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Andrew Wakefield spawned a conspiracy theory that vaccines caused autism. He in now spawning a conspiracy theory that the COVID vaccines alters a persons DNA. Apparently Steven Brandenburg bought into this conspiracy theory. Last week he apparently removed 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine from refrigeration in Wisconsin in order to destroy them. Officials say the vials contained enough doses to inoculate more than 500 people.

A detective wrote in a probable cause statement that Brandenburg, 46, is an admitted conspiracy theorist and that he told investigators he intentionally tried to ruin the vaccine because it could hurt people by changing their DNA. According to an affidavit his wife filed [for divorce] on Dec. 30 -- the same day Brandenburg was arrested in the vaccine tampering -- he had stopped at her house on Dec. 6 and dropped off a water purifier and two 30-day supplies of food, telling her that the world was "crashing down" and she was in denial. He said the government was planning cyberattacks and was going to shut down the power grid. She added that he was storing food in bulk along with guns in rental units and she no longer felt safe around him. A court commissioner on Monday found that Brandenburg’s children were in imminent danger and temporarily prohibited them from staying with him.

I wonder how many of the 500 people destined to receive this vaccine and didn't because the vials were destroy will become infected with the coronavirus and die as a direct result of his actions.

What was the motivation behind the Nashville bombing?

I read an interesting article by Alex Berezow this morning on the subject:

The FBI is investigating whether the Nashville bomber was motivated by 5G paranoia. Unfortunately, the media has been helping feed these conspiracy theories. Are we heading into a new era of anti-technology terrorism?


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When I was a graduate student working on my PhD at the University of Washington (UW), we would receive email notifications once a year letting us know that animal rights' activists were in the area. We were warned against interacting with them.

Why? Because the sort of person who protests naked while painted as a tiger and sitting inside a cage might be unreasonable and unpredictable. Indeed, a group of ecoterrorists called the Earth Liberation Front actually burned down a UW building in 2001 because a professor there researched tree genetics.

While many fear that extreme partisan politics may lead to acts of terrorism, there's another worldview that could lead to the same, namely, the belief that technology is an existential threat to humanity. With the rise of artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, we may be primed for a new era of anti-technology terrorism.

Anti-technology terrorism has happened before. Perhaps most infamously, in the 1810s, a group known as the Luddites broke textile machinery because it was seen as a threat to their livelihoods. In more recent times, Greenpeace activists have destroyed fields containing GMO crops. Physicists in Mexico received bombs in the mail from anti-nanotechnology activists.

Thus, there is plenty of historical precedent to justify investigating whether Nashville bomber Anthony Warner was motivated by some kind of anti-technology worldview. Indeed, 5G technology -- which is seen as the next generation of wireless connectivity that will help bring about self-driving cars, smart home appliances, and other gizmos -- ridiculously has been blamed for causing cancer and COVID-19. In response, European activists have set fire to dozens of 5G towers.

Given that Warner placed his bomb not too far from an AT&T skyscraper (a giant structure known as the "Batman Building"), the media is reporting that Warner may have been worried about 5G, specifically that it is being used to spy on Americans. It is not. (However, it certainly could be if the 5G devices are created by China.)

Where does such anti-technology nonsense come from? The usual suspects are involved, like Alex Jones and Russian propaganda outlet RT. Unfortunately, the mainstream media have helped feed the paranoia. Scientific American published a thoroughly unscientific article about the alleged health risks of 5G, which was written by conspiracy theorist Joel Moskowitz. The Nation similarly published a conspiratorial screed about "Big Wireless." Journalist Sue Halpern parroted unsubstantiated health fears in an essay for The New Yorker. As a bonus, that 2019 article also came with this totally rational, not-alarmist-at-all headline THE TERRIFYING POTENTIAL OF THE 5G NETWORK.

Given recent history, along with the flood of mis- and disinformation from allegedly reputable news outlets and social media, it is not a stretch to believe that we are entering an era in which cabals of anti-tech activists destroy critical infrastructure or plant bombs inside research facilities. Heaven help us if that dystopian future becomes reality.

Source: Anti-Tech Terrorism: Was Nashville Bomber Anthony Warner Afraid Of 5G?