Iain Davis – Off-Guardian July 16, 2024
On Sunday night I watched the footy at my Mum’s. Thoroughly deflated by England’s 2-1 defeat to Spain and irritated by BBC “pundits,” I then had the misfortune to watch the BBC evening news’ alleged analysis of the Trump shooting.
Now, it seemed to me that the BBC were asking us all to believe that there are questions to be asked about what happened. Certainly, the story we have all been asked to accept is pretty astounding.
Kit Knightly, writing for the OffGuardian, recently raised the spectre of the FALSE False flag. A Few days later, Trump was reportedly shot in a shooting that can only be described as bizarre. It is worth noting the point that Knightly made:
[. . .] observation would suggest a deliberate agenda of undermining the very idea of objective reality. A move by our controllers to insert themselves as a filter between every person on the planet and the world they experience. The final aim being that everything – everything – the entire fabric of our shared reality – is made up.
Cards on the table, I have done absolutely no research in to this shooting and probably won’t because, frankly, I’m not very interested. What I am interested in is BBC propaganda and psychological manipulation. No one embodies the state propagandist more completely than Marianna Spring, the BBC’s first social media and disinformation correspondent.
The BBC told me and my Mum that, while speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump—a nailed on certainty for the Republican presidential candidate nomination—was shot by a gunman who was positioned 130 metres away on the roof of a building adjacent to the stage. With a clear line of sight to Trump, at 18:11 (EDT) the gunman fired three shots. One of the shots grazed Trumps right ear—because he was looking towards the gunman at the time—but, more importantly, a member of the crowd, Corey Comperatore, was shot and died.
The BBC reported eyewitness accounts from people that said they saw the gunman both moving into position, with rifle in hand, and taking aim—which at least one person captured on camera. One witness said he told the police about the gunman but that they did nothing. The BBC showed a still image of police looking toward the gunman before the shooting.
The BBC showed Mum and I a photograph of the bullet, in flight, as it flew past Trump’s injured ear. A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, no less, called Doug Mills just happened to click his shutter at that moment. If you can believe that.
The BBC provided a report by BBC Verify—the BBC’s very own factcheckers—who confirmed everything I’ve just relayed to you and then told us what questions we should ask:
How did the US Secret Service fail to stop this. [. . .] The investigation will want to find out why the Secret Service didn’t do more to prevent it.
That’s certainly one question but, given the completely implausible story—something that seems more like the plot of a comic than a “news” report—others definitely spring to mind—pardon the the pun.
We are supposed to believe that the gunman, instead of shooting Trump in the temple, waited until Trump was looking directly toward him before firing his shots. Thus explaining the grazed ear that Trump apparently sustained from a bullet fired from a rifle 130 metres away from him. Certainly, Trump clutched his ear and was then seen to be visibly wounded.
A bullet grazed ear from a pistol fired a few feet away from the target is plausible, I guess. A one centimetre variance in the firing position could account for the near miss. From a rifle fired 130 metres away from the target that “variance” would be measured in nanometres.
The chance of the rifle firing gunman hitting the target but only striking a relatively inconsequential part of the head he was aiming at, over such a distance, is incredibly, almost unbelievably remote. What we can say is that it was extremely fortunate that Trump was facing the right way at the right time, even more fortunate that the gunman chose that moment to fire and that Trump was very, very lucky.
The gunman was said to have been shot and killed by US police snipers and was later identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. So, we are also given to believe that snipers were overlooking Crooks’ firing position. If, as we were told by the BBC, people in the crowd could “see” and film the gunman and they “told” the police about the gunman on a roof, the fact that he wasn’t shot by the snipers—who subsequently killed him—“before” he fired is, well, very, very surprising.
So, given all the evidently inexplicable anomalies in the story we have been given about the shooting it is perfectly natural that people would speculate. Sure, “mistakes” may account for the otherwise ludicrous narrative we’ve been told to swallow, but why rule out any other?
What evidence is there to discount the possibility of a wider plot or fabrication? Frankly, there isn’t any. The official account reported by the BBC is patently absurd in many respects. Of course, it could be true, but it is perfectly reasonable for rational people to doubt it. And what’s wrong with suspecting something else other than “mistakes”?
Enter Marianna Spring.
