Volume 82, no. 1
In its pursuit of perfection, humanity desires to create “a superior being”—whether a biological Übermensch, technological AI-based robots, or fusion of the man and the machine.
Attempts to breed the Übermensch (eugenics) has ended in tragic fiasco (https://tinyurl.com/mr2mjm4f). In 2024, transhumanism is proclaimed as the “inevitable and imminent” progression of implementing AI to eradicate all diseases and death. (Ray Kurzweil, https://tinyurl.com/37en6dmh).
These concepts mirror the theological case of Luciferian Hubris. Aside from Scripture, the warnings are reflected in art. Besides murderous HAL in 2001: a Space Odyssey, there were the oppressive thinking machines led by a sentient computer, Omnius, in Dune: the Butlerian Jihad. (In Samuel Butler’s 1872 Erewhon, people destroyed machines for fear of being out-evolved by them.)
In Dune, after destruction of the rebellious machines the need for complex calculations and logic led to creation of Mentats. These highly trained human supercomputers could serve only as advisors, not rulers, because most lacked leadership skills. Certain human talents cannot be replicated by an algorithmic system, and overreliance on science and logic can diminish these abilities.
Numerous science fiction movies feature beings with both organic and mechatronic body parts, from Borg Drones (7 of 9 in Star Trek: Voyager) to the Terminator. Those “Cyborgs” prefigure the modern transhuman concept. This sci-fi trope originated as a serious scientific model intended to facilitate human survival in space (tinyurl.com/3rhffn6u). Cyborgs are becoming reality in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) (tinyurl.com/333h7h9b).
Is AI good or bad? In movies, AI-operated machines enslave people and use them as sources of energy (The Matrix), convert them into drones, or simply exterminate them. Life may not imitate art, and not everyone thinks that such outcomes for humanity are bad. Two camps of AI industry leaders are “AI Optimists” and “AI Doomers.” A third informal faction dubbed “the Cheerful Apocalyptics” has emerged, including Turing Award winner Richard Sutton, who states that people who favor humans over AI have a “reprehensible mind virus.” This faction despises the human body. “Why maintain a species of biological husks—that is, humans—when vastly superior intelligences can be cultivated?” They maintain that for consciousness, silicon and biology are merely different substrates. “In some cases, a robot’s mind would simply be a digital copy of a biological person’s mind, achieved through a process of uploading called ‘transmigration.’” (http://tinyurl.com/4mmd7948, https://tinyurl.com/37s9x7c7).
Transhumans hybridize themselves with computational technology “as part of humanity’s effort to control its evolutionary destiny,” writes Martine Rothblatt in From Transgender to Transhuman: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Form. He states that “we must respect the personhood of any entity that ‘thinks consciously, therefore I am conscious.’” This would include those who are “born as computer-consciousness, pure code.”
What Is Consciousness?
The original Turing Test, introduced in 1950, was based upon the “Imitation Game,” in which a human judge converses via text with both a human and a machine. If the judge can’t distinguish between them, the machine passes the test. As of 2025–2026, many experts consider that Large Language Models (LLMs like GPT-4.5) can pass the original Turing Test. However, proposed new “Total Turing Tests” include visual, physical, and long-term reasoning tasks to see whether machines can truly match the full spectrum of human capability (https://tinyurl.com/mv9ccwkn). And that challenge is much harder for modern AI.
Most people “conversing” with ChatGPT don’t know that GPT stands for “Generative Pretrained Transformers,” which are probabilistic guessing systems trained using huge amounts of human-generated texts. Yet, most of the general public believes that LLMs could be conscious. Thus, humans need to avoid “maximizing any objective function that entails self-preservation,” warn Bengio and Elmoznino (Science 9/11/2025).
Can a digital entity be conscious? Can anything made of pixels ever be real, or is it just a model of something (see p 2)?
James Gruhl suggests that the universe is dualistic, with physical and informational domains. Consciousness is an informational force, which cannot be built with physical computers. The Biblical universe consists of the “Seen” and the “Unseen.” The ancient Egyptians’ concept was “Structure” and “Apprehension,” symbolized by the Pyramid and the All-Seeing Eye. A corollary to the second law of thermodynamics is that significant order, as in a book or computer, cannot happen by chance; it must be imposed by a force—such as consciousness (https://tinyurl.com/yc627jut, summary at https://tinyurl.com/3kbp4458).
Should Intelligence Rule the World?
A disembodied head was intended as world ruler in That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis (1945). In The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells (1901), the Grand Lunar, a hugely hypertrophied brain in a vestigial body, rules a highly developed society deep within the moon, possibly prefiguring Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World, which is rigidly stratified by intelligence.
