Alex expects that everyone in the world should trust him and his process for "identifying truth", and wait until he has passed judgement. My *integrity* is in pursuing truth through my work, I have zero obligation to him and his project, and plenty to the wider world
My work stands on its own. I have my views on Ivermectin, but I put out a piece with both pro and anti folks, and challenged both and reflected their views fairly
I hosted Yuri because I believe he has some good signal, and because B&H have now talked "about" him twice, to their large audience, and not to him. I also took care to put Bret and Heather's points to Yuri, and challenge his position and actions.
Whether my "public" and "private" views are different is a ludicrous accusation. Journalism as truth seeking should be a process of putting aside the latter as much as possible and being fair to all sides. I'll always fail in part, as we all will, but we aim upwards

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3 Aug
Hey Bret. On this topic, hosting Yuri had nothing to do with the BS project. I was in contact with Yuri long before it was conceived. I recorded a piece with him straight after the Quillette piece, I held off when you told me privately that you felt he had betrayed your trust 1/n
The Quillette piece had some flaws, but it was far from content free, and Yuri has good signal on other objections that didn't make it into the Q piece. You and Heather frequently referred to him and it to a v large audience 2/n
Yuri was in touch with you privately for a long time, as have I been. I understand your reluctance to dialogue with Yuri publicly, I agree he has an attitude that means this may not go well. However, I believe strongly that our viewers - deserve to hear both sides 3/n
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I think this is a fair summary of what actually happened, though we clearly have different understandings on what this means, Max is a friend who I suggested as a referee, and I respect him for laying things out clearly 1/n
I have a few comments. Firstly, I had been planning to interview Yuri well before the BS process began, and in my view was irrelevant and overdue. I apologised this morning in my message if Yuri presented material that wasn't his and I failed to pick it up, that's on me 2/n
I was initially approached to be a potential referee and this was not appropriate, so was given a role as "observer". It was never made clear what that involved other than access to the Twitter thread to observe the interactions between the referees, and covering the project 3/n
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