On December 15, 2024, Dr. Madhava Setty delivered the Second Annual David Ray Griffin Lecture, an event hosted by IC911 and UK Column in honor of the late eminent scholar who contributed immensely to the pursuit of truth and peace during his lifetime.
In this thought-provoking lecture entitled “My Post-9/11 Awakening: A Path to Self-Liberation and Unity,” Dr. Setty, an anesthesiologist and former engineer, spoke about several related big-picture topics, including the possibility of reincarnation and its implications for human progress as well as the view among astrologers that humanity is headed for a sustained period defined by cooperation and an emphasis on the collective.
Dr. Setty imagines that this “humanitarian revolution” will lead to an unprecedented sense of togetherness and widespread rejection of the idea that war is necessary, which he argues humans have been programmed for centuries to believe.
Before the lecture, Dr. Piers Robinson gave opening remarks and Dr. Niels Harrit shared moving reflections on the truth-telling of Dr. David Ray Griffin. After the lecture, there was a lively roundtable discussion featuring Dr. Setty, Dr. Robinson, and Dr. Harrit, along with Mary Holland of Children’s Health Defense, Dr. Josh Mitteldorf, and Frances Shure.
We hope you find the Second Annual David Ray Griffin Lecture as stimulating and inspiring as we did!
Speaker Bios
Dr. Madhava Setty has been a board-certified anesthesiologist since 2003. Prior to receiving his medical education and training at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Setty was an engineer in the aerospace and defense industry, where he designed software interfaces between graphics engines and real-time combat training simulation and acoustic data acquisition systems under contracts with the Bundeswehr and the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Setty holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from MIT. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he left his clinical practice to serve as the senior science editor for The Defender, the online publication of Children’s Health Defense. Dr. Setty is the author of WOKE: An Anesthesiologist’s View, a systematic examination of the bias in science, history, the media, and our own minds. He writes “An Insult to Intuition” on the Substack platform.
Dr. Niels Harrit served as associate professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen 1971 – 2009 and published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers. Since 2007 he has been actively involved in the global movement for 9/11 truth. He was the leading author of a scientific paper, published in April 2009, describing the findings of active thermitic material in the dust from the collapses of the three (!) skyscrapers of the World Trade Center. He was a member of the 9/11 Consensus Panel. Over the years, Dr. Harrit has given 400 presentations on the collapses of the World Trade Center skyscrapers in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom, Canada, USA, China, Australia, Russia and Iceland. Since 2020 this activity has been extended to cover the false narratives of the so-called Covid-19 pandemic from a scientific perspective.
Mary Holland, J.D., is CEO of Children’s Health Defense. She has been writing and advocating for better vaccine law and policy for many years, including while she served on the faculty at NYU School of Law from 2002-19. She is co-author of two books on vaccines, “Vaccine Epidemic” and “The HPV Vaccine on Trial,” as well as several law review articles.
Dr. Josh Mitteldorf was 34 years old with wonderful adventures under his belt but no career focus, when a wise statistician friend told him, “finish your PhD in physics. Then you can do whatever you want.” He took the advice to heart. Mitteldorf is best known for two controversial but insightful books on the biology of aging. He was a statistician for election integrity activists in the era when voting systems were being computerized, and he was a founding member of Scientists for 9/11 Truth in 2010. He plays piano in chamber ensembles and French horn in a community orchestra. His two daughters were among the first to be adopted from China in the 1980s. His prescription for a long life can be read at AgingAdvice.org, and his Substack is UnauthorizedScience.org. He is a local board member for Children’s Health Defense (PA), and his pieces are occasionally featured in The Defender. Some of his poetry can be found at PoemHunter.com, and this month he has launched a book and web site with classical sonnets for each of the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, available at I-Ching.guru. He has taught a weekly yoga class for 47 years.
Frances Shure, L.P.C., is retired from being a psychological therapist specializing in early trauma. She is one of the co-founders of Colorado 9/11 Truth and currently on the governing board of that group. She was featured as one of the group of psychological professionals who contributed to the video, 9/11 Explosive Evidence: Experts Speak Out, and helped to produce the video, The Demolition of Truth-Psychologists Examine 9/11. She is the author of the renowned essay series, Why Do Good People Become Silent — or Worse — About 9/11?
Dr. Piers Robinson is research director of the International Center for 9/11 Justice as well as co-editor of the Journal of 9/11 Studies. He is also co-director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, associated researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 Global “War on Terror,” member of PANDA and BerlinGroup21, and co-editor of Propaganda in Focus. His most recent academic appointment was Chair/Professor in Politics, Society and Political Journalism (University of Sheffield 2016–2019). He is author of The CNN Effect: the myth of news, foreign policy and intervention (Routledge, 2002), lead author of Pockets of Resistance: British news media, war and theory in the 2003 invasion of Iraq (Manchester University Press, 2010), and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security (2016).
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