Marianna Spring. Click to enlarge
The BBC rounded of their so-called analysis of the Trump shooting with a concluding segment delivered by Spring. She told the UK public that conspiracy theories and “hate” had dominated social media feeds as a result of Trump’s extraordinary near miss.
According to Spring, this alleged “hate” primarily consisted of people suspecting the whole thing was “staged.” This notion of a “staged” event, Spring claimed, is “evidence free.”
While, at this stage, such contentions are largely “evidence free,” so is the BBC’s assertion that “mistakes” are to blame. The BBC has no more “evidence” than anyone else. Or it certainly hasn’t reported any.
The point is not that one theory is more plausible than another. As I said, I have no idea what explains the outlandish tale of a farfetched assassination attempt. “Mistakes” may well turn out to be the most rational explanation but, in the absence of anything remotely believable, the only way any of us can find out is by examining the evidence.
But that is not what the BBC and Marianna Spring want us to do. They claim that only they, and other approved members of the epistemic authorities, have the wherewithal to undertake the task of investigating and thinking about the evidence. We should “trust” them to tell us the truth, Spring and the BBC will define reality for us, however “fake” it might appear.
In the accompanying BBC article, Spring wrote to expand on her ideas. Marianna explained why the “staged” hypothesis was so hateful:
It’s a word [“staged”] that has become synonymous with conspiracy theories on the fringes of social media, often to cast doubts on an attack or shooting. But in the last 24 hours it has flooded into mainstream online conversation, and posts filled with evidence-free speculation, hate and abuse have racked up millions of views on X. [. . .] As ever, the conspiracy theories sometimes started with legitimate questions and confusion. They centred on alleged security failings, with lots of users understandably asking how this could happen.
The only people “centred on alleged security failings” are the BBC, every other legacy media outlet, and state propagandists like Spring. The rest of us don’t have a clue, all we have is a narrative that makes no sense at all.
There is no evidence to suggest “mistakes” are even worth centering our focus of attention on at this stage. We are simply “told” that is the most plausible explanation by Spring and others like her.
Marianna Spring continues:
What unfolded on X was straight out of the pages of the conspiracy theory playbook, honed on social media by committed activists who deny the reality of almost everything, including the Covid pandemic, wars, mass shootings and terror attacks.
The “conspiracy theory playbook” is a made up, meaningless term Spring peddles without reason and contrary to all evidence. As I have explored at some length in my latest book—yes, I’m plugging it—The Manchester Attack: An Independent Investigation, there is no identifiable “conspiracy movement;” “radicalisation by algorithm” is baseless nonsense; there are no conspiracy “playbooks,” no “textbook radicalisation” and no evidence of anything that can be called the “conspiracy theorist’s mindset.”
These are empty, accusatory labels stuck on people who dare to question power by Marianna Spring and propagandists like her.
With regard to the Trump shooting, there is no “reality” for anyone to deny, precisely because the fairy tale we have in hand is nonsensical drivel. We don’t know what the “reality” is, that’s the point. But Spring and the BBC claim they do.
Spring has no evidence—nothing, nada, zilch—to substantiate what she has already determined to be “reality.” We’ve all seen the same footage, the same photographs and read the same reports and absolutely none of it is conclusive proof of anything other than the fact that a shooting occurred during which an innocent man sadly lost his life.
We do, however, get to the crux of Spring’s propaganda:
Incorrect attempts to identify the shooter fed into the various evidence-free narratives. [. . .] On X, political activists and supporters quickly hunkered down in their own echo chambers, reading posts that were recommended by the site’s algorithm and confirmed what they already thought. The rest of us scrambled to avoid this deep pit of conspiracy and speculation. This was a test for Elon Musk’s new Twitter – and it’s hard to say the site passed with flying colours. The other social media sites haven’t been inundated in the same way, perhaps because of their target audience and X’s reputation as a home of political discourse.
Springs certainty about what happened is a clear example of an “evidence-free narrative.” There are some obvious observations we can make.
“Political activists” have just as much of a right to express an opinion as the BBC and Marianna Spring. The BBC and Spring have not avoided the “deep pit of conspiracy and speculation.” They have waded neck deep into speculation and have labelled everyone who thinks their speculation might be wrong as “conspiracy theorists.”
