On my March 13, 2020 post I wrote about some of the conspiranoids and frauduct promoters who are milking the current COVID-19 coronavirus crisis for all it's worth. One person I cited, who's both a conspiranoid and a frauduct shill (two loons for the price of one!), was this blog's least favorite fake doctor, Leonard Coldwell, former b.f.f. of imprisoned serial scammer Kevin Trudeau. Coldwell likes to be called "Dr. C.", though he is, as indicated above, not a real doctor of any type (if you follow that link, scroll down to the sub-head, "Certified...or certifiable?"). I'll grant him the "C" part, though, since Coldwell is, after all, the legal surname of the former Bernd Klein of the Republic of Germany.
From the beginning of the crisis, Lenny has been insisting that COVID-19 is all a big hoax, and true to form, he has been pushing more than one conspiracy narrative, including the 5G conspiracy and, at least marginally, the Q-Anonsense. As well, and like numerous other alt-health crapitalists, he hasn't missed an opportunity to push his favorite go-to cure-nothings, most notably, colloidal silver.
Apart from being a phony physician, a snake oil salesman, and a chronic conspiranoid, Coldwell has also been an enthusiastic supporter of #NotMyPresident Donald John Trump ever since the 2016 US presidential campaign. I've mentioned this several times over the years, this May 2016 post being just one example.
But now it seems that Trump may be in danger of losing one of his biggest fans whom he's never heard of. Today, April 11, 2020, Lenny posted this to his main English-language Facebook page:
so tired of Trumps [sic] mind games: He has to think about if or when he opens America up again??? What BS He will open in May and he knows it. Easter was his original goal but the Media and Democrates [sic] went after him in a way he did not expect it So know the first of may [sic] is his goal but no matter what in May it will be opened. Its [sic] all just a hoax for Panik [sic] and fear creation anyway. NO extra risk at all.In subsequent comments on the same thread, Lenny wrote that at present we "have no alternative" to Trump, and that Trump is "not the decission [sic] maker at all." A couple of his fans suggested that Coldwell himself is the alternative, and should be on Trump's advisory committee, and Lenny apparently just ate it up, judging by the fact that he "liked" the comments. One commenter placed Coldwell in the same category as "Dr. Shiva" -- that would be M.I.T. biologist (and right-wing troll and self-proclaimed "inventor of email") Shiva Ayyadurai, who, unlike Leonard Coldwell, at least has a real PhD. You can read Lenny's Facebook thread for yourself by clicking on the graphic at the beginning of this post.
But wait, there's more! In a post written about an hour earlier, Lenny made a not-so-veiled threat to his former idol.
The "freeing the Children and Women" bit is an allusion to the QAnon pedophile narrative, of course. But, oh, dear me, Donnie John must surely be quaking in his golf shoes or crapping in those stylish white tennis shorts now, living every moment in abject fear that after decades of being sued by hundreds of parties, he may finally find out what a "real" lawsuit is. And he should be scared, too, because if there's anyone who knows about "real" lawsuits, it's Lenny Coldwell, as we learned in 2014, and again in 2015.The criminals Fauci and Brix [sic] are the biggest hoaxters in America. If These a holes are stating that they Count everbody with the Virus ( where they have no test for ) is considered dying ON the Virus is this scientifically not even considerable Plus the cause of death can only be determined with an autopsy Nothing else None have been done in These cases Trump open up our Country instantly its [sic] just the comom [sic] flue [sic] ( or in this case a bioweaponized Cold Virus -that is patented ) Maybe you are using this for freeing the Children and Women from Traficking [sic] etc I dont [sic] care do this in the open und [sic, at least in English] Arrest ALL the criminals NOW Because Buddy you are doing this on our Money our Health our lifes [sic] etc I order you to open the country up instantly or your private Money and everybodys [sic] money involved will be used to pay us for our losses and suppering [sic] I give you my word. ( you dont [sic] even know what a real lawsuit is. All you do that is unconstitutional or illegal You dont [sic] do as President and you are personal [sic] liable for all the Damage you or your Actions cause. ) Arrest the pedophiles and the Democates [sic] that are in it and end this sharade [sic] now and we will forgive you
Of course Facebook is still reeling from that one billion dollar... er... five billion dollar... well, actually, I'm not exactly sure how big it was supposed to be... class action lawsuit that Lenny threatened to file against Facebook, back in 2016 during one of his stints in Facebook jail. And though it's ancient history by now, there are those who may also remember that for months way back in 2012, Coldwell insisted that he was filing a class-action lawsuit against Kevin Trudeau's big scam GIN (the Global Information Network); he used the lure of big money settlements to suck stunned and deeply disillusioned (and therefore very vulnerable) ex-GIN members into his own funnel. I've mentioned that a few times, including on this post.
And looking back to 2014 again, there's that major international lawsuit against Bernie at GINtruth... well, not quite a lawsuit... or actually not anything even remotely resembling a lawsuit, but still. No doubt about it, Leonard Coldwell is a formidable litigious force. Watch out, Trumpy, you've met your match.
At least Lenny has finally used the words "unconstitutional" and "Trump" in the same garbled thought thread, although he's pretty much missing the mark about the real ways Trump is threatening the constitution.
As I've acknowledged in a previous post about the coronacrisis (in the section under "Update # 8), there are legitimate constitutional and civil rights concerns about the "new normal" that has been imposed upon our society in the wake of the pandemic. Civil rights have been eroding in the US for years, particularly since 9/11, and most of the erosion has allegedly been in the service of increased "safety" and "security." Here's a link from the Harvard Law Review that offers various legal perspectives on issues related to the pandemic; check back often if you're interested, as it is being continually updated. And here is some perspective from the libertarian site Reason.com.
