Page 69 - Winter2020

Tim’s DVD Reviews

Insight: Slaughtered on Suspicion of wood to burn the bodies of the slaughtered By now, we
Directed by Malcolm Massey and Patrick animals, but burning is believed to spread the
Henningsen disease even more. In many cases, it took weeks have seen
UKColumn Productions before they were able to dispose of the large piles numerous
https://www.ukcolumn.org/community/ of animals culled. I imagine that didn’t smell so examples of
2016/06/30/insight-slaughtered-on-suspicion/ good—and is that really a healthy way to deal
with the problem? computer
In 2001, there was an outbreak of foot and This overreaction was apparently triggered models that
mouth disease (FMD) in Great Britain. This (or justified) by a computer model. I don’t often have been
resulted in the largest slaughter of animals (in- pull rank and claim expertise, but I do have
cluding pigs, cattle and sheep) in UK history. a degree and a lot of experience in computer wildly wrong
As of 2013, the livestock industry had still not engineering, so I’m going to get up on my hind in their
recovered. legs and pull rank. Computers are not magic predictions.
There are a number of odd features about machines that always give you the right answer.
the details of this large-scale slaughter. First, Computer models are only as good as their pro-
about 79 percent of the animals that were culled grammers and the assumptions they are based
were not infected. Some herds were targeted on. Computers are powerful tools for crunching
without evidence, while others were ignored. numbers really fast, but when the programming
Deer are very vulnerable to FMD but were and assumptions are wrong, they just generate
also ignored. FMD for most breeds of sheep in wrong answers really fast. Computers have no
England is no more serious than a common cold, intelligence, and if the programmers don’t ei-
but the sheep were culled anyway. One person ther, the answer will always, always be wrong.
kept her perfectly healthy sheep in her living Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is not just a
room in an attempt to protect them, but that did theory; it is as valid as the law of gravity.
not stop members of the army and police from By now, we have seen numerous examples
breaking down the door and killing the sheep. of computer models that have been wildly wrong
In short, the implementation of this culling in their predictions. The UK’s FMD model was
was illegal and incompetent to the point where wrong; climate models have all been wrong; the
it can’t simply be blamed on stupidity. No one Covid-19 model that triggered the current panic
could be that stupid. Something bigger must was wrong. Yet people are still practically ready
have been going on. to start a religion based on a computer model.
Why were the agencies involved checking Do we ever learn?
into the wood supply in the UK in the summer of There is also a disturbing consistency in
2000? Why were they printing up large numbers the destructive results of these failed models.
of warning signs for FMD months before the The climate model has succeeded in generating
first case was detected? It took large amounts an irrational fear of carbon dioxide, which is

DANISH TRANSLATION!

Dr. Price’s masterpiece, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is now available in Danish.
Visit: q-publish.dk/udgivelser/ernaering-fysisk-degeneration/
Many thanks to WAPF member Henrik Hanson for the translation!

WINTER 2020 Wise Traditions 67