"What's interesting is Steve Kirsch was touting this months ago alongside Robert Malone and Bret Weinstein." https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/05/103640

"What's interesting is Steve Kirsch was touting this months ago alongside Robert Malone and Bret Weinstein." https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/05/1036408/silicon-valley-millionaire-steve-kirsch-covid-vaccine-misinformation/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/05/1036408/silicon-... To be clear, the researchers kept doing research and progressing. Whether some layman could tout it, mixing their advocacy with a myriad of disproved cures (along with anti-vax disinformation), had positively zero bearing on what they were doing, and if anything is a massive distraction. Talking about something by sharing a Facebook post or posting a YouTube video or even HN comment has a negligible to negative effect on actual efforts.