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I will forever be grateful for your initial appearances on Tucker.

You helped my wife and me realize we weren't crazy for questioning the narrative.

Thanks Alex for having b@lls to do the right thing at the hardest time; when everyone else opposed dissidents.

That takes courage and reveals character.

Thanks again!

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There's no other former NY Times ... or Washington Post or WSJ reporter who is doing the same type journalism. It goes without saying that no current mainstream journalist will touch these topics either.

Many on Substack have noted that real science is now dead, but so is real journalism (at least at the best-known and influential "news" organizations). As I've written, the Socratic Method itself is now taboo.

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Yup. Yellow journalism and black magic has replaced the scientific method.

No wonder they're red with anger for questioning them.

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I agree Ryan those earlier appearances were empowering for many when corrupted science-narrative was all around!

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I watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it. As much as I admire your reporting and analysis, I think I lean more to Tucker's views on some of the topics ya'll covered.

For example, I think cancer rates have exploded ... and, like Tucker, I think far more people are beginning to question the efficacy and necessity of all vaccines (and indeed all prescriptions like Statins and anti-depressants).

I think all-cause deaths is one of the great taboo stories of our times. Of course, I think "early spread" is another taboo topic and if, acknowledged, would go a long way to proving this was never a "deadly" virus for 99.98 percent of the world's population. Even Tucker hasn't addressed the likelihood that large swaths of the population had already been infected by the dates of the lockdowns (and the significance of same).

Still, you did great and I appreciate Tucker giving "our side" such a large platform.

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The interview with Tucker was a good review of Alex's persistence in finding the truth about Covid, although I was surprised it didn't go more in depth on the effects of vaccines, especially with athletes and others under 50 in good health dropping like flies,

cancer cases shooting up by large percentages, ans increased information coming out on the increased cases of myocarditis and blood clots, although Tucker touched upon people he knew who died suddenly of heart attacks.

Maybe Alex's discovery in his case will.reveal new information. Hope so.

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right with you on all of this.

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Hot off the press! Here's what I think's a more realistic IFR for Covid. It's based on cases that no doubt occurred before the lockdowns.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/covid-didnt-suddenly-become-deadly?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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I am a veteran of Statin (for myself) and Anti Depressant (for relatives) wars. Not to mention “osteoporosis meds.” I’d love it if my MIL got off of “sleep meds” but that ship has long since sailed.

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I'm really frustrated that TC refuses to call Trump out with the rest. Under a Trump admin there will be no accountability for Covid since Trump gives himself an A+ for his handling of the situation. In addition to that, I've not seen Trump call Fauci out - AT ALL. The man who blasts many of those closest to him has nothing to say about Fauci. Why is that?

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My issue w/ Trump is not that he was tricked. It's that he doesn't want to admit he was tricked by Fauci, Birx, and the rest of the Deep State. He's still saying the vax was a good thing. If he's elected, the wrong-doing will be buried forever.

He's not my preferred Republican nominee. But despite his many flaws, if he is, I'll still vote for him.

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The development of the vaccine was “ good.” the product was not. The delay by Pfizer in reporting the initial results and intentionally delaying them until after the election was despicable.

Trump followed the advice of the experts who were the “ experts.” The experts had other agendas.

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Trump’s Covid-19 response was how Trump responds to any difficulty. He attempts to bull shit his way through. It’s who he is and he will never change. Covid-19 was his one challenge and he failed. Yes he was lied to by the DC Swamp creatures Fauci Birx and Collins. But true leadership would have challenged them and realize that they were lying SOB ‘s. JFK in the Cuban missile crisis realized that the defense and intelligence agencies were lying SOB’s and actually ignored them and cut the deal that ended it without WWIII without their involvement. So that would in my mind disqualify Trump for 2024. But not a single candidate running against him has had the gonads to go there giving him a pass. But if it’s down to Trump/Biden I will never vote for any Democrat again ever. Maybe it’s just a non voting year. Maybe it’s RFK jr. He makes more sense if you actually listen to him talk.

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I've already stated some of my own criticisms of Trump. I like to think they're honest criticisms- fair and balanced, to borrow a phrase.

Your criticisms mark you as a Trump-hater. He bullshits his way through everything? He was told by all the experts a vax couldn't be developed in under a year. He implemented financial incentives and made it happen. Gov Cuomo was whining about lack of ventilators. A bullshitter would have told him, sorry, nothing can be done. Trump got ventilators delivered in a few weeks. Cuomo whines again on lack of hospital beds. Trump had a hospital ship delivered to NY. A bullshitter wouldn't have done that. After all of Cuomo's whining, the ship went unused.

