Thread by @fullydavid

Thread: Final films in my investigation into the vaccine claims and the Dark Horse launch today, a response to criticisms, including from Bret Weinstein in a recent podcast. This will be a tweet thread summarising the situation and the backstory 1/n

https://twitter.com/WisdomRebel/status/1430482691011588100

Two films, my final response to critics, and another hugely important and significant interview with Eric Osgood MD, who until recently was part of Pierre Kory's FLCCC, the main organisation advocating for Ivermectin. He now feels he must speak out

He is still hopeful that Ivermectin will prove to be effective, though believes that it is not effective, but he has been deeply troubled by the way that the case for Ivermectin has been hijacked by anti-vaccine activists, and how the FLCCC has enabled this to happen

The second film is my response to criticisms of the investigation into vaccines and the Dark Horse, and also to specific criticisms on the podcast from @BretWeinstein and @HeatherEHeying

There are two audiences here. The unreachable anti-vaccine hardcore, and those who are understandably concerned about novel vaccines created quickly in a pandemic. Bret and Heather became a key nexus linking the two when they chose to host figures like Steve Kirsch

These two audiences need to be addressed and dealt with in different ways. I have tried to avoid shaming or judgemental language, to reach as many of the latter as possible and provide them information to make up their own minds, which they haven't been hearing on the Dark Horse

Rebel Wisdom shares around a third of our subscribers with the Dark Horse, and this has left me in a unique position, which has also been a unique responsibility, and hopefully opportunity to be heard by the non-partisans, non-obsessive anti-vaccine audience

Bret believes that the lack of detailed pushback in the MSM means that they are largely right. No, it's because this topic is lodged firmly in the 'Uncanny Valley' between the mainstream and the alternative: medium.com/rebel-wisdom/t…

Heather claimed there is "little careful scientific pushback" thus far, which I dispute, having put out a detailed factual investigation, and hosted @ydeigin for a very careful factual rebuttal of many of the key claims from the Dark Horse: medium.com/rebel-wisdom/o…

Bret argued that I should have "accepted the findings" of the Better Skeptics project, which gave their podcast a "clean bill of health". That's the BS project run by Dark Horse super fan Alex Marinos, and new best friend of antivax star Robert Malone

Ironically, my main criticism of Dark Horse was that they had got caught in a very small echo chamber of vaccine skepticism (Robert Malone/Steve Kirsch). In the aftermath of the film, Steve Kirsch confirmed this when he sent me an email copying in ALL the main figures