Letters from Vienna #161
Letter to Emanuel Pastreich IV
Something is rotten in the state of Academia IV
Dear Emanuel,
It’s easy to be critical of the mediocrity, pedantry and corruption of contemporary academia; what’s more of a challenge is to find examples which inspire. One such is Dr. Roger Hodkinson (MA, MB, FRCPC, FCAP, CEO and medical director of Western Medical Assessments); another is: Denis Rancourt (former professor of physics at the University of Ottawa).
Dr. Roger Hodkinson
In May 2021 Dr. Roger Hodkinson gave an interview to the “The Exposé”:
“Dr. Hodkinson is a pathologist by training, with a wealth of knowledge in infectious disease, virology and evidence-based medicine, who was educated at Cambridge University and University College Hospital Medical School in London, before moving to Canada in 1970 and training at the University of British Columbia.”
“He came to notoriety for his speech to the Edmonton City Council on November 13 last year regarding their vote on extending mandatory mask orders, saying the response to Covid was “the biggest hoax perpetrated on an unsuspecting public”.”
“And now, despite describing the vaccines as “incredibly smart theories”, Dr. Hodkinson has issued another impassioned plea, calling for a halt to the rollout in order to carry out further investigations.”
“He said: “I’m a serious evidence-based career pathologist who has done everything in pathology at national and provincial levels and I take evidence-based science very, very seriously. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I’m not an anti-vaxxer, I’m none of the above. But when I see certain things in the literature that could – underlined – have serious potential long-term sequelae, I think it’s my duty to stand up and blow the whistle and say ‘hey, stop the train, have you seen this? It needs to be looked at. I hope it’s wrong but show me the data’.”
““The data I’m talking about is well-described in the literature, that of the significant expression of the ACE 2 receptor in both the placenta and the testes. And more importantly, in the testes it’s the cells that actually produce the spermatozoa, the precursors, called spermatogonia. Clearly there is an excess of spike protein circulating as a result of an unexpected surge in some people who get the vaccine.”
““And that circulation takes the spike protein everywhere, including the placenta of women who happen to be pregnant at the time, which is a one-time hit for that particular pregnancy, probably not for subsequent ones. But there is also potential for a hit on the testes, which of course is not a one-time hit, it could be a permanent hit.”
““In a world where we know that sperm counts have dropped 40 per cent over the last 10 or 20 years – a massive unexplained drop in sperm counts – we don’t need some additional hits on male fertility.”
“There have been disturbing reports, to be verified, of increased miscarriages following vaccination. I’m concerned about that for sure but I’m more concerned of the potential of male infertility which could be permanent. A lot of this is could, maybe etc., etc., it’s merely appropriate caution given the scientific literature.”
“You cannot test for fertility in a trial that lasts six months. Last time I checked, pregnancy lasts nine months. And in order to test for sequential pregnancies and the need for longer-term fertility studies, it cannot be done outside of a two-to-four years window, which is the normal time frame for a new vaccine trial.”[1]
If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch his videos[2] I’d strongly recommend your doing so.
Denis Rancourt
Denis Rancourt has written a lot about Covid but he’s also been extremely active in debunking the “anthropomorphic climate change” myth.
“Nothing could be more like a religion than this crazy movement” he writes. “We are expected to accept that an essential and growth-limiting plant nutrient (CO2) is a toxic pollutant, that the world will be destroyed because of our collective and intrinsic wickedness of emitting CO2, via floods no less…”
“The planet has been teeming with life for billions of years. During that time, the global mean temperature has almost always been some 10 C higher than in the present geologic anomaly, in a manner uncorrelated with CO2 concentration. That is the history of this same planet that we live on. During that time, the CO2 concentration has typically been 10 times higher than today’s value, and it has rarely been as low as modern values, nor has it ever been lower than modern values.”
“There is no reason to believe that humans would not fare well on an Earth that is 10° C warmer, never mind 1° or 2° C. Land value would increase in the polar regions, and there would be intense reforestation and forest densification of the equatorial regions, with little possibility for controlling growth where it is hot and humid. From what we know of our planet and the history of its biosphere, warming is not going to kill us off any time soon. None of the known mass extinctions (a relative term) in Earth’s history can be reliably attributed to “sustained warming,” whereas ice ages that have occurred recently (during human presence on the planet, in the last 1 M years) are expected to correspond to periods of decreased planetary life density but saw mammals and human populations completely adapt.”
“Basically, neither warming or cooling can kill us by any know mechanism ever observed. If anything, the opposite of “killer warmth” is observed on today’s Earth, where both human populations and living biomass are concentrated near equatorial latitudes…”
“Therefore, we still have much time left to achieve human extinction by much more direct means than warming (or cooling) of any kind. We also have a lot of time and occasions to practice accommodating mass migrations caused by our wars and economic violence, in order to prepare for the “climate migrations”.”[3]
If you find the time I’d strongly recommend that you work through Denis Rancourt’s formidable opus, which can be found on his homepage.[4]
I realize that this is all profoundly shocking to those who’ve allowed themselves to be brainwashed by the Globalist Establishment (I too believed in the “anthropomorphic climate change” myth for literally decades!) but the key to a healthy intellectual environment is the willingness to debate rather than censor.
The point of this letter is that not all is doom or gloom. There are bright spots, unconventional, non-conformist, independent-minded individuals with vision and guts, who are willing to contradict the current, homogenised, sterile narrative; this alone gives one hope.
Best,
Michael
[1] https://expose-news.com/2021/05/23/an-exclusive-interview-with-dr-roger-hodkinson-when-the-history-of-this-madness-is-written-reputations-will-be-slaughtered-and-there-will-be-blood-in-the-gutter/
[2] https://subsplash.com/cecapetownnorth-church/media/mi/+wygn6kc
[3]https://denisrancourt.ca/uploads_entries/1627001578905_Climate%20Stupidity%20and%20Human%20Survival%20_%20Dissident%20Voice.pdf