On a BIG issue unrelated to covid, all the experts told Trump there was nothing that could be done about illegals streaming across our border. Trump tried one thing, and another, and another, until he found a combination that stemmed the tide.

It was comical to watch Dem politicians roll with events as they unfolded. They called Trump RAYCISS! for stopping air travel from China. Around 2Q 2020, all those same Dem politicians were criticizing Trump for having done nothing about covid. But then watching videos of those same politicians telling people in Feb, there's no problem, come on out to Chinese New Year or whatever celebration they had in their city. I doubt there's a public official alive - of any party - who made big statements that didn't age well in the early stages of covid.

If you want to have an honest discussion, let's do it. If you want be be a hater and rant with unfair, unbalanced criticisms, GFY, reality speaks.

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Trump did what any good businessman would do, he got to work on the problems he was presented with. I agree with everything you said. Whether it was the vax or ventilators or hospital beds Trump got it done. Unfortunately he thought he was dealing with trustworthy experts not liars like Tony Fauci.

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Your wrong about the Trump hater. Voted for him twice because the alternative was much much worse. He had his chance to grow into the job. Sort of like Lincoln did. But he didn’t.

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Yet all you can say is, he's a bullshitter and didn't do anything.

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That is what he is. We’ve all known the type. We have all dealt with people like him. He is a Type A personality who in their mind is never wrong. He has had a successful career being what he is. But Covid-19 demand more and he failed the test. A conflict with Russia Iran or China will demand more. Again if there isn’t any other options there is zero chance that this voter will ever vote for another democrat.

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Trump is clearly the lesser of two evils, though Trump is more gullible than evil.

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Trump isn’t evil at all he has a good view of this country and he isn’t and idiot like the current president.

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All I’ve heard Trump say on the subject of Fauci was that under his administration Fauci wasn’t a big deal decision maker, but became the COVID go to guy under Biden. Trump obviously wants to leave 2020 behind. He was lied to by the CIA & other advisors as well as dealing with impeachment garbage. Regardless, I’d like for him to be more forthcoming on the subject.

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Or trump made/makes money from big pharma to laud their praises.

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What would have happened if Trump said after the navy ship left NYC unused that this was an exaggerated political game? Made no special effort to foster a vaccine and said masks and closures were baloney?

The “ experts” had other agendas and the idea of derailing the Donald was their nirvana.

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You realize that if Trump had won. We would be bombarded daily with stories of the young people just dropping over dead the continuing spread of Covid and the massive failure of the vaccines which would be all Trumps fault.

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One has to respect what you say, because it's TRUE and I love Trumps policies otherwise. The day he announced OWS in May of 2020 I was screaming at the TV WTF! To this day he STILL touts OWS as a great success and NEVER ever speaks out about what is so widely known about the EUA gene therapy medications and the aftermath. Truly sits with me badly too! When he gave Fauci a Presidential commendation as he left office WTF was that!

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Trump had to play the pHARMA GAME. pHARMA would have destroyed him.

Covid jab is STILL on the market, thats how powerful they are.

He knew this. had to play the game. still to this day he has too.

at some point he will reveal the truth.

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I watched the whole interview my only constructive comment is you came across as wishy washy. You show way too much differential to the powerful people who tried to silence you. Maybe it’s because of you legal suit against them and not wanting to give them ammo to use against you. On the birth rate issue you should really reach out to Naomi Wolf and the work they are doing at Daily clot. She is on top of this issue.

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not happening. Was very condescending to NW in 'Pandemia', an otherwise essential bit of 2020/2021 history

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I watched the interview last night.

It's maddening that Berenson just cannot bring himself to say Biden and his administration were evil.

Berenson tells us in mid 2022, "they" (Biden and his administration) knew the vax wasn't working. Yet they implemented vax mandates to the extent they were able. Berenson theorizes it was because of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the need to show Biden was "doing something." Another reason for the mandates was b/c people were still dying from covid, mostly elderly and those w/ comorbidities- people who typically aren't employed and who would not fall under the mandates.

Somewhere in there Berenson implies the vax isn't really as harmful as some of us conspiracy theorists are saying. I don't get that at all. The excess deaths trends tells us something is going on, and the government and the media are sweeping it under the rug. In fairness, he is correct in saying there's no data directly connecting the vax to excess deaths. So then, what is it? Nobody is asking the question. He says people are weary of talking about the failings of the vax and don't want to talk about it anymore. So, there are excess deaths, and people don't want to talk about the vax anymore. But they won't investigate excess deaths. Even though there's no proof they are related to the vax. Maybe b/c, even though there's no solid proof, they strongly suspect?

