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Alex Berenson

alexberenson.substack.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2021

Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, writes a Substack on Covid-19 vaccines, statistics, and his dispute with Twitter.

What HN saysCommenters disagree sharply: some cite him on boosters and his planned lawsuit, others say he cherry-picks statistics to promote himself.
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canoebuilder · 2022-09-15
Citation for boosters not working? more people have died since the shots, than before, come on bro! It's staring you in the face https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-mrn… What would you consider a worthy citation source, the same people who have lied or been wrong about everything to date?
hosteur · 2022-08-12
Seems he is going to sue Biden admin. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/if-youre-wondering-if-i-plan-to-su… Will be interesting to follow.
briandear · 2022-04-19
Here’s one: https://alexberenson.substack.com/ (Former NY Times reporter)
native_samples · 2022-03-13
Berenson responds to that laughable description all the time. He loves nothing more than to call himself that when he gets proven right - again - often at the expense of writers in the Atlantic; I'd guess a quarter of his posts consist of "ha ha" type responses where he juxtaposes a tweet he made early in the pandemic alongside a government announcement or newly released scientific paper saying the same thing. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-pandemics-wrongest-man-snl-edi… https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/cdc-director-walensky-reveals-she/… https://www.google.com/search?q=%22pandemics+wrongest+man%22+site%3Aal… If you think he didn't respond to that then surely you don't actually read his blog.
everybodyknows · 2021-11-28
Alternative explanation: He didn't "fall for" anything -- he's cynically exploiting a weakness in the UK stats presentation, with the help of selective citation, on a project of self-aggrandization. Try a scroll through the blog history. https://alexberenson.substack.com/
tamimio · 2023-08-07
>The irony here is palpable. Is it? There’s a big difference between misunderstanding a picture location -where I admit I was wrong- and someone is willing to shoot because big pharma said so and still willing to do so if it would happen again, not knowing their mistake, this goes without mentioning the dozens of examples and proven evidence how it was dealt with there, from the quarantine camps [1], to people denied food because they are not vaccinated [2], or how police used drones and other tech invading people basic privacy and liberties [3], and I’m not even going with post-vaccine injuries. I’m not talking about vaccination policies or itself was effective or not, I’m talking about basic human decency among each other, it’s ok if you do a mistake, admit it, and learn from it especially if you were “just following orders”, just like how I admit that pic was wrong, the least can be done is admitting a lot of covid shenanigans were wrong,it’s time to fix that, and hold some people accountable for ordering others to do such atrocities. [1] https://brownstone.org/articles/inside-an-australian-quarantine-camp/ [2] https://rebekahbarnett.substack.com/p/good-australians-and-the-banalit… [3] https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-australia/co…
origin_path · 2022-07-05
Those charts are unfortunately not truthful. They are designed to manipulate people into taking vaccines. In other countries with more truthful approaches to data what you see is close to no effectiveness against death anymore, and seriously negative effectiveness against infection i.e. the vaccinated get infected a lot more often than the unvaccinated do. The way public health agencies like Canada's manipulate the data is as follows: 1. They use a form of statistical adjustment called test negative case control. This is meant to remove bias from observational data, to go from "case rates by vaccine status" to "how effective the vaccine is". But to do this it critically relies on the assumption that people don't control whether they get tested for a disease or not. For many diseases this is somewhat reasonable, because people don't control if they feel sick and they don't control what tests a doctor decides to use. For COVID this assumption obviously doesn't hold, and as such this adjustment method goes wrong such that it raises perceived effectiveness incorrectly. 2. They don't count someone as vaccinated for a relatively long time after they took their shots (like, weeks or even longer). There is no biological basis for this - try and find one, whilst remembering that the spikes are meant to be fully gone within one or two days. This creates two forms of bias: it creates a period of time in which the vaccinated cannot die (a denominator issue), and also, the vaccines…
hammock · 2022-01-14
>For a brief while after getting vaccinated, before Delta and Omicron, my friends, coworkers, and I felt we were out of the woods. We are actively going out together to our favorite hangouts and being normal. I didn't think we would need this site. You seem to be describing what journalist Alex Berenson has coined the "happy vaccine valley": >the three-to four-month period following the second dose when antibodies are high enough that the vaccines actually appear to work. (For those of you keeping score at home, that’s two weeks of negative efficacy after the first shot, a month of maybe 50% efficacy, three months of near-complete protection, and then a rapid fall to what looks like 0% protection within three months. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/so-you-understand-whats-happening Of course that description was written in Sept 2021 based on pre-Omicron data, and the picture is different now. The latest data: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.07.22268919v1.full-tex… See Figures 1 and 2 above. This study from California in December shows much lower protection from the current vaccines against Omicron compared to Delta: 0% effectiveness of a 2-dose regimen at 6+ months, and 49% effectiveness of a 3-dose regimen at ~2+ months.
