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Alex Berenson, unlike Pfizer, has nothing to gain from taking the journalistic stance he holds. In fact he was banned from Twitter for it. In your mind, an ind

Alex Berenson, unlike Pfizer, has nothing to gain from taking the journalistic stance he holds. In fact he was banned from Twitter for it. In your mind, an independent/skeptical/critical journalist is a propagandist, and Pfizer is a neutral public health authority? Time to wake up.

bildung 5y ago
Berenson apparently was already caught earning money with false information about cannabis effects, and has zero medical background.
snovv_crash 5y ago
Well, there are also a bunch of people who are by default untrusting of authority who will latch onto and give YouTube ad revenue to anybody who puts out material that matches their confirmation bias. If Alex Berenson was saying we should all get the vaccine he would never have gathered the following he did. So don't pretend populist journalists don't have a monetary incentive to propound the material they show, either.
acdha 5y ago
Alex Berenson relies on attention to sell his books (remember when he was telling parents that cannabis causes psychosis and violence? Great way to get on TV telling people about your book.) and his COVID denial sells ads on his substack and almost turned into a Fox show. Pfizer also has a potential conflict of interest, which is why people are talking about what they've done going through the scientific process. That's very different from where Berenson makes up something outrageous, hits send, and then complains about being “canceled” if he gets criticized by real journalists or scientists because Pfizer employees people who are experts in the field, runs studies following standard methodology, publishes their data and analysis and it's critically examined by independent experts. That doesn't mean it's perfect but it's a completely different level of rigor than a self-published screed.

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Alex Berenson, unlike Pfizer, has nothing to gain from taking the journalistic stance he holds. In fact he was banned from Twitter for it. In your mind, an ind

by silent_cal 5y ago

bildung 5y ago
Berenson apparently was already caught earning money with false information about cannabis effects, and has zero medical background.
snovv_crash 5y ago
Well, there are also a bunch of people who are by default untrusting of authority who will latch onto and give YouTube ad revenue to anybody who puts out material that matches their confirmation bias. If Alex Berenson was saying we should all get the vaccine he would never have gathered the following he did. So don't pretend populist journalists don't have a monetary incentive to propound the material they show, either.
acdha 5y ago
Alex Berenson relies on attention to sell his books (remember when he was telling parents that cannabis causes psychosis and violence? Great way to get on TV telling people about your book.) and his COVID denial sells ads on his substack and almost turned into a Fox show. Pfizer also has a potential conflict of interest, which is why people are talking about what they've done going through the scientific process. That's very different from where Berenson makes up something outrageous, hits send, and then complains about being “canceled” if he gets criticized by real journalists or scientists because Pfizer employees people who are experts in the field, runs studies following standard methodology, publishes their data and analysis and it's critically examined by independent experts. That doesn't mean it's perfect but it's a completely different level of rigor than a self-published screed.