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3 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Taibbi tripling down on Bret as free speech martyr being censored for just daring to discuss a controversial issue. This is *not* why he’s gotten strikes. He’s gotten strikes because DH promotes ivermectin as a miracle cure and demonises vaccines. His show has the thinnest…
…veneer of scientific rigor but it’s enough to convince people like Taibbi, Weiss, Carlson, & all of the usual suspects. Taibbi treats these people as if they are ideologically diverse but they are not. On every IDW/anti-SJW issues there is no daylight between any of them.
He’s also wrong to say that Alex Jones banning was roundly cheered. In that the same people who were complaining about that are complaining now. Taibbi thinks Weinstein being demonetised demonstrates an escalation from Jones. It doesn’t. It shows the same rules in play…
Bret is a conspiracy theorist promoting medical misinformation. He’s able to cosplay a scientist better than Jones but his content is full of the same extreme claims, hyperbolic fear mongering, and self aggrandisement. Along with a cadre of fringe figures peddling their theories.
DarkHorse is InfoWars for college graduates. And it’s getting more extreme. The people with influence and audiences who continue to recommend it and treat Bret as a legitimate expert should not be forgotten after it becomes common knowledge.

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30 Jun
Here’s one example of a claim that @BretWeinstein & @HeatherEHeying made that doesn’t hold up to basic scrutiny. In the video below they claim that the CDC is artificially reducing positive tests for vaccinated people by using different PCR thresholds.
They cite this document as evidence. Claiming that it shows they are using a more stringent 28 PCR cycle threshold to identify positive cases for the vaccinated, as opposed to the more common ~35 cycles. More cycles = more chance to detect virus.
cdc.gov/vaccines/covid…
But this is simply misreading the document. This is not the threshold for a positive result, it’s the threshold for sending a specimen for genetic sequencing to identify the variant. Presumably because above that the sample is hard to extract a reliable sequence from.
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24 Jun
Eric frames it as a virtue that he will continue to promote anyone, regardless of what they do or say, as long as they broadly fit within his self referential network. His obsession with cliques & self aggrandizing might be the first documented case of permanent teenage angst. Image
There is such a cloying desperation here that it’s almost tragic. But the depressing thing is that it seems to work with so many people. Eric might be recognized as a delusional narcissist in private DMs by people like Sam Harris, but they won’t ever say that publicly.
Somewhat depressingly it is probably the self serving right wing partisans, like Rubin, that Eric is still desperately pandering to, who can be most forthright in their criticism because Eric’s faux centrist patronage doesn’t bring them much.
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19 Jun
No, Taibbi has this completely wrong (shocking I know...).

If anyone spends time looking critically into Bret's content you quickly realise it is extremely similar to Alex Jones act just with a superficial veneer of scientific credibility.

The 'credentialed authorities'... Image
... that Bret interviews are mostly fringe conspiracy theorists. See for example his fawning interview with Geert Vanden Bossche, who claims the vaccines are likely destroying natural immunity, or the recent horror show with 'serial entrepreneur' Steve Kirsch who talked about...
...miscarriages after vaccination with babies heads being split in two.

Bret is the opposite of a careful scientist. He is a conspiracy theorist who just knows how to sound like a scientist.

Hence he claims to have had a Nobel prize discovery that was silenced, to have...
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16 Jun
Listen, if you watched Bret’s Ivermectin video and you still have any respect for his understanding of science… 😩. The dude doesn’t understand basic science. He may as well be wearing a white coat and a stethoscope. He’s a cosplay scientist.
Like the bald entrepreneur explains he heard a story from his carpet cleaner that he had a heart attack two minutes after getting the Pfizer vaaccine and the cleaner’s wife got a shakey hand after hers. He says this would be impossible if the vaccine was safe .
How is anyone with a basic understanding of science nodding along to that? 1) it’s second hand anecdotes, that they didn’t verify, 2) even if true there is no evidence of a causal relationship, 3) it is perfectly possible for the claims to be true and the vaccines to be safe.
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23 Apr
He would have expected Bret Weinstein to platform a fringe academic who is promoting unfounded fears about the vaccines?!? Am sure he will provide suitable critical pushback.

For those curious about the guest, see:
sciencebasedmedicine.org/countering-gee… pca.st/episode/4fe8d2…
Some more useful articles:
deplatformdisease.com/blog/addressin…
And:
vaxopedia.org/2021/03/14/who…
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12 Sep 20
Ok so #CynicalTheories Chapter 2: Applied Postmodernism. This chapter out of the gate feels thick with hyperbole. We are told: “The postmodernists sought to render absurd our ways of understanding, approaching, and living in the world and in societies.”
The heavily anthropomorphised ‘Theory’ is also up to no good. Bored with its adolescent stage of deconstructing everything, it has now entered its moody teens & wants to mess things up properly.
Lest the anthropomic metaphor be too subtle we get treated to an extended Agent Smith-esque rift on how postmodernism is actually like a contagious virus that mutates into new forms. Why do I get the feeling this is a James-heavy section & he was smirking all the time he wrote?
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