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Want to learn how much pseudoscience and grifting went down at Ron Johnson & RFK Jr's "expert" panel on health and nutrition?
It would take a book, but I cover the more egregious themes on today's Conspirituality.
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Neither of these men are American.
Russell Brand currently praying on stage with Jordan Peterson at the Rescue the Republic event referencing those unfairly prosecuted on Jan 6th.
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This man co-founded and built a supplements company on the strength of one questionable study that featured 2 paid Onnit consultants and sold it a pharmaceutical giant that did $60B in revenue in 2022.
What a disingenuous hypocrite.
That would be a great suggestion if you could assure that the industry you were representing wasn’t completely captured by heartless monsters who have a history of some of the biggest criminal fines in human history because their deception has cost hundreds of thousands of people
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Equating physique with political power & moral fortitude is one of those oldest playbooks around.
It’s effective because it works on a certain population.
It’s also bullshit. 🧵
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Regeneron costs over 100x as much ($2,100 vs $20) as a COVID vaccine—and in America, you can get the vaccine for free at virtually any local pharmacy. 💉
Regeneron’s 2 founders are now worth $4B. 💸
But yeah, you really stuck it to Big Pharma. 🤷🏻♂️
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YESSSSSSS WE NOW HAVE "THEY PLANNED TO TRAP EVERYONE AT BURNING MAN" CONSPIRACIES!
Took a little longer than expected, but oh, they're good. They're very very good.
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Thanks to a recent piece by
@thedailybanter
I discovered something more awful than I realized: just how much money anti-vax grifters are pulling in on Substack.
I mean, hundreds of thousands of dollars per month awful.
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Russell Brand utilized three charismatic persuasion techniques on Bill Maher:
• Constant touching
• Intrusive eye contact / name reference
• Gish gallop
Let’s break this down. 🧵
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Russell Brand's unhinged return to Rumble includes rants against the Deep State and Big Pharma, and...an ad for Big Pharma promoting Ivermectin for COVID-19.
Not a lot you can do when that sweet Burger King money dries up 🤷🏻♂️
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Do anti-vaxxers realize hydroxychloroquine, monoclonal antibodies & ivermectin are all manufactured by pharmaceutical companies?
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Russell Brand continues to become everything he criticizes.
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Totally normal video to make when you’re definitely not guilty.
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Very excited to annouce that
@public_affairs
&
@randomhouseca
will be publishing "Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracies Became a Public Health Threat" in May 2023. And so this journey with
@matthewremski
&
@JulianMWalker
continues to expand...
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@this_is_mallory
How about we send all the Americans and Canadians who think they live under a dictatorship to countries that actually do for a year? Like an educational experience for them. A teachable moment.
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You can now pre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat (PublicAffairs / Random House Canada, 06.13.23)
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How are such dumb men this popular.
Rogan interjected that the theory that HIV causes AIDS — which is not a theory, but a fact— is “ignoring a very important factor in AIDS, which is party drugs.” Weinstein agreed that that is the “competing hypothesis.
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This article is, first and foremost, about the women. Fantastic reporting.
As for my small role in the piece, I’ll be following up with AG1 about their claim that their product works by “synergy,” which is a wellness buzzword with no scientific backing.
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Hey RFK Jr, Russell Brand, Joe Mercola, JP Sears, and everyone else who regularly cites The Epoch Times as a news source, especially with their coverage about how the "left is destroying everything," I'm sure you're going to apologize for your previous comments now, right? 🤔
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Russell Brand is a master class in fear and paranoia.
But when you're addicted to attention, the volume always has to be turned all the way up.
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RFK Jr versus reality, again.
This is him talking about vaccination rates in Nigeria, versus actual vaccination rates, in Nigeria.
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Doesn't it feel like more people are suddenly dying?
Too bad feelings aren't data—but feelings can certainly be manipulated by propaganda.
Shout out to
@Debunk_the_Funk
for providing the data for this one.
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@WUTangKids
People often throw escooters off the Santa Monica pier, so often that companies regularly have to come fish them out of the ocean. I’ll never undersand what they think they’re accomplishing.
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We no longer need to add "pre" to the order.
Out today: Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat.
Much love to my co-authors / co-hosts
@matthewremski
&
@JulianMWalker
for this ride.
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Brand is incapable of replying to specificity because his firehose of Rumble content is designed to produce affect, not logic.
As should be clear by now, actual political change has never been his goal.
He just craves the spotlight.
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Oh no, what’s Rogan going to podcast about now?
And you mean the manosphere got something wrong about gender?
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Now that the US has hit the highest rate of pediatric hospitalizations since the pandemic began, where are all those wellness influencers with their “save the children” campaigns?