‘X’ failed Springs “test” because it apparently did not censor enough people for her liking. Most of whom were not “political activists,” just ordinary folk equally speculating about an unfathomable and extremely weird event.
This is not the social media environment Spring wants. Marianna Spring is among the legacy media propagandists who have been dispatched to promote state legislation, such as the UK Online Harms Act, designed to censor everything we say online and, ultimately, everything we think.
The idea that Elon Musk is providing some sort of safe-online-haven for political discourse is just as silly as everything else Spring asserts without reason. The only part of her waffle that is vaguely germane is her identification of “echo chambers.” Musk’s X is an online information silo. The shadow banning is rampant.
This so-called failure in the alleged home of “political discourse” is the real target of Spring’s propaganda. In addition to “trusting” whatever bilge she and the BBC offer, we must not raise questions that lie outside the Overton window of our officially approved “political discourse.”
If we do we fail.
So say Marianna Spring and the BBC.
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Iain Davisis an independent journalist a researcher from the UK. You can read more of Iain’s work at his blog IainDavis.com (Formerly InThisTogether) or follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his SubStack. His book Pseudopandemic, is now available, in both in kindle and paperback, from Amazon and other sellers. You can claim a free copy of his new book “The Manchester Attack” by subscribing to his newsletter.
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America the stage show, we thank you for your service. Dopes.
I’ve also done done research beyond the basic.
First, not surprised by this even whatsoever, it’s been expected.
Here are the main reasons why there’s no point in doing research.
The Nazi SS works for the DOJ, the same dirt bags who’ve been after Trump, and then we have the FBI, master pasty frame up artists.
Oh, the FBI found bombs it shooters car, the bombs they gave him, or planted.
As often suggested, 7/7 patsies recruited to test security systems, and it was done prior to 7/7.
This patsie was probably recruited by the FBI to test security. He was on the roof for quite some time. I’ve heard 26 minutes.
The alleged shooter probably didn’t fire his weapon. Some are spuculating about a water tower, but it doesn’t matter, we have a patsie, and another shooter further out.
Trump has survived and that makes the future look very bleak for Nazi Amerika, for the Nazi sect, for Nazi NATO, and for the entire world.
JFK, Reagan, and now Trump, the Nazi SS implicated or carried out each one.
JFK, GHW Bush was in the Nazi SS, he then headed the Nazi SS, and its likely he was standing at the bottom of the Texa Book Depository in November 1963, and he was VP under Reagan who was wounded in March 1981, and then Bush was effectively president due to Reagan’s dementia.
If Trump were gone, Biden could step down and the Democratic candidate would have a chance against Trump’s replacement. Only Biden can beat Trump. Rugged election won’t be possible against Trump and a Biden replacement. We know this, because Biden is still in the White House mumbling and sniffing women and young girls.
Loved this, it doesn’t go into great detail about how the kid managed to climb onto the roof, or manage to get off shots. In fact, doesn’t assert ignorance about what ‘we’ think ‘we’ know. Just
the facts – what happened seems quite hokey, but there’s hate for ANYONE who questions (anything)!
The Idiot-crazy continues to burn…
Marianna Spring is a kike. Need we say more???
I’m firmly in the assassination hoax camp. That was made clear when Trump, after hearing gun fire and allegedly being nicked by a bullet in the ear, stood up and exposed himself to further potential harm while engaging in his ridiculous fist pumping theatrics. His actions clearly indicated he knew his life was never in jeopardy. If he had genuinely feared for his life , he would have hit the deck and if necessary, crawled off the stage on his hands and knees.
Real assassination attempt or hoax , it was clearly staged . Still not apparent what political play is being made here. What’s the Hegelian synthesis ? Is this an effort to generate sympathy for Trump? Elections are rigged .The JWO can install whichever front man best suited to fulfill the next stage of their agenda, regardless of public sentiment. Is it another gun control FF? Could just be more of the JWO dog and pony show , providing fodder to keep the sheep distracted and engaged in a phony electoral process, while the JWO implodes their country.
This incident with the bloody ear may just be occult Masonic/Kabbalistic ritual with Trump being ‘wounded’ before he OSTENSIBLY ascends back into power. Maybe someone here more knowledgeable can enlighten us regarding that possibility.
