Reason coined the ‘DataVirus’ concept in September 2020. Real Cases illustrations.
Dec 21 update: Omicron’s DataVirus – Reason coined in Sept 2020 the DataVirus concept as far more dangerous than hacking: it is a stealth, good-looking dataset merging into your business data, and designed to target your brain and decision-making.
Those who saw the film Inception will immediately see what I am about with our September article and this blog.
As a quick reminder, the Inception storyline reads as follows (in bold by this blog’s author):
“Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief with the rare ability to enter people’s dreams and steal their secrets from their subconscious. His skill has made him a hot commodity in the world of corporate espionage but has also cost him everything he loves. Cobb gets a chance at redemption when he is offered a seemingly impossible task: Plant an idea in someone’s mind. If he succeeds, it will be the perfect crime, but a dangerous enemy anticipates Cobb’s every move.”
Blog’s updates history:
21st Dec 2021
- added VII/ ‘Omicron’ exponential 200000 cases projection
- in IV/ NHS & ONS Covid cases bed occupancy narrative, the truth is Covid cases use 5% NHS beds. The narrative of NHS ‘overwhelmed’ is nonsense in the same way it wasn’t in 2020 (please remember Nightingale Hospitals were mostly never used).
- in VI/ PCR tests were never fit for purpose: added an article dated 1st Jul 2020 from the Bulgarian Medical Association
19 Mar 2021
- Typos corrections, enriched article with new links.
Dec 2020
- Update with Delta variant and Lockdown 3 – Below V/
Sept 2020
- Reason coins the ‘DataVirus’ concept – illustrations with below I/ to V/
Reason coined the DataVirus as being similar to a seed planting the idea in your mind, i.e. Executive’s mind: it is planting the DataVirus in your data, hence inoculating design-intended information that will lead systems, analysts and finally decision-makers to use it as an innocent and reliable input and starting point for their decisions.
Executives will think they decide, while they only act upon what commands the DataVirus: how to take control of a business without even raiding its shares or going through complex M&A?
Traditional viruses used to target data on your servers, hard drives, or even floppy disks or a USB dongle. It could also be about damaging operating systems, and documents, or deleting business data with more recent attacks on personal data. Its goal was essentially to damage.
The next level was about all kinds of penetration and taking control of systems.
Then came ransomware, which penetrated the system to lock computers and demand ransom to give you control back over your assets. A famous example was the Spora infection in 2016.
Alongside the two above software viruses, we saw more and more sophisticated IT systems breaking and penetrations to extract documents and make them public on online servers.
The DataVirus is the stealthiest and most dangerous one in our view: it looks like any dataset you use or can acquire from a third party. It migrates from vendor to vendor and looks legitimate but the trick lies in its real source and mode of preparation or generation. Data collection you would get is not tracked nor sources are properly assessed. Or they are but will have been infiltrated by DataViruses on their time. In essence, it contains information that will end up influencing, and manipulating the real course of the whole data analysis and insights eventually presented to Executives. They will make decisions upon it thinking this is the right way to go, but in reality, they will go in the way DataVirus designers wanted them to go.
DataVirus: 7 Real-life Cases Illustrations
The COVID situation and the way it’s been addressed in the UK in 2020 offered an incredible resource for the observation and identification of DataViruses. We present below only six of the most significant ones, but more exist and could be added to the list.
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I/ LancetGate & Surgisphere Analytics scandal
The LancetGate & Surgisphere Analytics scandal has resulted in producing a false study undermining the real medicinal potential of HCQ, which led the WHO and other countries to stop their research on its benefit at the early stages of the Sars-Cov-2 infection.
The New England Journal of Medicine also published papers based on Surgisphere Analytics Data.
Timeframe: c. one week from made-up data to WHO decision. How do you manage such a performance? Interestingly, once the fraud was uncovered, the same institutions were not that quick this time to return to research on HCQ.
Over time, other medical supplements and drugs were put through unscientific pylori and health researchers had to run over a mine-field of issues and demoting rhetoric: Ivermectin, Amantadine, Vitamin D, Zinc and much more.
Read the investigation made by the Guardian. As an appetizer, we reproduce just this:
“A Guardian investigation can reveal the US-based company Surgisphere, whose handful of employees appear to include a science fiction writer and an adult-content model, has provided data for multiple studies on Covid-19 co-authored by its chief executive but has so far failed to adequately explain its data or methodology.”
II/ The 13-year-old buggy script code by Fergusson and Imperial College – Lockdown 1
We saw in March 2020 the use of a 13-year-old buggy script code by Prof. Neil Fergusson and Imperial College to justify the first lockdown.
Read Wandisco’s statement and analysis here and a more general review of Prof. Fergusson’s incomparable talents here.
This rather scientific disgrace was never addressed nor properly questioned. Neil Fergusson had to leave the government for breaking lockdown rules but came back later in the year through the front door of the newly established NERVTAG, an even more obscure advisory group behind cabinet ministers. He will stand behind Christmas 2020’s lockdown 3.
III/Wrong data & projections by chief scientific advisers – Lockdown 2
Wrong data & projections at Downing Street TV conference by chief scientific advisers – Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance – led to the 2nd lockdown. This apparent fraud was quickly noticed by real researchers and some news outlets.
The responsible gentlemen corrected it but the lockdown remained in place.
Read Exclusive reporting by The Telegraph, The Guardian,
IV/ Frenetic publications twisting official ONS and NHS data about hospital bed occupation and NHS “overwhelmed”
We are continuously being bombarded in the news with publications twisting official ONS and NHS data about hospital bed occupancy, stating hospitals are “overwhelmed” while you have heard that Nightingale hospitals were barely used (Birmingham’s just wasn’t at all).