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Trump supporters are WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD
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Leave it to JP to try to monetize two outdated ideas: CBD and god.
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Seriously, how do people become this dumb?
Always grateful
@Debunk_the_Funk
is out there pushing back against these cretins.
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Funny how Erykah, the first singer to use "woke" in 2008, has no problem defining what the term means.
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Brand is so outmatched in a debate with someone like Heilemann that his only recourse is to deliver machine gun fire conspiracies and not let anyone else have a word. If you read the transcript you'd see there are no threads to actually pull. So instead it's pure affect.
Russell Brand : "It's disingenuous to claim that the biases are exhibited on Fox News are any different from the biases exhibited on MSNBC"
"I've been on that MSNBC mate it's propaganda"
John Heilemann: "You've been on MSNBC once. Big fucking deal"
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Jordan Peterson thinks the earth being more “tropical” will be good for nature.
Tucker Carlson is yelling at dime store candy.
Andrew Tate.
These are not serious men, yet too many take them seriously.
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I’m always amazed that anti-vaxxers think being pro-vaccines = loving pharma. The for-profit American health care system is broken in so many ways, in large part due to corporate interests. It’s possible to both want reform *and* recognize data.
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Given my pro-science views, I’ve been hesitant to write this, but here goes:
Every day since I’ve gotten the vaccine, I’ve aged a little bit.
We need to stop this agenda that THEY’re forcing on us NOW!
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Facebook requiring employees to get vaccinated while letting vaccine disinformation run rampant on their site is rich.
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I'm absolutely shocked that Rogan and Bret Weinstein pontificated about a fake tweet for 11 minutes and had to backtrack after the episode aired. Seems so unlike them not to factcheck.
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RFK: There's strong evidence that HIV came from a vaccine.
Still not kidding.
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Once again
@Debunk_the_Funk
showing why he's a national treasure.
His reaction to RFK's claim about the Spanish flu being "vaccine-induced" is reason enough to watch this.
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1/ Immune system-shaming wellness influencers crying “obesity” at every turn don’t care about the systemic conditions that lead to being overweight. They want you to feel “lesser than” so you buy their supplements, books, and courses.
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Of course this is where we end up.
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When I post articles about more regulatory oversight on supplements, I get push back about the "difficulties" that would cause.
This is today's email from Peter McCullough's company.
None of this is true. And still, they're allowed to market and sell this junk.
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From a case report on the top 100-selling nutrition books in Canada: only 9% were written by registered dietitians, and one-third of these books cited *zero* scientific evidence.
Full report here:
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Discussing the prop comedy of Jordan Peterson with
@GurusPod
The crossover you've waited years for, recording now.
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Great article by Dr Andrea Love about just how off Andrew Huberman's "science" has been, for quite a while.
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"Health” becomes a game of one-upmanship—common in Conspirituality.
The “you’re not living like me” ethos acts as cover for deep-seated neuroses.
The irony: the disabled & oppressed have way more fortitude than these clowns; they’ve endured garbage rhetoric their entire lives.
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First off, “pills and syringes” do not equal “character and self-discipline.”
In the conspiracist mind, “health” is something you can just accomplish—usually thanks to a combination of genetic luck and the wealth to live such a lifestyle.
As President, I will restore America as the global example of health & well-being. Not through pills or syringes, but through character and self-discipline. And I will continue to walk the walk and lead by example.
#Kennedy24
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To sum up: if you can stay healthy and achieve a steroid-free physique into old age to combat the ravages of sarcopenia: awesome!
But that’s not what’s really going on here.
And we’ve gone down the road of charlatans posing for the camera before.
It never leads anywhere good.
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The Quack Doctrine: when opportunistic conspiritualists exploit tragedies by distracting their followers from the real dangers.
With 🙏 and apologies to
@NaomiAKlein
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This is a very disturbed individual.
RFK Jr. claimed vaccinated children are “damaged,” “poisoned,” have lower IQ, and “are socially awkward,” while unvaccinated children in comparison have “bright eyes,” “engagement,” “curiosity,” and “affection.”
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Brilliant.
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Yesterday, I said goodbye to Osiris, who’s been in my life for almost 22 years. It was weird waking up without him staring at me. Just another reminder to love those in your life fully, cause even 22 years goes by in a flash.
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I understand not everyone has great results with Paxlovid. I did. As I'm slightly immunocompromised, I was able to secure it within three days of my positive test last July, and it helped a ton. But you can't wait once it hits you.
Still not enough seniors are taking Paxlovid or waiting too long. Remember, it works only vs virus replication so you need to take it early in the course of your Covid illness.
