There is a time for laughter and a time to be serious. I've
done a bit of comedy recently about an individual called Professor Brian Cox,
see:
http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/prof-brian-cox-hates-you.html,
but the time has come to look more closely and critically at this man and what
role he is currently playing in the world today. My impetus to write this
article was the launch of his brand new TV series, his fifth or sixth I think,
Science Britannica, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnPSEapEx_8.
I'm indebted to a friend, fellow researcher and world-leading "Cox-watcher",
somebody who does not wish to be named, for a lot of the research that went
into this article. Prof. Brian Cox is a particle physicist from the
University
of Manchester and he has been
working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in
Switzerland.
He became famous in the mid 2000's after he was featured in a guest capacity on
a few of the BBC's
Horizon
documentaries. At some point while analyzing those programmes, the producers of
the media must have decided that he had the right ingredients for making a
star. Almost overnight he was transformed from a scientist who was interviewed
on TV shows, to a presenter of TV shows who
happened
to be a scientist. The phenomenon of the "pop scientist" has a
long and well-developed history; it includes people like Sir Patrick Moore,
Arthur C Clarke, Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman. At first glance Cox
appears to be just the latest addition to that club, but is he?
Prof. Brian Cox' career has shot up almost overnight; in
just the last few years he's become a household name. His media work is almost continuous
and if you follow him on Twitter or Facebook you'll see he is constantly
jetting off for filming shoots for the BBC or The Discovery Channel. Despite
the fact that he's a physicist and not a biologist, Sir David Attenborough has
named Cox as his "natural successor". Cox has indeed hosted a
programme that a few years ago would almost certainly have been given to Attenborough,
The Wonders of Life, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psilz9rpFl4.
He has also done a number of live lecture tours all over the world; in fact as
I write these words he has just returned from one in
Australia.
In 2010 he was knighted by the Queen in the New Year's Honours List and is now
formerly known as Professor Brian Edward Cox OBE. His youthful and handsome appearance
has made him something of a sex symbol and he has an army of female admirers. However
some other women I've spoken do not find him appealing at all. His lack of masculinity
is unattractive and his arrogance repulsive, something which I too will have to
address. I have stated several times, if only in jest, that Prof. Brian Cox was
being groomed to take over the role currently played by Prof. Chris French,
that of "token media Skeptic"; as indeed French himself took over
that role from Dr Susan Blackmore. I thought this, because Cox himself is a
very outspoken Skeptic and I once saw him live at a London Skeptics in the Pub
event (Before he was really famous of course; today I'd need to pay £30 for a
ticket and a pub wouldn't be nearly big enough!) However I think I was wrong.
Cox is destined for a very different role, a unique role, one that the
gatekeepers of secret science have only recently decided to create; and Cox is
the first recruit for the post. It doesn't come out in his carefully-scripted
documentaries, but it does in some other places where he has an opportunity to
be less tactful; Cox is a zealot. As I said above, he is a Skeptic, but he's a
very different kind of Skeptic to the kind normally given a TV studio to play
with. Prof Chris French is a staunch Skeptic like Cox, but he is still a
reasonably nice guy; he has the ability to empathize and communicate respectfully
with those he disagrees with. Cox is very different, he is notoriously rude and
aggressive to non-Skeptics, he calls them "nobbers"; I thought this
was a slang word from his native
Oldham, but in fact
it's a word he made up. He also has been recorded calling his opponents
"fuckin' morons", "twats" and other such insulting epithets.
The people he despises most of all are those who think the moon landings were
faked, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aXuQ9Dg2gE;
this includes me. There are some anecdotal stories of him jumping out of taxis in an enraged tantrum when the driver tries to argue with him over the
moon landings; these stories are unconfirmed, but I can well believe they
happened. In an episode of one of his radio shows,
The Infinite Monkey Cage, he used the word "nobber" to
describe people who believe in ghosts. It was then that I launched my "Knobs
for Cox" campaign, see:
http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/knobs-for-cox.html.
Also a few weeks ago he Tweeted this when a non-Skeptic tried to debate with
him via email:
"Note to nutters. If you want 'we value your opinion', don't use my personal email. I don't value your opinion and I will call you names." I think Cox' bigotry is another crucial
ingredient that made his new "employers" realize he was the right man
for the job. I doubt if he has been initiated into any real covert science;
he's much more likely to be a "useful idiot" who is being sincere in
his foolishness. Like so many others, he will be content to be led along by
whoever feeds his ego; who cares for what purpose? His latest programme
Science Britannica, linked above, is extraordinarily
one-sided... well, not by the BBC's standards, but I must still comment on it.
It brings up genetically modified food several times and has interviews with
scientists working on GM crops in laboratories, explaining how safe GMO's
really are and how much good they could do for the world etc etc; but the other
side of the story is completely ignored! The only input from the anti-GMO lobby
is some library footage of some boiler-suited protesters tearing up the fields
at Rothamsted. How about a proper dissenting voice? For example see:
http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/alternative-view-ii-part-3.html.
The same goes with the segment on animal testing. It features an interview with
a neurologist who treats patients with Parkinson's Disease by using a technique
developed through the vivisection of Macaques. The doctor interviewed declared
how this was a necessary evil, so to speak; nobody wants to kill monkeys, but by
killing them we have this remarkable new treatment which has cured so many
people. And, once again, the other side of the story was never even looked at, for
example see:
http://www.vero.org.uk/press15.asp.
I predict that the role Professor Brian Cox is due to be assigned is that of a brand
new kind of scientific propagandist. It will combine the aforementioned roles
of pop scientist, token TV Skeptic and media celebrity; it may also include
corruption of the youth through schools and universities. It is taking the
Skeptic message to a new level. Why do the keepers of the secrets think this is
necessary? Simply because more and more people are waking up to the reality of
what is kept from us, and therefore more intense forces of reaction are being
needed to keep the lid on that reality. In the end their mission is futile, but
they will not go quietly and Prof Brian Cox will be the loudest bugle in their
rearguard. His connections to the LHC may be relevant too on an occultist level;
will he become the "Beast 666" or "Shiva" who presses the
button to begin the Illuminati's
Gotterdammerung
manoeuvre? I'm not sure, see here for background:
http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/higgs-boson-and-lhc.html.
But either way, I have no doubt that Prof Brian Cox has great expectations; he
is going places like no other and he will become a major figure in media
propaganda in the years ahead. I promise I will be keeping a very close eye on
him.