There was discussion about falling birth rates. He says it's not b/c of the vax. And I agree, birth rates would be falling w/o the effects of the vax. At the same time, I'm not convinced the vax hasn't detrimentally affected women's (and maybe men's) fertility.

I've said many times, Berenson does great work. But in the same way he refuses to see that ivermectin was beneficial in treating covid, he refuses to see that Biden and the Deep state are evil.

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He is still a liberal He is having a hard time realizing that his world views and beliefs are all built on lies. He sees the facts and understands them. But he isn’t able to reconcile the dissonance in his own mind yet.

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Commenting further on one of my points above:

"Berenson tells us in mid 2022, "they" (Biden and his administration) knew the vax wasn't working. Yet they implemented vax mandates to the extent they were able. Berenson theorizes it was because of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the need to show Biden was 'doing something.'"

All politicians in both parties engage in spin- telling their story in a way that makes them look good. Democrats put their focus on manipulating the public. Helping get themselves elected by doing actual good for the public is not a consideration. Berenson's belief about why they did what they did is exemplary. They knew the vax wasn't working... but made no consideration of the harms from mandates.

There was more manipulation around this- a lot of talking-head commentary and advertising around "My vax doesn't work if YOU are not not vaxed. If you don't get vaxed, you're killing grandma." THAT. MAKES. NO. SENSE. If the vax works, it doesn't matter if I take it for yours to work. By the time they were done, they had a lot of the public believing the unvaxed were awful, despicable people who should be turned away from hospitals and put in re-education camps. I don't care what anyone says, that kind of manipulation is EVIL

Summarizing my main point here, as pitiful as they are, Republicans think their path to election success is doing what's good for the public. Democrats see their path to election success through manipulation of public opinion.

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I understand your frustration. But I think he’s right to be cautious. As the saying goes, don’t attribute to malice what is better explained by incompetence. Surely it was a mix, and at some point the mostly incompetence tipped into more malice than not. But I get why Alex is restrained here.

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I don’t know Alexs’ religious/ non religious views, or whether he’s more part of the secular world. Secular, non believers have a harder time believing that true evil exists in this world. They believe humans are basically good, not so though there are lots of good people, but as a race not so good. ThInk Lenin,Stalin, Mao, Hitler & the fact that historically governments kill more people than anything else.

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What a disappointing interview. aside from your censorship battle, you are giving the four criminals listed on your T Shirt a pass because they didn't intentionally mean to kill millions of people creating the virus and following it up with this deadly "vaccine"? they should be slowly castrated IMHO.

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Alex, I’m surprised that you implied you feel the risk of MI following mRNA vaccination isn’t increased. The Pfizer trial indicated higher rates of sudden cardiac death/MI in the treatment arm. The numbers likely would have been worse if more elderly patients were included in the study. You have written about that. Also, you briefly mentioned the “rare” risk of clotting in the brain with J&J. As has been pointed out many times: What is more likely-that the only thrombotic event the therapy causes is type rare enough to catch a physician’s attention. Or is it more likely that other thrombotic events occur, but are dismissed as unrelated because they are so frequently observed in day to day practice. In the original J&J trial there were 3-4 times the number of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in the vaccine arm as compared to placebo. All deemed “unrelated to therapy” by the principal investigators. And, don’t forget, there was a case of VITT in the study deemed “unrelated to therapy” as well. The studies were gamed to bury adverse outcomes.

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I don't think I implied that - I did not mean to. The cardiac and autoimmune risks are clearly there.

Agree with you about the studies - in design and reporting.

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After suffering a blood clot, Vertigo and elevated blood pressure after two shots and a booster, and personally knowing friends who had sudden fatal heart attacks or died of cancer after being in remission for years, the Florida ER Doc and many others like him are trying to educate those that haven't yet dealt with the increased deaths due to vaccines.

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Great discussion. Even better when paired with another substack video piece out yesterday that had Fauxi in an overt lie.

The lie should be headlines.

Unfortunately, they will all skate free.

Meanwhile, they destroyed any faith in the press and the BETHESDA institutions.

