➡ On May 13, 2026, a webinar was held where the speaker discussed various topics. They announced that Ali would be attending a homesteading conference in Missouri and encouraged attendees to introduce themselves. They also mentioned the launch of the Cowan’s community circle, a platform for community gatherings and events. Lastly, they reminded listeners about the early bird pricing for the new biology experience in June at Polyface, an event featuring music, talks, and socializing. The speaker also shared some science news and expressed skepticism about certain scientific claims, such as the existence of an early immune system in the first organism on Earth and the discovery of signs of ancient life on Mars by the Curiosity rover.
➡ The text discusses the scientific debate around mitochondria and ATP production, questioning the validity of certain research methods. It also introduces the hantavirus, explaining its name’s meaning in different languages and its relevance in current news. The author expresses skepticism about the virus’s existence and the methods used to study it, emphasizing the importance of isolating the virus for accurate research. The text ends with a mention of a recent article from a Chinese institute studying the hantavirus and working on a vaccine.
➡ The article discusses the process of isolating a hantavirus, which involves using the same techniques as other viruses. The author criticizes this method, stating it’s not truly isolating the virus but rather taking unpurified material from a sick person, culturing it, and then calling the resulting particles an isolate. The author also questions the validity of the genome sequencing process, suggesting it’s a mix of genetic material from different sources, not just the virus. The article concludes by stating there’s no concrete evidence of the hantavirus causing illness, and other factors could be responsible for the reported symptoms.

Okay. Hi there everybody. Hope you’re having a good week. And today is another Wednesday webinar. Looks like May 13, 2026. And tomorrow Ali will be leaving for Missouri to do the homesteading conference. So if anybody’s going to be there, please catch me and say hello and introduce yourself. I would love to meet you the first thing. The other thing is we just this week I believe had the launch of the Cowan’s community circle. And so there’ll be a probably a link that you could sign up. And that’s where a lot of our events are coming out of and a lot of the community gatherings and place where people can communicate and hopefully make new virtual friends first and then real live in person friends later coming out of that.

So you’ll definitely want to be part of that. And so now is the chance to sign up. And we’re also still having the early bird pricing for the new biology experience in June at Polyface. So we’ll put a link to that. So everybody who hasn’t signed up for that is another. You don’t want to miss that. And that we’ll be able to gather in person and have good music and good talks and meet each other and just have a good time for a few days. Okay, I think that’s it. And then I. This may be a kind of short one, but we’ll see because I never actually test them out.

I know I just happened to look in the chat and people wondered if if I could bring Pumpkin in. He’s actually all three of them are asleep on the bed right now, which is just in the next room. But they almost never come in here when I’m doing a talk. They will otherwise, especially if they want food and it’s eating time. But somehow when I’m doing something or have a meeting, they just somehow know not to. They don’t even come to the door and scratch it or meow or anything. And Pumpkin doesn’t really like to sit in front of a camera or computer.

He gets antsy and runs away. Okay, so the first was let’s do some science news and I’m going to share my screen some of the things I found in these last couple weeks. I don’t think I have anything sound wise. So let’s just take a look at what we got. So the first was an interesting. See if I make that bigger, smaller, I can definitely make it bigger. All life on Earth comes from one single ancestor and it’s so much older than we thought. And scientists have pushed back Luca the that’s the single ancestor origin by hundreds of millions of years.

And I don’t know, this was published in May and I don’t, don’t remember where I got this from. But the thing that really caught my attention here was this is the next bit in the same article. So here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story. All life on Earth can be traced back to the last universal common ancestor or LUCA studies suggests that the organism lived only a mere 400 million years after its formation. But the reason I wanted to show this was further analysis also showed that this life form likely sported an early immune system, which means it was probably fighting off viruses.

Now let’s think about this for a minute. So this was the earliest common ancestor. This is the first organism to exist on Earth, meaning there was no other organisms of any sort, including viruses apparently, that existed at the time. So why would it need an immune system to fight off something that hadn’t even been invented by that time? I must admit I didn’t read the article, even though it says it’s only three minutes. But you can definitely spot scientific nonsense when you see it. Okay, so the next is, I think this one would be in the.

