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Jarrod Schneider's avatar

Speaking of throttling, the inverse may be true in some cases as well, as in “artificial inflation of likes to create the illusion of support for an argument or idea.” Inexplicably, Alex Berenson continues to bash Ivermectin and other early treatments (despite his pretty good work on the vaccines) and his latest substack posts on the recent Malaysian Ivermectin JAMA paper (the one that has an abstract that undermines IVM in a way that doesn’t quite match the actual positive results of the study) shows an overwhelming number of likes relative to his usual totals, despite overwhelming disapproval in the comments. This, more than anything, has piqued my skepticism regarding substack and how it may not be the totally uncorrupted platform we think it is. Anyone else slightly skeptical of Berenson, even if he has done some good work exposing the lack of efficacy of the vaccines?

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York Luethje's avatar

Got both, great read. Dichter means poet but also fabulist in German, for what it’s worth.

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