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That is a very... odd web site. A bunch of astrological nonsense with this article about dioxins thrown in. I'd caution against treating this like a reputable news source.

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Substack is a website where basically anyone can start a blog/newsletter, there is a subscription model (you subscribe to a newsletter/blog, not the whole site) that the authors can use to put some content behind a paywall.

On one hand it's not really a "news source" like a regular newspaper, on the other hand they did contact relatively famous bloggers/people offering them really great deals, at least at the start of the platform.

They're not referring to the Substack platform, they're referring to this specific newsletter/blog this post is in; it's made by the self-described "nonprofit investigative team Chiron Return." Googling "Chiron return" I discover it's an astrological term and other posts on their home page makes it clear that they do write about astrology.

There is some good stuff scattered around on that site, but whenever I find myself thinking "this is the worst article I've read this week/month/year/decade," I look up up at the URL bar, and it is invariably Substack.

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