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ittle change just by itself is certainly enough to destroy an entire city if you just let it run forward. But we should not allow ourselves to assume that any individual is a DEI hire. You'd really have to do some deeper dive and we don't often have that level of information from the outside. Tom Ellsworth was on the PBD podcast and he was saying that the reason State Farm pulled out from the st…

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nced that ivermectin and fenbendazole are cures for at least some kinds of cancers.

Here's what you need to know. Remember when I tell you that an anonymous source, if you have one anonymous source, how much credibility would that be? The answer is zero in politics. So that's a different domain. In politics one anonymous source is usually just a made-up lie. What if you have multiple sources? What if you had three and they basically said something that sounded the same? Three anonymous sources. Now is that credible? No, no, it's completely non-credible. Anonymous sources, always non-credible.

Suppose you knew the name of the source but you hadn't any contact with them so you couldn't ask a

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ny questions, you couldn't do a deep dive, but you knew the name and somebody else had told you the claim. You didn't even hear from the person. Is that credible? No, no, that's zero credibility. Is there a reason that we do clinical trials instead of watching what three people said as reported by another person? No, no, there's a reason we do the clinical trials because that has no evidentiary va…

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