Try free for 30 days
-
Fear of a Microbial Planet
- How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe
- Narrated by: David Turner
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for $27.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also picked
-
Lost in Trans Nation
- A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness
- By: Miriam Grossman MD
- Narrated by: Miriam Grossman MD
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
No child is born in the wrong body, Dr. Grossman reassures us, their bodies are just fine; it’s their emotional lives that need healing. Whether you’re facing a gender identity battle in your home right now, or want to prevent one, you need this book to guide you and your loved ones out of the madness.
-
-
Speechless
- By MH on 23-11-2023
-
Canary in a Covid World
- How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World
- By: C.H. Klotz - editor, Dr. Robert Malone, Edward Dowd, and others
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Possibly the most important and informative book ever compiled during the Covid era and a must read (listen) for everyone. The thirty four contributors, the Canaries, to this collection of essays are courageous people. They are critical thinkers who are prepared to put everything on the line to speak their truth. They strive to alert us all to what COVID was, and what may lie ahead.
-
-
The Truth
- By Howard Granger on 28-01-2024
-
Real AIDS Epidemic
- How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All
- By: Rebecca V. Culshaw, Neenyah Ostrom - foreword
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system.
-
The New Puritans
- How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
- By: Andrew Doyle
- Narrated by: Andrew Doyle
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Leading a cultural revolution driven by identity politics and so-called 'social justice', the new puritanism movement is best understood as a religion - one that makes grand claims to moral purity and tolerates no dissent. In The New Puritans, Andrew Doyle powerfully examines the underlying belief-systems of this ideology and how it has risen so rapidly to dominate all major political, cultural and corporate institutions. He reasons that, to move forward, we need to understand where these New Puritans came from and what they hope to achieve.
-
-
Excellent and necessary at this moment.
- By Ione Barczak on 25-01-2023
-
Vax-Unvax
- Let the Science Speak
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Brian Hooker
- Narrated by: Eric Torres
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Based on over one hundred studies in the peer-reviewed literature that consider vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations. Each of these studies is analyzed and put in context of the difference in health outcomes of vaccinated versus unvaccinated infants, children, and adults.
-
-
Written with honesty and evidence based.
- By Anonymous User on 06-04-2024
-
Expired
- Covid, the Untold Story
- By: Clare Craig
- Narrated by: Clare Craig
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Have you ever felt the Covid story did not entirely add up? Expired contains multiple eye-opening revelations about Covid with compelling evidence that provides a coherent, sober, and clear explanation that better fits the data we have so far.
-
-
The lack of discussion in the public domain concerning the assertions made.
- By Andy J. on 28-12-2023
-
Lost in Trans Nation
- A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness
- By: Miriam Grossman MD
- Narrated by: Miriam Grossman MD
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
No child is born in the wrong body, Dr. Grossman reassures us, their bodies are just fine; it’s their emotional lives that need healing. Whether you’re facing a gender identity battle in your home right now, or want to prevent one, you need this book to guide you and your loved ones out of the madness.
-
-
Speechless
- By MH on 23-11-2023
-
Canary in a Covid World
- How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World
- By: C.H. Klotz - editor, Dr. Robert Malone, Edward Dowd, and others
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Possibly the most important and informative book ever compiled during the Covid era and a must read (listen) for everyone. The thirty four contributors, the Canaries, to this collection of essays are courageous people. They are critical thinkers who are prepared to put everything on the line to speak their truth. They strive to alert us all to what COVID was, and what may lie ahead.
-
-
The Truth
- By Howard Granger on 28-01-2024
-
Real AIDS Epidemic
- How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All
- By: Rebecca V. Culshaw, Neenyah Ostrom - foreword
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system.