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If you’re talking about Matt Taibbi’s piece, yes, it was really, really good and the short video was right on the mark about Fauci’s lying. I sent it out to my entire email list. I’m still hoping a few people want to know the truth so this doesn’t’ happen again. Unfortunately, I think most people just want to move on. They’re not thinking this through.

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Please share link to video!

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Alex, isn't all-cause mortality up? I believe I have seen stories from CEOs from life insurance companies saying this.

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Your appearances on Tucker along with Clay & Buck were a lifeline to sanity for me. I really thought I was one against the wind.

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I’m a fan of both of you but it’s jaw dropping to hear you ascribe these repressive 2021-22 jab mandates and firings solely to wanting to pivot from the Afghanistan fiasco. What happened to “follow the money”? Has anybody looked up the campaign contributions from Pharma? Or done a FOIA on pre-roll out conversations with industry or how these crazy “emergency”-based OSHA rules got developed inside the USG? whose idea was it to make the military the big example on what factual basis?

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Excellent interview. I appreciate that you refused to go down certain paths and stuck with the data. That is one of the reasons I follow you. I can trust your honesty and analysis. Well done Alex.

As for your interest in the stark reduction in fertility, it is very timely and important to look at this more closely. I am stunned at how many people I know struggle with getting pregnant. Anecdotal but striking. I say this because it is more than cultural and economic. Probably no statistics (IVF numbers?) but I I wonder if something is going on.

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Maybe the "vaccines" have nothing to do with this, but maybe they have at least something to do with this. Alex dismisses this largely because he notes the same thing is happening in China, which didn't give mRNA vaccines to its people.

(BTW, how was the China vaccine different than the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine?)

But I don't think the fact China live births might also be decreasing necessarily proves that the vaccines have nothing to do with this trend. Maybe birth rates are decreasing in China for other reasons, but in other countries that did have the mRNA vaccines, the jabs might partially explain this phenomena as well.

The shots cause a thousand adverse events; it makes sense to me that they might affect fertility too.

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IIRC China made its own covid vaccine using similar rechnology that J & J used (ie not mRNA based).

It was reported however that the chinese leadership (the CCP) all got mRNA vaccines.

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No, the Chinese vaccine is inactivated virus (old-style flu-type jab).

I have never seen reports the CCP leaders wanted or received the mRNAs. It's possible, but either way I doubt anyone outside the leadership would know.

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Okay, this gives us a "placebo" cohort of approximately 1.4 billion people to study. Regarding any possible spike in "excess deaths," has China experienced any increase in excess deaths since they rolled out their non-mRNA vaccine?

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Thanks, Alex. You and Tucker and a few others were islands of sanity in a crazy time.

I'm curious to know your thoughts on the work of Sasha Latypova and Katherine Watt. They both publish on Substack. Operation Warp Speed was a military operation from design through manufacture to delivery. The vials were the property of the US government until the contents were injected into an arm. Pfizer and Moderna were Kabuki theater. The "vaccines" were not "vaccines". They were and are military countermeasures. This reality was confirmed by the dismissal of Brook Jackson's qui tam case last year, and Pfizer just made a similar argument in their efforts to get Ken Paxton's case dismissed. Basically, their argument is something like "we was just doin' what we was asked, your honor".

(https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/62995004/united-states-of-america-ex-rel-brooks-jackson-v-ventavia-research-group/)

If people want to know why the "health authorities" just won't pull the mRNA jabs from the market, this would be a good place to start looking.

I would also refer you to this conversation between Rick Bright, Fauci, and others from October 2019 in which Bright exhorts the need for "an entity of excitement" to get we the sheeple to accept a new technology platform for a universal flu vaccine. I'm sure the timing is just a coincidence.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?465845-1/universal-flu-vaccine

I would also invite you to check out this study out of Kyoto that was uploaded to Zenodo in August of last year. I just learned of it a couple weeks ago. I've asked repeatedly in my corner of Substack Land if it is real or if anyone is trying to confirm it. Crickets. It would be difficult to square their findings with a natural event. It appears to be third rail on either side of the divide.

https://zenodo.org/records/8216373

This is an analysis by an author who apparently wants to remain anonymous.

https://swinehoodsremedy.substack.com/p/unnatural-evolution-indisputable?r=a08we&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwAR2V3QyHtKvwqj6do4WK1SLWEpr-5guldUfJRSRjxsd1y2w7wjXgcSTyppk

I don't think the insane response (and lack of response) can be explained by greed and incompetence and CYA. That doesn't make me a conspiracy theorist. It means I'm a critical thinker.

