Wednesday, September 18, 2013
by
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) Allow me to be the first to announce that TED is dead.
Why? Because the group that organizes so-called "TED talks" has been
thoroughly hijacked by corporate junk science and now openly rejects any
talks about GMOs, food as medicine, or even the subject of how food can
help prevent behavioral disorders in children. All these areas of
discussion are now red-flagged from being presented on any TED stage.
This is openly admitted by TEDx itself in a little-known letter publicly published on December 7, 2012.
Click here to view the letter.
In
that letter, TED says that people who talk about GMOs are engaged in
"pseudoscience." Those who discuss the healing potential of foods are
spreading "health hoaxes."
The letter also advises TEDx organizers
to, "reject bad science, pseudoscience and health hoaxes," meaning
anyone who talks about GMOs, "food as medicine" or similar topics.
The
TED organization, incredibly, believes that food cannot be medicine and
does not contain medicine. Perhaps someone should educate TED about
resveratrol, curcumin, phycocyanins, polyphenols and ten thousand other
chemicals created by plants that have medicinal functions in the human
body. To deny this is to nearly admit you believe the Earth is flat and
that the sun and stars revolve around our planet. It is a sure sign of a
feeble mind that cannot grasp the very simple and readily evident idea
that the human body evolved in an environment full of plants with
beneficial physiological effects, including many medicinal effects.
Maybe someone should remind TED that nearly
25% of all prescription medicines are in some way derived from plants,
including statin drugs. Drug companies expend enormous resources
searching the world's botanical treasures for amazing molecules that
they can pirate from nature and alter in some way to make them
patentable as a drug. Even the
World Resources Institute readily admits this, while also remind us that
80 percent of the world population still relies largely on plant-based medicine.
TED
apparently thinks 80 percent of the world population is purely
delusional, because obviously, as TED insists, real medicine can only
come from pharmacological factories spewing out deadly chemicals, right?
TED falls in line with Monsanto: no talks that question GMOs will be allowed
It's
a sure sign that you've jumped into a circle of dogma when the very act
of asking intelligent questions is no longer allowed. Any speakers who
might ask questions about genetically engineered foods are strictly
forbidden by TED. This makes TED a
source of pseudoscience
because it censors and silences any dissenting views that don't align
with Monsanto and the Frankenfoods biotech industry.
The TEDx
letter mentioned above actually claims that anyone who questions the
wisdom of genetically engineering food crops grown in open fields is a
quack or a hoaxer.
Read the letter yourself. It reads as if it
were written by someone with the intellectual capacity of an 8th grader
-- someone who is so naive that they still haven't caught on to the fact
that corporations routinely lie to the world by hijacking science to
push their agenda of profit and domination. And it makes you wonder just
how stupid TED thinks the public really is on the subject of GMOs. Even
though 90% of the public believes GMOs should be labeled on foods, TED
thinks anyone who dares talk about GMOs is spewing "pseudoscience."
Does TED also think that spraying the world with glyphosate is a boon to mankind? Does TED even know what glyphosate is and
how glyphosate causes cancer at concentrations of
parts per billion?
TED's letter filled with false information
The
TEDx letter attacking "pseudoscience" is, itself, filled with factually
false information. The letter says, "Andrew Wakefield's attempt to link
autism and vaccines was exposed as a hoax last year."
That
statement is blatantly false. For starters, Dr. Wakefield never
conducted any studies whatsoever that linked autism and vaccines. That
is a complete fabrication / delusion invented by the intellectually
dishonest critics of Dr. Wakefield. TEDx obviously believes that if a
lie is repeated often enough among critics of real science, that lie
become a "truth."
Secondly, the actual hoax is on the medical
journals and critics of Dr. Wakefield who were caught deliberately lying
about his research and inventing wildly false claims in order to try to
discredit him. They are currently being sued over their false
allegations, by the way, and as the facts of this lawsuit come out, Dr.
Wakefield will be completely vindicated.