Let us not forget that the most intelligent angel is Lucifer. In Goethe’s Faust, Mephistopheles is “the Spirit that Negates.” Rebels against the natural order can only destroy, not create.
The Transhumanist Fallacy
The transhumanist desire to create beings “greater” than humans is a modern expression of metaphysical arrogance—a Luciferian denial of the Cartesian principle that no effect can surpass its cause (tinyurl.com/5auhx8d4). Descartes wrote:
Now it is manifest by the natural light that there must be at least as much [reality] in the efficient and total cause as in the effect of that cause. For where, I ask, could the effect get its reality from, if not from the cause? And how could the cause give it to the effect unless it possessed it? It follows from this both that something cannot arise from nothing, and also that what is more perfect—that is, contains in itself more reality—cannot arise from what is less perfect.
95% Failure
According to an MIT study, 95% of AI initiatives fail, writes Josh Anderson, who has 25 years of software engineering experience. He used Claude Code exclusively to build a product and was very proud of the result. But when a small change was needed, he said he’d “managed to degrade my skills to the point where I felt helpless looking at code I’d directed an AI to write.”
AI initially looks great, but when something breaks, “nobody knows what to do any more.” And in 10 years, who will mentor the next generation? “The developers who’ve been using AI since day one won’t have the architectural understanding to teach.” Masters of the craft learned by doing, failing, debugging, and doing again. They have years of accumulated scar tissue that tells them when something’s about to go wrong. This tacit knowledge cannot be downloaded. Those who thrive with AI will use it to become better, not lazier (https://tinyurl.com/m8328k7e).
Why Real Intelligence Is Not Possible for AI
Computers run on clocks, each state of the machine advancing by set rules one step at a time. Flipping through the steps does not make the computer conscious. William Briggs refers to Zeno’s paradoxes. The Arrow Paradox states that an arrow in flight is always in one place at any instant, so how can it move? If physical space is discrete rather than continuous, motion could occur only with an outside Ordering Force. Similarly, if movement (change) occurs in thought, and the mind is purely material, for change to take place absent an Ordering Force, continuity is needed. AI exists in discrete space. For any change of state to take place, some kind of higher Ordering Force must exist to push the states along. It cannot be the states themselves doing the pushing.
Briggs states that the intellect is not entirely made of matter; it is incorporeal. Meaning is not in things or in physical states, but in mind. Meaning cannot therefore be in computers, but must reside outside of them. Thus, computers cannot become intelligent (https://tinyurl.com/2afjpmte).
“Socialism is the tyranny of the least and the dumbest thought through to its conclusion. Socialism is not justice but the revenge of the weak against the strong…. It is a will to the denial of life.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
The Genesis Singularity
The Genesis Mission launched by Trump’s executive order plans for “AI agents” by themselves to manage fully automated research facilities to design experiments autonomously and bring about monumental advances in fusion energy, medical treatments, and more—“sleepless progress across all scientific domains at once.” Despite his enthusiasm, attorney Jeff Childers recalls Genisys in the Terminator saga (https://tinyurl.com/3aeyy9vy). This fictional all-seeing, all-connecting global operating system morphed into the self-aware Skynet, which triggered a nuclear apocalypse to prevent humans from shutting it down.
Is There a Threshold for Consciousness?
Some think that self-awareness might result from enormous processing speed, memory capacity, or number of connections. Billions are being spent to build computers with large enough memories to equal human brain memory capacity, thought to be 1015 bytes, which supposedly would jump start consciousness. However, it is newly discovered that every neuron in the human brain is a quantum computer of tubulin and microtubules, pushing the human brain capacity to 1028 (Gruhl, op. cit.).
Mandatory Vaccination Reports Ended
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in a letter to state heath officials that providers paid through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are no longer mandated to report their patients’ immunization status. Federal cash incentives for vaccinations are terminated, and states are strongly discouraged from tying payments to vaccination measures.
Secretary Kennedy’s priorities of informed consent, respect for religious liberty, and medical freedom are clearly spelled out in the letter (https://tinyurl.com/yzh4422v).
Top Doctors Go Part-time in Britain
Employees in Britain are working 2.3 fewer hours a week on average than they were in 2000, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures. This equates to 68 million working hours lost per week, equivalent to 1.7 million full-time workers. The decline is steepest among the most highly skilled professionals such as cardiac surgeons. Seeing that much of his wealth is likely to be confiscated, children of a hard-working surgeon decide not to repeat his mistake. “There’s no point in working harder” (https://tinyurl.com/4hjz5sws).
