SirPeterCook retweeted
Decentralize peer review and disintermediate the journals.
They are a parasitic enterprise on the process.
EXACTLY. Journals don't really want peer review. They want hierarchical review whereby editors and anonymous academics get to gate-keep the work of other academics and use this power to order the authors to do whatever experiments they fancy.
Real peer review looks much more like replies on x dot com or the comment section on bioRχiv (which is egregiously underused).
See also: adam.rochussen.xyz/p/fixing-…
SirPeterCook retweeted
Don’t judge @peggyflanagan until you walk a mile in her shoes
SirPeterCook retweeted
People ask me why I'm so obsessed with ruminants. I've given it some thought, and my conclusion is that I'm not obsessed enough.
A cow walks onto a wet hillside that grows nothing a human can eat, puts her head down, and comes back with steak, butter, cream and a pair of boots.
She does it with a 150 litre fermentation tank she carries inside her, stocked with more bacteria than there have ever been people, which she feeds, waters and keeps at blood heat herself. Grass goes in. The bacteria take apart the one thing no animal can digest, and she lives on what they make. Then she digests the bacteria as well. Nothing is wasted. Even the fat comes out the far side rebuilt into something stable enough to fry in.
Fuel: rain and sunlight. Emissions: next year's grass. She repairs herself, builds her own replacement every spring, and improves the ground she is standing on while she works. The finest engineers alive have spent billions trying to copy one chamber of her stomach in a steel shed, and so far they have made a paste.
We have leaned on that machine for everything. The word capital comes from cattle, because a herd was the first bank. Domesday Book is written on sheep, and so was every deed in England for 500 years. Ruminants clothed our armies, lit our houses and carried our laws. Civilisation is a thing that happened to people who kept them.
And they are such good company about it.
A sheep remembers fifty faces for two years, which is forty-six more than I manage. A cow has a best friend, and her heart rate drops when that friend is beside her. A goat that cannot solve a problem will turn and look to you for help, as a dog does, and then ignore your advice. Let a herd out onto spring grass after a winter indoors and half a tonne of animal will skip.
They ask for grass, rain, and to be left to get on with it.
After ten thousand years of feeding, dressing and housing us, they will still walk over to the gate to see who you are.
So no, I will not be calming down.
SirPeterCook retweeted
Replying to @CanadaFP
Nobody is surprised a terror state refuses to hold elections but idiot socialists.
SirPeterCook retweeted
This is equivalent to this. Heroines.
BREAKING: Nearly half of the girls cross-country team in Camas, Washington, just forfeited their race. They refused to compete against a boy. This is bravery. Vote YES on I-638 to stand with them. Video: @KnownHeretic
SirPeterCook retweeted
I love how everyone is only now just talking about Abdul El-Sayed signing a pledge in support of Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood when I broke this story in 2018.
It’s hard to not resent people for being so slow.
We are talking about 8 years ago.
I broke this story 8 years ago when I traveled to Michigan to expose Abdul El-Sayed when he was running for Governor of Michigan.
I have total disdain for slow people. I look down upon them.
I don’t like slow people.
SirPeterCook retweeted
Albanese has 59 personal advisors who get between 200k and 450k per year. Their super is 15.4 percent while everyone not connected to these thieves is 12 percent. Most of em get 25k car allowance each year. They get super on that too. What for? They also racked up 3.4 million in travel expenses last year. Why? There job is at Parliament House. When they get moved on, they get massive redundancy payout, and can start working another job in parliament the next day. It’s just theft of taxpayer money, but the only ones who get hunted down are the brave souls trying to make an honest living in Australia, who get smashed by ridiculous taxes to pay the parasites.
ALBANESE AND CHALMERS ARE WAGING WAR ON SMALL BUSINESS AND AUSSIE FAMILIES
The ATO is hunting down small businesses and families over decades old paperwork errors on trusts.
A historic $47,000 liability has ballooned to an $890,000 bill today.
Trust holders are bracing for up to $13.3 billion in advice and restructuring costs just to survive Jim Chalmers’ new 30% tax on discretionary trusts.
Wilson Asset Management estimates family businesses face $10.5b in restructuring fees plus $2.8b in tax advice, two to three times what the budget claims the tax will raise.
RSM Australia reports fully compliant families being pursued for administrative mismatches from the 1990s.
Records are long gone.
