On Substack, medicine, and journalism

I gave the Nature magazine writer who's writing a piece on Substack full answers to her questions. We'll find out if she is more intellectually honest than Derek Thompson of the Atlantic was in 2021.

The last time I tried to cooperate with a magazine writer who had questions for me — with Derek Thompson of the Atlantic in 2021, it didn’t go so well.¹

So when Hannah Docter-Loeb of Nature emailed to ask if I’d talk for an article “about Substack and people who use Substack for health/science information,” I was inclined to say no. But her questions seem…