This new book by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil, sub-titled ‘Exposing the flawed science and statistics behind the COVID-19 event’, needs to be read. Of all the books on the COVID-19 years, this one really has the COVID-19 narrative on the ropes.
It strikes me that there will be four ways the material in Fighting Goliath is approached.
The first approach will be to ignore it completely and assume that this is all nonsense and written by a couple of conspiracy theorists who don’t understand the real science behind COVID-19. That would be a mistake.
The next would be the approach of those who could be described as smugly certain about the COVID-19 narrative. These are the people who will not dirty their hands with figures and statistics and think this is unnecessary as they are sure they know the truth about COVID-19 (and many other things) without the need for evidence. It is insufficient to claim that you are in the know about the supposed COVID-19 conspiracies and it is inadequate to expect other people to believe you. It is essential to provide evidence. Evidence is the only thing that will change the minds of the health promoters, policy makers and politicians and specifically those who imposed such dreadful measures as lockdowns, face masks, social distancing and compulsory vaccination on huge numbers of the population with such detrimental outcomes.
Then we have the virus deniers, who prefer to be called virus sceptics. These are people who don’t believe that viruses exist and are, in and of themselves, part of a great scientific conspiracy. There is a spectrum of virus sceptics from those who propose some serious and reasonable arguments as to why the viral hypothesis is not correct up to and including the seriously deranged, amongst whom are many grifters using the no virus hypothesis to promote their own quackery and alternative medicine. At the most extreme end of the spectrum there are those who do not even believe in bacterial infections or the use of antibiotics. These are seriously dangerous people, and they believe exclusively in the terrain theory of health. They begin from a mistaken perspective.
However, there is a fourth group: the informed sceptics and the authors of Fighting Goliath are exceedingly well-informed sceptics both being respectable academics and statisticians who have risked their reputation and careers to speak out against the prevailing COVID-19 narrative. Anyone sceptical of the COVID-19 narrative will find the hard evidence he or she needs in this book.
Fighting Goliath is a barely expurgated version of the collected writings of the authors, along with many acknowledged co-authors. Most of the writing has been published in blogs and alternative news outlets such as the Daily Sceptic and TCW Defending Freedom because these are the only outlets that would tolerate a sceptical view of the ‘pandemic’ and, especially latterly, the dangers inherent in the COVID-19 vaccines over and above the fact they were largely or perhaps completely ineffective. Nevertheless, the fact that these alternative outlets have been used does not detract from the rigour with which the authors approach the subject.
The main arguments in the book are around the exaggerated lethality of COVID-19 and, concomitantly, the exaggerated data about spread of the virus and data around vaccine efficacy and COVID-19 vaccine deaths. The only data that were downplayed in the official narrative were those on vaccine hesitancy, presumably to make the refuseniks and the reluctant feel like an outlying minority. The authors demonstrate how the unvaccinated were far from alone.
A convincing case is made in Fighting Goliath for the claim that influenza did not miraculously disappear at the height of the COVID-19 years but was either deliberately not being sought or data were simply being ignored with the purpose of maintaining the focus on COVID-19. However, readers should note that there are competing theories from within the sceptical movement to explain biologically how influenza could have been outcompeted by COVID-19 through the phenomenon of viral interference and evidence from laboratory data that influenza had in fact disappeared, at least in the U.K.
Regarding COVID-19 deaths, the issues of how they were classified, leading to anyone with a diagnosis of COVID-19 or testing positive for COVID-19 (not necessarily the same thing) being classified as a COVID-19 death, regardless of the actual cause of death, is covered. In the same vein, the overuse of artificial ventilation, undoubtedly a plausible independent cause of ‘COVID-19’ deaths, is also considered.
The authors also investigate the case of the disappearing antibiotics, despite stockpiling — presumably for use — during viral pandemics being recommended public health practice. Could the disappearing antibiotics and the copious distribution of the tranquiliser midazolam have had anything to do with the excess deaths observed during the COVID-19 years, especially of older people warehoused and imprisoned with all visiting privileges withdrawn in nursing homes? Probably.
There is an inescapable message in Fighting Goliath that people who were aligned with the COVID-19 narrative could promote any old nonsense with impunity. But sceptics providing hard evidence and arguments were pilloried, cancelled, struck off and ostracised.
