The Post-Partisan Emporium

“Unprecedented Vaccine Disaster”: An Interview with Professor Masanori Fukushima BY   PHILIP PATRICK   1 JANUARY 2023 9:00 AM On November 25th there occurred a singularly rare event in the ongoing COVID-19 saga – truth was spoken to power. A distinguished medical doctor and infectious disease expert was given free rein to interrogate a government official, unmediated and without apparent time restraint. The doctor in question was the distinguished oncologist, professor emeritus at Kyoto University and Representative of the Learning Health Society Institute (LHSI) Masanori Fukushima. His rigorous and passionate berating of an official from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) on COVID-19 vaccine safety and government transparency made for gripping viewing. A  recording  swiftly went viral, elevating Doctor Fukushima to a new status as leading critic of the COVID-19 vaccines in Japan. I interviewed Professor Fukushima via Zoom on December 28th. He began by giving me some bac

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ~ Ernest Hemingway  Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek  Dec 30, 2022   Silvia Sanchez writing in Central Juvenile Hall in 1996. Maybe it’s time to buy a typewriter again. ChatGPT  has determined that my just-published article  mRNA Madness   is fiction and filled with misinformation and conspiracy theories. This was brought to my attention on Twitter by  @U2adrock . I remember the days when we all wrote on typewriters—yes, I really do. Can we go back to old school? Is it possible? Build street teams in every city, like the underground rappers used to do. Go into all the cafes, the bars, the colleges, the gyms, the religious centers, plaster every major city with hard copies of essays and articles that people can hold in their hands and read over a pint of beer or a cup of coffee. Of course, that would be called pollution. How many trees would get murdered in the process. But to me, somehow, it would be a beaut