If you believe this, you believe, you’ll believe anything. And this was another piece I found in one of the feeds and I, I guess I don’t know where these things come from. Popular Science. And so this was a depiction of the Curiosity rover which finds signs of ancient life on Mars, which the Martian clay have held water for billions of years. And this was sent by NASA. This contraption Curiosity Mars rover that took this selfie at a location nicknamed Mars Mary anning after a 19th century paleontologist. The site of chemical experiment uncovering diverse organic molecules on Mars in the Glen Torridon region, which scientists believe was a site where ancient conditions would have been favorable supporting life if it was ever present.

Now the thing that caught my attention about this is it was about a week ago. We have a garage and we have a remote that opens and closes the garage. And typically when we leave, we like to close the garage door because we have food in there and we don’t want dogs or animals getting in. And just seems safer to close the garage door. So we do it with the remote because that’s the only way you can do it. And there was one time about a week ago that we forgot to close the garage door. But I remembered as we were like about quarter of a mile away down the street.

So I remembered then and I pushed the remote Assure that even a half a mile away, that would close the garage door. However, when we came back maybe a couple hours later, to my shock and surprise and horror, the garage door had, was still open and hadn’t been closed by the remote. And then I tested it and turns out the remote doesn’t work if you’re further away than the end of the driveway. So what does this have to do with this? So apparently on reading further, what this, how this Curiosity Rover came about, and this is why it sort of pissed me off, because NASA’s holding back.

So they put this contraption here into the hold of a rocket ship, all fully assembled and ready to go, obviously, because there’s nobody there to assemble it. So they put it in the hold of the rocket ship, fully assembled, and then they sent it 150 plus million miles. And then when it got there and made, of course, a safe landing, even though there’s no air there, allegedly. So then I don’t know how they could use the parachutes or whatever, but never mind. So they got a safe landing and then they used a remote to open the hatch door and this thing could find its way out.

So apparently NASA has a remote that can work through the vacuum of space 150 million miles. And most of us schlubs here on earth can’t open our garage door even from down the driveway. So that’s, that’s was really annoying to me because there’s a lot of money they’re using and they should share this amazing technology. So once they opened the hatch, they could use this, their guides, which pretty much the same remote stuff to guide this thing to, to travel about 100 miles away to this site called Mary Anning. And then this contraption could take samples of the soil and then analyze it in their soil sampling apparatus, which you can see there as part of this contraption, and could analyze it and find out all the chemicals and all the organic matter and then send all that information back 150 miles to the place, the headquarters of NASA, so they could send it wirelessly and give them all the data that they had collected.

And then to top it off, they could take a selfie of itself at this site with no apparent camera or no arm. And you got to wonder who took this picture because there’s no selfie arm coming out. And all I can say is if you believe this story, you’ll believe just about anything. All right, I have one more, I think Science News, and this was a article that I was sent. I don’t usually read this from our friend Joe Mercola, who was talking about the cellular health revolution, unveiling hidden threats and empowering solutions. And I just want to say there are some things in here about, you know, adopting a good diet and minimizing eliminating toxins and helping your gut and getting out in the sun.

But what really caught my attention was this line here and why in some ways this is so annoying. And I can only think that the reason people keep doing this is it really makes you sound like you have this special secret knowledge that most of us peons that we don’t, we don’t have this. So in my appearance we discussed how mitochondrial dysfunction caused by modern toxins is the root of many disease. ATP production has decreased up to 75% compared to a century ago. Now this is written obviously, or the interview was in 2026. So a century ago was 1926.

And here you can see this that I’m going to show. But I actually asked the AI thing when was the discovery that mitochondria make ATP? And this agrees with what Mercola site had said. The discovery that ATP is made in the mitochondria was 1948. So that of course brings up the question 100 years ago is 22 years before they even discovered, before it was even a twinkle in the researchers eyes collectively that mitochondria is the site of ATP production. So how could you possibly know that the ATP production is 75% less or up to 75% less than it was 100 years ago, which was 22 years before anybody even had the idea that mitochondria make ATP in the first place.

