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They're Back on Twitter and YouTube!

Attention Citizens!

Investigative journalist Alex Berenson is back on Twitter after a settlement with the company. The "wrongest man" of the pandemic consistently called it right, yet he was suspended for misinformation. The final tweet that got him bounced from Twitter:


Lifestyle Medicine (or, Your Health before Pharma Profits)

Over on YouTube, Dr. Suneel Dhand, internal medicine physician who reads and interprets studies and the news on his channel, started posting there again after his two strikes for "misinformation" timed out. One of his strikes was for reading a news article about a COVID outbreak among vaccinated people last year.  I don't agree with all of his medical advice, but he encourages lifestyle changes over medication, rejects appeals to authority, and calls out nonsense where he sees it. His spicier takes are over on Locals.



Hopefully, we'll get back more people on YouTube and Twitter (Facebook is hopeless) who've been exiled to Substack, Locals and other social media equivalents of Siberia.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer
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