Read The Mail Online here “Big Brother fury as the government uses Twitter as a propaganda tool to attack the Mail’s coronavirus analysis”.
Also here “What they DON’T tell you about COVID: Fewer beds taken up than last year, deaths a fraction of the grim forecasts, 95% of fatalities had underlying causes… and how the facts can be twisted to strike fear in our hearts”.
Nightingale Hospitals being quietly dismantled (29 patients treated all in all) before EXCEL located one being as quietly reactivated with only 300 out of 4000 beds capacity, following the MailOnline Investigation.
Finally, “The figures show Birmingham Nightingale has not treated any patients throughout the pandemic. It is the most expensive hospital to create at £66.4m.” (Source)
Nov and Dec 2021: the same narrative spreads across the news: the NHS is overwhelmed and beds are mostly occupied by ‘unvaccinated’. Both assertions are inaccurate: the NHS is, in fact, far from being under pressure and it appears that most of the cases are related to patients inoculated with the BioNTech agents.
The end of Dec 2020 was the last time the Daily Telegraph published an independent and rigorous analysis destroying the Health Secretary, SAGE and a few other officials’ Covid scaremongering narratives. Something changed since in the newspapers’ line.
Check the below screenshot taken from the Spectator’s daily dashboard:
V/ Groundless allegations of a new hyper-dangerous strain 70% more lethal around Christmas 2020 leading to Lockdown 3
The 3rd lockdown was based on a rule of broken thumb alleging a 70% higher danger of a new strain not that new, in fact. Guess who stands behind this scientific charlatanism? Neil Fergusson and a few other people from SAGE/NERVTAG.
BBC, 23 Jan 2021: “Covid: ‘More deadly’ UK variant claim played down by scientists”.
And guess who’s got back to being the NERVTAG through the big door to push on this scientific blunder? Here is a clue: F…….., (no! it’s not the F word).
VI/ Persistent use of unreliable PCR tests falsifying the real level of infections.
What we have, in reality, is a pandemic of false measures. The test error % is so high that it can miss cases or, in most of the cases, say one’s infected while it’s not the case.
Experts and decision-makers have known this scientific fact for a while and the question today is why do you carry on with these tests, do you have a particular interest in keeping the infections high and scaring the population?
Read our blog on this, 7 Dec 20: “Just a bit about PCR and LFDs Covid tests”
British Medical Journal, 18 Dec 2020: “In his letter, Bethell stated that “swab testing people with no symptoms is not an accurate way of screening the general population, as there is a real risk of giving false reassurance.” He added, “Widespread asymptomatic testing could undermine the value of testing, as there is a risk of giving misleading results. Rather, only people with Covid-19 symptoms should get tested.”
The WHO, 20 Jan 2021 also published a notice explaining how tests may not be used so simplistically, and require a proper holistic approach by the GP before concluding whatsoever.
WHO’s Notice title: ” Nucleic acid testing (NAT) technologies that use polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detection of SARS-CoV-2″
Bulgarian Medical Association, 1st Jul 2020: “COVID19 PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless. Though the whole world relies on RT-PCR to “diagnose” Sars-Cov-2 infection, the science is clear: they are not fit for purpose.”
Update, 21st Dec 21
VII/ The Omicron cabal for Christmas 21: mirroring Dec 20 unscientific ‘Delta 70% more contagious’ Ferguson’s alarmism, to force the PM’s hand into lockdown 3
The Omicron scaremongering new campaign started on the 7th and 8th of December spreading identical information over many news outlets (Sky News, The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph and so on) using headers as follows:
It takes the reader to run through almost half of the article to realise that this “study” used to threaten the UK with a 3rd lockdown for Christmas is based on 12 people (twelve, yes).
“Omicron significantly reduces Covid antibodies generated by Pfizer vaccine, study finds Early data suggests people who have had Covid have more protection than just those who have been vaccinated”.
This turned out to be used to alarm the population and push towards ‘vaccine boosters’ rather than any advice on, for instance, boosting your immune system in the cold season.
It takes the reader to run through almost half of the article to realise that this “study” used to threaten the UK with a 3rd lockdown for Christmas is based on 12 people (twelve, yes)
Please find me a business that would bend its strategy and course of action based on the outcome of a more or less robustly designed focus group.
Nevertheless, a Press Conference was called on the 8th evening with the Prime Minister announcing the move to “Plan B” despite assurances given this summer the return to normal was irreversible.
Brexit minister and PM’s probably best adviser, Lord Frost, resigned following this move, among other reasons.
Some advisers around the Prime Minister, although it is unprofessional, created an exponential projection/forecast of 200000 omicron cases a day to support this policy move.
But now that Plan B got implemented, this piece of crap in analytics that would get an E in any GCSE exam, “Health officials admit it is now wrong to assume the doubling rate will remain constant, as new measures are slowing the spread of Covid-19”
The Telegraph, 18th Dec 21: “Modelling behind Sajid Javid’s claim of 200,000 daily omicron infections ‘no longer valid’ Health officials admit it is now wrong to assume the doubling rate will remain constant, as new measures are slowing the spread of Covid-19”.
The Health Secretary appears to have been misled by some advisers, a constant phenomenon targetting the government’s decision-making since March 2020.
Watch here how Sky News, to mention only one media, debunks this intellectual fraud.
And below is the (devastating) Twitter exchange between Graham Medley, chair of the SAGE modelling group and Fraser Nelson, Editor of the Spectator.
All information from I/ to VII/ are (summaries of) official, public Government communications or news and outlets. It is public knowledge that the conclusions drawn at each step I/ to VII/ are widely documented.
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