The Ebola virus is a fraud

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Re: The Ebola virus is a fraud

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Rederic wrote:
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No answer, as usual!
Another 400 people have died from eating bats, some of them doctors & nurses. You'd have thought by now that someone would have told them "don't eat the bats"!
Where's the post mortem report? How do you know what they have died of if there hasn't been any post mortem report?
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DarwinX wrote:
Rederic wrote: (Nested quote removed.)


Another 400 people have died from eating bats, some of them doctors & nurses. You'd have thought by now that someone would have told them "don't eat the bats"!
Where's the post mortem report? How do you know what they have died of if there hasn't been any post mortem report?
It's been reported by the worlds media that they all died as a result of contracting the Ebola virus. According to you (a well known expert in these things) it wasn't a virus, it was because they all (5400) died as a result of eating bats. Do you now deny it?
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What should happen at this point is that if you think that the Ebola virus is a fraud you should make predictions about the near term future. For example that the rate of infection will taper off in region X but increase in region y in the next month or something similar to that.

The model where infection is caused by eating bats or where people are intentionally covering up a situation will have substantial differences from the one where infection is via bodily fluids and one should be able to detect such a difference then make predictions.

If you are not in a position to make such a testable prediction in ANY area - then you are not really in a position to present as an expert on the matter (considering there are people who will be in such a position).
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Rederic wrote:
DarwinX wrote: (Nested quote removed.)


Where's the post mortem report? How do you know what they have died of if there hasn't been any post mortem report?
It's been reported by the worlds media that they all died as a result of contracting the Ebola virus. According to you (a well known expert in these things) it wasn't a virus, it was because they all (5400) died as a result of eating bats. Do you now deny it?

I have seen reports of how these people have died. Mostly, it appears that they have had paralysis of the lungs and other organ failure. These are classic symptoms of insecticide poisoning. This is how insects are killed by insecticide. It is through the disruption of their nervous system which causes suffocation and organ failure. This is exactly what happened in Western countries during the 1940's and 50's when large amounts of DDT was sprayed around the cities to reduce mosquito numbers. In order to stop malaria which is a small parasite, they use insecticide, which results in paralysis. Thus, the stupidity of the medical system perpetuates itself in a never ending circle of moronic activity. The medical system is designed to create problems which they then can make money out of by charging exorbitant fees for expensive solutions such as the ZMapp drug which is ineffective.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/ ... D020141117

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ScottieX wrote:What should happen at this point is that if you think that the Ebola virus is a fraud you should make predictions about the near term future. For example that the rate of infection will taper off in region X but increase in region y in the next month or something similar to that.

The model where infection is caused by eating bats or where people are intentionally covering up a situation will have substantial differences from the one where infection is via bodily fluids and one should be able to detect such a difference then make predictions.

If you are not in a position to make such a testable prediction in ANY area - then you are not really in a position to present as an expert on the matter (considering there are people who will be in such a position).
If it is a disease, then it should spread exponentially from a central point in an outwards radius from that point. This has not happened. Instead, it appears in random locations which is more related to pesticide over-use. Vitamin deficiency, and a lack of hygiene can play a role in these occurrences. Investigation of these matters is not allowed. People have offered to study the outbreak have been denied access to the area because it is deemed to be too dangerous. This is how they cover up the corruption and deceptions which are going on behind closed doors.
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Re: The Ebola virus is a fraud

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DarwinX wrote:If it is a disease, then it should spread exponentially from a central point in an outwards radius from that point.
Well that doesn't seem to involve you offering a prediction you just seem to be saying that the worlds scientists are wrong about the spread patterns of diseases when they say that this pattern is consistent with body fluid transmission disease. But anyway...

I know that when a new strain of the winter cold hits us - even though you can quite often make a guess as to who gave it to you - you can't make much sense of it in terms of drawing a tidy diagram radiating out from a central point. I don't know of any diseased that you could do that for. So maybe you need a few examples of diseased that have behave in that way (where you can draw circles of expansion like in an old school plague movie) and we can then see if those diseases have anything in common. Or maybe you could find an example of the spread if insecticide poisoning to indicate that that is more likely. I would be a bit surprised if insecticide poisoning would be in the pattern that one has for the Ebola outbreaks.

Also the exponential expansion (in as far as that term describes normal disease patterns) does seem to be occurring. This doesn't seem to be the pattern one would expect form your hypothesis, which would be more of a high rate at the beginning tapering off as those who do a lot of bat eating and get sprayed a lot start to die and thereby scare others from being active in those areas (regardless of if they know what it was that was killing).
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