cronix · 2021-10-11
According to this substack[1], it was a pilot walkout/"sickout" due to vaccine mandates. It's actually happening in more companies/industries than widely reported. I imagine it's also picked up steam since last weeks revelation from leaked internal Pfizer emails[2] that they used cells from aborted fetuses while testing the RDNA vaccine (testing - it's not in the vaccine), but have publicly stated otherwise. It was also pretty clear that they did not want the public to know from the text. And a lot of "religious exemptions" are being turned down. This would be a bit like taking a staunch vegan and forcing them to eat something (via threatening career) that was tested on animals while they said otherwise. > The pilot emailed following the first Southwest post today (and provided his SWA ID to prove his identity). He asked that I paraphrase the email. > Essentially, the union cannot organize or even acknowledge the sickout, because doing so would make it an illegal job action. Years ago, Southwest and its pilots had a rough negotiation, and the union would not even let the pilots internally discuss the possibility of working-to-rule (which would have slowed Southwest to a crawl). > But at the moment the pilots don’t even have to talk to each other about what they’re doing. The anger internally - not just among pilots but other Southwest workers - is enormous. The tough prior negotiations notwithstanding, Southwest has a history of decent labor relations, and workers believe…
resource0x · 2023-03-01
Not sure what you mean. The development is all over the internet. E.g. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-mrnas-jabs-may-have-caused?… There's a reason why vaccines were suddenly "de-emphasised" lately. (The language of your reply is aggressive)
jpadkins · 2022-10-28
suppression of the hunter biden story was the clearest one. (let me know if you need details or citations on the NY Post article & account being banned by twitter before the election). Also Alex Berenson's lawsuit with Twitter revealed that public officials leaned on twitter to suppress his voice. I think these emails are revealing on the 'coziness' between the current administration and twitter policy team. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-white-house-privately-demanded… Can you imagine if the Trump administration put pressure on twitter to suppress reporters they thought was 'epicenter of disinfo'?
worried4future · 2022-10-05
If you seriously think that people in the federal government don't try to control the media narrative, you're ignoring a huge body of history where they have done exactly that. Most recently, look at the white house trying to pressure twitter to ban journalists: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-white-house-privately-demanded
wmf · 2022-08-13
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-white-house-privately-demanded This case is far from clear-cut but it does appear that pressure was applied.
benmmurphy · 2022-01-10
i've seen some claims that the latest UK data shows negative effectiveness for the vaccine for COVID infection. This is possibly due to Omnicron or due to population differences between the vaccinated/unvaccinated. Also, it is very important to note that even though the data seems to show negative effectiveness for infection the vaccines still show positive effectiveness for hospitalisation and mortality. I tried to find the original article about negative effectiveness in the UK but all I could find was this: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/has-covid-vaccine-efficacy-turned This covers Iceland, Denmark and the UK but doesn't really go into much detail about alternative explanations which I remember being covered in the original article I read.
sm4rk0 · 2022-01-02
What data are you citing? There's official data showing the opposite (I personally checked each data point in that graph): https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/vaccinated-english-adults-under-60
Tade0 · 2021-11-28
This is a reference to this post: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/vaccinated-english-adults-under-60 I had a discussion about it at work because my teammate is vocal about the alleged harm that vaccines cause and is no stranger to confirmation bias. Shame that they lumped so many people into the same group, because if you look closer at the data for e.g. England: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations?areaType=nation&a… There's a strong correlation between age and vaccine intake, because older people were given priority. The difference in intake among the age groups is as high as 50 percentage points.