In short, I'm not denying that there are potential problems with the efforts to track and contain the virus. But Coldwell's deranged ranting about it, combined with his nonstop medical misinformation, and especially his impotent threats to sue Trump, are not adding to the public conversation in any constructive way, though they do have some entertainment value.
Yet despite the looming bromantic breakup, Lenny is also still linking, as of today anyway, to pro-Trump posts and videos. He must be a conflicted little covidiot indeed.
Still, you have to hand it to Lenny: he does keep on top of things. On one of his Facebook posts yesterday (April 10, 2020), Lenny linked to a Forbes opinion piece that claimed the World Health Organization (WHO) had faked a pandemic; it was written by a person who was merely a Forbes subscriber and not an actual staffer. Lenny's post about this has earned several likes and shares, but if you actually follow the link you'll see that the Forbes article is more than ten years old... so regardless of the veracity or lack thereof of the piece, it has nothing to do with the present COVID-19 crisis.
But lack of relevance has never stopped conspiranoids and stupid people from spreading their nonsense. It certainly hasn't stopped Lenny from trying to position himself as the world's leading health expert, as this characteristically spelling-challenged April 8, 2020 Facebook post demonstrates:
Coldwell has apparently been really busy for the past few years; at the time he unsuccessfully sued me in 2015, he was only claiming to have cured 35,000 cancer patients. Now he is claiming to have cured over 1.8 million cancer patients. And we know it's true, because it's based on "Testimonials etc." We also know that his claimed 92.3 percent cancer patient cure rate (some numbers never change) is true, because it is based on "indipendent [sic] Studies." Color me impressed!
There's a good case to be made for the opinion that a fourth-string Scamworld player like Coldwell, whom most people on this planet have never even heard of, is all but irrelevant, and that blogging about him is a waste of time. Heck, even UK blogger Longdog, who actually dedicated an entire blog to Lenny, stopped posting about him some time ago because he simply got bored with the project. (He hasn't posted in nearly two years.)
As well as I understand that opinion, though, I still post about Lenny on occasion because, apart from being low-hanging fruit, he actually presents a pretty accurate reflection of a certain kind of crazy that has become all too mainstream in the past few years. I'm talking about the conspiranoid kind of crazy that has seeped throughout the cultural landscape, has infested social media, and has even influenced US politics. You can take a comparative nobody like Lenny out of the equation, but the crazy will still be there.
This would all be merely entertaining if not for the fact that many people who embrace the nuttiness are eligible to vote. That would include Coldwell, who is a naturalized American citizen, though in his case I doubt if he does vote, as voting involves registering one's name and address with the government. That's something that a man who is perpetually in hiding (for all practical purposes and for who knows what reasons) is not very likely to do. But many other conspiranoids do vote, and otherwise help influence the direction in which the country -- and the world -- are headed. The rest of us need to be aware of the crazy, and do what we can to combat it.
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Even though your post is entertaining, it starts from the wrong assumptions. Dr. C is right that Corona is a total hoax. If you start from the assumption that the virus does not exist, what Dr. C is saying makes a lot more sense. You should know that there is no single scientific publication in which SARS-CoV-2 has been isolated and in which it has been conclusively proven to be the cause of the symptoms / immune response to which people are now being tested for under the name "COVID-19".
To go even further: not a single virus exists. The German biologist Stefan Lanka issued a challenge back in 2011: if anyone could send him scientific evidence proving the measles virus exist, he would pay them €100,000. He lost the initial court case in 2015 against Dr. David Bardens, but a year later the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart (OLG) re-evaluated the first ruling, judging that Dr. Bardens did not meet the criteria since he failed to provide proof for the existence of the measles virus presented in one publication, as asked by Dr. Lanka in his announcement. Therefore, Dr. Lanka did not have to pay the prize money. Up to today the prize money is still unclaimed.
You can read his entire explanation for why viruses don't exist here: http://www.wissenschafftplus.de/uploads/article/Dismantling-the-Virus-Theory.pdf but here it is in short:
The idea of viruses arose from the observation of bacteria. Some of them died, showing small elements mistakenly called "phages," because they were thought to be responsible for the "death" of the bacteria.
In reality, however, these "phages" (which is the Latin word for eaters) were spores, small elements that indeed form when a bacterium does not get enough nutrients, or processes toxic materials. However, they are not the cause of his death, but his way of survival.
Since bacteriological viruses existed, the first virologists believed, it was essential that viruses for human cells also exist. However, these are and remain hypotheses because "viruses" have never been photographed in isolated form or have been biochemically detected from the "isolate" in one go.
The reason we do think that viruses do exist is because the academic community, based on what they think a virus should be according to the "phage" model, constructs these viruses themselves, based on pieces of genetic information described from databases.
These genome descriptions, therefore, are not based on direct observations, but on an unproven conceptual model, to which certain genes and thus properties are subsequently attributed according to a consensus process.
However, real science does not work through consensus, but through control experiments. These have not yet been developed, and even scientific institutes that are legally obliged to implement them do not publish their results to date.
It is even worse: researchers who come up with results that contradict the (semi-political) consensus are excommunicated, their findings are completely ignored and, despite a court ruling, are kept out of the news.
Moreover, hundreds of animals are horribly tortured annually in meaningless experiments that do not advance "virology". Despite all these experiments, it has not yet been proven that viruses make people sick, because the control experiments that could isolate viruses as a factor do not happen.
Finally, the PCR test used to test people for the "virus" is also completely unscientific because it is adjusted in such a way that no, multiple or many positive cases will be detected, depending on the number of times the test cycle is resumed.