Advisers face professional indemnity claims decades later. FTDT hits at 47%, then interest compounds daily. Effective rates are exceeding 90%.
No tax avoidance. No mischief.
Just technical errors that can destroy a business and the family behind it. CPA Australia calls it a known trap Labor is leaving untouched while stacking a new tax regime on top.
This is not tax integrity.
It is a cash grab that risks gutting investment, especially in construction, while small business pays the price.
Australia’s backbone is being treated like a revenue target.
By a Government who just can’t get enough of your money.
SirPeterCook retweeted
The Bank of England DELIBERATELY FIXED the fake "public vote" to remove ALL historical figures from bank notes & replace them with nature images
Freedom of Information requests by the Telegraph revealed the decision to remove historical figures was based on a "focus group" of a mere 119 people
The Bank LIED because it previously claimed the decision was based on a "public vote".
In truth, however, even this vote was FIXED. Instead of having HISTORY v NATURE, the bank deliberately split the "history" category into 3 sections: historical events, historical figures, architecture & landmarks.
That was the only way that "nature" could win.
However, of course bank notes always combine at least two of those history categories. For example: Churchill & Parliament or Wellington & Waterloo.
The Bank's actions are indefensible and questions should be asked in the House.
The Bank of England has clearly been captured by progressive woke ideology. A visit to the Bank of England with its permanent exhibition on slavery makes that clear
This is part of the wider war on British history. It's an attempt to create a NEW BRITAIN, based on ridiculous myths that "Diversity Built Britain" and that Britain has always been multicultural.
Remember: the Bank of England issued a 50p coin (held aloft by Rishi Sunak) which was imprinted with the nonsensical statement: "Diversity Built Britain"
Anyone who lived behind the Iron Curtain will find all of this eerily and scarily familiar.
The pulling down of statues, the renaming of streets and schools, the rewriting of history, denigrating heroes, changing bank notes etc....these were all tactics of the communists.
Severing the connection between a people and their history is the best way to demoralise a society and prepare them for the imposition of new myths.
Me on @GBNews: – at London, England
'Bank notes are one of the rare occasions when we get to come face-to-face with our history.'
Historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and PETA's Jennifer White debate replacing British icons with wildlife on bank notes.
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SirPeterCook retweeted
Saritha Komatireddy JUST STEAMROLLED Letitia James in this debate!🔥🔥🔥
Saritha Komatireddy: “New York spends $126 billion on Medicaid every year. That’s more per resident than any other state in the country, and twice as much per resident as New Jersey. That doesn’t make any sense. We’re both blue states with similar demographics and similar policies.
There’s about $40 billion in unexplained spending that Letitia James has failed to investigate.
We used to have one of the best Medicaid fraud units in the country under previous Democratic attorneys general. We recovered about $250 million a year. Letitia James came in, and it took a nosedive to $19 million.
Under previous Democratic attorneys general, we secured about 100 criminal convictions a year. Under Letitia James, that number hit an all-time low of eight.
She gets 2,000 patient abuse complaints a year and secures maybe one or two convictions. That means someone could be punching an elderly patient in a nursing home, and no one is doing anything.”
SirPeterCook retweeted
"Evil" and "Witch".
Aimed at a medical doctor dissenting from a state mandate to medicalise our food.
This from a man who made his name attacking public-health zealots for demonising anyone who dared challenge them.
N.B. I stand by every word I said below - see my book.
SirPeterCook retweeted
This is extremely difficult to accept. The charges against a 12-year-old accused of participating in the horrific group assault on Van Viet Truong weren’t withdrawn because prosecutors concluded nothing happened, they were withdrawn because prosecutors concluded they could not overcome doli incapax; the legal presumption applying to children under 14, by proving that this particular 12-year-old understood his alleged actions were seriously or morally wrong. Well, I certainly knew at 12 years old that violently attacking another human being was seriously wrong. I suspect most Australians will ask whether our law is setting the threshold for criminal responsibility in the right place. Van Viet Truong went to help another person and he suffered catastrophic injuries and died. His family deserves real justice.
SirPeterCook retweeted
I see a lot of Democrats are VERY angry about the public execution of a convicted terrorist and murderer.
If you are one of those Democrats, I think I know how to change your mind. Just pretend he’s a popular Christian activist who debated college kids. You loved that execution.
