Professor Ivan Katchanovski, as you may recall, is the Ukrainian-Canadian academic who’s done all the work on Maidan massacre. Briefly, he argues that the massacre of police and protestors on the Maidan Square in February of 2014 was a false flag operation carried out by the Ukrainian far-right.
To date, Katchanovski has published one paper on the massacre in an academic journal and another in an academic book. He has also presented his work at academic conferences. However, the professor’s latest and most detailed study remains unpublished.
This was about to change, Katchanovski thought in November, when it was accepted for publication at an academic journal. Indeed, the paper was accepted “after minor revision” – which means the reviewers didn’t recommend any fundamental changes.
Yet about ten days later, Katchanovski received an email from the journal informing him that the paper had been rejected – without any further peer review.
Needless to say, this is highly irregular. Once a paper has been accepted, that’s it; there’s no final stage of submission where it can be rejected after having already been accepted.
In fact, the editor was very complimentary. Upon accepting the paper for publication, he (or she) said, “There is no doubt that this paper is exceptional in many ways.” He went on to describe “the evidence” as “solid”, adding that “on this” there is “consensus among the two reviewers”. In other words, both reviewers and the editor found the empirical part convincing.
We know the initial acceptance wasn’t a clerical error. The editor explicitly stated in his message of November 2nd that “I would rather side with referee 2 and suggest that the article is acceptable for publication”, pending some minor changes.
As Katchanovski noted in a Twitter thread, he tried to appeal the decision by soliciting support from a “world-famous scholar”, who described the paper as “very important, rigorous and substantial”. But his efforts were unsuccessful.
Remarkably, the editor then wrote to the journal demanding to know why the paper had been rejected “despite the review and editorial decision in support of publication”. He noted that it was “excellent according to both reviewers”. This suggests that other members of the journal’s editorial board overruled his prior decision.
Katchanovski’s studies are already available for free online, and have been read thousands of times. The only benefit of publishing them in a journal (aside from small improvements thanks to peer reviewers) is to give the papers ‘legitimacy’. Until they’re published in a journal, critics can dismiss them as ‘not peer reviewed’ (even though many of the claims are based on publicly available videos).
What’s absurd about this incident is that the paper did pass peer review; it just got rejected anyway.
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Micromanaging my Scotch Egg consumption was a bridge too far for me.
FFS, enough with the Hancock nonsense. Yes he was/is a tool, did a lot of bad things etc etc. But it was not and is not about Hancock. It’s about global folly and evil from almost every powerful institution and firm on the planet. Get a bloody grip.
Agree tof.
Hancock was just a lieutenant or captain in the great war of the Rona fascism.
But as with any lost battle or war, someone has to be executed for the failure.
He is an odious stupid little worm, the Hancock.
A tool. And he will be sacrificed.
Meanwhile the entire Pharma-ment save 30 or so should be imprisoned and the endless array of alphabet agencies national and international defunded, withdrawn from, reformed or set to fire.
This is happening in Switzerland & Hancock has an arrest warrant against him.
https://twitter.com/spartajustice/status/1633210206262894592
Is that true, or did you read it on TruthJustice?
From Pascal Najidi himself
He’s just posted this link too:
https://twitter.com/spartajustice/status/1629211410944167937
Brilliant.
Now when and to whom does the “rule of law” apply?
Answers on a postcard or the postcard’s stamp.
“All that lockdowns could ever achieve in those circumstances was to defer some infections until after they were lifted”. Yes and I thought that was what was meant by the ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ mantra, which disappeared as quickly as it appeared, once two weeks had elapsed, and made way for first one and then a second lockdown, both of which completely shut my small business.
Well, I would read it in full if I was prepared to subscribe to that rag. The DT ((like the Conservative Party which it defends, promotes and supports, except when its members elect the wrong leader) is not worthy so I do not ever read it, despoite missing terribly the aryticles by the likes of Deacon, Moore (usually) and Murray (always).
I used to love Charles Moore’s writing.
no longer. Something has happened to be brain…
my mind is clearer from not reading the DT.
To his brain…
I believe Oakeshott has been used. Whether she is aware of this is a totally different issue. All this is just ‘red meat’ for the the skeptics or the average angry punter…Hancock is now not part of the government, nor the Tory party, and being Health Minster as he was through the majority of the ‘Pandemic’, the obvious scape goat. To believe every mistake, bad decision, ludicrous idea, or downright evil intension was down to matty boy, gives him too much credit. Why were most of the world leaders singing from the same hymn sheet ‘Build Back Better’, why were lockdowns introduced, when they were nothing to do with WHO pandemic guidelines pre covid. There were too many suspect coincidences world wide to not suspect wrong doing/conspiracy. There is way more above and beyond Hancocks remit and orders to subdue the population of that little island just off europe to come to light, but will we see it…I doubt it.
Yes, I think she’s being used. The Gates-funded DT is encouraging the idea that egotistical, career-obsessed, lying and scientifically-illiterate Ministers should NOT have control of pandemic policy.