It is abundantly clear from the book that the lethality of COVID-19 was wildly exaggerated by several orders of magnitude. There is also the little-known fact — certainly new to me — that the COVID-19 virus was declared to be of low lethality and risk to the general population prior to the day that the first lockdown was imposed. Lockdown, therefore, was imposed with the full knowledge that this was not a dangerous situation. Of course, the figures now speak for themselves. Take China, the presumed source of COVID-19, where remarkably few people died of the virus and where the emergency centres (equivalent to our ridiculous and never used Nightingale wards) were dismantled within about a month of their erection. Ours were still up over a year later.
As someone who has followed the authors’ Where are the Numbers Substack, I well recall how the scales fell from my eyes over COVID-19 vaccine efficacy (or lack thereof) when they exposed what is described in Fighting Goliath as the “cheap trick”. The trick, which purports to demonstrate vaccine efficacy by comparing deaths or infections between vaccinated and (allegedly) unvaccinated individuals, involves the (mis)classification of some vaccinated people as being unvaccinated if they had only received the vaccine at some arbitrary point prior to when the outcomes were compared. Thus, two vaccinated people could be classified in a case control study or prospective trial into different arms if, say, one of them had been vaccinated within two weeks of the endpoint of the study.
In another chapter the authors demonstrate the importance and the influence of timing in collecting and reporting outcomes, especially deaths, when comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated people. If there is no protective effect of a vaccine and deaths are measured simultaneously, then the true outcome will be observed. However, given that in any large group some people will die, then if the deaths in the unvaccinated group are measured a week later than those in the vaccinated group it will appear that the vaccine has some protective effect. This is beautifully demonstrated using two tables.
The material in Fighting Goliath is presented chronologically. It is remarkable, in that light, that some of the material presented was written very early in the sequence of COVID-19 events. Having initially accepted the official narrative the authors began to take some ‘deep dives’ into the data which showed that, at the least, the official narrative was flawed or, at worst, being manipulated to heighten fear and subjugate the population, possibly merely to see if it could be done. Therefore, Fenton and Neil (along with others) were exposing the flaws very early but were completely ignored. The authors explain how they were denied access to mainstream scientific journals, had papers retracted and were even prevented from publishing and retracted from pre-printing sites. The control of the official COVID-19 narrative was as far-reaching as it was strong.
Due to the running order and the nature of the text, Fighting Goliath has some internal duplication of material and repetition of arguments. That, clearly, is what the authors intended and anyone who wants to use their evidence to test or support their own arguments will find it all here, and in the copious links to supporting material. Perhaps Fenton and Neil have had enough of fighting Goliath and wish to reclaim their lives. But I would love to see a complementary volume which is presented as a condensed, heavily edited and proof-read version under subject headed chapters, each with a firm conclusion.
Many within the COVID-19 sceptical movement will disagree with some of Fenton’s and Neil’s claims and everyone outside of the COVID-19 sceptical community will disagree with most or all of them. However, now we have Fighting Goliath, we should be very grateful for it, for the authors and for their many eminent collaborators.
Fighting Goliath (Sovereign Rights Publishing) is available on Amazon.
Dr. Roger Watson is Academic Dean of Nursing at Southwest Medical University, China. He has a PhD in biochemistry. He writes in a personal capacity.
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“Evidence is the only thing that will change the minds of the health promoters, policy makers and politicians and specifically those who imposed such dreadful measures as lockdowns, face masks, social distancing and compulsory vaccination on huge numbers of the population with such detrimental outcomes.”
My giddy aunt. Does the author really think that the groups he enumerates don’t already know the whole thing was bollocks? It’s the general public we need to convince, not the architects of the scam. Ffs!
tof, I couldn’t agree more. The whole C1984 was a scam from start to finish. Trying to defeat the Scamdemic narrative from a scientific perspective is tantamount to going along with it. As you say it was all complete bollocks.
Dr Watson needs to speak with Dr Mike Yeadon. I doubt Dr Yeadon appreciates being lumped with the “seriously deranged.”
“Then we have the virus deniers, who prefer to be called virus sceptics. These are people who don’t believe that viruses exist and are, in and of themselves, part of a great scientific conspiracy. There is a spectrum of virus sceptics from those who propose some serious and reasonable arguments as to why the viral hypothesis is not correct up to and including the seriously deranged, “
This is not a well considered appraisal by Roger Watson.
I have little idea whether viruses exist or not – I don’t think I am part of a “great scientific conspiracy” – just someone who tries to follow the evidence of my own experience, and evaluates opinions as best I can, bearing in mind that (breaking news) people don’t always tell the truth.
Was it Chickenpox or Measles where kids used to go and have a massive party to spread it about. If viruses don’t exist, how did they spread it around intentionally. I get the change of weather argument when people get colds, either from change or temperature or from catching from others, or both. At the same time I remember reading how during Spanish Flu they tried to infect people with the virus and failed on every attempt.
