Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Ivermectin vs. COVID-19

Ivermectin vs. COVID-19



This is a collection of papers and resources I accumulated about the drug Ivermectin and its use against COVID-19.  I stopped updating this page when the subject became so politicized that even the science couldn't be trusted.  The drug is safe, cheap (patent-expired), widely available, FDA approved for many uses, and classified by the WHO as "essential medicine" (but not for COVID).  I think it became quite obvious that the vaccine manufacturers enlisted their scientists and media to discredit the drug.  Just look at their quarterly reports to understand why. 

I also became frustrated with the pro-ivermectin crowd when they completely ignored the genetic mutation that inhibits metabolism of Ivermectin (see this study for more details.)  This mutation occurs in a significant percentage of the population (16% in the small study).  Additionally, those who have this mutation often develop side effects with ivermectin use.  (These side effects cease when use stops.)  All of my attempts to bring this to the attention of the 'heavy-hitters' pushing ivermectin were met with stone silence.   This was personal for me as ivermectin had no effect on my wife.  I was very frustrated and confused about this until I found out about the mutation.

If Ivermectin doesn’t work for you, you may want to try Fluvoxamine.

For my page of Ivermectin news articles, click here.

For Ivermectin videos, click here.

For Ivermectin resources, click here.

While collecting these links, I also ran across numerous papers showing Ivermectin to be effective against cancer. 

Meta-analyses

Clinical Trials

Completed trials

Prophylaxis (Prevention)

Hospitalized and Outpatient

Reply to “Ivermectin Treatment May Improve the Prognosis of Patients with COVID-19”

COVID-19 Papers

Papers on other diseases (for more on Ivermectin vs. Cancer see here .)




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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Is Quantum Entanglement Evidence that the Universe is an Open System?

 


 

 The laws of thermodynamics basically state that in a closed system; 1) energy cannot be created or destroyed but can only be converted to other forms, 2) entropy is always increasing, and 3) things tend towards equilibrium. These laws would require that the universe in the past had far more free energy and far less entropy and equilibrium than it has today. But how could it have gotten that way without violating those very laws?

   One explanation I’ve heard is that the laws are tied to space and time, and that space and time are tied to the universe itself, so the laws didn’t apply until the universe came into existence at the Big Bang. I think that’s true, but it still leaves a lot of unanswered questions about where the initial energy came from. I think there is a simple solution, however.

   What if the universe is not all there is but is rather part of a larger system - essentially making it an open system? That would essentially negate the laws of thermodynamics since the universe would be able to receive input from another source. 

   I propose two coexisting parallel systems: the material universe tied to space/time, and an immaterial system not tied to space/time. It is from this immaterial system that the material universe initially received its energy with its low entropy. The immaterial system is not subject to material laws, not tied to space/time and therefore perpetual and permanent while the material system is subject to material laws and therefore is ‘winding down‘. 

   There is evidence of a possible tie between these two systems in quantum entanglement - where two quantum particles, separated by great distances, are inexplicably tied together and will change states at the same time. If they are tied together in the immaterial system—outside the constraints of space/time—then their ability to change states at the exact same time, even thousands of miles apart, is comprehensible.

   This differs from the multiverse, with its innumerable parallel material universes, which suffers from the obvious flaw that other material universes must be both observable and detectable.  It may even fit the math better. I don’t know, I am no physicist, and these are just the musings of a curious mind. I’m hoping that people more knowledgeable than myself will critique this and tell me what they think.

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Saturday, September 17, 2022

On John 1:1, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the New World Translation



John 1:1, in most bible translations, reads:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
In the New World Translation (NWT), which is published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Jehovah’s Witnesses), it is rendered:
"In [the] beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god."
The fundamental difference between the two is that "The Word” (later identified as Jesus in verse 14) is called "God" in most Bibles but "a god" in the NWT.  The NWT translators cite the absence of the article "ὁ" ("ho" in Greek or "the" in English) preceding the word "θεός" ("theos" or "God") as the reason for their translation "a god" as opposed to "God".  (See image above.)

To the NWT translators, "ὁ θεός" is "the God" and "θεός" is "a god."

Now I'm no Greek scholar---and I welcome any criticism from actual experts in Greek---but I did find something that intrigued me in my copy of The NIV Interlinear Greek-English New Testament, by Rev. Alfred Marshall.  In that volume, the Rev. Marshall has a footnote for John 1.1 that states, "But note that the subject has the article and the predicate has it not; hence translate – 'the Word was God.'"


According to the Rev. Marshall, the article indicates, in this instance anyway, the subject of the phrase.   The subject is "the Word" and the predicate is "was God".   He was able to determine that by the location of the Greek article. 

This got me to wondering if there were other verses in the New Testament where "theos" was the predicate and if so, did it have the article and how was it translated in the NWT?

I actually found many instances, and all such instances that I could find use the same article configuration as John 1:1.

A good example is Hebrews 3:4 - "Of course, every house is constructed by someone, but he that constructed all things is God" (NWT).  In the phrase "he that constructed all things is God", the subject is "he that constructed all things", and the predicate is "is God".  The Greek interlinear has it as “the but all (things) having constructed God”.   The article precedes "all (things) having constructed".  The word "theos" does not have the article – just like John 1.1.


Another example can be found in Romans 8:33 - "...God is the One who declares [them] righteous" (NWT). The interlinear says "God the (one) justifying".   Again, the subject ("the one justifying") has the article and the predicate ("God") does not.  


One more: 1 Corinthians 3.7 as translated in the NWT is "so that neither is he that plants anything nor is he that waters, but God who makes [it] grow".  The relevant phrase is "but God who makes [it] grow", rendered in the interlinear as "but the (one) making to grow God".  Again, the article is with "the one making to grow" and not with "God".


This same subject/article - predicate/no article configuration exists in the following verses:

John 1:18, 8:54
Acts 15:8
Romans 9:5
1 Corinthians 8:4, 8:6
2 Corinthians 1:3, 1:21, 5:5, 5:19, 6:16
Galatians 3:20, 6:7
Ephesians 4:6
Philippians 2:13
1 Thessalonians 2:5
Hebrews 11:16
Revelation 21:7

All are translated as "God" in the NWT except John 1:1.  If the NWT translators were consistent, they would have translated all of these verses as either "a god" like they did in John 1.1, or they would have translated John 1.1 as "God".

Also, as an interesting aside, false gods are referred to as "ho theos" ("God" with the article) in the Greek in 2 Corinthians 4:4 (Satan), Philippians 3:19 (the belly) and Acts 7:43 (Rompha).  So as regarding the word "theos", the article seems to have little significance in the Greek, except to identify the subject of the sentence.





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Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Ivermectin Resources

Ivermectin Resources

Third part of a timeline of ivermectin-related events in the COVID-19 pandemic

Fourth part of a timeline of ivermectin-related events in theCOVID-19 pandemic 

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