As this agenda progresses they are creating more blatantly absurd narratives with obvious evidence of subterfuge as part of their ‘Revelation of the Method’ game. If they can continue to increasingly distort reality, ratcheting up deceptions to higher and higher levels, while still convincing the ignoranti of their authenticity, they are gaining tighter psychological control over them , like an MMA fighter slowly choking out his opponent.
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This notion of a “staged” event, Spring claimed, is “evidence free.”
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Only a very stupid person or a liar would conclude that. The fact that they let a sniper take shots is the first piece of evidence that the event was staged by the top levels of power – Biden and Pelosi – who both made strong statements against another Trump presidency.
After being shot in the ear supposedly, Trump touches his right ear with his right hand, but his head is turned, and when his hand returns to view it is blood free, not a drop of blood. That is weird if not impossible.
Then the ludicrous statement about the roof being to steep to put cops up there. The roof was near flat with a 1 or 2 to 12 pitch.
The real problem is determining who was in on it, did Trump fake it or was it all Biden and his team missed. Audio forensics record 3 shooters. Crookes, 2nd shooter, and SS counter snipers.
Both assassin snipers missed? That seems unlikely.
And the NYTimes reporter picture of the bullet, the bullet trail in the pic is far to low to have gone through the ear. Then when Trump gets up after a SS pile on, the blood on Trump’s face is the wrong direction. The shooter shot looking at Trump’s face – the blood trail should be toward the back of Trump’s head, but we see the blood trail going to Trump’s mouth.
It was a hoax, so there can be no ‘assassination attempt’. There was no kid climbing the building, no shooter, no bullets. No video of anyone climbing the building or shooting at Trump. Fake dead trumptards. Dummy or mannequin placed on roof as the ‘proof’ for the assassin .Total hoax.
On first appearance Marianna Spring appears to be a thoroughly despicable woman. Maybe she is. My take however is she is a modern career woman who sees journalism as her passport to fame and fortune. Her Wikipedia entry evidences littles outside of education and the mainstream media. She is only twenty eight. I mean no slight to younger TTS visitors, but what can someone of those relatively youthful years bring to the table on “disinformation” other than be a conduit for disinformation herself? When I was 28 I knew fuck all about how the world worked.
The narcissism of career progression doesn’t necessarily deliberately negate truth seeking for conscious agenda shaping. It is certain that she was talent spotted for this narcissistic “ladder climbing” ambition that doesn’t so much reject objective truth, but regards “truth” as that which the power matrix determines and thus facilitates personal ambition. Spiritually, I submit she is in a very poor place.
Yes, I believe many we often assume to be fully conscious of their ne’er-do-welling are narcissistic cats paws for others to maneuver. I know of a few descent people, completely submerged in “career”. I’m afraid it is that old dichotomy of the “path of truth” versus the “path of action”. The careerists worship the big house, cars, and foreign holidays. Their “truth” is the means with which to acquire this things. And I believe, they will always pay the price in some way for their actions.
thank fuck for jarl cones, where would we be without him to explain what is going on…
beast/s= powers of the world, china, russia, india so on, beasts and powers have heads
revelation the kabbalic playbook, the one kikey koo mari(jew)ana wants you to follow by giving you the oposing viewpoint is that one of the heads sustains a mortal wound yet lives..
spell casting of the kikicular vampire parasite swarm is nearing completion, yet some seasoning is missing and it stinks like shit, in fact it stinks so bad no-one will stomach it
There is only one thing to focus on: most of the world is no longer fooled by the punch and judy antics, whatever the “truth” its all made up, just like their ambition of taking control of this world…
Quite what the trainers of the parasitic jew horde will do when ye olde cap stone mother ship appears 2025 only to find their trained rotten-vile-rs have fucked up a 3.5k “master-plan” yet remains to be scene..
District 9…
Tony O’Neill made the the post of the day.
Any news feature with kikes will be slanted for the benefit of the tribe and their mud orcs.
“The BBC provided a report by BBC Verify—the BBC’s very own factcheckers” … Oh the Bolshevik Brainwashing Cunts have their own “Verify” fact-checkers, do they? I’m sure they dig real deep using sound methodologies and common f*cking sense. Sure, sure. The only deep digging they do is when they maliciously sodomize the truth, which is always. *Cue the voice of a thick Brit*: “Well, it simply must be true, Gladys, because BBC Verify gave its seal of approval.” How dangerously f*cking stupid would one have to be to take the word of “BBC Verify”?
