My experience, in delving into Denis’s presentations rather intensively, following the recent contentious discussion of his work here, is of a progressive falling of scales from my eyes.
What I think I see - at the moment - is an honourable, truth-seeking scientist and intellectual (provisional first estimate!), with a message for us that’s simply vital:
In a nutshell: much - most? - of what we’re ear-bent about by the pols, the mediawhores and the technocrat class (do you get the core sense of that phrase ‘the Permanent Bullshit Blizzard’?) is politically motivated, rather than genuine concern about genuinely urgent crises. It should be seen as ‘concern’ trolling about largely invented ‘crises’, created to stampede us, the plebs, and to give a cover story for the brutish authoritarianism of a ruling ‘elite’ in a panic about their own failing power; and about the real crises - the whole panoply of the Long Descent - that now threaten us.
Pandemics, climate emergency, democracy-defending, resisting dangerous dictators, ‘trusted’ information scams, fart-chucking, and so on: these are the continuing cons of the deep-state gics. Their umbilically-dependent servitors are the pols, whores and ‘experts’: career-enslaved functionaries, all of them - whether they know it cynically, or doublethink it.
Literally everything emanating from them should be viewed for the most part with great - and abiding - scepticism.
The blatant, breath-taking covid scam has galvanised a lot of us to wake from our long-time hypnotised state (very comfy and heavily foible-distracted, in the case of the Pampered Twenty Percent; us!), and to lurch into a much more radical state of scepticism about the very bases of our beliefs about the society we live in.
My - provisional - estimate of Denis is that he’s a path-finder in that process. And a genuine, truth-seeking scientist.
Sorry, more full-length videos; but - what can yer do!
) rather than teach his students badly. I don’t think the question of him being a charlatan arises.