SirPeterCook retweeted
Sonja, respectfully, does anyone at @victorianlabor understand that the taxpayer funded construction jobs come with insanely inflated, economically suicidal, salaries that no private builder can compete with. Thus private builders lose their best workers. Also on the taxpayer funded sites the workers are ordered to work slow because ‘more days, more pays’.
So every build is triple what they should cost. Your Government set the contracts up so that the only people who lose on the extraordinarily overpriced builds are taxpayers. The motto is ‘Everyone eats on the Big Build’, the international companies make a fortune, the union bosses get crazy rich, the workers do a third of the work for triple the money that they would get in private sector. Public hospital doctors went on strike Friday over money. They get half the pay of an unskilled labourer on a taxpayer funded site. So many hospital beds in new hospitals remain unused because the @victorianlabor government has allowed so much taxpayer money to be stolen on the construction of these hospitals and this is only one area that your government has burnt billions of dollars of taxpayer money over the last twelve years. The executive segment of the public service in Victoria has gone from 600 people to 2000 people since @victorianlabor took charge in 2014. Their salaries range between 350k & $1000000 per year. No one thinks public services have improved in the last 12 years. Happy for you or anyone in @victorianlabor Government to publicly discuss above with me, or anyone. Thanks for your time.
SirPeterCook retweeted
Dans 50 ans, les livres d'histoire diront qu'Elon Musk a gagné une guerre que personne ne savait qu'on était en train de perdre.
Une guerre commencée il y a 100 ans, dans une cellule de prison italienne.
En 1926, Mussolini fait arrêter un intellectuel sarde de 35 ans. Au procès, le procureur aurait dit : « Nous devons empêcher ce cerveau de fonctionner pendant vingt ans. »
Il s'appelait Antonio Gramsci.
Son cerveau n'a jamais cessé de fonctionner. En prison, il a rempli des milliers de pages qui sont devenues l'un des textes politiques les plus influents du XXe siècle. Je pense qu'on est en train de vivre le moment où sa théorie s'effondre.
Laissez-moi vous expliquer.
Gramsci se posait une question simple. Pourquoi la révolution communiste a-t-elle réussi en Russie mais échoué partout en Occident ?
Sa réponse : en Occident, le pouvoir ne tient pas seulement par l'État, la police et l'armée. Il tient par la culture. Par ce que les gens trouvent normal, évident, « de bon sens ». Il appelle ça l'hégémonie culturelle.
Donc, pour prendre le pouvoir, il ne faut pas d'abord prendre le palais. Il faut d'abord prendre les esprits. Les écoles. Les universités. Les journaux. Le théâtre. L'édition. Les tribunaux. C'est la « guerre de position » : une conquête lente, institution par institution. Quand la culture a basculé, la politique suit toute seule.
Quarante ans plus tard, l'activiste allemand Rudi Dutschke en fera un slogan : la longue marche à travers les institutions.
Pendant des décennies, on a vécu avec une énigme que personne n'arrivait vraiment à expliquer.
Pourquoi presque tous les artistes sont-ils de gauche ? Les acteurs, les chanteurs, les profs, les journalistes, une bonne partie de la magistrature. Pourquoi un pays pouvait voter à droite élection après élection et voir quand même sa culture parler d'une seule voix ?
On nous répondait : « c'est parce que les gens éduqués sont de gauche. »
Je crois que la réponse est plus simple. Gramsci avait écrit la recette, et elle a été appliquée. Quand tu contrôles qui obtient la subvention, le poste, la bonne critique, le prix, l'invitation sur le plateau, tu contrôles ce qui devient « la culture ».
La même énigme existait à l'échelle du monde.
Pourquoi tant de pays en développement, notamment en Amérique latine, revotaient-ils encore et encore pour des gouvernements socialistes ou de gauche radicale ? Venezuela, Bolivie, Nicaragua, l'Argentine des Kirchner, la Colombie de Petro. L'économie s'effondrait, les cartels prospéraient, le chaos s'installait. Et pourtant le même vote revenait.
Ma conviction : la pauvreté n'était pas un accident du système. C'était un électorat. Et autour, il y avait tout un écosystème d'ONG, de médias « indépendants » et de programmes de « société civile », financé en grande partie par l'argent occidental.
Puis, début 2025, il s'est passé quelque chose que personne n'avait jamais osé faire.