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Hi,Are you going to comment on Fauci's admissions about social distancing and the lab leak yesterday, curious as to why he is finally telling the truth and your opinion on that.

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Classic commiecrat backtrack and NEVER are they actually held accountable. All we ever get from the GOP and media is saying "hey you lied" WTF! Look what was done to humanity based on "hey you lied" Its a GOD damn disgrace beyond measure what is just "allowed" to occur and still is. ZERO accountability is the greatest existential crisis we face. I think the worst aspect of this now is we the people will get to fund a generous pension for the elf fraud until he dies. None of us will have known a more corrupt and sinister individual in our lifetime, and complicit in more harm to humanity and he simply gets "hey you lied" Just sayin...

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Alex, the shot causes more serious all causal side effects than those who are unvaccinated. That is the simple truth. It causes more serious harm and death than the unvaccinated. In other words it harms and kills, doesn’t prevent infection or transmission and we don’t know the long term consequences. With these truths promotion of these products is fundamentally evil. Further, in light of all the indictments from acclaimed scientists, researchers and clinicians against the vaccines and calls that be halted immediately the CDC presses on. It has conducted no tests for these allegations and actual trial results to counter. It’s their job to settle these accusations. They ignore them and have the temerity to still promote them. This is pure evil on the most massive scale ever witnessed. It’s not stupidity, it’s intentional and to put mildly frightening. Call them just stupid is a soft pass. These sociopaths have criminal liability and must be forced to answer.

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That was a strange ass interview. All of a sudden Alex Berenson doesn't think the vaccines are un safe? You referenced the military but didn't they have a whistleblower or wasn't there some sort of report of signifiant increases in healthcare issues across the board ? I thought I remember seeing that in more then one place. But Berenson is arguing against Tucker Carlson on the safety issues? Iv'e been subscribed to your sub stack for a few years. That interview didn't sound like the person writing these sub stacks. Are you writing these sub stacks ? lmao. WTF was that. Alex started off 2024 like a real genuine Lib-Tard. You trying to get your job at the NY times back?

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I was also a bit baffled by the reluctance to admit the wide range of harms caused by the vaccines. I'm like Tucker, too many perfectly healthy people I know with serious health issues after receiving the mRNA. I personally know at least a dozen. The stories I could tell of neurological disorders, blood clots, vasculitis, pulmonary embolism, strokes, heart attacks and sudden death cause unknown is unreal and never happened prior to the vaccines... The simply unreal and exponential increase in VAERS reports alone should be convincing enough. One of my coworkers said that in his first 20 years in the workforce he never had a fellow worker die. In 2022-23 six of his coworkers died (none of covid). July 2022 two weeks in a row someone who was in my office on a Friday died suddenly and unexpectedly in their sleep over the weekend. Vaxed, cause of death never investigated. Sure it's anecdotal, but I'm over 50 and never have seen anything like it in my lifetime.

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Yeah this was bizarre to say the least I think everyone has anecdotal stories like that ( I know I do), and when everyone does I think its reasonable to start blaming the vaccines. Theres also a ton of legit data to point that direction. I guess Berenson didn't watch Majorie Taylor Greenes congressional hearing on January 12 2024 ( In fairness this interview was prior to it but all this info has been out there for months/years to anyone paying attention) . I suggest everyone watch it https://greene.house.gov/videos/ especially around 31:53 & 1:01:30. The first segment they talk about "normal vaccines" & the second they talk about the military data that was available and once it became public the government edited it and excused it then stopped tracking it and there was another congressional hearing about that a year or 2 ago. I'd be surprised if Berenson didn't report on it at the time. I have a feeling that he can't be outspoken on the vaccines because of his law suit. Things he would say would give his opposition ammo against him and a chance to smear him. He also alluded to his wife being a doctor and his reporting causing issues in his marriage so that could definitely be neutering his opinions also. He's been at odds with some of the other outspoken doctors and people like Malone, McCullough, Ed Dowd and others. He really seems to conveniently pick and chooses when he decides to believe clinical studies, government data and main stream narratives like his whole stance on the therapeutics that many have proven to work especially against the earlier Covid strains. I find this interview he did very discrediting of him not just because I completely disagree with him but he seems completely ignorant and uninformed on the subject, it comes off as phony. I have a hard time believing he is ignorant on this subject. I mean you're honestly talking about the Afghan with drawl here ? Geez anyone buying that ? I probably wont unsubscribe or downgrade to free over it but it really makes me consider it. I think you need to clarify your stances.

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