So that’s obviously scientific nonsense, but even more so. And people go on about mitochondria. And I did a webinar that I highlighted the question of whether mitochondria are real. And I said even on light microscopy you can see these squiggly lines in many different cell types, not all, but many. Now if you think about it, the question has anybody actually in a living system, or so called in vivo, actually seen or identified or proven that those little squiggly things, inclusions in tissues, are the site of the chemical production of ATP? And the answer of course is no.

And so then they have to do it by subcellular fractionation, which Harold Hillman devoted about 50 pages, one of his books to talk about the nonsense of subcellular fractionation, which means they take cells or tissues and they do a whole lot of things to allegedly isolate these mitochondria from the tissues and then they try to find out what was in these mitochondria and what they might have done. And there’s a whole lot of chemicals and centrifuging and other processes involved. And as he pointed out, you have no idea whether this reflects anything that was actually in the mitochondria while it was in the living tissue.

Because things shift and things move and all this centrifugation and all this filtration and all the chemicals and it’s etc. They shift things. And even just removing things tends to change the osmotic balance and things shift. So you have no idea whether these things are even in the mitochondria, let alone what they do in the living system. And so I would get rid of the whole thing and just say, when you’re poisoned, you don’t work so well and it’s not good to get poisoned. So you might want to get out in the sun and eat good food and you’ll probably be a lot better off.

And we can skip the scientific nonsense about the ATP production of mitochondria in the mitochondria. Okay, so now I wanted to get into, which is so many people have asked me about this and it’s been a big part of the news. And even though in some ways I’m reluctant to give this more attention because really what the main thing that they are looking for is our attention and our interest. And so in some ways my instinct is to avoid these things. But sometimes, like Covid and other things, there’s so much play and so much talk and so much interest that it may be worth mentioning.

So of course the subject here is the hantavirus. So the first thing I did was look up, so what does that, what does hanta mean? And so I found this two different sources. Interestingly, in Hebrew, hanta is a colloquial term that means lie, scam or nonsense. And then they point out that in Hungarian it means rambling or empty talk. And here I found actually another source of. In Hungarian, hanta is informal slang associated with nonsense, empty talk, exaggeration, or made up excuses. Depending on the context, it can basically translate to something along the lines of BS or rambling.

So from this point of view, it would be technically correct to say there is a hanta. There is hanta, whether it’s a hantavirus, because there’s a lot of rambling and BS and scams and nonsense involved in this. So that’s the first interesting thing about this. And I think this would come into the category of for some reason, and it Seems to be a kind of law of, of the Illuminati or whoever, whoever the they is, they seem to have to tell you what they’re doing so that they can always say, well, we told you that this was nonsense, so you didn’t believe me, but we told you right out, right out in the name.

And so if you believe it, that’s your own stupid fault. But then you see pictures like this. These are passengers being sprayed by disinfect with disinfectant by the Spanish government before boarding a plane after disembarking from the hantavirus stricken cruise ship MV Hondius in the temple at Canary Islands in the airport. So this is similar to the COVID story about how they give you these kind of pictures. Interestingly, this guy, he doesn’t need to wear a hazmat suit. He just has a regular old mask which doesn’t even filter viruses according to their own logic. Maybe he’s a disembarking passenger, I guess, but anyways, he didn’t need to wear the suit quite yet.

So these are the sort of fear narratives. So let’s then take a look at the science of the hantavirus. Now the first thing I want to bring up here is, was an interesting, another thing from the AI thing which I don’t really know how to use AI, but whenever I go Google something on Firefox, it always comes up with this AI thing. And the thing I wanted to mention here is it’s a very interesting line that they say isolation of hantavirus involves laboratory techniques to separate the virus from samples, typically using cell cultures or specific assays.

This is the line which I wanted to really emphasize here. This process is crucial for studying the virus and developing treatments for vaccines. Now this is obvious in order to prove something is real and in order to study it and find out what it’s made of and what it does. This is the. You don’t hit the nails with the toolbox, you isolate the hammer first. And that allows you to make sure the hammer is real and then you can see what the hammer is made of. And I’ve been through this a million times and they’re just pointing out that this isolation of the virus is crucial for studying the virus and even developing treatments or vaccines.

