Former US Surgeon General Thinks Mouse Runs Account
"that appears to be run by a mouse"
Jerome Adams, former US Surgeon General, posted a Tweet doing the usual of conflating an extremely bad car analogy with vaccines:
Another Twitter account, Renee1319, in response signalled to both Jikkyleaks and Peter McCullough MD (whom is obviously a doctor) to “get a load of this guy”:
Jerome promptly flew off the handle, and berated them for “taking medical advice from an anonymous Twitter account that appears to be run by a mouse” and daring to question his judgement and advice. Notice Jerome conveniently forgot tagged Dr Peter McCullough.
you’re questioning MY judgement and advice?!
Jikkyleaks then retorted it was this sort of pure arrogance that has led people to distrust doctors:
Jerome then bafflingly doubled-down and replied people were taking advice from an “online mouse”:
But then…
…The Daily Beagle stepped in, and we decided to use tongue-in-cheek humour to mock the weird tangent Jerome was going on. Did he genuinely think a mouse was running a Twitter account?
We didn’t know, but we found the thought of a man screaming his defeat at the hands of ‘a mouse’ to be quite amusing (quite a few others did too):
The humour lampooning the bizarre statement by Jerome flew over his head as he doubled down in response and declared it was “an anonymous social media account run by a mouse”.
He also oddly depicted us as having written all caps lock and being unhinged. Tongue-in-cheek humour is someone acting irrational and shouting, apparently.
Jikkyleaks begged the poor man to stop:
It reminded us of this scene from the Simpsons:
Jerome’s response? Try to sell a book where he declares he had a “showdown” with an “anonymous social media mouse”. Very brave.
He then replied to his own Tweet, berating anyone who believes “the fake social media mouse”:
Despite further lampoons by The Daily Beagle with tongue-in-cheek humour, it slowly dawned on us that Jerome Adams seemed to genuinely think a mouse was actually operating a Twitter account.
The Daily Beagle then asked Jerome a straight question if he understood it was an account operated by a human being, and that their avatar image doesn’t determine who they actually are:
After this, although Jerome didn’t immediately reply, he did change his frame of reference to “anonymous account with an animal avatar online” in response to another poster, seemingly picking up on the ‘avatar’ comment:
The Daily Beagle couldn’t help but feel that also included us.
Jerome then adjusted his argument in a response to our query, from ‘account run by a mouse’ to ‘bot’:
People in masks cannot be trusted, eh?
Certainly a bot is more plausible than a mouse, but as The Daily Beagle noted, a bot isn’t a mouse. We also pointed out, in response to the claim publishers of studies aren’t anonymous, that peer reviewers are.
Let us flesh out our rebuttal more fully, given sardine tin Twitter restrains coherency: anonymity protects individuals from abuse of State. Easy to tout your name when you’re not critical of the State and not in fear of your life.
Prior Abuses Of Named Individuals
A good example is Julian Assange, owner of WikiLeaks, who has been jailed without being found guilty, versus the anonymous ‘Deep Throat’ who leaked the Pentagon papers and has not been jailed (on account of never being identified). As one can infer from a name like Jikkyleaks, the word ‘leaks’ is the important part.
There are plenty of examples of whistleblowers and leakers being abused by the state.
Thomas Drake, NSA whistleblower, fired from his job and arrested. He used the official channels to lodge his complaints and got abused anyway.
Katherine Gun, GCHQ whistleblower, revealed how GCHQ tried to blackmail members of the UN into voting for war with Iraq. She was put on trial, which was halted out of fears GCHQ’s wrongdoing would become public.
Edward Snowden, Booz Allen Hamilton subcontractor who previously worked for the CIA, blew the whistle on the NSA’s unconstitutional mass surveillance network, was forced into exile to avoid retaliation. He still hasn’t been pardoned.
Shyam Kumar, NHS whistleblower who raised concerns about patient safety, sacked by the NHS and exonerated in tribunal. The exoneration doesn’t mean much given she wasted many years of her life fighting an unjust decision, just to defend patients.
Sonia Appleby, NHS whistleblower who raised concerns about child safety in a so-called “gender clinic” (child mutilation site), got unfairly dismissed, also won tribunal.
Kevin Beatt, NHS whistleblower who reported staff and equipment shortages and workplace bullying, was also fired, and also won tribunal.
Linda Fairhall, NHS manager who raised complaints, also unfairly fired.
There are so many more, in many other government departments, organisations and businesses. Even more we don’t hear of. Whistleblowers and leakers alike face rampant discrimination. [TheUnderdog: Myself included.]
Even the EU wars against leakers, abusing ‘trade secrets’ directives as an excuse to persecute those exposing criminal wrongdoing.
Benjamin Franklin even famously pretended to be a woman called “Silence Dogood” just to get his own letters published in his own brother’s paper, as he kept getting denied. By his own family!
As you can see, putting a name to a face to those critical of establishment power invites retaliation, nay, even practically guarantees retaliation. The only defence to prevent retaliation is anonymity. And even then…
Those abusive of power will go out of their way to uncover who that person is.
NHS West Suffolk hospital ordered the fingerprinting of all staff members in order to try to desperately hunt down an anonymous whistleblower who dared expose workplace bullying in a cake layer of irony. The hospital’s boss merely resigned with zero consequences, and was never prosecuted for this abuse of power.
Anonymity does not mean a lack of credibility, because evidence carries credibility by itself, and should not hinge on the credibility of the individual presenting it.
Anonymity can mean a lack of transparency and a lack of accountability, but given State’s power is invested into attacking our viewpoints, none in support, with individuals bent on maliciously exposing personal details getting us fired, that ‘flaw’ is adequately compensated for.
Credentialism is no immunity to fraud.
Indeed, many named individuals with credentials have been caught committing fraud. Not early on either, but after many years. The Daily Beagle did a deep dive showing how broken the peer review process has become.
Naturally, our retort is, if being non-anonymous is so great, why are peer-reviewers anonymous? Why are juries anonymous? Why are the whistleblowers who aren’t anonymous the ones getting fired rather than rewarded for their honesty? Why is double-anonymous peer review less bias?
Papers Please!
It is evident the State relies upon flimsy personal attacks in absence of reliable evidence, which is why Jerome loses their rag with an account such as Jikkyleaks because besides a mouse image, they offer no ad hominem front for Jerome to attack.
Doctor Jerome Adams, former American anaesthesiologist before being former US Surgeon General, in office from September 5, 2017 – January 20, 2021, is less concerned with what evidence, if any, Jikkyleaks may present, and is more oddly concerned about what sort of image they use on their account.
The Daily Beagle offered to also debate Jerome with the evidence and offered to meet on common ground, to no response.
We guess it must be our animal avatar.
Be well, dear reader.
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“Anonymity does not mean a lack of credibility, because evidence carries credibility by itself, and should not hinge on the credibility of the individual presenting it.”
Indeed. I didn’t follow Jikky because he waived around credentials and said “trust me”. I followed him because he presented the data and links to sources.
The FDA withholds data, requiring people to file lawsuits and FOIA requests in order to learn anything of use about the covid vaccines . Why should any of us trust and listen to someone who screams, “Trust me!”, and continually uses ad hominem attacks and other logical fallacies in their arguments and is unwilling to back up their claims with source data?
It amazes me that people like Jerome Adams and Paul Offit don’t realize how damaging these types of interactions are to their credibility.
It never cease to amaze me that some people are all about credentials.
Prior to online world-wide discussions, credentials were a reasonable heuristic for deciding to listen to someone. Now, however, there are literally billions of people who might chime in and a few of these billions of people will know something about a topic despite having no credentials.