Tuesday, July 6, 2021

#126: “Something Behind All This”?

(Published 1924 AD)

“What indeed should we say of the bacteriologist, who, after killing innumerable patients with a particular serum, were to advertise it as an unqualified success? Should we not brand such a man as an unscrupulous charlatan or at best as a dangerous visionary? If, moreover, we were to find that large bands of agents backed by unlimited funds, were engaged in pressing his remedy upon the public and carefully avoiding all reference to the fatalities it had caused, should we not further conclude that there was "something behind all this"--some powerful company "running" the concern with a view to advancing its own private interests?”* [Any déjà vu?]

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*Webster, Nesta H.. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements (pp. 231-232). Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added.)

Nesta Helen Webster (24 August 1876 – 16 May 1960) was an English far-right[?] conspiracy theorist [analyst], who revived theories [researched facts] about the Illuminati. ... She claimed that the secret society's members were occultists, plotting communist world domination, through a Jewish cabal, the Masons and Jesuits. ... She blamed the group for events including the French Revolution, 1848 Revolution, the First World War, and the Bolshevik Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesta_Helen_Webster