Hello, Klaus, and thank you for your comment. I'm glad you were entertained by my post but I hope that one of its main points was not lost on you: namely, that "Dr." C, as Leonard Coldwell loves to call himself -- who is not and never has been a real doctor of any type in Germany or the US or anywhere else -- is nothing more than a professional self-promoter who is wrong more often than not about pretty much everything. Hence your calling him “Dr.” C is based on a false premise. Please note that I am not claiming that one has to be a properly certified physician in order to understand or to make a statement about health issues. But Coldwell is consistently wrong and with nearly every post or video or interview, he betrays his ignorance and lack of qualifications regarding matters of health and science.
You say Coldwell is actually correct about COVID-19 being a total hoax because pathogenic viruses do not in fact exist. Before we get into that I’d like to point out that, as I indicated in this post and my previous one about "covidiocy," virus denialism is only one aspect of Coldwell's claims about COVID, and doesn't really even play that big a part in the larger context of his collection of claims. He has also claimed that COVID-19 (or whatever one wishes to call it) is a result of 5G technology destroying our immune systems; and that it is a weaponized virus created in a Chinese lab or elsewhere for various reasons (e.g., mass chipping once a vaccine is developed); and that the whole thing is an elaborate ruse to provide cover in order for Trump's people to bust a ring of mostly Democrat/liberal pedophiles (the QAnon theory); and that it's a hoax created to make Trump look bad and lose the 2020 presidential election; and that whatever it is, it's really no worse than a mild case of the flu. (Or "flue," as Coldwell so often spells it.) I have probably overlooked some of his claims but those are the main ones I recall.
As divergent and even contradictory as Coldwell's various claims are, they all share some common goals: most notably, to promote "alternative" treatments or preventives that Coldwell and/or his business partners just happen to sell; and to advance Coldwell's increasingly desperate attempts at branding himself as THE go-to health expert/hero (Brave Maverick Doctor) who is bucking the establishment and risking his very life to get the truth out to the people. A diminishing number of people believe that about him but that won’t stop him from striving to win new fans, and in some cases succeeding.
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Lest you think I am limiting my response to what you may see as ad hominem arguments, let’s get to the general claim that viruses are nonexistent, and the specific case of Stefan Lanka’s challenge re the measles virus. I’ll start by citing a 2017 “Respectful Insolence” blog post that, although it does not mention Lanka, provides valuable context. I realize that some will dismiss it because it is written by an M.D., whom people such as Coldwell paint as “the enemy,” but for those who are not prejudiced against “mainstream” medicine it’s a worthy reminder that challenges such as the one issued by Lanka are nothing new. They’re always bogus and almost always “fixed” so that there’s no way to win the challenge. Here’s the link:
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/02/27/bogus-challenges-to-prove-the-scientific-consensus-the-m-o-of-a-crank/
Although the author, Dr. David Gorski aka Orac, did not address Lanka’s challenge in his post, one of his early commenters did.
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/02/27/bogus-challenges-to-prove-the-scientific-consensus-the-m-o-of-a-crank/#comment-6246
The comment reads:
"And then there’s the case of _Dr._ Stefan Lanka, who offered €100.000 (about USD 106.000) to anyone presenting a scientific publication which proves the existence of the measles virus.
"David Bardens, at the time a student of medicine, provided him with several publications, which together proved the existence of the virus, but Lanka ultimately won in court because formally a single publication was required instead of a conglomerate of papers.
"Anti-vaxxers frame this as Lanka having challenged the 'pro-vaccine establishment' and having won. Essentially, he has lost the case about the virus, but anti-vaxxers don’t care. They never do."
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And that’s a point worth noting (and documented in numerous other places besides Orac’s blog). Despite the spin by anti-vaxxers and other deniers of medical science that Lanka "won" in court, he did not win on the actual science, but only on a technicality. And even if Lanka had proven beyond a doubt that the measles virus does not exist – and again, he did NOT prove any such thing, and the court did not agree that he did – this does not negate the existence of other pathogenic viruses and certainly does not invalidate the existence of SARS-CoV-2, or the notion that it is the cause of the illness that has struck so many millions of people and has killed many of them.
I will say that I agree with the one point about animals being tortured in scientific experiments.
Hey Connie,
Well you have a fluent and entertaining writing style so it’s quite amusing to see you ridicule scammers, but I sincerely believe Dr. C is not one of them. His degrees are indeed probably from a degree mill, but my understanding is that in the US you generally cannot be prosecuted for claiming to have a PhD when you do not, or when that PhD was conferred by a diploma mill. Both of these actions are protected by the first amendment. There are no federal laws that would unambiguously prohibit diploma mills, and the terms "university", "college", etc are not protected so anyone can use them for any purpose. It’s only natural for a man trying to make a living on his own to maximize the credibility of his brand by using a PhD title. What he writes in his books and on his Facebook page is also stuff he learned from other experts in the alternative health field, so it’s not that his information is totally unfounded.
Yesterday I came across this study that confirms Dr. C’s claim of the Coronavirus being caused by 5G: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32668870/ Anyways according to Dr. Lanka viruses DO exist, but they’re not contagious and are only exosomes created by our own body to detoxify. Since we are electrical beings (see “The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life” by Robert O. Becker) it’s not unthinkable 5G radiation can create such exosomes in our body. I won’t deny Dr. C also shares stupid sensationalist stuff like the QAnon theories or that the Coronavirus is meant to bring down Trump, of which the latter is ridiculous since Drumpf is clearly a Zionist puppet. Researcher Miles W Mathis wrote a lengthy paper titled “Looks like Donald Trump is Jewish” ( http://mileswmathis.com/trump.pdf ) on the backgrounds of Drump, and he concluded the following:
“Bernie isn't as ridiculous as Trump, but he is just as fake. He is an actor on the stage they have prepared. The entire election is a big stage play, as fake as a Shakespeare production, but not as well written or acted. The office of the President is now fake, played by a bad actor or the idiot son of some billionaire. He does nothing but read from Teleprompters, scripted by guys behind the curtains. Trump is sold to you as some sort of financial genius, but like George Bush before him (the great decider) he couldn't decide what to order for lunch without a cue from a Teleprompter or one of his other gadgets. If you can't see through all these people, you really need to check your prescriptions”
As for the forced vaccination with microchips Dr. C was right again: Bill Gates openly admitted it during a Reddit AMA: "The question of which businesses should keep going is tricky. Certainly food supply and the health system. We still need water, electricity and the internet. Supply chains for critical things need to be maintained. Countries are still figuring out what to keep running.Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it."
https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/fkupg49/
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I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Dr. C trying to make a living on alternative treatments or preventives. Every man needs to make a living to survive. Dr. C might exaggerate a bit how badly big pharma is persecuting him but that’s marketing: good marketing should exaggerate but never lie.
