Will buy the book and leave an Amazon review pronto.
I can easily sympathize with 16 year old Ted because about 30 years ago I let myself be a human subject for what seemed a good and useful study paying test subjects $500 for 3 afternoons of women flying a flight simulator after taking drinks which may or may not have, supposedly, a minimal DUI level of alcohol. I'd never been drunk like that and was curious as a pilot how it would impact flying skills. The idiot researcher worked in a very cold VA hospital basement. There was a first blood draw on day 2. He turned out to be a butcher at drawing blood leaving a big and painful bruise and then he refused to let me use a blanket to say warm while waiting for the alcohol to wear off before another flight sim run. Little did I realize when I signed up or on day 1 he was a callous ass. After day 2, I was digging in at his medical school's library stacks into US history and laws on human subject medical research and thus, found out Institutional Research Boards (IRBs) exist and are *supposed* to make sure humans are not (unduly) hurt after they approve each human subject experiment to begin.
Turns out US law still allows IRBs to approve deliberately deceptive and/or secret-results human experiments which means zero meaningful informed consent from the human guinea pigs as well as zero post-experiment mandatory followup by a neutral to make sure human test subjects are OK. I quickly demanded an IRB formal hearing and got some redress in cash (no NDA needed!) and a flimsy Stanford Medical School IRB chair's verbal apology for my early self-exit from the experiment. But, the arrogant callousness of that literally white-coated and all-male board majority with just one board member, a chaplain, demonstrating an iota of humanity to me still makes me roll my eyes. As does that fool of a researcher who at the hearing in a rickety mobile home, blurted out to me like a cornered scared animal angrily and self-justifyingly, "I'll NEVER do human research again!!" and "Your data points are NOT needed!!" with an outraged tone of voice clear as bells that I and the IRB had likely just destroyed his human research career and that worst of all, as far as I am concerned, that I had never been a living human being to him and the IRB majority, just a useful "data point" to further his medical career and Stanford University's reputation as a research institution.
Seriously, what hurt Ted and me are the continuing US laws and regulations on human subject experiments that allow secrecy, zero informed consent, and when something goes badly wrong wagon circles of the IRBs who callously protect their own, usually with 100% impunity. I wonder if Ted ever learned about IRBs. It's time to amend those laws and regulations.
Back when David was negotiating with the FBI, I had reason to have a minimal amount of knowledge about this as I was working with Tony Bisceglie on a project. I had forgotten about all of this until I read your post. It's a fascinating story.
"Tony Bisceglie served as the legal intermediary and advisor to David Kaczynski during the Unabomber investigation. He represented David after he began suspecting his brother, Ted Kaczynski, was the Unabomber due to similarities in writings and locations. Bisceglie facilitated the delicate negotiations with the FBI, ensuring the family's privacy while arranging David's cooperation. He confirmed that David's motive was to prevent further loss of life, not financial reward, and later supported the family's efforts to avoid the death penalty for Ted. Bisceglie also played a key role in handling the $1 million reward, which the family intended to distribute to the victims."
I’m going to unsubscribe for a few months. I need to get a project done and I’m not disciplining myself very well as I can’t stop reading your amazing daily or almost daily articles and books. I’ll keep the telegram though.💜💜💜
We are living in a Shadow Testament. 1700-year period (post-Constantinian to present) where Builder logic reinverts the New Covenant. Babel 3.0 is here, and this is where it began. It happens every 1700-2000 years, and this is quite possibly the last tower.
Will buy the book and leave an Amazon review pronto.
I can easily sympathize with 16 year old Ted because about 30 years ago I let myself be a human subject for what seemed a good and useful study paying test subjects $500 for 3 afternoons of women flying a flight simulator after taking drinks which may or may not have, supposedly, a minimal DUI level of alcohol. I'd never been drunk like that and was curious as a pilot how it would impact flying skills. The idiot researcher worked in a very cold VA hospital basement. There was a first blood draw on day 2. He turned out to be a butcher at drawing blood leaving a big and painful bruise and then he refused to let me use a blanket to say warm while waiting for the alcohol to wear off before another flight sim run. Little did I realize when I signed up or on day 1 he was a callous ass. After day 2, I was digging in at his medical school's library stacks into US history and laws on human subject medical research and thus, found out Institutional Research Boards (IRBs) exist and are *supposed* to make sure humans are not (unduly) hurt after they approve each human subject experiment to begin.
Turns out US law still allows IRBs to approve deliberately deceptive and/or secret-results human experiments which means zero meaningful informed consent from the human guinea pigs as well as zero post-experiment mandatory followup by a neutral to make sure human test subjects are OK. I quickly demanded an IRB formal hearing and got some redress in cash (no NDA needed!) and a flimsy Stanford Medical School IRB chair's verbal apology for my early self-exit from the experiment. But, the arrogant callousness of that literally white-coated and all-male board majority with just one board member, a chaplain, demonstrating an iota of humanity to me still makes me roll my eyes. As does that fool of a researcher who at the hearing in a rickety mobile home, blurted out to me like a cornered scared animal angrily and self-justifyingly, "I'll NEVER do human research again!!" and "Your data points are NOT needed!!" with an outraged tone of voice clear as bells that I and the IRB had likely just destroyed his human research career and that worst of all, as far as I am concerned, that I had never been a living human being to him and the IRB majority, just a useful "data point" to further his medical career and Stanford University's reputation as a research institution.
Seriously, what hurt Ted and me are the continuing US laws and regulations on human subject experiments that allow secrecy, zero informed consent, and when something goes badly wrong wagon circles of the IRBs who callously protect their own, usually with 100% impunity. I wonder if Ted ever learned about IRBs. It's time to amend those laws and regulations.
Back when David was negotiating with the FBI, I had reason to have a minimal amount of knowledge about this as I was working with Tony Bisceglie on a project. I had forgotten about all of this until I read your post. It's a fascinating story.
"Tony Bisceglie served as the legal intermediary and advisor to David Kaczynski during the Unabomber investigation. He represented David after he began suspecting his brother, Ted Kaczynski, was the Unabomber due to similarities in writings and locations. Bisceglie facilitated the delicate negotiations with the FBI, ensuring the family's privacy while arranging David's cooperation. He confirmed that David's motive was to prevent further loss of life, not financial reward, and later supported the family's efforts to avoid the death penalty for Ted. Bisceglie also played a key role in handling the $1 million reward, which the family intended to distribute to the victims."
thank you for sharing this.
Feeling the love, EKO.
Love your work.
me too ... took me a few posts to 'get' you, but now I get you. Please don't stop.
Hi EKO
I’m going to unsubscribe for a few months. I need to get a project done and I’m not disciplining myself very well as I can’t stop reading your amazing daily or almost daily articles and books. I’ll keep the telegram though.💜💜💜
Review left. 👍👍
"Only after the evil in the world has been overthrown will we be able to let down our guard and be as little children."
Truth and sunlight disarms evil, but does not vanquish it. But, he was correct.
Thank you EKO, for bringing us truth and light.
Love you EKO.
There's a word: ENANTIODROMIA. It describes a lot of what you write about.
Thesis > Antithesis
Heraclitus understood.
Jung knew it well.
Do you? https://wendywilliamson.substack.com/p/babel-fire-to-pentecost-flame
We are living in a Shadow Testament. 1700-year period (post-Constantinian to present) where Builder logic reinverts the New Covenant. Babel 3.0 is here, and this is where it began. It happens every 1700-2000 years, and this is quite possibly the last tower.