Dr Gloria Moss - interview two

James Dellingpole welcomes Dr Gloria Moss back to the podcast, noting that most listeners found the first interview "amazing." Dr Moss recaps her background as a "hybrid creature" combining industry experience with academia, and her 20-year research into cognitive sex differences — work she describes as "swimming in shark-infested waters" as one of only two academics in Britain arguing for innate differences between males and females.

Peer Review: Origins and Critique

This forms the most substantiated section of the interview, with extensive citations:

Robert Maxwell and Pergamon Press:

• Maxwell (original name Ludwig Hoch) established Pergamon Press in 1951 after buying Butterworth Press for approximately £500,000 in modern terms
• Dr Moss cites a BBC documentary featuring former MI6 officer Desmond Bristow, who corroborates that Maxwell approached MI6 for funding before establishing the press
• Maxwell rented a mansion from Oxford University costing nearly £100,000/year (modern terms) just seven years into his venture
• Dr Moss leaves listeners to "decide for themselves" whether intelligence service involvement occurred

Peer-reviewed evidence against peer review:

The Lancet censorship case:

• Dr Peter McCullough's finding that 74% of 300+ autopsy deaths could be linked to the jab was removed within 24 hours before peer review comments could be received
• The current Lancet editor advocates making the journal more "activist" and aligned with sustainable development goals

AI infiltration:

• Wiley retracted 11,000 articles due to AI-generated content
• One article referred to breast cancer as "bosom peril"
• ~20% of computer science papers (2020–2024) were AI-written

Dr Moss notes she has personally published ~70–80 peer-reviewed articles and served as editor/reviewer, speaking from direct experience.

Critical Thinking as Antidote

Dr Moss advocates objective reasoning over instrumental reasoning (agenda-driven), citing:

• Max Horkheimer (1947), Eclipse of Reason: society's shift from objective to instrumental reasoning leaves it vulnerable to authoritarianism
• Socrates: "A life without investigation is not worth living" — executed for encouraging Athenian youth to ask questions
• Descartes: "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt as far as possible all things"
• Einstein: "It's not that I'm so smart, but I stay with the questions longer"

Dr Moss co-authored "Light Bulb Moments and the Power of Critical Thinking" with Catherine Armitage, available via Truth University Press.

Plagues: Contagion vs. Poisoning

Dr Moss applies critical thinking to historical plagues, questioning the rat/flea narrative:

Professor Samuel Cohn (The Black Death Transformed, 2002):

• No archaeological or narrative evidence of mass rodent death
• No contemporaries mentioned rats
• Yersinia pestis thrives at 10–25°C — incompatible with Scandinavian cold and Mediterranean heat
• Transmission speed of 10 miles/day impossible via fleas (which move at 1 foot/day, 100 yards/year)

Dr Scott and Dr Duncan (The Biology of Plagues): corroborate transmission speed impossibility

1665 Great Plague of London:

• Lockdowns and 40-day quarantine for suspected cases
• Certificate of health required to leave London
• Dual-track system: regulations did not apply to "people of note"; hospitals prohibited near noble residences
• Journalist Henry Muddiman recorded a butcher near death who requested tobacco and ale — made "hasty recovery" and attended church the following Sunday

Eyam, Derbyshire:

• Edward Unwin: carried to grave, requested posset (containing alcohol), recovered
• Margaret Blackwell: delirious, drank bacon fat (brother's cooking) instead of water, recovered
• Pigs contain proteins that bind and neutralise venom

Pattern identified:
Dr Moss found plague sites in Wales, Devon, Cornwall, and northern England coincided with mining locations:

• Holywell, Wales: lead miners, virtually wiped out
• Chester (1603): copper mines, 150 deaths/week
• Tiverton, Devon (1591): tin mines, deaths rose from ~80/year to 550/year
• Bodmin, Cornwall: tin and copper mines
• Calstock: 60–70% of mine tenants died
• Durham: similar pattern

Lake Issyk-Kul (Black Death origin point): adjacent to Kumtor gold mine, which produced 13.8 million ounces of gold (1997–2022), valued at approximately £56 billion

Spanish Flu (1918–1919):

• Dr Rosenau (US naval base) published in Journal of the American Medical Association: attempts to transmit via mucus, blood injection, and direct breathing failed to infect volunteers
• Symptoms (bleeding from orifices, lung haemorrhaging, coagulation failure, cyanosis) match boomslang snake envenomation
• Boomslang: tree snake, back-fanged, native to southern Africa

Carlo Brogna et al. (2021): found 36 toxin-like peptides in blood, faeces, and urine of Italian COVID victims — 20 snake venoms, 16 sea creature venoms (e.g., cone snail)

Antidotes to venom cited:

• Nicotine/tobacco: binds to nicotinic receptors
• Alcohol: homeopath Dr George Matthews' recommendation
• King James I's Counter-Blast to Tobacco (1603) and tobacco taxation — simultaneous with plague
• Modern "tobacco-free generation" policies and vaping promotion questioned

Giant Trees and the Firmament

Dr Moss directs listeners to truthreports.substack.com for three articles on giant trees:

Stump-to-height ratios proposed: 1:20, 1:9, 1:2 — yielding hypothetical tree heights of 37–236 miles, 17–105 miles, or 4–24 miles

Ancient sources cited:

• Book of Enoch (2nd century BC): Nephilim described as 3,000 ells (~1 mile) in height; angels cut down trees to prevent Nephilim escaping into the firmament
• Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet 5: cedar tree that "scrapes the sky"

Rocket experiments cited:

• Operation Fishbowl (1962): US/Russian collaboration, rocket obstacle at 78 miles
• Civilian Space Exploration Team: rocket obstacle at 72 miles

Dr Moss notes concentric line patterns on alleged stumps resembling wood grain, dismissed by geologists.

Truth University Publications

Websites:

• Truth University: www.truthuniversity.co.uk
• Truth Reports (Substack): truthreports.substack.com

Most Significant and Surprising Points

1. Peer review's intelligence service origins: Maxwell's documented MI6 approach and rapid accumulation of wealth, with Dr Moss explicitly leaving conclusions to listeners
2. Top journals publishing peer review's failures: PNAS (2021, 2024) and Silver et al. (2014) systematically documenting that peer review suppresses innovation — published within the system they critique
3. The 36 venoms in COVID victims: Brogna et al.'s peer-reviewed finding of specific toxin-like peptides, with Dr Moss noting the Latin root of "virus" = poison
4. Plague-mining correlation: Dr Moss's original research linking virtually all major British plague sites to mining locations, with specific mortality figures and the £56 billion valuation of the Kumtor gold mine adjacent to the Black Death's alleged origin
5. Rosenau's failed transmission experiments: Published in JAMA, attempts to transmit Spanish flu via mucus, blood, and direct breathing all failed — yet the contagion narrative persisted
6. The tobacco-alcohol-venom connection: Historical and modern sources suggesting these as antidotes, with official suppression (James I's Counter-Blast, modern "tobacco-free generation" policies) coinciding with plague periods
7. Rocket firmament experiments: Two separate experiments (1962, unspecified later date) finding obstacles at 72–78 miles, correlating with ancient descriptions of a solid barrier above Earth