You have must have quite a good memory to remember a comment from 3 years ago. Anyways the commenter’s criticism was debunked in this document since no control experiments were done in the publications that were delivered ( https://learninggnm.com/documents/Lanka_Bardens_Trial_E.pdf ):
“Critics of the judicial verdict argue that Dr. Lanka’s victory is solely based on how he had formulated the offer of reward, namely to pay the € 100,000 for the presentation of a single publication of evidence (which Dr. Bardens was unable to provide). This argument, however, distracts the attention from the essential points. According to the minutes of the court proceedings (page 7/ first paragraph), Andreas Podbielski, head of the Department of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene at the University Hospital in Rostock, who was one of the appointed experts at the trial, stated that even though the existence of the measles virus could be concluded from the summary of the six papers submitted by Dr. Bardens, none of the authors had conducted any controlled experiments in accordance with internationally defined rules and principles of good scientific practice (see also the method of “indirect evidence”).
He might not have proven that viruses do not exist, but he proved mainstream science hasn’t conclusively proven either they DO exist. As for SARS-CoV-2, it has never been isolated and it hasn’t been conclusively proven to be the cause of the symptoms / immune response for which people are now being tested for under the name "COVID-19". And even if you do believe the virus really exists: the CDC admitted the mortality rate is only 0,26% https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html
Thank you for your follow-up, Klaus. Clearly we have differing opinions about Coldwell. I will try to address your main points as concisely as possible, in the order in which you presented them.
US laws and regulations regarding credentials and their use (or misuse) vary depending upon the state, the type of credential(s), and the manner in which the person is trying to use the credential(s). (For instance, a person can be prosecuted for practicing naturopathic medicine in Texas, even if their credentials are from one of the schools recognized by naturopathic practitioners. A friend of mine who is a naturopathic physician moved to Arizona so he could practice.) I've written about this matter at various times over the years, not only about Coldwell but also about diploma-mill credentials and degrees from "unaccredited" (e.g. religious) institutions.
But whether or not Coldwell's own "degrees" and "credentials" leave him open to prosecution in the US is not the main issue, as far as I am concerned. It does, however, appear to be a big concern of his. If you closely examine the body of his "work" over the years you'll see that he has created an intricate web of "protection" for himself in two countries: the US and Germany. His German web sites, intended for a German audience, always contain garbled disclaimers about how the content is subject to US law rather than German law. The reverse is true with his US/English language web sites: the disclaimers say that the content is subject to German law and not US law.
Over the years Coldwell has apparently worked very hard to avoid prosecution in Germany and the US for selling a wide range of products, or "frauducts," in the words of my friend Jason "Salty Droid" Jones -- whom, incidentally, Coldwell unsuccessfully sued twice, and he lied about being responsible for Jason's arrest. On some of his web sites he has published an "arrest warrant" that was never executed. (Coldwell unsuccessfully sued me too.) Apart from the disclaimers on his sites, he has other ruses to stay just one step ahead of regulators, including an endless number of shell corporations, help from family and friends and ex-wives, and so on. It appears that he works much harder trying to avoid accountability than most people do trying to earn an honest living.
Now, his fans may say that this is because the medical establishment and the governing bodies in the US and Germany are tyrannically territorial and are trying to keep "real" cures from the people. But from my perspective, Coldwell is primarily interested in making money no matter how ineffective or even dangerous (or, at best, overpriced) the products he's pushing may be. Since most of his claims are nonsensical, exaggerated, misleading, or simply unscientific, his string of purchased degrees and certificates only add to the credibility of his "brand" if a person is particularly gullible.
And the fact that he quotes or cites or draws from other "experts" in the alternative health field does not make what he is quoting or citing or drawing from true.
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Re 5G: Here is a counter to the PubMed piece you cited.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/313088-pubmed-pseudoscience-5g-coronavirus
And I understand that Lanka was not claiming viruses don't exist; instead his point was that they don't cause illness. My understanding of that distinction is the reason that in my own comment I indicated that he was denying the existence of *pathogenic* viruses.
Unlike you, I simply cannot divorce Coldwell's ridiculous exaggerations, and his obsession with sharing every nutty conspiracy theory that comes along, from his "brand." Nor can I separate his long history of hate speech -- anti-Semitic/racist/xenophobic screeds -- from that "brand." (I personally have also been the target of a string of his absurd and sometimes vicious lies about me: Coldwell has called me a Big Pharma shill who is being paid millions to discredit him; an AIDS-infected former prostitute; a drug addict; a mentally ill sexual predator who was so angry when he sexually "rejected" me that I killed his favorite dog... and on and on. He made these claims repeatedly and publicly.) And his own foundational story/myth about curing his mother when he was either a young boy or a young man is so full of holes that it is a veritable Swiss cheese of backstories. In short, perhaps you'll understand why I have a little trouble thinking that he is in any way a credible source of anything. :-)
And while I am certainly not accusing you of hate speech, Klaus, I will point out that calling Trump a "Zionist puppet" may be venturing dangerously close to anti-Semitism. (Note that I do NOT think that criticizing Israel is anti-Semitic -- not at all. But all too many people who are obsessed with "Zionism" are in fact anti-Semitic. It's sometimes a fine line to walk.)
