It's a formula you see over and over again. 1) Say enough shit to get your hand slapped 2) Do the IDW podcast tour to whine about the "establishment" and plug your Patreon and/or supplements. 3) Get bankrolled by Thiel.
But I suppose that was just a master plan to cash in on the IDW.
I don't think Weinstein's "exile" was done intentionally, but his arc did establish a career path with a huge audience and wealthy patronage.
His words - "They got rich on the products of my mind.”
But he actually was censored.
Just the fact that he is censored makes him worth amplifying. They have granted him minor martyrdom. I would not have bothered listening, but now I will, just to defy the censors.
And if he truly had nothing worth hearing, then he should have been ignored like a creationist. Nobody censors creationists.
You are blaming him for "provoking" his censorship.
If the church systematically had an artist censored and marginalized for making blasphemous art, I imagine that you would not blame the artist for provoking the Catholic league or whoever. Even if this artist/scientist/journalist did specifically make something that they knew would piss off those in power, that does not excuse or justify their treatment.
There have always been self appointed protectors of information, and it is our duty to stand up to them, because they are a bigger threat to our safety than anyone they would silence.
Please don't be a toady for the billionaires who want to prevent us from listening to podcasts that they don't like.
No need to downplay it by calling it “horse dewormer” now that we know where the correlations come from. “human dewormer” might be more accurate!
Research failed to confirm the utility of Ivermectin for treating COVID-19. [1] Much of the research indicating otherwise was fraudulent or misleading. [2]
Statement #2: "This suggested treatment does not have the desired effect in clinical trials. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8406455/"
Can you agree that those are entirely different statements? And that one is trolling while the other is informative?
2 is useful information and additive to conversation
1 is just juvenile and belongs to Reddit not hacker news
A worm is a parasite (which Ivermectin effectively treats). A parasite (in this sense) is not a virus. Ivermectin does not treat the COVID-19 virus. The GP was glib and insulting but not entirely off base.
You are correct that the "horse dewormer" meme was due to desperate people buying industrial amounts, not human amounts, from vet supply shops. It's worth mocking because these people are desperately avoiding mainstream medical advice per se.
Here's Jimmy Dore's [1] segment referencing a WaPo article [2] and Dr. John Campbell's [3] analysis on why "Japan is doing better" because of this stupid "horse dewormer" narrative.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S5YG7X52PE
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/22/japan-covid-...
Please educate yourself about ivermectin.
https://vetmedbiosci.colostate.edu/vth/services/equine-field...