I don’t remember which it was/is. Maybe both. But I never participated in anything like that.
We now know that a huge proportion of the Spanish Flu dead were killed by bacterial pneumonia in the age before antibiotics had been discovered and produced for pharmaceutical use. The pneumonia problem was due to the use of dirty cloth face masks which acted as an ideal medium for the growth of the bacteria which were then breathed in via the mouth into the lungs.
Covid mask maniacs refused to take note of any of that of course.
And the people most effected by the Spanish Flu were the people in their prime, has anyone explained that one beyond what age groups were inoculated.
I think ‘Dissolving Illusions’ explains that one. Crude vaccinations on young soldiers returning from the trenches was part of the problem. And aspirin as Groudhog has reminded me below.
I read a pretty convincing article on El Gato Malo which said a major factor in the 1918 mortality rate was the over exuberant use and over prescription of the newly released “Aspirin”
Dosage levels were uncertain. People were poisoned. Doctors, for want of anything better to do would shovel in a few more.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-greatest-lie-told-during-covid
Chickenpox, aye; Measles, nay. Get Cpox while you are young, as it’s much, much worse to contract when older – as I discovered when I was in my 30s
Mike Yeadon has fallen down the rabbit hole so far that he is now blind from the darkness as the “no viruses exist” clowns try to outdo each other with their wild claims.
They have become a laughingstock to those with a modicum of modern virology knowledge trying to fight the tyranny of the Covid plandemic and the dangers of so-called vaccines.
Spouting the nonsense that “viruses do not exist” harms their reputations and the sceptics fight against the global elite control over the masses.
They should be embarrassed and ashamed of themselves.
Yeadon seems agitated but so am I. He worked in an industry that has turned out to be a hub of evil. If we’re doling out shame then Yeadon should be close to the end of the queue.
I do appreciate where you are coming from though.
Yes the focus should be on the Globalists and we shouldn’t let this issue of ‘no viruses’ sidestep and distract the focus away from them.
“These are seriously dangerous people”
Compartmentalising opponents, being what the author is arguing against.
“I doubt Dr Yeadon appreciates being lumped with the “seriously deranged”
Indeed. And all of us that identified the Scam at Day 2.
Let us not forget also Prof John Ioannidis, an eminent party, who wrote an official report debunking the Narrative as early as April 2020. IFR no worse than a ‘Flu’.
Further, lest we also forget, the “Four-Ships” data Jan-Apr 2020 including inter alia the Diamond Princess that disproved everything the Guv and their Leaders were saying. They were the ideal ‘petri-dish’ test and were just binned.
Yes because the architects of the scam have all been given gongs and will do it again given half the chance. My bet is War being the next tool for a Police State. They may feel they’ve overplayed their hand with viruses. How is the Mpox going, or should I say Moneypox!
Moneybox.
They overplayed their hand but got away with it.
Then we have the virus deniers, who prefer to be called virus sceptics. These are people who don’t believe that viruses exist and are, in and of themselves, part of a great scientific conspiracy.
They don’t. Show me the purified isolated ‘bat virus’ in the bat. Then show me the same virus ‘mutated’ in a human. Then show me the transmission from human to human.
You can’t. Therefore you are anti-science.
Total illiterate nonsense.
You have no understanding of modern virology.
Dr Roger Watson is right to call out you numpties who harm the cause.
You again rude boy? While I agree with you on this point, I dislike your tone. And your virology qualifications are?
Hear, hear. I bought a copy and have just finished reading it. My main observation about the structure is that it is one of those sequences of articles that it could be more useful to read the last chapter (24) first, then delve into the detail later on. 24 is a good summary of most of the issues.
Incidentally, in that chapter they went into the alleged disappearance of ‘flu for a year or so. Part of this could well have been (as they say) the choice of what to put on the death certificate and how it was done. The late Harold Shipman would have loved it; he might have avoided prison that way.
For the avoidance of doubt, I agree with much of it, and have been sceptical (and wary of the methods used) of the whole affair, and never used the “vaccine” on offer.
The laws relating to Shipman (two Drs signing off death) were removed in 2020. Part of the many tools to enable a Plandemic!
“Take China, the presumed source of COVID-19, where remarkably few people died of the virus and where the emergency centres (equivalent to our ridiculous and never used Nightingale wards) were dismantled within about a month of their erection. Ours were still up over a year later”
It didn’t stop them confining people in high rise flats begging for food and some committing suicide. So why did they do it, experiment?