For the real evidence that TED doesn't want you to see on Dr. Wakefield, check out these articles:
BMJ admits that fraud claim against Dr. Andrew Wakefield has no basis in fact
Documents emerge proving Dr Andrew Wakefield innocent; BMJ and Brian Deer caught misrepresenting the facts
Dr Wakefield demands retraction from BMJ after documents prove innocence from allegations of vaccine autism data fraud
Other areas of investigation banned by TED
It
turns out that TED isn't only a proponent of GMOs, vaccines and
whatever corporate-sponsored status quo science is currently being
spouted -- it's also wholly aligned against a wide range of topics it
considers "pseudoscience."
These so-called "pseudoscience" topics include:
• Consciousness, free will and the non-material "mind"
•
"The fusion of science and spirituality" -- as if higher spiritual
awareness is somehow not a valid pathway for the discovery of truth.
• Nearly all neuroscience.
• The placebo effect, something that has been experimentally proven to exist through tens of thousands of clinical trials.
• Any and all "healing," including Reiki or hands-on healing, healing touch, etc.
Yep,
according to TED, these are all pure hokum and bunk. There is no
placebo effect, they insist, even though it has been experimentally
proven to be the strongest across-the-board form of medicine available
today. The reason they cannot acknowledge the existence of the placebo
effect is because
it is contingent upon the interaction between the body and the mind.
Because TEDx and its cabal of closed-minded junk scientists cannot
admit to the existence of a non-material mind, they also cannot admit to
the existence of the placebo effect
even though their own experiments prove its existence beyond any rational doubt.
In fact, the placebo effect is so widely documented that in order to discard it, you would have to throw out
all randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies
altogether. Is TED saying that all such studies are bunk because, taken
as a whole, they show the placebo effect to be statistically
significant in its effectiveness?
See, this is how TED destroys
its own argument (and credibility). If the placebo effect doesn't exist,
then virtually all modern clinical trials must be deemed invalid, and
that means TED doesn't believe in any real science at all.
TED is a cult of "scientism"
Like the Church that once suppressed scientific understanding long before the Age of Reason, TED is now part of the new
Cult of Scientism,
a dogmatic circle jerk of intellectual bullies who insist the only
"science" that's true is their own selected brand of corporate-sponsored
science. All legitimate science is excluded and attacked if it dares
question the core beliefs of the Cult of Scientism. Those beliefs
include some real whoppers, such as, "Corporate science is the only
science that counts," and, "GMOs are automatically safe, even without
long-term testing, because we say they are."
In this cult, there is no room for the simple, scientific act of
questioning today's scientific beliefs. "Bad science," says TED, is anything that "has failed to convince many mainstream scientists of its truth."
This,
of course, is nothing more than "mob science" which isn't really
science at all. If new science were only recognized once all the
existing scientists were convinced of its truth, then
science would never have advanced.
According
to TED, then, in 1616, then, the idea that the Earth was spherical
would have been considered "bad science." TED would have agreed with the
"Congregation of the Index" which cited holy scripture and decreed the
Earth stood still and the Sun and stars revolved around it. Anyone who
questioned this belief would have been attacked as a pusher of
"pseudoscience" by TED.
The idea that invisible, microscopic
bacteria spread disease would have been considered "bad science," too,
because before the invention of the microscope, most "scientists"
thought the idea of a microbiological world of invisible living
organisms was sheer lunacy. When a now-famous doctor named Semmelweiss
suggested that doctors should wash their hands between delivering
babies, he was condemned by the "scientific" community and fired from
his job. Meanwhile, an alarming number of women giving birth soon died
from infections. This would have been completely acceptable to TED, as
it was the "science" of the day, and "science" cannot be questioned.
(For historical references, see my article entitled,
Why Doctors are Idiots: 150 Years of Disastrous Advice on Children's Health.)
Einstein's
Theory of Special Relativity would have been considered "bad science,"
too. It was such a whacky theory that almost nobody believe it was true
(at first).
In fact, throughout the history of scientific
discovery -- microbiology, quantum physics, genetics and epigenetics,
cosmology and chemistry -- any self-proclaimed scientist who declared
"we now know everything and no new questions can be asked" is now seen
in retrospect to be a complete fool.