So who should? Well, obviously it should be the “experts” at the apolitical WHO …. those wise people who most definitely aren’t controlled by Big Pharma or the Globalists and who don’t have to concern themselves with the minor inconvenience of getting a mandate in the first place and getting re-elected after “they’ve done what they know must be done.”
‘Care homes, for example, were probably an insoluble problem, given the absence of other places for many elderly patients to go,’
Wow, harsh. We’re talking human beings here: grans, grandads, mums, dads, etc, who all deserved to be treated with respect and dignity not simply viewed as bed blocking useless eaters. With proper assessment some could have gone home or to relatives – remember the retired nurse who was arrested for taking her mum out of care? – , not simply dumped into ill-prepared and understaffed care homes with DNRs + mid/morph scripts then left to die alone. Prior to the 2020 debacle there were proper procedures in place for rapid bed clearance for major incidents with multiple casualties (I was involved several times over the years) yet none were followed in 2020. It was govt sanctioned slaughter of the elderly, pure and simple.
“It was govt sanctioned slaughter of the elderly, pure and simple.”
I held off this in my comment but in truth this is far more apposite.
It’s a bit crassly stated perhaps, but I have a similar view to Sumption.
The very old and vulnerable would most likely have been got by the virus sooner or later. Do we really think that, had Hancock followed Whitty’s advice and enforced testing of everybody before allowing them into a care home, it would have made a huge amount of difference? What with the tests being crap and everything else? I doubt it.
Probably going to get loads of downticks for this next one, but, furthermore, the promiscuous and cavalier use of end-of-life drugs, can, I think, fairly easily be explained by the febrile atmosphere at the time. The blame still does land on Hancock and the medical establishment for encourging that atmosphere to develop, but it seems a bit of a stretch to say that Hancock actively sanctioned the murder of the elderly.
The charge sheet is extremely long of course, and he must nevertheless hang, as must so many others.
I’m still waiting to find out something I didn’t already know from this scoop of Codswallop the “Lockdown Files”
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“Not all the accusations levelled against him are fair. Care homes, for example, were probably an insoluble problem”
Oh, I think we can say with a high degree of confidence that Midazolam found a solution to the ‘problem’ of old people cluttering up hospitals and care homes.
Every time Sumption writes an article we are supposed to genuflect before his apparently saintly intellect but from the excerpts here what exactly new and insightful understanding has he brought to the debate?
I have said this before – Sumption is a successful marketing exercise but there is no substance behind the facade.
A massive disappointment.
Yes …. what did Sumption actually DO to galvanise other senior Lawyers (including the Human Rights Brigade) to get the civil and human-right destroying restrictions stopped?
Nothing, nada, rien.
And what position is he taking re the very ominous proposals emanating from the WHO?
He is someone who could have an influence, if he chose to be other than supine about it.
Good grief, enough of this BS distraction already! Talking of distractions, such as Hancockwomble and the disgustingly duplicitous Oakshott ( who thinks the midazolam murders are pure fiction ), here’s a rather epic ‘stack listing all of the things being dangled in front of us to divert our attention from the ( listed ) things that are being implemented right under our noses that should be getting our undivided attention. Great stuff. His conclusion;
”While our attention is being distracted by inconsequential shiny things, we are completely missing the fact that we are being divided into groups, herded together and penned up like cattle. We are most definitely being depopulated – any fact checker denying this is completely and utterly bought or is wilfully blind to the the evidence. We are being manipulated and controlled. Our children are being deliberately confused, brainwashed and sexualised. They are being manipulated into believing that the only way they can be happy is to be gay, trans, non-binary or asexual and not to question anything that they are told by teachers or the government. The globalists want to be the single source of everything in our lives – we will eat what we are told because our food will come from their labs and insect ‘factory farms’; we will live and die when they say because our health and immune systems will come regularly from their pharma companies in a syringe; we will learn and know only what they tell us because our access to information will come via their heavily censored and manipulated networks; and we will experience only what is within our local area because we will be managed within gated 15 minute cities and will need special permission and passes to move outside our small half-kilometre square community space.”
https://lawhealthandtech.substack.com/p/but-are-we-actually-seeing-whats
An absolutely first rate article / sub. Thanks Mogs.
I thought so too. You get good value articles from this guy for sure. Lot of research and time has been spent, clearly, and he’s spot on.
Indeed.
Boris Teflon Johnson must also take responsibility for what happened but he appears to have escaped any fallout, so far!
One of the main points of that show.
Not only that, but he is free to flex his corrupted power in the region of Ukraine where, by preventing any negotiations for resolution, he is directly (part) responsible for hundreds of thousands of terrible deaths there, & the utter destruction of the country.
A large, farming country, rich in earth’s resources. Or was.
Absolutely. From what we can glean from the ‘lockdown files’, had Boris stuck with his instincts, we could have been another Sweden/Florida. But he didn’t and was rolled by Gove/Hancock/Cummings.
This is the political class for you. A squirming bunch of parasites. How many more Hancock’s are there? PLENTY.