum presenter, Ian has written and spoken widely on the relationship between science and Christianity. He is the author of over two hundred research articles, and his books include Principles of Plasma Diagnostics and Monopolizing Knowledge."—InterVarsity Press
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"I was born in Detroit, lived my formative years in Ohio and Minnesota, and stayed in America long enough to get in the basic rituals of high school and college. I graduated from the U of Minnesota/Twin Cities with a B.A. in International Relations. I settled permanently in Madrid in the 80s and keep my bread buttered by teaching English courses on a freelance basis in Spanish companies. I give an hour, maybe two, of class, then pack up my briefcase and leave behind my students clinched to their computer screens; I can never be too grateful to teaching. I usually have just one or two classes in the morning, then sit down to write between the hours of 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. (the Spanish lunch hour), since at that time Spaniards are too busy raising company profits to ponder the mysteries of the verb Get. I also publish satirical verse – op-eds, really – about domestic and international politics, on my own and different progressive websites in the U.S. I used to write normal op-eds, but branched into this new form a few years ago and enjoy it much more."—Philip Kraske
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