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think- ago

Some more info about the Ethical Science Foundation:

Internal Revenue Service records indicate the Ethical Science Foundation acquired more than $145,000 worth of computers, medical equipment and brain-activity monitors several years ago.

A 2015 IRS form filed by the nonprofit listed its "charitable activities" as "Tourettes study — studying the effects of a specific and innovative method has [sic] on individuals with Tourettes syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder." The 2015 tax form said its expenses were $32,620.

The State Health Department faced scrutiny last year when it was reported that the agency had brushed off complaints about the brain studies and the branding, which was done by a licensed medical doctor associated with NXIVM.

The office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it was reviewing the Health Department's handling of the complaints, but so far has taken no action publicly.

[So anybody can just conduct illegal human experiments and the Health Department doesn't look into it when notified?]

Times Union reported previously that Porter — who abruptly resigned from St. Peter's Hospital last year when his involvement with the brain studies became public -— had apparently not published a scientific study in a number of years, and there is no indication his private research was being overseen by an independent review board.

...the complaints initially brushed off by the state Health Department was filed in August by a woman in Vancouver, British Columbia, who was associated with NXIVM and said she was traumatized by a bizarre experiment in 2016 in which Porter showed her videos depicting graphic violence.

Kobelt said she was recruited for the study by an assistant of Nancy Salzman (...) and that she knew of at least four other women who took part.

Kobelt said she was not told what the study was for or what would take place, and that she was not asked to sign any documents indicating she had been informed what the study was about and consented to take part.

Porter drove Kobelt to the building that day, she said, hooked her up to an EEG machine that monitors brain activity and showed her terrifying images and videos of murder, rape and mutilation. She described her ordeal to the Times Union last year and also detailed her experience in a complaint filed with the state Department of Health last summer.

In response to the complaint that Kobelt filed with the state Health Department last summer, the agency sent her a letter saying that what she described was "not medical misconduct."

From the testimony of another woman who took part in a 'study' by Dr. Porter for ESF:

In a follow-up session with Porter, she said, he asked her how she felt about her weight, what part of her body she obsesses about, and about "murder, harming myself, harming others and other more depraved topics."

Nancy Salzman claims to have 'expertise' in mental health:

Salzman, who records indicate has been a licensed nurse in New York since 1983, described herself as a "psychotherapist," while acknowledging that it is "not an earned degree ... it's a descriptive term." She also testified that beginning in 1985 and continuing through 1992, she had taken "neurolinguistic programming courses."

Testimony of the first woman cited above continued:

Kobelt said that Porter routinely monitored the brain activity of her and other women, usually while they were taking part in NXIVM-related "personal development trainings."

https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Attorney-general-probes-nonprofit-associated-with-12779437.php

Vindicator ago

In response to the complaint that Kobelt filed with the state Health Department last summer, the agency sent her a letter saying that what she described was "not medical misconduct."

Check this out: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2469942/12316816

migratorypatterns ago

Holy fucking shit!

And here's more. It's an open call for Porter's wife to run with the kids and escape!

https://frankreport.com/2017/07/01/a-call-out-to-janie-wife-of-dr-porter-escape-with-your-children-from-raniere/

A call out to Janie, wife of Dr. Porter: Escape with your children from Raniere!

A reader makes this call out to Janie Jeffries, the wife of Dr. Brandon Porter, M.D.

Janie, if you’re reading this: YOU KNOW THIS WEBSITE HAS SO MUCH TRUTH IN IT. Go home to your family, take your kids and get out. Do not let them end up being victims to this because you were too afraid to leave. Please, you have time. Your kids are young. Don’t let this brainwashing fool you: you are a smart woman. So many people will love and support you if you leave. I know that you have questions, I know that you have always doubted and tried to ask questions…why do you think they are never answered? Why do you think you are just asked to take more intensives? To keep you in line, to keep you obedient. Wake up. Get out.

Frank Report wrote about the relationship with Dr. Porter, his master, Keith Raniere, and his patroness, Clare Bronfman, who is a committed slave to Mr. Raniere.

We have been told that Dr. Porter “operates” the Ethical Science Foundation, which is owned and controlled by Clare Bronfman, [which means it is owned and controlled by Mr, Raniere] as a front for Rainbow Cultural Gardens.

If what our sources say is true, Dr. Brandon is the “face” of a money laundering operation and an illegal immigration scam. ...

Miss Keeffe: Some people were just flat out illegal like Cami Fernandez. And, some people were in the country on fraudulently obtained visas. This also goes to another point of impeachment for Clare [Bronfman], because, Clare was involved with every aspect of this.

Matt McMorris signed those tax returns so he’s on the hook…. Rainbow has hundreds of thousands of dollars running through it in tuition. Because, when I left, there were seven kids just in Albany doing five or six languages. Paying twenty five dollars an hour for these teachers. Right? Rainbow is owned and controlled by Loreta Garza, who lives in the country on a management visa for NXIVM…. [I]t’s totally fraudulent. She’s in the country on a fraudulently obtained visa, she’s not a manager for NXIVM. She’s the owner of … Rainbow {Cultural Gardens} but she’s not claiming it. I’m sure Rainbow’s never filed taxes. And, all of this goes through Clare. Clare oversees everything to do with the finances, and the personnel, and the management of Rainbow. And, then when you get into Rainbow you get into issues that play back into each other.

For example, Danni Fernandez and her mother, were living imprisoned in the room while illegal alien, Cami Fernandez [Danni’s sister], is downstairs teaching the children [whose parents] are paying … twenty-five dollars an hour – in the same … house [12 Wilton Court]. I mean, it’s crazy; including even Jennie Ose’s kid, Steve and Jennie’s kid. [And Dr. Brandon Porter and Janie Jeffries children] And Clare and Nancy [Salzman] own the house.

think- ago

We have been told that Dr. Porter “operates” the Ethical Science Foundation, which is owned and controlled by Clare Bronfman, [which means it is owned and controlled by Mr, Raniere] as a front for Rainbow Cultural Gardens.

If what our sources say is true, Dr. Brandon is the “face” of a money laundering operation and an illegal immigration scam. ...

I remember this from an old Voat thread....they employed women from abroad for their kindergarten.

(Rainbow Cultural Gardens - aargh....)

I guess Mrs. Porter will be able to flee soon, when her husband will be in prison (hopefully).

Still: Why did he show women this sick footage which traumatized them?

migratorypatterns ago

Why did he show women this sick footage which traumatized them?

Wouldn't it to see what effect it had so the torture could be more effective? You start with a baseline of how they normal brain worked when they walked in. Then you subjected them to images. Now they're hooked up, so he could see which particular images were doing the most damage ... and what genre of images. Then you see how their brain works after the bombardment ... and you see how long the variation lasts. In this way, they could see at what interval it needed to be repeated.

Then there's the whole ''normalization'' and ''desensitizing'' that they might have wanted to follow up on. In other words, how many times do the images need to be repeated to produce a flat line response ... or ... a pleasurable response.

think- ago

Wouldn't it to see what effect it had so the torture could be more effective?

I'm afraid you're right. :-(

Remember - all regimes that practice torture actually employ doctors who are often present and monitor the torture (to make sure the victim stays alive, so that they can torture him/her a bit longer).

Also, medical professional help with figuring out what kind of torture to employ so that it will leave minimum traces.

Sick, just sick.

migratorypatterns ago

It is.

So much is wrong with this story including extending this to the general public. But it raised no red flags. Why would that be?

think- ago

including extending this to the general public

What do you mean by 'extending this'?

There is still no official investigation into why the Health Department didn't look into this although it received several complaints.

Take a guess....