I don't know how you can see it that way. Dr. Campbell isn't in any kind of denial. He is giving us a master class on how to convey information despite censorship. If he suggests a causal relationship, he could be deplatformed - so HE'S not saying that, he's just showing official documents and videos from an official government hearing, and a website toeing the government line won't throw him off for showing those things. Like subjects of an authoritarian regime, he knows how to convey ideas carefully or indirectly, so as not to personally utter punishable words, or to share his opinions nonverbally with deliberate gestures and expressions (as in the earlier video on infant mortality with the long silent stare).
Note his product placement in the video: plastic bottles with large handwritten "Vit K2" and "Vit D" labels on the windowsill. Those are ugly; why not put them away before filming? Perhaps they're relevant to the topic somehow - relevant in some way that he thinks the censors would not like him to explain? Viewers accustomed to censorship regimes will quickly pick up on the oddity and, as JMG might say, treat it as a topic for meditation....
You suggest he go to Rumble, but that site is known for being alt-right and hosting a variety of misinformation. If that were his platform a lot of people would assume he was just another screaming extremist and never watch his videos. The fact that he's on YouTube addressing the general public, and doing so in a calm, careful, rational way, makes him far more believable. He doesn't wail about a new fear or rumor every week. He's all about facts and data. Here are the figures: what the government says has actually happened, about which anyone can speak. What could have caused them? He can't say. Which means, of course, that he just DID say. And he's not only telling us that he thinks there's a problem, but that he thinks he'd be silenced if he said so, which means there's another very severe problem at hand. The guy is brilliant.
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Re: Dr John Campbell UK
Date: 2022-11-07 02:18 am (UTC)Note his product placement in the video: plastic bottles with large handwritten "Vit K2" and "Vit D" labels on the windowsill. Those are ugly; why not put them away before filming? Perhaps they're relevant to the topic somehow - relevant in some way that he thinks the censors would not like him to explain? Viewers accustomed to censorship regimes will quickly pick up on the oddity and, as JMG might say, treat it as a topic for meditation....
You suggest he go to Rumble, but that site is known for being alt-right and hosting a variety of misinformation. If that were his platform a lot of people would assume he was just another screaming extremist and never watch his videos. The fact that he's on YouTube addressing the general public, and doing so in a calm, careful, rational way, makes him far more believable. He doesn't wail about a new fear or rumor every week. He's all about facts and data. Here are the figures: what the government says has actually happened, about which anyone can speak. What could have caused them? He can't say. Which means, of course, that he just DID say. And he's not only telling us that he thinks there's a problem, but that he thinks he'd be silenced if he said so, which means there's another very severe problem at hand. The guy is brilliant.
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