Real science explained to TED
Science is not a static collection of knowledge, it is a
process
of exploring the nature of reality to discover and embrace new truths
that very often displace old truths. Anyone who believes that science is
"fixed" and that modern-day scientists have somehow stumbled upon the
final answers to everything is nothing short of a complete fool. The
great strength of the scientific method is that it is based on the
asking of questions,
even in the face of self-important, delusional "scientists" who have
convinced themselves they are the final word on the subject at hand.
Through
the process of asking questions and being willing to explore unexpected
answers, science has made tremendous advances in understanding the
material universe (although science has utterly failed to understand the
non-material universe).
And yet, like any method of exploring the nature of reality,
science is fallible.
Science has made tremendous, horrifying mistakes such as giving
pregnant women thalidomide as a morning sickness drug, or using African
Americans for medical experiments in the Tuskegee affair. Science has
created weapons of mass destruction and actually dropped them on
civilian populations in Japan. Science invented DDT, Agent Orange and
countless other toxic chemicals which now threaten the very survival of
the human species.
See some of these failures of science in my related mini-documentary called "The Dark Side of Science"
Just this week,
the CDC openly admitted that the era of antibiotics
-- brought to you by pharmacological science -- is now coming to an
end, and all of humanity is now threatened by superbugs for which
chemical treatments are just about to run out. That's another little
gift from the world of scientific pharmacology: deadly superbugs that
could become the world's next deadly plague.
You won't hear TED
talks about these subjects, because TED is dead. And by that, I mean
TED's "mind" is utterly and completely closed to the really important
ideas that we must discuss, explore and debate as a civilization if we
hope to survive this "age of toxicity" that science has unleashed upon
us. Instead of being open to "ideas worth spreading," TED simply
declares all ideas it does not agree with as being pseudoscience. That
approach requires no thought, no investigation and no real science.
That's why it is also the same approach used by the status quo
"scientific" community to push GMOs, mercury-laced vaccines and other
deadly toxins on our world.
Why the "Berlin Wall" of closed-minded science will doom humanity to its own destruction
In
a time when humanity desperately needs revolutionary, progressive ideas
to survive its own destruction, TED is stuck in a 1950's mindset of
"better living through chemistry." TED is like the 16th-century
scientist who warns that if we sail our ships too far into the unknown,
we will fall off the edge of the ocean and die.
Right now,
humanity is suffering alarming rates of mysterious diseases such as
autism, autoimmune disorders, infertility and cancer.
Corporate-driven science has zero answers
to these issues. The status quo "scientific" community exists in a
total state of denial over the causes of these diseases, even absurdly
insisting that injecting children with trace levels of mercury in
vaccines is somehow "good" for children, as if mercury were a nutrient.
The
biodiversity of our natural world is in a state of unprecedented
collapse. The Earth biosphere is dying from toxicity, and that toxicity
has been unleashed in the name of "science" via genetic pollution
(GMOs), agricultural pollution (insecticides such as neonicotinoids),
industrial pollution (which harms waterways and oceans), medical
pollution (ionizing radiation and chemical medications) and food
pollution (toxic heavy metals are now routinely being found in foods).
This has all been done in the name of "science."
TED doesn't want
you to hear about any of this. You are a "hoaxer" and a pusher of
"pseudoscience" if you believe in any of this, apparently. And by God,
don't you dare suggest that
food is your medicine -- as Hippocrates wisely said -- or you will be called a "quack."
So
thank you, TED, for showing you total insanity, your complete
detachment from reality, your abandonment of humanity and your
offensive, incestuous relationship with the Monsantos of the world. It
is organizations like you, TED, that are destroying humanity by
attacking the very people who possess the desperately-needed answers to
saving humanity from its own destruction at the hands of closed-minded
"science."
TED also aggressively attacks the very idea of
consciousness, pretending that humans are nothing more than biological
robots with no minds, no spirit, no soul, no consciousness and no free
will. This is the position parroted by utterly misinformed "scientists"
like Stephen Hawking, whose view of humanity is as dark and pessimistic
as any we have ever witnessed.
For a full exploration of this
issue covering Stephen Hawking's monumental mistake in failing to
recognize the existence of consciousness,
see my science documentary called "The God Within."
