Abductive inference or generalization is also called “Inference to the Best Explanation” and involves explaining the facts better than any other line of thinking can. When trying to explain the facts of COVID, the popular theory is that an acute respiratory virus caused the symptoms found by doctors inside of emergency rooms.
But is it the best explanation for the totality of facts?
The reason that many people adopt beliefs about causes of events and things is mostly because either everyday experience or “technical experts” convinced them to begin believing it. But expert testimony, especially nowadays, is not a reliable rule of inference. It is much more often a logical fallacy called Appeal to Authority.
A better rule of thinking, besides relying on the experts, is to use abductive inference (find the theory that is best at explaining the facts that exist). Two oddities that stand out with COVID are coagulopathy and asymptomatic (“happy”) hypoxia.
Coagulopathy
The most frequent marker reported for COVID coagulopathy is the plasma level of d-dimer, a product formed after a thrombus (blood clot) was first formed by coagulation, but then decomposed by fibrinolytic activity. There is a feedback loop made up of initial coagulation, and subsequent fibrinolytic activity.
In typical disease, such as sepsis-induced disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), the coagulopathy errs to the side of thrombus formation, with only low fibrinolytic activity — resulting in relatively low d-dimer compared to the level of thrombus formation.
If typical infectious diseases which cause coagulopathies do not cause hyper-elevated d-dimer such as is seen in COVID patients, then what can cause it? The cause has got to be something simultaneously capable of raising coagulation and fibrinolytic activity at the same time and to a similar extent.
Back in 1978, researchers discovered that, if you subject rats to low-frequency electromagnetic radiation for 8 days, then you can cause a simultaneous increase in both coagulation and fibrinolytic activity. In 1986, a researcher discovered how to experimentally induce blood clots with electricity, creating pulmonary embolisms.
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The method was so reliable that it was used for the research of medications to treat pulmonary embolism. In 1999, researchers discovered that, if radiofrequency ablation is used as a treatment for more than 23.5 seconds, huge increases in d-dimer occur. Thromboembolisms were reported in up to 2% of patients receiving ablation.
When analyzed in detail, much of the abnormal lung scans were secondary to coagulophathy, making it possible to explain even more of the clinical picture without reference to a respiratory virus.
Conclusion
Using the more reliable rule of inference, it appears that EMFs are better at explaining elevated d-dimers than COVID is. They can even explain much of the abnormal lung scans.
Happy Hypoxia
In a large study in France, it was discovered that 65% of COVID patients had no trouble breathing, and 14.2% of those without breathing trouble had low oxygen readings (happy hypoxia). Typical acute respiratory diseases do not cause weird symptoms like that.
Regarding the better explanation of asymptomatic hypoxia (“happy hypoxia”), see this prior installment. It turns out that EMFs, along with a chemical nitrate/nitrite trigger, are also the best explanation — explaining “happy hypoxia” better than COVID can.