Thread by @alexandrosM

The Emerging Heretical Consensus🧵

Watching @RWMaloneMD & @GVDBossche yesterday, I saw scientific process at work. Outspoken experts opposing the establishment, converging to concrete predictions. We'll soon know who's right and who's wrong.

First, I've noticed this convergence a bit more than 2 months ago, with a number of controversial experts brought together by @BretWeinstein on the DarkHorse podcast. Since then, their views have been inching closer.

https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1414749287146086400

Here's why this matters: Scientific consensus doesn't happen in weeks. This is the easiest way to know that the mainstream anti lab-leak consensus was false. Also, religious heretics tend to disagree with each other. Convergence lends credibility to their claim to seek truth.

The heretical consensus sees these ideas as credible & wrongly opposed:

- Lab leak
- Early treatment
- Natural Immunity
- Aerosol transmission
- Vaccine side-effects
- Vaccine effectiveness limits
- Escape variants

The heretical consensus articulates concerns about widely-applied policies, proposing deep changes (though mostly not total suspension):

- Outdoor masking
- Child vaccination, Vaccine booster
- Mass vaccination campaign in a pandemic
- Poor data collection poicies.
- Lockdowns

The heretical consensus tends to champion a number of related ethical positions:

- Open and transparent debate
- Autonomy of doctors to make decisions
- Informed consent for patients
- Opposition to vaccine mandates (under current parameters)
- Opposition to the "Noble lie"

The above list is my reading of the heretical consensus, and I may well have missed some elements and/or stated some of them badly. Feel free to send me more candidates, and I will integrate in potential future revisions.

Many of the ideas coming out of this consensus have gradually made their way into the mainstream, though certainly not all, and some are the inverse of the predominant policies being applied in many parts of the world.

Important to note (though this kind of disclaimer is often mocked) that the heretical consensus is not against vaccination in general. Many proponents are highly vaccinated & have worked in vaccine development for many years. The disagreement focuses on strategy in this pandemic.

I heard parts of these ideas from @BretWeinstein and @HeatherEHeying in DarkHorse podcast, and especially in interviews with @ydeigin @PierreKory @GVDBossche @RWMaloneMD @stkirsch.

We should note that Yuri Deigin *strongly disagrees* with most pillars other than lab leak.

Over time I discovered other voices making very similar points, such as @chrismartenson @drrollergator @EduEngineer @luigi_warren @richardursomd

(feel free to point me to other people that have made significant contributions)