In any case I think there are many, many reasons to dislike Trump and to be alarmed by what he is doing, which have nothing to do with his relationship with Israel, his love for the profoundly corrupt "Bibi," or his ethnicity, real or imagined. And I wouldn't care if Trump were Jewish; even if true that is not what I find objectionable about him.
Moreover, since we're on the topic, I can't exactly say that I consider Miles Mathis to be a credible source. Here is some perspective:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Miles_Mathis
Regarding Bill Gates... he's almost as much of a villain in the world of the conspiranoids as George Soros. Here's something from the Libertarian publication "Reason":
https://reason.com/2020/05/28/bill-gates-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-reddit-laura-ingraham/
There's a HUGE difference between musing about the need for digital certificates in various areas of life, and conspiring to create vaccines that forcibly microchip unwilling citizens.
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You wrote, "Dr. C might exaggerate a bit how badly big pharma is persecuting him but that’s marketing: good marketing should exaggerate but never lie."
I think I addressed that issue in my previous comment. What Coldwell does goes far, far beyond "exaggeration."
I did not rely on memory when I posted that three-year-old link and comment. I copied and pasted the comment, even as you copied and pasted links to the three-year-old story about Lanka's court battle. I guess you and I will just have to agree to disagree about the credibility of a link from advocates of German New Medicine, which itself is based upon the work of an ex-physician who also happened to be a conspiracy theorist and anti-Semite himself.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has been isolated.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/grows-virus-cell-culture.html
There is still a lot that medical science does not know about the "novel" coronavirus, but nobody legitimate in medicine or immunology or virology is claiming to know everything about it. Like good scientists and researchers, they are making quite the opposite claim, and for the most part are pretty honest about the fact that they're learning as they go along. The CDC source you cited, for example:
"New data on COVID-19 are available daily, yet information about the biological and epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 remain limited, and uncertainty remains around nearly all parameter values. For example, estimates of case fatality ratios must account for numerous biases, including high numbers of asymptomatic cases, under-reporting of symptomatic cases, under-reporting of COVID-19 associated deaths, and the delay between case reporting and death reporting. There is also likely regional variability in testing practices, reported incidence, and outcomes of interest, further confounding estimates. In this update, we have replaced the Symptomatic Case Fatality Ratio and the Symptomatic Case Hospitalization Ratio with the Infection Fatality Ratio (IFR), which takes into account both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases and may therefore be a more directly measurable parameter for disease severity...
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But it seems quite clear that SOMETHING related to this virus has already killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and millions of people worldwide, in an alarmingly short period of time. Almost daily we hear reports that the infection and mortality rates may either be exaggerated or grossly under-counted. We just don't know. In any case it is dangerous folly to underplay the crisis, as Coldwell and far more influential people have done and continue to do.
One point: I misspoke (or mis-wrote) re the deaths of "hundreds of thousands of Americans." Thus far it is "only" tens of thousands. But still... far, far too many.
Hey Connie,
I can only applaud Dr. C for using these titles without prosecution for all these years, it’s either quite a legal accomplishment or his degrees are not all that bogus. Anyways titles mean little to me, I’ve been taught by so many stupid professors that I know they’re just flawed human beings like everyone else and that a PhD title does not make you omniscient.
As for him going after Jason ”Salty Droid” Jones, that was well deserved since he was saying some horrible stuff about Dr. C like “I wish he’d never been born though. I wish I’d never seen a photo of his pervy mustache. I wish one of the bulging veins on his massive forehead would burst :: and an alien would slither out and chew his stupid face off.” These are almost direct death threats. He also falsely accused Dr. C of manipulating women into sex, which was never proven in court. I’m sorry but you guys started this fight with Dr. C, in the way I’ve dealt with him I’ve only known him as a warm and compassionate man.
As for him selling health products, I just checked his website and most are quite reasonably priced. I suggest you watch the documentary Sicko by Michael Moore to see how much conventional medicine costs in the U.S. (pre-Obamacare, but friends in the U.S. told me health has gotten even more expensive for them due to it).