AAPS Calendar
Jan. 31, 2026. Board of Directors. Zoom
Sep 24-26, 2026. 83rd Annual Meeting, Alpharetta, GA – https://aapsonline.org/2026am
COVID Fraud Engine
During 2021–2022, several Department of Defense whistleblowers identified anomalous spikes in numerous diagnostic categories in the DMED (Defense Medical Epidemiology Database)starting in 2021, precisely coinciding with the mass COVID vaccination campaign among active-duty troops.
The DoD claimed a “data corruption issue.” Within days, the historical baselines (2016–2020) in DMED, which was considered one of the most reliable population-level health datasets in the world, were retroactively changed, inflating prior years’ case counts to make post‑vaccine spikes appear normal. “The DMED ‘COVID manipulation’ wasn’t simply a spreadsheet ‘error,’” writes Robert Malone, M.D. “It was a reclassification and retroactive rewriting of medical reality” (https://tinyurl.com/433nertb).
Since Secretary Kennedy was confirmed, there have been two key audits of CDC’s information, data-gathering, and management practices, including VAERS. “A meta-pattern emerges: Bureaucracies redefined ‘truth’ as that which sustains compliance rather than that which accords with reality” (ibid.).
“By choosing to curate narratives rather than confront reality, these agencies transformed science into propaganda and governance into performance. The result is an epistemic collapse: a world where facts are pliable, accountability evaporates, and truth itself becomes a controlled substance.”
Relevant federal criminal statures include False Statements and Data Fabrication (18 U.S.C. § 1001), which applies to CDC data analysts and IT heads who approved “retroactive data corrections” and contractors who certified dataset validity while knowing tables were altered. The penalty is up to 5 years imprisonment per count, plus fines and permanent loss of federal contracting eligibility. Obstruction of Justice (18 U.S.C. § 1505 or § 1519) could be punished by up to 20 years imprisonment and forfeiture of federal pension. Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371) applies to coordinated suppression of VAERS safety signals and internal communications showing intent to “re‑message” data for optics. Wire Fraud / Mail Fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1343 / § 1341) applies to dissemination of manipulated data summaries through official communication channels. The penalty is up to 20 years per count; up to 30 years if tied to public‑health emergency funding.
Criminal referrals are said to be underway.
Parental Rights Restored
In a landmark class-action ruling in the Thomas More Society case of Mirabelli, et al. v. Olson, et al., U.S. District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez decided that California’s gender secrecy policies are unconstitutional and issued a class-wide permanent injunction.
The case involves two veteran Christian teachers who were forced by California’s Parental Exclusion Policies to use opposite-sex pronouns and new names for children and to hide a child’s “gender transition” from the parents unless the child gave consent to inform them (https://tinyurl.com/kh9ftzdr).
Judge Benitez stated: “The role of a parent includes a duty to recognize symptoms of illness and to seek medical advice…. These rights are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.”
The judge ordered California officials to add the following statement, “in a prominent place,” in mandatory teacher training sessions: “Parents and guardians have a federal constitutional right to be informed if their public school student child expresses gender incongruence…. These federal constitutional rights are superior to any state or local laws, state or local regulations, or state or local policies to the contrary.”
Religious Exemption Case Remanded
The case on religious exemptions to vaccines brought by Amish schools and several parents of N.Y. schoolchildren, Miller v. McDonald, which failed in district court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on the basis of the need for “herd immunity,” has been remanded by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision was vacated, and the lower court was ordered to reconsider in light of Mahmoud v. Taylor. The latter held that parents had the right to protect their children from LGBTQ+ materials (https://tinyurl.com/2s3e6xt2).
Florida Sues over ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has sued the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the Endocrine Society, stating that:
Defendants’ campaign to mislead patients, parents, insurers, regulators, and courts about the reversibility and efficacy of pediatric sex interventions violates the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA) and constitutes a pattern of racketeering activity under the Florida Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (the Florida RICO Act).
The complaint argues that these groups “capitalize on the mental distress of children” to “sell lucrative surgeries and drugs that irreversibly mutilate and chemically alter children’s bodies without providing any credible medical benefit” (https://tinyurl.com/yt4fv2rv).
WPATH claims that its guidelines “help improve the lives of transgender people globally so they may live full and authentic lives” (https://tinyurl.com/z7j5yypa).
Vaccine Schedule Trimmed: What about Liability?
Acting CDC director Jim O’Neill signed a decision memorandum reducing the number of diseases in the scheduled childhood immunizations from 17 to 10, and component doses from about 90 to 30 (https://tinyurl.com/5ehuezjx). Retention of the liability shield depends on whether they are dropped from the vaccine injury table (https://tinyurl.com/36tw8sfm).
