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|content=“...while the flu is the real threat.”
 
Who gets to say simplistic categorical and definitive pronouncements like this with impunity, the certainty of God, and no consequence? Only the Knarc.
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|content=Knarc, n.: 1) A person who would be easily seen to be a crank, but for the fact of practicing their cranky behavior through the protection of an institution which gives their crankiness legitimacy. 2) Crank spelled backwards.
 
Here we check in with our journalists from Feb. 2020:
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|content=Coronavirus, with zero American fatalities, is dominating headlines, while the flu is the real threat https://www.thedailybeast.com/flu-not-coronavirus-is-the-virus-killing-us-kids-like-luca-calanni/
|timestamp=11:20 PM · Feb 7, 2021
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|timestamp=12:54 AM · May 23, 2021
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|timestamp=12:57 AM · May 23, 2021
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|content=The Crank and the Knarc. https://t.co/ZVeQ6ThRpM
|timestamp=6:13 PM · May 4, 2020
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|content=It is quite possible that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is behind the outbreak which shut down a planet and killed many across the world.
 
Those who refused to shut up about this were always obviously right.
 
@jack, @Twitter needs to change. You need to protect iconoclasts.
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|content=And with this letter from R BARiC in SCIENCE everything changes.
 
The problem is our bizarre institutional mainstream, including @twitter & @YouTube, attempting to paint as cranks all who refused to salute the absurd WHO narrative on origins of the virus.
 
YOU are now the cranks.
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|content=A *stunning* development. The letter says COVID-19 could have leaked from a lab. To some of us that possibility has been obvious for well more than a year. What is significant about this is the masthead (Science) and author list, which includes Ralph Baric
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1
|timestamp=10:36 PM · May 13, 2021
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|timestamp=4:46 PM · May 14, 2021
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|content=Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Google, Fauci, NYT, WaPo, NPR, CDC, NPR, Harvard, CNN, MSNBC, etc, etc, are simply not-good-enough or disinterested enough to actively manage national dialogue as our gatekeepers.
 
Conclusion: It’s actually our gatekeepers who most need to be gatekept.
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|content=I don’t know how to say this exactly but the problem of elite cranks as gatekeepers is what is most threatening us. I’ve called these people “Knarc”s before.
 
Knarcs climb the heights of respectability to say obviously  wrong things and then attack the reputations of dissenters.
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|content=And what is a Knarc? Well, it’s someone who would be a Crank on purely intellectual grounds, but for the luxurious institutional chair in which they sit. Allen Greenspan at the Fed or a tobacco funded physician extolling the health benefits of cigarettes would be examples.
|timestamp=4:46 PM · May 14, 2021
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|content=This is the age of the Knarc.
 
I want you to remember this when I tell you things supported nowhere by the mainstream: to a Knarc, every dissenter is a crank.
 
Peer review, awards, credentials, etc don’t behave positively during a universal institutional intellectual collapse. 🙏
|timestamp=5:39 PM · Mar 11, 2023
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