Malcolm Gladwell
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He decided to reach a conclusion about the vaccine by fundamentally, not just misinterpreting, he's 180 degrees positive. wrong in his interpretation of the data. It's as if he took his hand and placed it over the side of the chart that says placebo. There has to be some agency here that allows you to look at something that has two rows and only see one row.
He decided to reach a conclusion about the vaccine by fundamentally, not just misinterpreting, he's 180 degrees positive. wrong in his interpretation of the data. It's as if he took his hand and placed it over the side of the chart that says placebo. There has to be some agency here that allows you to look at something that has two rows and only see one row.
half of an entire chapter denouncing the rotavirus vaccine. It's not like this is, this is not a, he's not making this observation in passing. He's going after, at length, one of the most significant public health advances of the last 25 years, right? Something that has saved millions of lives. This is not trivial stakes here, right? He's big game hunting here.
half of an entire chapter denouncing the rotavirus vaccine. It's not like this is, this is not a, he's not making this observation in passing. He's going after, at length, one of the most significant public health advances of the last 25 years, right? Something that has saved millions of lives. This is not trivial stakes here, right? He's big game hunting here.
But if you were a lawyer and made this argument in court, you would be humiliated by opposing counsel. Yeah, I mean, it would take five seconds. You would just hold up the chart and say, oops, that's the other side. Yeah. One last question, but a very specific one, which is, if you're going to do this, why does he link to the source that refutes his argument? So I can understand, I want to...
But if you were a lawyer and made this argument in court, you would be humiliated by opposing counsel. Yeah, I mean, it would take five seconds. You would just hold up the chart and say, oops, that's the other side. Yeah. One last question, but a very specific one, which is, if you're going to do this, why does he link to the source that refutes his argument? So I can understand, I want to...
I want to completely misinterpret the clinical data on Rotatech. I want to make this argument about vaccines, and I'm going to cross my fingers and hope that 95% of my readers don't notice. But then he gives you the link to the very thing that shows you that he's absolutely wrong. Who does this? He's not even a good liar.
I want to completely misinterpret the clinical data on Rotatech. I want to make this argument about vaccines, and I'm going to cross my fingers and hope that 95% of my readers don't notice. But then he gives you the link to the very thing that shows you that he's absolutely wrong. Who does this? He's not even a good liar.
By the way, this isn't even the half of it. If you spend any time at all immersed in the words and thoughts of R.F.K. Jr., it's pretty clear that the person who he hates above all others is Anthony Fauci. Kennedy really, really doesn't like Anthony Fauci. He wrote a 492-page book about how much he hates Anthony Fauci. But do you know who's a close number two? Paul Offit, the inventor of Rototech.
By the way, this isn't even the half of it. If you spend any time at all immersed in the words and thoughts of R.F.K. Jr., it's pretty clear that the person who he hates above all others is Anthony Fauci. Kennedy really, really doesn't like Anthony Fauci. He wrote a 492-page book about how much he hates Anthony Fauci. But do you know who's a close number two? Paul Offit, the inventor of Rototech.
In the real Anthony Fauci, Kennedy spends pages on Offit. He writes, Offit, quote, represents himself as an authoritative source of reliable information, but he is actually a font of wild industry ballyhoo, prevarication, and outright fraud, end quote. Tune into any of the countless podcast interviews Kennedy has given, and you'll find the same thing.
In the real Anthony Fauci, Kennedy spends pages on Offit. He writes, Offit, quote, represents himself as an authoritative source of reliable information, but he is actually a font of wild industry ballyhoo, prevarication, and outright fraud, end quote. Tune into any of the countless podcast interviews Kennedy has given, and you'll find the same thing.
After he's gone after Fauci, he goes after Offutt. To the point where after Kennedy goes on Joe Rogan and went on one of his usual Paul Offutt rants, Offutt got death threats and hate mail.
After he's gone after Fauci, he goes after Offutt. To the point where after Kennedy goes on Joe Rogan and went on one of his usual Paul Offutt rants, Offutt got death threats and hate mail.
Yeah. I keep seeing him go after you, and I'm trying to sort of understand, but he's never, to your knowledge, has he ever kind of acknowledged what you guys created was of value to mankind? Has he ever acknowledged that? No. 165,000 people a year. Doesn't believe it. But did he actually work through the logic of this, or did he just...
Yeah. I keep seeing him go after you, and I'm trying to sort of understand, but he's never, to your knowledge, has he ever kind of acknowledged what you guys created was of value to mankind? Has he ever acknowledged that? No. 165,000 people a year. Doesn't believe it. But did he actually work through the logic of this, or did he just...