The rebuttal to the 5G PubMed article seems plausible indeed. I’ve never been a big believer of the 5G theory since it’s not been rolled out in that many places like the article described. However I’ve been to lectures about electromagnetic radiation already being harmful when 5G did not even exist yet. I suggest you check out this site, it’s full of peer-reviewed research on it’s harmful effects: https://www.emfresearch.com/
I’m sorry to hear Dr. C called you all these things which are clearly not true, especially since I can’t recall you name-calling him much unlike some of his other critics. I don’t get the story about his mother either, I guess he sensationalized it a bit like what happens with biographical movies. As for anti-semitism, I think that’s a newspeak word to silence any criticism on Zionism. The people we call Jews today mostly aren’t even Semites but Ashkenazi’s. To quote from http://www.whale.to/b/anti_semite.html?fbclid=IwAR3EEN2aXp8ybDl66VLMbt3IXHInH5tJIbz-25GPVZdDa2R4EOiEpaOuPxw
"The hidden agenda of anti Semitism is to stop any anti-Zionists talk, and you can see the use of Judaism. See JDL attack on revisionist David Cole here. According to Shlomo Sand the Palestinians are more likely to be the true Semitic people, making the Israelis the true anti-Semites. Anti-Semitism was created and maintained by the Zionists to create and maintain the state of Israel from which they can run all their rackets (e.g. Arms, Blood diamonds, Organ Harvesting, False flags etc 1), and create WWIII as Albert Pike predicted. Anti-Semitism is like a False flag. You can see in Final Solution how the Zionists created 'anti-Semitism' to force Jews to go to Israel"
Miles W Mathis wrote an entire paper addressing the Rational Wiki accusations. An excerpt “RationalWiki (which is known by most people outside their offices as RatWik or RatDik) now has a page on me, which is nice. I appreciate the promotion. They could just not mention me at all, which, considering what they say about me, would be the “rational” thing to do. If they are right and I am just a deluded crank, why have Google redirect all searches on Miles Mathis to their page? Why the obvious and pathetic smear campaign? Do you really need to smear deluded cranks? No, logically and rationally, you can ignore deluded cranks, because they are no threat to any real science. Therefore, logically and rationally, the fact that they feel it necessary to slander me with this prominent transparent project is another sign they are threatened “
http://milesmathis.com/ratdik.pdf
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As for Bill Gates, he’s clearly a crypto jewish aristocrat as well. As Miles W Mathis wrote “We saw in a previous paper that Steve Jobs is Jewish. Well, so is Bill Gates. He is from the same families as the Bushes and all the other Presidents. This is not guesswork. It is posted at Geni.com, though you have to dig a bit. The answer is available, you just have to ask the question and then not be diverted by other people. Don't ask people on forums. Don't ask Snopes. Don't ask Yahoo. Don't ask anonymous bozos at information sites. Don't ask JewornotJew. Ask the genealogies, and prepare to go deep. “
http://mileswmathis.com/gates.pdf
I read the Reason article on Bill Gates, while I don’t subscribe to the theory he invented the virus (since I believe there isn’t even one) it’s still a fact that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation donated to vaccine research worldwide. It’s also undeniable he’s the biggest donor of the WHO now the U.S. left, they very organization that determines COVID policies worldwide. He’s probably just a strawman for the real higher up elite so it might not be him personally who wants us to get chipped, but there’s something shady about the entire situation.
As for Dr. Hamer, I haven’t looked too much yet into criticism on him yet but usually when you get prosecuted for anti-semitism it’s because you were telling the truth. Voltaire once wrote: “To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
In Italy 99% of those who died of the Coronavirus had underlying health problems https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says
After 5 months of this “killer” virus in Germany, I still don’t know a single COVID fatality. Besides that the PCR-tests for Corona are also bogus: firstly, they do NOT test for the virus, but only for two pieces of genetic code called "primers" (specifically E and RdRP), secondly they are not qualitative tests, but quantitative ones, which means that there is actually no criterion for contamination except the so-called "viral load", which is of course exactly what is increased by the repeated cycles of transcriptase. Secondly Kary Mullis, Nobel laureate Chemistry 1993, and inventor of the technique, explicitly said that the test should not be used for diagnostic purposes of infectious diseases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJuv1cB0zrI&feature=youtu.be
Also check out this study, which concluded: “When the infection rate of the close contacts and the sensitivity and specificity of reported results were taken as the point estimates, the positive predictive value of the active screening was only 19.67%, in contrast, the false-positive rate of positive results was 80.33%. The multivariate-probabilistic sensitivity analysis results supported the base-case findings, with a 75% probability for the false-positive rate of positive results over 47%.” The study has since been withdrawn, which I find very suspicious
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32133832/
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Hi, again, Klaus. I apologize for the delay in posting and responding to your latest comments. I took most of the day off from my computer yesterday. As usual this will be in several segments.
I speculate that there are two main reasons that "Dr." C has avoided "prosecution" for his bogus creds. One reason is that he is slippery and slithery and, as I mentioned in a previous comment, he has worked very hard to stay one step ahead of regulators and law enforcement (and tax collectors), through use of shell corporations and various accomplices. A second reason is that in the larger scheme of things Leonard Coldwell is just not that important, despite his repeated boasts throughout the years that he is one of the most influential health experts/motivational speakers in the world. Regulatory and enforcement agencies in the US are seriously overworked and can scarcely keep up with the mega-scammers who have much greater influence than Coldwell. (He has, however, received warning notices from the US FDA.)
Neither of these reasons validates his "credentials" -- quite the opposite.
I have to agree with you that real degrees don't necessarily indicate intelligence, knowledge, or wisdom, and in that sense they are, for lack of a better word, meaningless. But apparently they are quite meaningful to Coldwell, who uses his own "degrees" as a marketing tool and has fought so hard for years to defend them, often lashing out viciously at people who even questioned them.
Jason "Salty Droid" Jones' obviously darkly humorous comments in the August 2012 post from which you took that quotation could be construed as "almost direct death threats" only by an hysterical schoolgirl. Of course, Coldwell often resorts to hysterical-schoolgirl mode when he's not talking tough about his critics. But since you brought the subject up, if you want to talk about death threats, I have screen shots of numerous Facebook posts he wrote about me. In one post, in which he referred to me as the "cosmic slut" (because of my Cosmic Connie nickname) he wrote, "WE need to eliminate these kinds of cancer tumors of society together for your own good and safety." Just one of many, many threatening posts he wrote about me.
In later years (in the wake of his false accusations that I killed his dog), Coldwell began referring to me in those posts by my real name, and he shared my home address and openly invited his fans to deal with me. I was threatened and harassed, people were publicly writing on his own Facebook forums about ways to torture, poison, or kill me, and one person sent me an email threatening to burn my house down in the middle of the night because of what I'd written about Coldwell.
What kind of "warm and compassionate" man writes such things about a critic, and then publicly and repeatedly invites his craziest fans to do his dirty work for him?
By the way, I am curious about the ways in which you have directly dealt with Coldwell. Do you know him personally? Do you work for him? Or do you just “know” him by virtue of having attended one of his events, or merely by reading his web sites and social media pages?
