The other main thrust from Neven is his theory that a lot of the hysterical Covid publicity is part of some sort of Illuminati conspiracy.
In my own defence - and I wish had more time to reply to comments, especially the twisting and slandering - but the Illuminati conspiracy stuff is wrong. That's not what I'm pushing at all. What I always say, is that the number one goal of the current global system is to increase concentrated wealth. That's not because there's some occult cabal conspiring to do so, but because this is simply what happens when wealth reaches a certain size and level of concentration. It takes over, and then increasingly worse things happen, until it destroys itself and the cycle begins anew.
Kassy, i have no idea what you are trying to say here. The fact is, Neven displayed gross disregard of science, committed victim-blaming, expressed misanthropy, makes this a political issue, deliberately posts fake news, disregards the valid fear of people to become sick or die, and downplays the implications of the virus.
Everything you wrote here, is either untrue or an exaggeration. Apparently, you are stuck in fighting-fascism-mode so much that just one small trigger is enough to convince you that you are dealing with 'The Enemy', and your reading comprehension goes down the drain. Or maybe you're just trolling to break this forum.
Either way, I thought that making you a moderator would make you less combative, authoritarian and annoying. Having to take on different roles can broaden one's horizon by empathizing with other perspectives, leading to further levels of understanding and wisdom. You, however, remain stuck in very simplistic and naive Us vs Them antagonisms, with no deeper analysis, wider overview or vision to speak of. Just the gut lashing out, a bit like a Trump supporter.
So, how about I revoke those moderator rights, and you can just be yourself, without having to take on a responsibility you're not cut our for?
All this shouldn't happen on a scientifically oriented forum. He drove away valued community members by doing so.
The only scientifically oriented part of this forum is the one about Arctic sea ice. That was the intended goal of this whole thing. It's the only thing that makes this forum valuable. The rest is BS that can be found all over the Internet.
Members who don't understand this, who don't understand how the Internet works, and clutch their pearls and walk off indignantly when Neven says a minor virus doesn't deserve this amount of hype, are not valued. They need to stop putting me on a pedestal and extrapolating my work on Arctic sea ice to all my other opinions. I'm just some idiot.
And if they can make an effort to actually understand what I'm trying to stay, instead of letting it get stuck in filters and projections, that'd be great. No need to twist my words so that it can be dismissed as nazi covidiot conspiracy stuff.