Elon et DOGE ont ouvert les livres de USAID. Une agence quasi intouchable depuis 1961, des dizaines de milliards de dollars par an. La grande majorité des programmes ont été coupés, et l'agence a été absorbée par le Département d'État.
Le robinet a été fermé.
Et regardez ce qui s'est passé depuis.
Bolivie : le MAS perd le pouvoir après presque vingt ans. Équateur : Noboa réélu. Honduras : la droite reprend le pays. Chili : Kast élu. Argentine : Milei remporte largement les élections de mi-mandat.
Et il y a deux jours, le Brésil.
Jair Bolsonaro est inéligible, condamné à 27 ans de prison. La gauche pensait avoir refermé le chapitre. Lula, 80 ans, briguait un quatrième mandat face à un pays qu'on disait acquis.
Dimanche, son fils Flávio est arrivé en tête du premier tour. Plus de 47 % contre près de 45 % pour Lula. Lula lui-même a reconnu un résultat « inattendu ».
Le plus grand pays d'Amérique latine est à un second tour de basculer.
Le plus grand virage à droite du continent depuis des décennies.
Coïncidence ? Je ne crois pas. Quand le financement disparaît, le récit perd ses haut-parleurs.
Il reste un dernier vrai bastion. L'Europe.
Bruxelles finance ses propres réseaux d'ONG, avec une opacité que même la Cour des comptes européenne a pointée. Les grandes fondations comme l'Open Society de Soros. Les entités supranationales qui produisent de la norme sans jamais passer devant un électeur.
C'est la dernière forteresse de l'hégémonie culturelle. Et elle commence à se fissurer.
Je suis convaincu que tout ça va s'effondrer, et plus vite qu'on ne le pense.
Gramsci avait raison sur un point essentiel : la culture précède la politique. Mais il avait oublié que ça marche dans les deux sens. Quand une culture artificielle perd ses perfusions, ce qu'il y a de vrai en dessous remonte à la surface.
Ce qui vient après, je crois que c'est une renaissance. Une culture qui recommence à aimer la beauté, l'ambition, la science, la civilisation qui l'a fait naître.
Et dans les livres d'histoire, on se souviendra que tout a commencé quand un homme a décidé de regarder les comptes.
Il fallait quelqu'un d'assez riche pour ne dépendre de personne, d'assez fou pour s'y attaquer et d'assez libre pour encaisser la haine qui allait suivre.
Merci Elon.
SirPeterCook retweeted
In Milgram’s obedience experiment, 65% of participants followed orders all the way to the maximum 450-volt shock, which they believed they were administering to another person.
But in a variation where two fellow participants refused to continue, 90% resisted. So they had to observe someone else non complying. Resisting to engage in that atrocity.
Then the noncompliance skyrocketed to 90%. All you had to do was observe someone else say, no, I am not going to do that. And now it provided permission for others to resist it.
SirPeterCook retweeted
In the wake of their devastating, nationwide, unexpectedly crushing defeat, The Brazilian Left -- just like the Democratic Party does after they lose -- is now attacking the voters themselves, saying they're too stupid to realize how much Lula did for them. Some, of course, are saying they lost because Brazilian voters are racists and Nazis, but most are going with the "stupidity" excuse.
Maybe some self-reflection would be better?
SirPeterCook retweeted
Do they not get that the richter scale is logarithmic?
Nuclear plants are designed to withstand earthquakes thousands of times more severe than the 4.8 magnitude earthquake on Saturday in Melbourne.
Even the Fukushima reactors from the 1970s withstood the 9.0 earthquake, it was the tsunami breaching the low seawall that caused that accident.
Australia is one of the most stable continents on earth, scaremongering like this is a pathetic distraction.
SirPeterCook retweeted
Our Governments need to fuck off out of the economy. Communism doesn’t work. How many lessons from history do you need to realise this?
A radical proposal backed by a former MP would see the government build more than 400 stores and acquire hundreds of existing Coles and Woolworths sites to slash the average family’s grocery bill.
news24.com.au/politics/austr…
SirPeterCook retweeted
Replying to @DrewJam67805374 @DHughesy
Did you conveniently forget 2 important facts? First, the 5 decades preceding your 3 (great leap forward, cultural revolution, the death of tens of millions of people etc), and, secondly, the reason for 800 million people being lifted out of poverty - the introduction of a market economy.



































