3/ I don't know if anyone cares about John Campbell, but his youtube channel is 1.5 Contrapoints large and youtube keeps showing me his videos so I will continue to angrily watch
4/ Basically, as his subscriber count has risen, he went from a a normal, pro-vaccine nurse giving excruciatingly boring pandemic updates to a conspiratorial ivermectin crackpot and finally to being fairly explicitly an antivaxxer.
5/ In the example above, Campbell used to understand full well that deaths (e.g. from VAERS) after vaccination are common by coincidence and don't necessarily indicate a problem. He has since conveniently forgotten this as he delivers the antivax party line on FOIA'd Pfizer docs
end/ Here's how John Campbell used to sound. What would he think of new John Campbell?
if you people knew how many john campbell lip smacks and mouth noises I had to listen to to make these clips you would make me president
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I watched James Lindsay on Joe Rogan for three hours and I learned some stuff, like Boeing is intentionally using DEI to commit suicide in order to make space for a Chinese competitor because the WEF is maoist
China is transing our kids because it's part of their neoliberal Maoist worldview as espoused by Deng Xiaoping
At this point Joe Rogan just compulsively brings up every random confused right wing talking point from the last 5 years
e.g. 'they' are associating fitness with being right wing. This is to make the population soft, weak and easy to defeat
This interview is actually quite funny. Bjorn Lomborg talks about five different causes we should put money towards (instead of climate change). Bret, who thinks we shouldn't be mitigating climate change, also shoots down all five causes, each for a different conspiracy reason
Sadly Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein's Triggernometry episode today was all about Israel/Palestine😭 Please do not construe this thread as being about geopolitics - this thread is about Weinsteinology 🙏
What it's like to talk to Eric Weinstein:
Also I paid 7 of my human dollars to Konstantin Motherfucking Kisin in order to watch the bonus Q&A where they talk about Bret 🎉
Turns out that while Sam thinks Bret is mostly wrong about the pandemic, his main beef is that Bret supports Alexandros Marinos...
Sam always couches his criticisms of Bret in bizarre ways. He accuses Bret of "platforming whacky people" in the middle of the pandemic.
He's either being highly diplomatic or he doesn't realize that Bret himself is as insane as anyone he interviewed.
1/ Bret has discovered Nazi Twitter, and is appalled to discover his friends from Covid Contrarian twitter there.
Do they not understand that genocide is bad? Bret does, because he wrote a paper about it in college.
2/ Heather responds by noticing a tendency among her friends on transphobe twitter to believe oddly regressive things like "women shouldn't be allowed to vote."
(this is of course woke people's fault)
3/ Very odd that people who agree with Bret and Heather about stuff would have far right beliefs like this.
By the way, birth control may destroy civilization (if "used irresponsibly")
RFK Jr.: "A willingness to look at contrary evidence and to recognize that I'm wrong is part of my makeup. If you can show me data that shows people that get the covid vaccine are more likely to live and have healthier lives, I will fold my tent.”
This interview is from 2021 (Bret just released it yesterday for some reason).
I love how empty this rhetoric is. OK, two years have passed. Piles of studies have shown the covid vaccines cause decreased mortality and decreased all-cause mortality.
1/ My new follower and inveterate moron @briebriejoy tweeted this yesterday:
"I read up on the RFK Jr. autism stuff over the course of a 3 hour train ride and now I'm ready to "debate." Honestly don't see why folks are so squeamish."
Then she interviewed RFK with 0 pushback.
2/ Here are some things she could have said.
RFK Jr: "It would have been more effective to give people even Vitamin D."
No. Vitamin D supplementation shows no protective effect against covid or severe outcomes in randomized trials. (e.g. bmj.com/content/378/bm…).
3/ The belief that vit D supplementation protects against covid stems from the substantial correlation between low vitamin D levels and covid mortality. But that's because of
a) socioeconomic confounding,
b) reverse causation: low vit D is a *result* of poor health.