Scientific Illiteracy, Censorship, & The COVID Narrative: A Conversation With M. Nathaniel Mead

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Richard Jacobs

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🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

M. Nathaniel Mead returns to the podcast for an insightful discussion on scientific illiteracy, censorship, and the authoritative overreach that shaped the COVID-19 pandemic. What key information was dismissed, downplayed, or distorted by mainstream institutions? Press play to see for yourself…

Nathan is a public health researcher, author, editor, educator, biomedical heretic, and McCullough Foundation Scholar. His writing has appeared in publications such as Natural Health, Utne Reader, American Health, and Integrative Cancer Therapies. Over the last several months, he has published a series of deeply researched papers analyzing the efficacy, safety, and long-term implications of the COVID-19 modified mRNA vaccines.

In this conversation, we unpack:

The tactics used to suppress alternative scientific viewpoints.
How widespread scientific illiteracy fueled confusion and misinformation.
Psychological control mechanisms amplified by AI and social media.
The challenges faced by independent researchers questioning dominant narratives.

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📘 The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex – A bold look into pandemic medicine, alternative treatment approaches, and the fight against medical censorship.
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📙 Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World – A fantastic guide to spotting misinformation, flawed claims, and data manipulation — essential for modern critical thinking.
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0:30.3	This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs.
0:37.3	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast. I have a returning guest.
0:42.3	Nathaniel Mead is an epidemiologist, public health research scientist, a science editor.
0:47.2	He's currently a board member of Integrative Cancer Therapies. If you want to find him on X,
0:51.1	it's at M. Nathan 34403. Today we're going to talk about the subject we've
0:56.6	spoken about because Nathan's been here a few times by COVID. He's released a number of very
1:01.9	important papers regarding the infection rate of COVID, possible treatments, how the science
1:08.5	court-to-court has been progressing on it and vaccine efforts, et cetera, of very different perspectives than I think what you'll see in mainstream media. So I encourage all listeners, if you have any questions about COVID or want to know some of the shenanigans that are going on behind the scenes to listen to his other interviews. But I just want to welcome him back and we're going to talk about, you know, some of the, I mean, still some of the scientific illiteracy that surrounds it, you know, how authority has kind of taken a much stronger position over our lives and over our health. So welcome back, Nathan. Thanks for coming back. Very much. Rich, great to be here. Thank you. Well, somebody, so are you going to explain to me why, for instance, some people are still wearing masks.
1:45.6	That's like six years.
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