303abuser I know nothing about him other than the Fridman podcast, seems like an interesting fellow, what’s the story with him?

      LT42 long story short, he’s a quack who’s more interested in playing the victim role than anything else. i’m pretty sure he’s joe rogan’s main source for all the nonsense he believes about covid, that’s about all i need to know about him.

      • LT42 replied to this.

          Who is this Joe Rogan character? Where did he come from? I just watched the podcast and most of it comes across as quackery.

            mono-stereo his podcast was good pre-covid. he had a wide variety of guests and he’d let them talk. since covid, he’s become absolutely insufferable, while spreading a lot of misinformation. somewhere along the way he’s transitioned from being inquisitive to an “expert” who needs to interject his own ignorant opinions over top of guests who are actual experts.

                303abuser
                Unfortunately, there’s plenty of enlightenment-signalling podberks out there who think they’re smart because they repeat, ad nauseam, the ramblings of such folk like rogan and pas it off as their own independent ‘thinking’.

                Communicating ideas is dangerous and should be restricted to a select few 😂

                    Dubman
                    They’re all in each other’s aren’t they?

                    Some are decent, some are shite.

                        Dubman
                        That’s not important Dubbers, their only quest is the truth

                          Mad_Cyril Communicating ideas is dangerous and should be restricted to a select few 😂

                          you’re almost not wrong. i’m all for discourse, but sweet jesus most people are really dumb.

                            I’ve been loling thinking about this tweet for days

                            alistair Have to prove my Covid status for Bicep next weekend

                            COVID STATUS: Denial with a side order of conspiracy theory

                              mono-stereo Never listened to him, not once, also literally no idea why he’s so ‘big’ but that’s the Internet I suppose.

                                303abuser I did some reading on Ivermectin and what he says checks out. Not that I’ll be downing it in any time soon but its not “Horse paste” which seems to be the latest nomenclature. Strange times. Some craic if it was the cure and social media killed off the idea because of Joe Rogan.

                                    I’ve got no idea whether Ivermectin should or shouldn’t be used against Covid, but much of the scepticism and ridicule around it that I’ve seen appears to relate to the fact that it’s commonly used on horses - well I’m just going to point out that a certain tranquiliser commonly used on horses is also quite popular with humans, so it doesn’t seem worthy of immediate dismissal on that front at least.

                                    • LT42 replied to this.

                                      I think the fact that lunatic anti-vaxxers back the thing is considerably more of an issue that whether it’s made for horses or not

                                        A disinformation campaign against a cheap, generic drug waged by certain interested parties who likely stand to make huge profits from Big Pharma’s vaccines?

                                        I would be genuinely surprised if such a thing was happening.

                                          bosstrabs A disinformation campaign against a cheap, generic drug waged by certain interested parties who likely stand to make huge profits from Big Pharma’s vaccines?

                                          Certainly worked wonders discrediting AZ

                                            Along_the_Wire I’m just pointing out that it could be a cheap tactic to discredit it, which ultimately has no relevance as to whether it’s actually useful or not.

                                            Likewise citing that it’s backed by “lunatic anti-vaxxers” could be a lazy attempt to discredit by association, which again has no actual bearing on its potential efficacy.

                                            Again, I genuinely don’t feel informed enough to weigh in on whether it may or may not be beneficial, but I’m just noting some snide deflection which doesn’t contribute anything to the relevant debate.