David Zweig

to not allow to simply quote an expert, so to speak, an expert on something without asking, well, wait, what's the evidence behind that claim? Or if you don't ask them, then go report it out yourself and dig into it. And that's what I started doing from the beginning. I was like, I thought it was so strange. We kept being told all these things. School is dangerous.

The kids, they might spread it to everyone. And all these various claims. I'm like, wait a minute, is that true? And I couldn't speak to people in the United States. So I started talking to experts in Europe. And I'm like, let me find someone, anyone who knows what's going on. And I was like, well, wait a minute. This is all bullshit. Everything they're saying is made up.

The kids, they might spread it to everyone. And all these various claims. I'm like, wait a minute, is that true? And I couldn't speak to people in the United States. So I started talking to experts in Europe. And I'm like, let me find someone, anyone who knows what's going on. And I was like, well, wait a minute. This is all bullshit. Everything they're saying is made up.

The kids, they might spread it to everyone. And all these various claims. I'm like, wait a minute, is that true? And I couldn't speak to people in the United States. So I started talking to experts in Europe. And I'm like, let me find someone, anyone who knows what's going on. And I was like, well, wait a minute. This is all bullshit. Everything they're saying is made up.

I know there might be some listeners or viewers who are thinking that I'm overstating things. They might think that this is hyperbole. I'm telling you, if you read the book, it's deeply destabilizing. But I hope also really instructive to see how... wildly off so much of the information we were given was. And it's easy for the media to make these claims.

I know there might be some listeners or viewers who are thinking that I'm overstating things. They might think that this is hyperbole. I'm telling you, if you read the book, it's deeply destabilizing. But I hope also really instructive to see how... wildly off so much of the information we were given was. And it's easy for the media to make these claims.

I know there might be some listeners or viewers who are thinking that I'm overstating things. They might think that this is hyperbole. I'm telling you, if you read the book, it's deeply destabilizing. But I hope also really instructive to see how... wildly off so much of the information we were given was. And it's easy for the media to make these claims.

Trump said plenty of crazy things himself where he, oh, the virus is just going to go away. And they misquoted him about the bleach thing and whatever else. There are plenty of crazy things. It's not hard to find something from Trump or from QAnon or whatever. And that's where the media kind of dug its hooks in. Mm-hmm.

Trump said plenty of crazy things himself where he, oh, the virus is just going to go away. And they misquoted him about the bleach thing and whatever else. There are plenty of crazy things. It's not hard to find something from Trump or from QAnon or whatever. And that's where the media kind of dug its hooks in. Mm-hmm.

Trump said plenty of crazy things himself where he, oh, the virus is just going to go away. And they misquoted him about the bleach thing and whatever else. There are plenty of crazy things. It's not hard to find something from Trump or from QAnon or whatever. And that's where the media kind of dug its hooks in. Mm-hmm.

But what no one was doing was looking, of course, with the mirror at themselves. And it's much more upsetting when the experts, I don't listen to QAnon. I don't take my guidance on how to conduct myself or what's happening. But I used to listen to the CDC. I used to listen to the NIH. And what I show is that these people deeply, deeply let us down.

But what no one was doing was looking, of course, with the mirror at themselves. And it's much more upsetting when the experts, I don't listen to QAnon. I don't take my guidance on how to conduct myself or what's happening. But I used to listen to the CDC. I used to listen to the NIH. And what I show is that these people deeply, deeply let us down.

But what no one was doing was looking, of course, with the mirror at themselves. And it's much more upsetting when the experts, I don't listen to QAnon. I don't take my guidance on how to conduct myself or what's happening. But I used to listen to the CDC. I used to listen to the NIH. And what I show is that these people deeply, deeply let us down.

Seasonality.

Seasonality.

Seasonality.

I had written one of the articles challenging one crazy rule or another, which all of my work, none of it's been retracted. As far as I'm aware, there's no giant corrections in any of them. This doesn't mean I don't make mistakes, but directionally, everything I wrote was true. And one of the articles, I remember my wife was talking with a friend of hers about it. And I think at this point I'd,

I had written one of the articles challenging one crazy rule or another, which all of my work, none of it's been retracted. As far as I'm aware, there's no giant corrections in any of them. This doesn't mean I don't make mistakes, but directionally, everything I wrote was true. And one of the articles, I remember my wife was talking with a friend of hers about it. And I think at this point I'd,

I had written one of the articles challenging one crazy rule or another, which all of my work, none of it's been retracted. As far as I'm aware, there's no giant corrections in any of them. This doesn't mean I don't make mistakes, but directionally, everything I wrote was true. And one of the articles, I remember my wife was talking with a friend of hers about it. And I think at this point I'd,

started writing for the free press, or maybe it was on my own sub stack, but I had written for the Atlantic and the New York times and New York, plenty of these types of contrarian pieces. And she said, well, where's the article? Where's it coming out? And my wife said, it may have been my, my sub stack or the free bet. She said, well, if it's not in the Atlantic, then I don't believe it.