Then there’s the shameless whore Marianna Spring, who has clearly earned the right to have her tongue ripped out, affixed to a rabid badger, and stuffed up her own ass. Her bio states she is a “disinformation specialist”, and she sure f*cking is.
As for the Chump shooting, all I can say is my initial instinct, which has stuck with me, was that it was clearly staged. It is virtually impossible some asshole with a rifle would have been able to get to and be where he allegedly was, let alone get shots off, unless the Secret Serve-us was in on it. Security failures happen, but not to THAT extent…unless they’re scripted that way. I’m telling you from experience, any rooftop from 1000 meters in would have been sealed up tighter than my poop-chute at a cocktail party hosted by the Navy.
Thanks, Iain;
This is the same perspective that I hold. I refuse to tell myself shit I don’t know… in the hopes it will prove what I hope to be true.
What is the motive? Cui bono?
FACT – The globalists are in power and their biggest threat is Trump.
FACT – The Biden, Trudeau, Macron, Starmer, and most other government admirations of he West are nation-busting globalist administrations.
FACT – The war in the Ukraine and the threat of a WWIII against Russia has all come from the same globalist administrations.
FACT – Trump is not a globalist, and wanting to beef up US nationalism and not to make war against Russia is seen by all such globalist administrations as the end of their globalist crusade.
FACT – Biden likely cannot win another round against Trump, and that means the globalist cause would likely fail. It certainly would have a lot of opposition, and Trump would pull back from a war with Russia.
FACT – To the globalists Trump is a loose cannon and would be harder to control as President this time around.
FACT – Trump would get the Republican primary and block the way for a trusted globalist to be the Republican candidate to run against Biden who is garnering no real public support.
FACT – Trump, for all of his faults, is looking better and better against the senile Biden and it is now too late to slot someone in who can replace Biden.
SPECUALTION – It is highly doubtful and improbable that Trump would or could participate or even try to pull off such a hoax. He is far ahead of Biden. He would have nothing to gain. There also are too many witnesses to the July 13 event.
SPECUALTION – They globalists through their networks are confident they can rig another election but to do it against Trump again will only lead to more polarity and trouble, because this time round there is considerably way more support for Trump than Biden. Massive vote rigging with the machines and the mail-in balloting would be much more precarious.
SOLUTION OF THE GLOBALISTS – To save globalism and the on-going nation deconstruction efforts, it is necessary to take Trump out, and the sooner the better.
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Who might take a televised incident at face value these days?
The shooter took aim, grazed his target & ‘security’ watched it happen.
Then ‘security’ regained consciousness & shot the shooter after he managed to kill one man & wound 3 others.
What’s so incredible about that, considering the ineptitude befitting a nation that talmudically puts women & nonwhites in positions of ‘power’ above the white man?
Trump is lying his way all the way to the Whitehouse.
Liars, big horrible fakers don’t make good presidents.
Times are going to be bad under Trump, especially so if the dopes believe he’s some kind of messiah.
The legend Donald Trump – “Trump returned to his feet almost immediately after the shooting, pumping his fist in the air and telling his supporters to “fight!” before he was ushered away by Secret Service agents”. RT
The great righteous daddy of the kosher world order the United (cough cough) States of global rape and pillaging has turned out to be the best Mel Brooks movie Mel never wrote. So glad that all concerned human beings are so entirely informed about the truth and nothing but the truth that they never stop arguing which one it is they are warring about.
When the day comes for anyone to pass through the pearly gates of their own making and one finds that not only grammatical correctness nor superior intellectualism or even imagined choseness is not worth an instant of eternity the “body” of truth will be undisputed again for those led astray by the misguided individual wish of separation from the source. Until then mankind carries on in its usual circles.
Story telling – humankind greatest curative to keep UNIVERSAL TRUTH away. And gladly so. Who wants to be as any other while “I” am me and not “some grotesque You”?
Well, there is no consensus here – never seen an issue here so split on either side of the divide.
Marianna Spring is such a DISTURBING cipher.