So this is re emphasizing what we’ve been saying all along. And isolating hantavirus is essential for research and understanding the virus better. The virologists tend to skirt this and say, yeah, we don’t really, we can just get the DNA or the rna and we don’t really need to isolate the actual virus anymore. But that is incredibly counterintuitive and illogical because if you haven’t isolated, that is, have the thing, how do you know it is actually even has RNA, DNA boogers or anything else? The answer obviously is you don’t. And so even the AI thing is aware that isolating hantavirus allows you to do research.

And again, we all know this, there’s two ways. But the main way to isolate the virus is the cell culture, meaning they grow the virus in a specific cell line that is susceptible to the hantavirus. The virus replicates within these cells for allowing for further study. And then they do assays. These are typically done after the cell culture. And these are things like pcr, which amplifies the viral genetic material. But again, you have to isolate it first, show that you have a thing, show that it has genetic material before you can amplify it, or do a PCR and serological tests that identify antibodies.

The same thing. You have to isolate it first, identify the components, in this case the antigens, and then identify antibodies which are therefore specific to this particular antigen. And so the whole question of existence revolves around this isolation. And you can even get a sense of that just from even what the common AI, which knows nothing, will tell you. And again, just to emphasize this is exactly the same isolation as every other virus. And just to make sure of that, like, I don’t want anybody to believe me, I said, well, maybe, you know, everyone, you think maybe with this new virus, they got a new virus, the hantavirus, Maybe they have a different way of isolate.

Maybe this time they’re going to do it right. Maybe they’re going to take these people, they say, have this new disease, which is either, you know, some kind of bad pneumonia or some sort of hemorrhagic fever, which happens with many other things. It happens with drugs and chemicals and EMF toxicity and many other things cause hemorrhaging. Aspirin overdose causes fever and hemorrhaging. And pneumonia is caused by lots of things, so there’s no specific symptoms. But you think maybe one time they’re actually going to take some fluid or something from a sick person and isolate out this virus from them and not do the whole cell culture thing.

Maybe this time they’ll do it. So I decided, okay, I got to look and see. What about this time? What about hantavirus? So here is one article. It’s recent. It’s from a journal called Vaccine. You can see the reference there. Volume 41, issue 49 30th of November 2023. There’s a couple interesting things. These are mostly apparently Chinese guys, the Institute of Medical Virology in Wuhan, apparently they’re studying hantaviruses and working in 2023 on making vaccines against the hantavirus. So this was the article and so they obviously reference that they have a novel hantavirus isolate. So of course then we go to the method section and with bated breath we want to know how did they isolate this virus? And it’s exactly the same as all the other viruses they took.

Vero E6 those are the monkey kidney cells and some other line of cells called MRC5. They were cultured in Delbecco’s modified Eagle medium. That’s the same one as the COVID SARS CoV2 and the measles virus and every other virus that we know of. This is the starvation medium. They put their 10% fetal bovine serum in there. They put the kidney toxic antibiotics, streptomycin in particular and penicillin. And then it broke down and they got particles which they point at and say these are the isolates of the hantavirus. And so they do this and then different cells and see what they can get and see how fast it takes and whether they can do things and get more faster or slower.

But the point I want to make is this is exactly the same techniques of isolation, meaning all they did was take unpurified material, meaning they took mucus or bronchial lavage fluid from somebody who had nonspecific symptoms. They’re no different than anybody else who’s very sick. They put them on these cultures, they starved it, poisoned it, culture breaks down, they call that an isolate. And then they take pictures of it. And they don’t do proper controls, so they don’t know if the pictures you would get the same would be with you didn’t put anything like from the snot in, which is what we found over and over and over again.

So this is the same nonsensical genetic virology as we see over and over again. Nothing new or different. And then I just wanted to bring up something. So what about, what about don’t we have the genome of this Swiss hantavirus sequence? Was it actually found? And this was a piece done by somebody that we know at US Mortality has, I believe, sub stack Ben and let me just click on this. And so here you can see what he wrote. And it’s. This is the substack u s mortality May 11, 2026 and this is the Andes virus sequence from the Switzerland linked outbreak has now been posted.

