Clare Craig: “Spiked” | Tom Nelson Pod #377
Tom interviews British doctor Clare Craig about her new book (including a newly released audiobook) and her involvement in a European Court of Human Rights case. Craig describes being smeared and censored during COVID, alleging UK information operations involving the 77th Brigade and a Counter Disinformation Unit, and cites claims of UN/UNICEF-funded influencer campaigns and problematic WHO priorities. She argues COVID policies (lockdowns, masking, distancing) and vaccines failed to stop infection, severe disease, or death, critiques scientific publishing and peer review, and recounts a dispute with The Lancet over a myocarditis paper she says misused data. Craig discusses ethical drift toward utilitarian public health, revisits historical narratives on smallpox vaccination and the 1918 “Spanish flu” (including a possible aspirin-toxicity role), and outlines the Finnish “Mika” case over vaccine restrictions.
00:00 Meet Clare Craig
09:26 Losing Trust In Institutions
18:42 Ethics Nuremberg To Helsinki
24:51 Smallpox Vaccine Origins
29:10 Crude Early Vaccines
29:58 Pushback and Belief
30:49 Smallpox Vaccine Reality
31:59 Monkeypox Emergency Politics
33:57 Spanish Flu Numbers
36:02 Two Pathologies Explained
38:12 Aspirin Toxicity Theory
42:24 Covid Wave Math
45:00 Aerosols Everywhere
48:05 Household Data and Vaccines
52:18 Where Did Flu Go
54:03 Dashboards and Modeled Data
56:20 Human Rights Case Closing
Spiked: A shot in the dark: https://a.co/d/4W8P2JD
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