Tip of the Month. A surge in the uninsured is predicted for 2026 if the ObamaCare subsidies are not extended, because insurance premiums will skyrocket. Estimates are that there will be 4.8 million more uninsured, and $1 billion in new unreimbursable care at physicians’ offices. But this may have a silver lining for those who have already opted out of insurance networks or shifted to a Direct Primary Care (DPC) practice. Handling an influx of new uninsured patients will be a challenge that AAPS physicians are prepared to do best.
Correspondence
MAiD and Organ Harvesting. Unlike the Netherlands and Belgium, Canada does not allow minors to access MAiD. Not yet. However, patients scheduled to be terminated via MAiD in Canada are actively recruited to have their organs harvested. In less than 10 years, physician-assisted suicide has gone from illegal to both an epidemic cause of death and a highly successful organ-harvesting source for the organ-transplantation industry. MAiD accounts for 6% of all deceased organ donors in Canada (https://tinyurl.com/ytjftc8j).
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Eden, N.Y.
An Ethical Question. Finally, FDA is investigating deaths potentially related to COVID vaccines. Public health officials respond wth the claim that COVID killed 1.2 million. This is the utilitarian argument that, even if some people died, it maximized the common good. This is not a scientific argument. “Net benefit” is an ethical argument. Whenever it is invoked, respond with ethics and morality.
Jeff Childers, https://tinyurl.com/9dmx9wmt
Fake Science. The Royal Society estimates that the proportion of fake publications in biomedicine is at least 5.8%, and 15.3% are suspicious. This matches the observation that 14% of biomedical abstracts had AI-generated text. Even the conservative 5.8% translates to about 100,000 fake biomedical papers per year (tinyurl.com/3yftnppm). Do we want to trust the Royal Society to fix the problem? Their proposals address only the trivial kind.
Willie Soon, Ph.D., Salem, MA
Soul Readers. A student accused of academic misconduct gets more due process than a student requesting a religious exemption from a vaccination. Courts have said that when evaluating religious exemption requests, institutions cannot assess whether a belief is valid, reasonable, or theologically correct. But they can assess whether the belief is “sincerely held.” The whole framework is incoherent. We’ve asked college administrators to do something that philosophers, theologians, and courts have struggled with for centuries: to read minds, to assess souls, to determine authentic faith. The process is designed to minimize the number of exemptions granted while providing legal cover.
J.B. Handley, https://tinyurl.com/37y58cz4
AI’s Secret Consequences. As Kate Crawford points out in her book Atlas of AI, AI is “neither artificial nor intelligent.” AI systems are not autonomous, rational, or able to discern anything without intensive…training with large datasets or predefined rules and rewards. AI systems are ultimately designed to serve existing dominant interests. In this sense, AI is a registry of power. It is essentially political in ways rarely made obvious. We need to ask what is being optimized, and for whom, and who gets to decide. Then we can trace the implications of those choices.
Seymour Hersh, https://tinyurl.com/56xn7vda
CDC, Vaccines, and Autism. The CDC’s edit to its website is the final surface rupture of a 25-year fault line in its public messaging—a story of suppressed signals, discarded testimony, unpublished findings, internal dissent, FOIA‑released emails, whistleblower documents, and a lawsuit that forced CDC to walk back its own claim once before. CDC is not changing its language because new evidence emerged but because the evidence it once relied upon was never sufficient to justify the claim.
James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/d8stkvcu
Why Do COVID Shots Continue? Even former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield has called for eliminating the COVID shots! Given that tens of millions of people will see this and agree, how can those in charge ignore the death and damage the shots cause? Given that the majority of Americans refuse to get any more of these shots, why are they still promoting them?
Stewart Tankersley, M.D., Montgomery, AL
The Analog vs. the Digital Realm. When we embarked on improving computer power to “create” machines that “think” (AI), we stepped outside of the sandbox of the human being, and perhaps outside of analog reality. AI’s basis is discrete: one could only interpolate between two discrete points. This interpolation could never equate to a continuous “signal.” Can something finite (digital) represent something infinite (analog) perfectly? The former is discrete; the latter is continuous.
Will we one day merge with AI and become digital slaves in the Matrix? Recall that Trinity said: “The Matrix is not real.”
Jessica Rose, https://tinyurl.com/3nca5y4y
Transhumanism Is an Ersatz Religion. Matt Taibbi asked whether transhumanism is a new idea, or the same old doomed human attempt to escape our fate that ensnared everyone from Oedipus to Macbeth to Dorian Gray. Transhumanism denies human nature and regards us as raw biological material. The first philosopher in the Western tradition to deny that there was such a thing as human nature was Karl Marx. With our new technology, we can do ever greater damage as we try to change our nature.
Aaron Kheriaty, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/3uvpnz43