Learn the truth about science you're not supposed to know
Unlike
today's corporate-driven scientists, I don't claim to have all the
answers, but where I'm a quantum leap ahead of most modern-day status
quo scientists is that
I still believe in the scientific method of asking questions. Apparently, this act of asking questions is now utterly disallowed in today's dogmatic "science" cult.
I
also have a strong scientific background, which terrifies GMO pushers
and pro-vaccine child killers. I have a bachelor of science degree with a
minor in mathematics and I'm fluent in the fundamental concepts of
microbiology, chemistry, physics, anthropology, genetics, cosmology,
nutrition science, environmental science, physiology and many other
areas.
And what I've discovered from observing and writing about science for over a decade is that
modern-day scientists suffer from a dangerous epidemic of arrogance that's actually standing in the way of real scientific advancement.
Sir
Isaac Newton famously explored all sorts of bizarre ideas -- including
delving heavily into the occult -- in his search for answers of how the
universe works. If TED had been around in Newton's days, it would have
banned Newton from speaking because his ideas "hadn't convinced the
majority of other scientists" of their merits. Newton's laws of motion
would have been called "quackery" because everybody knows that steel
balls fall much faster than feathers, right? It's obvious, isn't it? How
could they both possibly be accelerated at the same rate by gravity?
TED would have banned such a talk.
So now, TED has become
a re-hash of old, outdated ideas that brought us to these global problems in the first place.
TED's answers to problems are apparently the same as Big Pharma's
answers: more drugs, more vaccines, more chemicals, more corporate
patents and more profiteering from human suffering.
Most of the world strongly disagrees with TED
For the record, most of the population of our world agrees with the fundamentals of what I'm saying here. Most of the world
disagrees with TED's minority opinion on science and pseudoscience.
Specifically:
• Most of the world believes in the existence of mind and spirit
• Most of the world uses medicinal plants, not prescription drugs, as their primary source of medicine
• Most of the world agrees food contains medicinal properties and can be used medicinally to prevent disease
• Most of the world agrees the mind influences body physiology
• Most of the world agrees that GMOs should be questioned, relying on
the precautionary principle rather than risking the entire genetic
future of global agriculture with an unwise roll of the dice (open-air
GMO experiments)
TED's disagreement with the majority of the world population on these issues puts TED in a
desperate minority
of monopoly-minded intellectual bullies who cannot win any intelligent
discussion on the issues so they resort to censorship, bullying,
intimidation and sheer arrogance to try to limit the public discussion
of ideas they don't like.
That's not science. That's dogma.
Beyond TED - a new forum for leading thinkers
Despite
its intellectual failings, we must thank TED for exposing itself as a
backwards, intellectually-dead circle jerk of corporate-backed poison
pushers who offer nothing but suffering and destruction to humanity.
Because that creates an opportunity for the rest of us to get together
and
create our own public forum of truly progressive, groundbreaking ideas that can move humanity forward.
What
I'm envisioning is a "New Science" forum where we invite Dr. Bruce
Lipton, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Graham Hancock, Dr. Andrew Wakefield and
all the other brilliant people who are no longer welcome at TED
conference because their ideas are simply too revolutionary to be
stomached by the old school apologists for corporate-backed
anti-science.
I don't personally have time to start such an event
this year because, ironically, I'm working in the Natural News Forensic
Food Lab and conducting real science in the realm of food
investigations, but if someone else doesn't start a new science speaking
event within the next few years, I may take up the task myself.
In
this event, we would openly welcome talks on consciousness, hands-on
healing, neuroscience, environmental science, spirituality, meditation
and all the other areas that are too advanced to be tolerated or even
understood by the ignorant TED organizers.
TED could have been
something great by doing precisely this, but instead it chose to silence
the truly brilliant minds of our time and force-feed people a total
line of corporate-backed bunk that pushes GMOs, brain-dead materialism
and synthetic chemicals as the answer to everything.
TED is dead. But real science moves forward, with or without the TED bullies who desperately try to stop it.
Recommended reading
Keep in mind that the authors of all these extraordinary books would be banned from speaking at TED events:
Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients
Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself
Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery
The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles
