The Corona Conspiracy: Combatting Disinformation about the Coronavirus , Visser, Frank - Amazon.com (original) (raw)

With every news channel overflowing with news about the new coronavirus, the more disturbing items are about the disinformation spread about its cause and nature.

Many different opinions have been expressed on the Covid-19 pandemic, both within and outside of science. Some think our governments overestimate the problem with their strict lockdown measures; others think these measures are apt and proportional, and again others feel that governments take irresponsible risks by lifting these measures too soon.

On one thing they all seem to agree: this disease is caused by a new virus, which has been called Sars-CoV-2. All? No, a small group of alternative healers and conspiracy theorists hold a different opinion. Viruses, they tell us, actually don't exist at all, and if they exist, they are not dangerous, and if they are dangerous, they are part of a conspiracy against humanity. Mainstream scientists, they say, have it all wrong and are implicated in this conspiracy.

In THE CORONA CONSPIRACY, various virus denialists and conspiracy theorists are introduced and debunked, ranging from David Icke, Stefan Lanka and Andrew Kaufman. Various other topics of general background interest are covered, such as:

- how do we actually know this virus exists?,
- the difference between viruses and exosomes,
- why viruses are not exosomes,
- the alternative facts of virus denialism,
- how does whole genome sequencing work?,
- Koch's and Rivers' Postulates and beyond,
- how the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread around the world,
- the value and drawbacks of the PCR test,
- whether or not the PCR test tests for human genome material,
- whether this virus was created in a lab or has a natural origin,

... and much more.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Part 1: Corona, Oxygen, 5G: The Paranoid Worldview of David Icke
Part 2: Debunking Andrew Kaufman's Virus Equals Exosome Hypothesis
Part 3: We Need to Talk about Exosomes
Part 4: Why Viruses are Not Exosomes
Part 5: The Alternative Facts of Virus Denialism
Part 6: The Subtle Science of Whole Genome Sequencing
Part 7: Stefan Lanka's Vanishing Virus Act
Part 8: Coping with Corona: The Cautious vs. The Reckless
Part 9: Andrew Kaufman's Take on the Pandemic That Wasn't
Part 10: Between Alarmism and Denialism
Part 11: David Icke and the Method in the Madness
Part 12: How the Coronavirus Conquered the World
Part 13: To Test or Not to Test, That's the Question
Part 14: Pandemic, Infodemic, Scamdemic, Plandemic?
Part 15: The "Chromosome 8 Bombshell Evidence" Canard
Part 16: What's Up With These Koch's Postulates?
Part 17: Was the SARS-CoV-2 virus created in a lab?
Part 18: QAnon, When Conspirituality Meets Politics
Part 19: Thomas Cowan and "The Myth of Contagion"

These chapters have previously been published on www.integralworld.net

"I have started to read your series with high interest." - David Quammen (author of "Spillover" and writing a new book on the current pandemic)

Frank Visser (b. 1958) is a long-time student of the work of American philosopher Ken Wilber and author of "Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion" (SUNY Press, 2003). He is webmaster of Integral World (www.integralworld.net), an online independent forum for a critical discussion of the integral philosophy of Ken Wilber. Originally a psychologist of religion who graduated on mysticism, he turned to book publishing and website maintenance for a living. He has presented papers at several integral conferences in the US and Europe and lives in Amsterdam. Since the current pandemic he has been covering coronavirus disinformation on his website and in the Dutch skeptic magazine Skepter.

1. Publication date
   October 16, 2020

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