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Jason Jones himself has never accused Coldwell of "manipulating women into sex." He merely wrote about a very disturbing police report, nearly 60 pages long, that was filed in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina in 2007 and that documented accusations by several women. Apparently Jason also talked to some of the parties involved. He was careful not to accuse Coldwell of a crime such as rape. Like the good lawyer he had previously been, (and now is again, by the way), he made sure he had all of his legal bases covered before writing.
He was careful to note that under South Carolina law, the most serious crime with which Coldwell could have been charged was "forcible fondling," which hardly made the stress and humiliation of a public lawsuit worth it for the accusers. Since Coldwell himself reportedly used intimidation and even bribes to silence these women, no charges were ever filed, and hence there was no court case. (And while I am fully aware that a police report is NOT proof of guilt, as anyone can file a report about anyone, a lack of charges and court cases are not proof of innocence.)
In any case Coldwell’s two attempts to sue Jason are noteworthy for several reasons. The first attempted action was in February 2014, a full year and a half after Jason had written his original two posts about Coldwell. You’d think that if he felt that threatened by Jason’s writings, Coldwell would have sued much sooner. He used a “rent-a-lawyer” that he apparently found through one of those rip-off legal protection programs. The jurisdiction was incorrect; Jason had moved to another state since the original posts were published – a fact that he made no attempt to hide and that was publicly available information. Coldwell spun this as a guilty Jason trying desperately to avoid being held accountable for his “lies” about Coldwell. That itself was a huge lie.
But more importantly, the lawsuit did not actually cite any of Jason’s blog posts, or even his blog; instead it was all about some posts on an entirely different and now defunct blog, GlancingWeb written by an Israeli man named Omri Shabat. The lawsuit wrongly claimed that Jason was writing under that pseudonym. Apparently embarrassed when made aware of the mistake, the lawyer, Dennis Kellogg, withdrew from the case a few weeks after it was filed. Coldwell apparently did not find another lawyer, and did not show up for the hearing, so the case was dismissed for want of prosecution.
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The second attempted lawsuit was in January 2015. That’s the one in which I was the top-named defendant, along with Jason and several other parties. I was the only person who was properly served, so it appears that I was the main target. Jason contacted the lawyers and asked that they serve him properly, practically begging them, so he could answer properly. But the lawyers, Krispin Culbertson and William May, actually seemed to be working to discourage him from being a “participant.” They implied that if he would just stop pressing the issue they would ignore him and focus on me. (By the way the only reason Jason knew about the suit in the first place was that I told him. He ended up responding to it anyway, as did I.)
Once again the lawsuit was jurisdictionally flawed, and that was only the beginning of its many problems. The accusations were absurd, Jason’s web site and several other entities were improperly named, and there were so many other errors that it would never have held up in court. In May of that same year, after the lawyers had worked for months to intimidate me, the lawsuit was voluntarily withdrawn. The lawyers did not give a specific reason for the withdrawal other than to say that certain “conflicts of interest” had arisen that rendered them unable to continue or to ever represent Coldwell again.
For anyone else who may be reading this, I apologize for recounting events that you may have already read about, ad nauseum, elsewhere on this blog. But for those who don’t know the back story, this is as convenient a spot as any to review it.
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And now on to other matters. Re the products that Coldwell sells and promotes: “Overpriced” can of course be a subjective judgment. What you think is reasonable and affordable may not be any such thing to someone else. What I do know is that Coldwell makes extravagant and unproven claims for these products.
One of his most recent offerings is a dodgy device, the NEDJAR Shield, that he describes as “ChampTection” – protection for champions -- that supposedly protects buyers from 5G, 6G, 7G, EMF, HAARP, chemtrails, and all manner of forces so feared by the conspiranoids who are Coldwell’s target market. The promotional copy reads (this is English, Google-translated from German):
“It is the only product on the market that harmonizes and blocks radiation at the same time, this double function is unique and very effective in its function. It harmonizes the radiation and then pushes it out of the protective shield so that you are always safe on the go.”
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https://tinyurl.com/y66gupsy
Coldwell is apparently promoting this item in the European market, but he also shared links on his main English-language Facebook page, though I’m not sure how able he will be to sell in the US, since both the FDA and the FTC frown on products being sold under such claims.
I am painfully aware of how expensive health care is in the US. (And as a big fan of Michael Moore’s work, I saw “Sicko” years ago.) But just because “alternative” health care and remedies are sometimes (though not always) cheaper than mainstream medicine, that does not make all of them legitimate.
Re anti-Semitism: I recognize that this is not necessarily an accurate term, not only because of the issue of who is and is not Semitic, but also because, as I noted in an earlier comment, it is not necessarily anti-Semitic, or anti-Jewish, to rag on Israel. Israel has committed numerous atrocities over the years (including and especially their treatment of the Palestinian people), and it is not anti-Semitic/anti-Jewish to call them out on it. I have liberal, social-justice-focused Jewish friends who have said this very thing many times.
But by the same token, as I also noted earlier, harping on “Zionism” is often – not always, but often – a thin veneer for toxic anti-Jewish ideologies and hatred. Some of the issues and sources you have cited are symptomatic of the very toxicity to which I refer. This includes your own comments about Bill Gates being a “crypto jewish aristocrat.” I will not dignify them with a direct response; people can read or view the contents for themselves if they wish and come to their own conclusions.
I’m glad that Miles Mathis is so delighted with being recognized by RationalWiki, but the purpose of that site is to be as comprehensive as possible in covering all manner of cranks and frauds and irrational ideas. Some of the people are minor players and some have considerable influence. Their presence on the site is not necessarily indicative that they are any kind of “threat” to the establishement.