Possibly because the CCP are devoid of humanity and don’t care two hoots about whether people live or die.
Does our Guvt?
Announcing removal of 10m heating allowances right as the mercury drops.
Officially prescribing Midazolam as ‘palliative care’
Driving our food producers out of business or to suicide.
“Take China, the presumed source of COVID-19, where remarkably few people died of the virus”
Sorry but I can’t take this seriously. We believe China’s statistics do we? Why on earth would we do that? And what does “dying of the virus” mean exactly? And what is “remarkably few”? Few compared to what? To the statistics published in the UK? Based on the alleged presence of something detected by sticking a piece of plastic up your nose, or some “test” administered by unqualified individuals and processed in a “lab” knocked up and getting paid for volume, in someone who happened to die in the same timeframe, who may have had a myriad of health issues? What a load of utter crap.
The authors deal with that issue quite well, albeit without the same words (!). What they did not actually say is that there was a lot of opportunism in some branches of the trade, right down to the junk on offer in many shops for use as “masks” that never worked. Quite a lot of useless items bought by the Gov, as well, quite likely.
The junk was useful in reinforcing the lie that there was a deadly pandemic
And the inside contracts!
You can say that viruses exist or don’t exist because their being is predicated on a biochemical understanding of reality. There is a lot of work being done to show that much of what goes on in the body occurs on a different level. You could even say that a new organ, and perhaps the most important one in terms of understanding od disease has been discovered in the intersitium. It is essentially a watery body within your body that was believed to be largely inert. It was discovered by cancer researchers trying to understand the rapid dynamics of cancer spread. Faster than could be explained by current understanding. It answers a lot: how putting something into your body can affect cells everywhere almost immediately. There are many examples of this kind. We should see human consciousness as in a state of rapid flux. The materialistic reductionist paradigm was something we had to go through in order to ascend to something higher.
Science is solved. Nothing left to discover.
I need a bibliography of books and similar publications by authoritative experts exposing the scamdemic and all who sailed in it.
Any recommendations from DS readers welcome please.
This article appears to suggest one.
The following appears to be another:
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense).
Further suggestions most welcome.
Pseudo Pandemic. New Normal Technocracy. By Iain Davis.
Thanks.
Iain Davis
Jacob Nordengard has researched and exposed the influence and agenda of the Rockerfeller foundation which is a significant part of the background to what’s going on, including corruption of medical institutions. I’ve not got his book “Rockerfeller: Controlling the Game” preferring to hear Ivor Cummins’ summaries and presentations on the subject.
IMO as important is the long-standing scams regarding infectious diseases and vaccines. There are many good exposes, including Disolving Illusions, Turtles all the way down, etc. I’ve read enough to question whether there are contagious pathogens or that injecting substances into our muscles can somehow enhance our immune systems, especially with regard to respiratory problems. I’ve learned enough biology from JJ Couey on Gigaohmbiological to know that virology doesn’t make sense and vaccines likely do harm. Not well researched (for obvious vested interest reasons) but there’s evidence in the US that children who are not jabbed have better long term mortality outcomes.
Thanks.
As many suggestions as I can get would be great please.
“Turtles all the way down” I am told is good.
‘Dissolving Illusions’ might also help.
“Rockerfeller: Controlling the Game” also
I hope these authors are acknowledged experts.
I hear Prof John Ioannidis, might be authoritative?
Anu books by him?
Any feedback please?
“There is also the little-known fact — certainly new to me — that the COVID-19 virus was declared to be of low lethality and risk to the general population prior to the day that the first lockdown was imposed. Lockdown, therefore, was imposed with the full knowledge that this was not a dangerous situation. ”
Well I ….. a lowly, semi-retired former Civil Servant, who pays close attention to what is going on and who follows several blogs (one, Raedwald, sadly no longer with us) ….. knew that within a few days of the first lockdown.
So why didn’t you …. a doctor who, we might like to think, asks questions before just accepting the narrative from highly compromised people?
The medical professions cannot be trusted with anything. They practice a small subset of medicine – allopathy – which is dominated by drug industry money – and they exist to match a drug to a diagnosis without regard to many other safe and effective modes of healthcare and disease prevention.
They are well-paid slaves of a corrupt international healthcare industry.
And of course drug therapies are notoriously ineffective in the vast majority of patients as is testified to by the ‘number needed to treat’ which is how many people are given drug which is useless to them and causes unwanted harmful effects [‘side-effects’] for just one patient allegedly to benefit [subject also to ‘side-effects’.]