I knew I had to listen to the Malone one yesterday once I saw that it got banned everywhere (thank you Streisand effect). I was surprised by how lucid it was c

I knew I had to listen to the Malone one yesterday once I saw that it got banned everywhere (thank you Streisand effect). I was surprised by how lucid it was considering my preconceptions. A lot of Malone's main points, especially those about censorship and how dangerous a thing it is to censor criticism of pharmaceutical institutions, rang particularly true in hindsight (knowing that you're listening to a podcast that itself was censored). I don't agree with everything he said (I did some research beforehand about the guy and looked at some criticisms of his claims after) but I fully agree that censoring him is not only wrong, but evil (censoring criticism of a drug harms the very concept of informed consent). Interestingly the "mass formation psychosis" bit, which seemed like just a fancy way of saying "a lot of people have surprisingly crazy opinions about COVID, what's up with that?", was barely a side note rather than his main argument, which is that there are a lot of flaws and conflicts of interest in a lot of institutions around the pandemic and the vaccine, and that a lot of good criticism may be getting suppressed in the (perhaps well-intentioned) attempts to fight vaccine hesitancy.