-
The New Puritans
- How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
- By: Andrew Doyle
- Narrated by: Andrew Doyle
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Leading a cultural revolution driven by identity politics and so-called 'social justice', the new puritanism movement is best understood as a religion - one that makes grand claims to moral purity and tolerates no dissent. In The New Puritans, Andrew Doyle powerfully examines the underlying belief-systems of this ideology and how it has risen so rapidly to dominate all major political, cultural and corporate institutions. He reasons that, to move forward, we need to understand where these New Puritans came from and what they hope to achieve.
-
-
Excellent and necessary at this moment.
- By Ione Barczak on 25-01-2023
-
Vax-Unvax
- Let the Science Speak
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Brian Hooker
- Narrated by: Eric Torres
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Based on over one hundred studies in the peer-reviewed literature that consider vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations. Each of these studies is analyzed and put in context of the difference in health outcomes of vaccinated versus unvaccinated infants, children, and adults.
-
-
Written with honesty and evidence based.
- By Anonymous User on 06-04-2024
-
Expired
- Covid, the Untold Story
- By: Clare Craig
- Narrated by: Clare Craig
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Have you ever felt the Covid story did not entirely add up? Expired contains multiple eye-opening revelations about Covid with compelling evidence that provides a coherent, sober, and clear explanation that better fits the data we have so far.
-
-
The lack of discussion in the public domain concerning the assertions made.
- By Andy J. on 28-12-2023
Publisher's Summary
Fear of a Microbial Planet, a sweeping treatise on the COVID era published by Brownstone Institute, offers desperately needed clarity and science on the organization and management of individual social life in the presence of pathogenic infection. It can be read as a definitive answer to expert arrogance, political overreach, and population panic.
For three years following the arrival of the virus that causes Covid, the dominant response from governments and the public has been to be afraid and stay far away through any means possible. This has further mutated into a population-wide germophobia that is actually being promoted by elite opinion.
Steve Templeton, senior scholar at Brownstone Institute and associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine: Terre Haute, argues that this response is primitive, unscientific, and ultimately contrary to individual and public health.
If a public health response is like an immune response, then consider this book as immunization against germophobia, politicized science, a self-defeating safety culture, and misplaced faith in experts. Dr. Templeton is our guide to helping us gain a new and more robust understanding of the relationship between the microbial kingdom and our own lives.
The pandemic forecasts in the United States were very grim. Experts were predicting that 60-70 percent of the population would ultimately be infected resulting in over 1.5 million deaths in just a few months. People on social media were in an absolute panic. Stories about empty shelves and runs on toilet paper were everywhere. Those who tried to refute these doomsday predictions were shouted down and eventually silenced.
And yet, the science on the virus was very clear. Disease severity was age-stratified. Extreme measures would not drive it away and would cause a tremendous amount of collateral damage. Even if the worse-case scenarios were true, it was extremely important that we take measures based on evidence.
But eventually, the cry to “do something” became overwhelming, and the costs no longer mattered. Trying to calm people with wisdom about infectious disease became nearly pointless. Germophobia swept through society and political culture.
Hardly anyone wanted to hear the truth that microbes are everywhere, and they cannot be avoided. There are an estimated 6x10^30 bacterial cells on Earth at any given time. By any standard, this is a huge amount of biomass, second only to plants, and exceeding that of all animals by more than 30-fold.
To live at peace with the microbial kingdom requires trained immune systems, as George Carlin said years ago. That means exposure and the protection of normal social functioning even under pandemic conditions with a new virus.
Many books have been and will be written about pandemic response mistakes, and that’s a good thing. There can’t possibly be enough reflection on what went wrong—otherwise we will be doomed to follow the same path, or an even worse one, next time. This book argues that the safety-at-all-costs culture will continue to result in counterproductive policies until it is challenged at its root.
How did people in our communities and around the world get to the point of hysteria over a pandemic with a clear age-stratified and comorbidity-amplified morality? Why were young and healthy people with very little risk for disease and death treated as if they were a grave danger to others?
It was always pointless to try to stop much less eradicate this virus. We’ve evolved with pathogens and need to learn to live with them without imposing mass psychological, social, economic, and public-health damage.