Like Wikipedia and other similar sites, RT is crowd-sourced, written by a wide range of individuals. It isn’t a mainstream science or medical source and doesn’t pretend to be. (As you probably know, Coldwell has his own page on that site, which is why RW was one of the targets in his failed 2015 lawsuit.) But the main point is that scammers and cranks who are the target of critics, whether on RT or not, love to claim that they’re only being targeted because they are truth-tellers who pose a real threat to established institutions and ideas. That’s a delusion, but one that they are perfectly happy to advance in order to bolster their own credibility.
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You wrote:
‘As for Dr. Hamer, I haven’t looked too much yet into criticism on him yet but usually when you get prosecuted for anti-semitism it’s because you were telling the truth. Voltaire once wrote: “To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”’
First off, I don’t think that Hamer was ever legally prosecuted for his views on Jewish people, though those views have been criticized widely. (He was, however, charged with medical malpractice and his license revoked.) But regarding your own theory, more often than not, anti-Semitism/anti-Jewish rhetoric and actions are criticized or prosecuted not because they are truthful but because they are toxic and in some cases are endangering people’s lives.
Of course, sometimes people do lash out at critics for blowing the whistle. After all, Coldwell has tried to silence me (and Salty Droid, and numerous other critics) because we were telling the truth. :-) But I digress.
Anyway, here’s a specific link to info about Hamer’s theories about Jews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryke_Geerd_Hamer#Jewish_conspiracy_theory
And finally, it seems clear that we will have to agree to disagree about the seriousness of the pandemic, in Germany and elsewhere. Just because you don’t personally know someone who died of COVID-19, that doesn’t mean that the virus isn’t real and that the infections and fatalities are not occurring. I will note that the general consensus is that Germany has suffered less than other European countries and other countries throughout the world because Germany’s leadership had a handle on it early on – unlike the “leader” we have in the US.
Hi Connie,
good to see you're still covering this despicable toad of a man. His lies about you, insults and hilariously stupid attempts at shutting you up or suing have clearly failed.
I read through "Klaus Muller’s" comments and find it all fairly typical. Obviously a smart fellow, even capable of normal human decency, unlike the pathetic crook he promotes. I thought I might write a bit about why "Klaus" has failed to convince me that all the world's virologists are wrong and have, by some extraordinary coincidence, all been replicating precisely the same error, and that Klaus and Dr C(ancer) are right.
Firstly, there is a forum for correcting scientific errors. This forum is called science, and the corrections are called progress. The fact that the supposed geniuses who know the truth repeatedly evade this and prefer instead to fight in the courts against bloggers with names like "Cosmic Connie" is a sign that neither Klaus nor Dr C have any evidence. All they have is rhetoric and speculations presented as fact.
And why should I single out Klaus for attention? Why not Dr Bruce Lipton, who disagrees with Klaus and has a Ph.D in cell biology? He is a more legitimate cancer quack than Herr Klein, being a highly qualified biologist, and he says viruses are real and are indeed contagious. Why is Klaus arguing with Cosmic Connie instead of Dr Bruce? Lipton says his work has also been "suppressed" by science because it is right and a danger to profits -- just like Herr Klein.
Why does Klaus think Herr Klein is right and Dr Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D, who co-authored two peer reviewed papers, is wrong?
Moreover, why would "Big Pharma" be "suppressing" both of them if only one of them (either Dr Lipton or Herr Klein) is really a threat?
Personally, I think it's more likely that scientists don't even know they exist, because Lipton and Klein are are only two in a field of a million indistinguishable cranks who don't maintain their data systematically, and refuse to submit their work either to scientists or even to each other for proper scrutiny.
I say to all of them, it's not just science who rejects you. You guys reject each other! Sort out the truth amongst yourselves and then present it at a public scientific forum -- coherently, and with properly recorded case material instead of mere assertions that you've "healed x million patients" and pleas of "Please trust me".... And please include all your copious research into your failures too.
I will wait, though unexpectantly.
(And if anyone thinks science is not open to correction, simply recall what happened with the Neutrino Affair -- a team of scientists thought they'd discovered particles that travel faster than the speed of light. It would have "overturned the dominant paradigm" but rather than being suppressed or poisoned by Mossad, they made worldwide headlines, and scientists reserved judgment. It turned out of course to be a false reading, and the head of the team resigned.)
Hi, Yakaru. Great to see you here again. You made some excellent points as always. As for Klaus's reasons for arguing with me instead of with Bruce Lipton, it appears to me that his main reason for choosing this little outpost of the blogosphere was to defend Coldwell.
Thank you for reminding us once again that even though crackpots' stock in trade is the demonization of science, science is actually its own harshest critic. Any human enterprise involves egos, of course, but the best scientists are not afraid to admit when they are wrong -- unlike the Coldwells of the world.
And in case anyone reading this is confused by Yakaru's use of the name "Herr Klein," he is referring to Leonard Coldwell's birth name, Bernd Klein. Klein used the name "Leonard Coldwell" for years in Germany as a sort of stage name/pseudonym, but he had it legally changed to Leonard Coldwell in 1998, in the state of Virginia. He would most likely find the use of his former name to be terribly offensive, but for some reason that doesn't really bother me.
There is one other matter I need to point out. In fact it was Yakaru who brought my attention to this in a private communication. There is no evidence that the quotation that Klaus attributed to Voltaire ("To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize") was ever actually uttered by Voltaire. Instead its most likely source is Kevin Strom, a neo-Nazi convicted of possessing child abuse material. The fake Voltaire line is apparently a favorite line with neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, anti-Semitic types, and other bigots and xenophobes, who, I speculate, prefer to cite Voltaire because Voltaire's name carries more authority among decent folk than that of a neo-Nazi who's into kiddie porn.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/nov/27/cory-bernardi-mistakenly-quotes-voltaire-on-twitter-with-supposed-neo-nazis-line
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