No BBC ‘journalist’ has an individual style, we take that as read.
Every single clause of every single sentence of hers could be regurgitated by an AI/Word Processor, but that goes for them all.
But it is disturbing that at no point in her hundreds of hours of ‘research’ has she ever come across anything that made her question the Surface Narrative on the entire range of topics, a few of which she itemises here – ‘Covid pandemic, wars, mass shootings and terror attacks.’
Simon Smith says ‘ I believe, they will always pay the price in some way for their actions.’
I think his whole comment was typically wise and insightful, but I am not sure he is correct there.
Hollow Men – and now Women – of the type T S Eliot identified as the New – soulless – Type – unless apocolyptic events visit their own backyard to their physical detriment – simply persist in their Being.
They get older and wealthier – people around them die and they ‘mourn’ without gaining insight and attend the ‘Celebrations ‘ of their Life – video clips and popular songs – until they die themselves without really dying meaningfully.
Marianna Spring epitomises this hollowness in her entire carefully-groomed being.
Davies is obsessed with Misery Anna Sprung.
…. a BBC fembot of no discernable intellect or interest, he also when one listens to his torpid yapping bears an uncanny sonic similarity to right wing English political theorist and all round odd bod Jonathan Bowden..who was also an imbecile albeit a now dead one…
One can only chuckle at an article scribbled by a man, who when viewing one of the major psychological ops of the last 200 years..proceeds to discount the event itself because he has no ‘interest’.. and then jumps on the psychological aspect.. as filtered by the BBc fembot he so ardently follows…(it’s a love hate thing)…
not having worked out the basic premise that when one has done with ones business..it’s always best to flush the turd…you don’t silver plate it and put it on you ‘mandel peace’…
or bear in mind the menu seldom bears resemblance to what you shit in the pan..
The American book of political bullshit adds yet another chapter to its pages of unbelieveable shit ,produced and directed by its authors of the Pinocio department of lies , establised and run by the big nose brigade.
Looks like Marianna DOESN’T at least have a decent “rack”…
so it’s nothing that a roll of duct-tape (industrial-strength) around her pie-hole wouldn’t cure.. 😉
Erratum: “DOESN’T” should be “DOES”
You mention a couple of interesting characters there Chesterton. Jonathon Bowden was the darling of those who liked to clap a fine orator without rolling their sleeves up and engaging in political activism themselves. For those who like to follow, the notion that “oratory = leadership” is a frustrating equation for those who seek to teach. I recall him saying something like Nick Griffin was jealous of his oratory and was like some kid who saw some other kid “had a bigger Meccano set”.
You may have known him better than me. He came to a sad end. I think his forte was in the arts; there was much about him that was about putting on an act. I don’t say this to disparage the dead, but only to float an interesting observation: I heard that Jonathon had some sort of breakdown, “hearing voices”. I mention this because I’m minded of that MI5 guy, David Shaylor, who also “heard voices”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/what-renegade-mi5-officer-david-shayler-did-next-1763246.html
This might all certainly be all to do with genuine cognitive stress; however, there may be other possibilities involving deliberate induced madness by the state. I float this observation in order to see if anyone else has thoughts on this subject. Shaylor “heard voices” telling him he was Jesus. I heard — honestly 😊 — that someone who had stayed in a room that Shaylor that they had heard the same thing. This observation was coupled with the notion of some sub-auditory device. This is all of course something of a stretch, but as I say, I float the idea…
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Iain Davis is a very hard working writer if lacking a little imagination. He is part of the “UK Column” stable that positions itself closer to popularism and the half-truthers than satisfies my own need for a “truth-fix”. Iain must be congratulated for coming out to bat for Richard Hall, and writing on the Manchester bomb hoax.
I was on Davis’s email list until I got frustrated with his going along with “virus theory”. It is one thing to trawl the mainstream media for quotes on this and that, but it is another thing to avail oneself of divergent scientific background that UK Column etc would regard as too avant-garde. I have never heard or read anything from Mariann Spring other than vicariously from her persecution of Richard Hall, but I read extensively on the falsity of germ theory in 2020 from three or four authors at least. I regret sending Davis a rather pointed email on this.
There is a free copy of Iain Davis’s book in support of Richard Hall here:
https://iaindavis.com/xepb4uv/