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The religiosity is astounding: so much self-righteousness around an event that’s always in the future but will never actually arrive.
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I'm shocked the RFK Jr campaign wouldn't reply to questions about accepting fundraising dollars from QAnon and MAGA extremists.
Shocked.
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"Kennedy’s desire to move to a “wellness society” “from a sick care system” sounds good until you realize that “wellness” is about self-care and consumption, not about the structural changes that would truly make people healthy."
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@travis_view
I heard this morning that the supermarket is still closed so the police can “build a case.” While I’m all for evidence gathering and due process, this one seems particularly obvious.
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Science comms shouldn’t have to be this hard, and mad respect to the experts who have to wade through this on a daily basis.
h/t
@GeorgeMonbiot
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"Andrew Tate, for example, who was recently released from jail on rape and human trafficking charges, posted that he’d been paid over $20,000 by Twitter." —
@TaylorLorenz
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@slpng_giants
@CrossFit
I’ve worked in fitness for nearly two decades, and he’s always been considered a joke. His take on training is junk, so this shouldn’t be surprising.
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Saw
@Debunk_the_Funk
recommend this to Zuby, who I doubt is going to buy a copy — but I did.
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I'm sorry, but anyone who thought RFK is a "man of the people" just refused to understand who the dude really is.
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A brilliant piece by
@NaomiAKlein
on the distance between who many people think RFK Jr is and who he actually is.
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Gish gallop: a rhetorical technique in which a person attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments.
Context: Brand claims Fox News and MSNBC are “the same.”
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No amount of push-ups is going to stop them from requiring medications or other interventions.
Again we’re watching conspiritualist magical thinking: if you aren’t healthy, that’s on you, so get to the damn gym already and throw out those scripts.
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Shout out to
@Debunk_the_Funk
for coming onto Conspirituality to talk about why germ theory is real. (I can’t believe we even had to have this conversation.) EP96 drops Thursday 3/24.
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You know what else isn’t FDA approved?
Every single supplement on your downline.
Never heard you complain about “lack of oversight” before, though.
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Character and self-discipline as health care. This dude is the ideal Conspirituality candidate.
As President, I will restore America as the global example of health & well-being. Not through pills or syringes, but through character and self-discipline. And I will continue to walk the walk and lead by example.
#Kennedy24
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2 days until the publication of Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat!
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After 3.5 years of Conspirituality, so psyched to finally have
@travis_view
&
@RealRockatansky
from
@QanonAnonymous
on!
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Why are so many conspiritualists anti-pharma except when it benefits them?
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Peter McCullough: The vaccines are demonic and COVID is a psy-op designed to scare you.
Also Peter McCullough: Buy my supplements.
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JP turned the tragedy in Nashville into a sales opp today but apparently forgot to fact check his own t-shirt line.
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Trying to watch Russell Brand on Rogan might just break my brain.
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There are people who took bleach instead of a vaccine, and it’s really hard to tell when, if ever, we’ll reverse course on science literacy.
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Yeah stop censoring me in front of Rogan’s audience of 11M+
This victim playbook playbook is really getting old.
You’re not censored. You’re repeatedly spreading misinformation.
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A tweet I didn’t expect to write today, or ever:
My article about the Far Right and testicle tanning now up on
@RollingStone
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Watching
@GurusPod
be forced to devolve their feed into the position “demons and witches aren’t real” is my favorite thing on Twitter right now.
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A reminder: Alex Jones called the parents of DEAD CHILDREN "crisis actors," and has to pay $1B+ for his horrific lies.
Imprint that so the next time you want to ejaculate "looks like Alex is right about..." on this or any platform, you take a moment to consider reality.
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RFK is weaponizing a true statement: preventive health measures like exercise and fitness are important.
But that doesn't have to be expressed in opposition to current medical protocols.
Many people try their best to stay healthy and simply have to deal with chronic illnesses.
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Something approaches…
Advanced reading copies arrived. Quite a moment.
You can pre-order here:
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I'm irritated by a lot of wellness misinformation, but I'm especially angered when influencers offer mental health advice while having absolutely no training whatsoever.
Another one for the
@jonathanstea
files...
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Seeing Alex Jones trending is unacceptable, and his boosters should be ashamed.
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Ukrainian citizens carrying landmines with their hands and fashioning Molotov cocktails at home puts into stark relief the privilege & ignorance of anti-maskers.
The dissonance conspiritualists feel watching people actually fight for their freedom must be disconcerting.
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@CarlosCMTF
Good point. George Carlin told me this when I asked him why he chose comedy instead of politics as a career. His reply: "because if you can make them laugh, they'll listen to what you have to say."
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