silent_cal · 2021-11-23
Why are vaccinated people under 60 are dying at a higher rate than unvaccinated in England? https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/vaccinated-english-adults-under-60
lettergram · 2021-10-11
pupdogg · 2021-10-11
Take this with a grain of salt and form your own opinion as you choose: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-a-southwest-airlines-pilot
rvz · 2022-10-28
> The only "diverse" opinion that has not been represented in Twitter moderation is the opinion of straight white males upset they can't spread vaccine misinformation, election misinformation, and deadnaming trans people without being reported and muted. There is evidence that Twitter has been actively colluding with large pharmaceutical giants to target and purposefully ban those for being skeptical of them and the vaccine. [0] So one is not allowed to be skeptical and criticize that? Perhaps everything on what is being read out on the news is the absolute truth then. Surely they can never be wrong. /s If we question the media and companies like PayPal or Twitter dislike that, then say goodbye to your account without giving a reason of what was violated [1] and in the case of the former you must pay a $2,500 fine for what they call 'misinformation'. Exciting times ahead! /s [0] https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/pfizer-board-member-scott-gottlieb [1] https://twitter.com/llsceptics/status/1567658400573448192
whatthesmack · 2022-01-09
> They show around 70-80% protection (with 3 doses for Omicron, 2 for earlier variants) That protection level lasts for about two months and then nosedives to uselessness[0]. If we keep pumping people with boosters, the manufacturers and the media aren't going to be able to keep suppressing reporting about the resulting heart issues the mRNA vaccines cause in many people[1]. Again, the vaccines are astoundingly leaky and were designed for a variant of the virus that hasn't existed in any meaningful way for a while. People with only natural immunity from any variant are shown to have much better protection than mRNA vaccinated and boosted people[2]. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/health/booster-protection-omicron.h… [1] https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/more-bad-news-on-covid-vaccines-an… [2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1.full.pdf
halfjoking · 2022-01-02
You’re right - I’m anti-vaxx when it comes to mRNA vaccines and I often link to mainstream articles like this: https://www.yahoo.com/news/analysis-thousands-more-usual-dying-1701176… Mainstream articles are biased with the spin of the situation but the facts are there. It goes over some causes of deaths - mostly heart/clotting issues, exactly what you’d expect from the vaxx. That’s why we call it the “clot-shot” In England people who took the vaxx are twice as likely to die as those who don’t: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/vaccinated-english-adults-under-60 If you want an opposing view of that data read this fact-check: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-britain-idUSL1N2… Notice how they don’t deny the statistic. They just say it’s taken “out of context” because covid deaths, and vaccines save lives. No matter how they spin it they can’t deny government data says vaccinated 18-59 are much more likely to die. That’s a fact, even though it’s marked as false by Reuters.
taxicabjesus · 2021-10-18
That was just the top of the links when I searched. I think the important point about Delta pilots is they won't have to join Southwest and American Airlines' pilot rebellions against forced medical treatments from which they believe they will receive no benefit. Some people don't like Mr. Berenson, but I think he's consistent: > [...] The pilots I’ve heard from don’t want [systemwide flight cancellations] - they didn’t become pilots NOT to fly. But they also recognize they are speaking for tens of millions of working Americans who are furious with the choice the Biden Administration is forcing on them: your right to make medical decisions for yourself, or your job. > So what happens next? The answer may come down to a delicate dance between the airlines - especially Southwest and American - and their employees. If the airlines signal that anyone who wants an exemption can get one, they may keep the anger to manageable levels. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-not-so-friendly-skies/ Edit: Can't respond to the comment below. Don't care about Snopes, I think they mostly peddle whatever the consensus happens to be, even when provably wrong. Berenson's substack seems to support that there is a silent rebelion amongst airline pilots. See also: URGENT: A Southwest Airlines pilot explains why you will not hear anything about vaccine mandates from his union - and why Southwest has more flexibility than it admits to stand up to the White House -…
OrvalWintermute · 2021-09-14
Here are some examples of people that were banned/suspended, and one that was not. [1] Dr. Zelenko of the Zelenko protocol fame [2] Alex Berenson, formerly of the NYT, for raising the vaccine lack of protection issues, and for merely posting Pfizer test results [3] [4] Dr. Martin Kulldorf, Epidemiologist, for stating natural immunity from previous infection superior to vaccine. Later proved correct by Israeli studies which proved natural immunity superior via "Interestingly, CD4+ T cell responses equally target several SARS-CoV-2 proteins, whereas the CD8+ T cell responses preferentially target the nucleoprotein, highlighting the potential importance of including the nucleoprotein in future vaccines" [5] [6] Facebook suspended users for casting doubt on origins which later became more credible after the US government gave it more credence [7] I think a big part of the problem is when BigTech tries to become the authority on information, and is often trailing the data from authoritative sources, or, incorrectly inserting itself into scientific debates in order to prop up a prevailing line, for which there may be weaker evidence. [8] Jon Stewart was not banned or censored when he raised some of the same covid origin logic problems. I am not sure if this is because he is quite funny, or, it may have been viewed as a comedy bit. However, he did receive a large amount of flak from the left. ************* [1]…

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