So they’ve actually posted the genome. But, and he does, he asked the question, how does this sequencing actually work? And as you can imagine, since they get the isolate is this cell, cell culture breakdown which has all the fetal bovine serum in the viral transport medium and the monkey kidney cells or the other cell lines that they’re using and all the things that are in the mucus and bronchial fluid of the person they took it from. All that is together and all that is called an isolate. And as you say, the sample is inherently mixed. You are not starting with a clean isolated viral genome.

Same with SARS cov2 where the RKI and CDC describe workflows based on fragments from mixed clinical material rather than direct end to end sequencing of a complete viral genome. So the starting material is a mixture of genetic material from different sources. In other words, even though they give us the impression that they’re taking this isolated thing called a virus, which is not the case, extracting the viral material, the genetic material so called, from only this thing, which is not the case, and then sequencing it in a reliable sequencing technique, whether that’s true or not is another story.

But the important point is by no means did they take this material that they’re sequencing from any specific isolated thing. They just ground up the toolbox and saw what’s in the toolbox. And there’s some rubber and there’s some steel and there’s some whatever else is in the toolbox. And that’s what hammers are made of. Even though in this, our example, there wasn’t even a hammer in the toolbox. Now he goes on to say in one reported workflow, 65, sorry, 56% of the reads that is the source material were confirmed to be human RNA after DE hosting against a human genome model.

In other words, they compared it to, to what they say is the human genome and they found that this viral sequence, 56% of it, actually came from the person who they got the sample from. In another 2.9 million out of 3.1 million quality filtered reads, or roughly 93.5% were human. In other words, this was not obviously taken from a thing called a virus. And the genetic material, or so called RNA DNA was not extracted and then read end to end. Rather it’s a whole bunch of mixed up stuff. And amazingly they even proved that in this case, 93% of the stuff that they say is the viral genome, you can demonstrate actually came from the person or a person.

So then they do these short reads. So they grind them up into little pieces and they do this graph assembly. That means they do not read the virus from start to finish. Instead, as we know, they sequence short fragments. They have no idea where the origin of these fragments are. In fact, they’ve proven that they’re actually not from any organism or any particle called a virus. They’re from humans or anything else that might be living in the culture or found in the culture, etc. So this is pure nonsense. They stitch them together, produce a plausible genome, but the genome has no relation to what was actually proving that it came from a particle called a virus.

So you could say it’s plausible and computationally reconstructable. But what we’re interested in is the proof that this is a complete viral genome and this is obviously not the case. And then if you really want to get into this, he gives an example of how you can do this yourself. So the key point is simple. A reconstructed genome is not the same as getting something intact and then sequencing it may be plausible and useful, but it has no relevance for proving the thing exists. It’s physically unvalidated and the therefore no evidence that such a thing actually exists.

So at the end of the day, the hantavirus or the nonsense BS scam virus, that that’s what the word, the title that they gave to it is the same thing as all the other virus stories that we’ve encountered. And then people will of course want to ask me, so what caused these people on the cruise ship to be sick? And I just want to remind everybody that our cardinal logical premise is you don’t have to know what caused anything to know what didn’t cause it. So at this point, we know there is no evidence that there is anything called a hantavirus.

And so we don’t necessarily know why these people got sick because we weren’t there, we didn’t investigate. We don’t even really know that they did get sick, although that’s probably the case. And as I said, when they talk about severe respiratory problems or hemorrhagic disease, there’s lots of things that are actually known to cause hemorrhaging, including chemicals and aspirin overdose and pharmaceutical medicines and high dose electromagnetic fields. And these can also cause damage to the lungs and other tissues. And so we have a whole lot of plausible explanations for why this is. But we don’t have to make a claim that’s saying that we know because we don’t.

We weren’t there. We didn’t investigate. They didn’t investigate either. All they do is make this bogus hantavirus claim. And all we can say for sure is it is, as the words suggest, just another scam. And hopefully it will go the way of most of the scams, which is if we don’t give it attention, it will evaporate. But we’ll have to see where this one goes. Okay, I think I can finish a little early today. And thanks, everybody, for joining me, and I may see some of you this weekend, and that would be great. And otherwise, hopefully, I’ll be back next week.
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