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Alex, you can write on anything because you have great insights, well researched, and a witty way of conveying them. I'm with you brother for the long haul! Here's to a great 2024 of Unreported Truths!

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I 2nd that. Well said sir.

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Agreed. With that said, someday more truth about 2020 and the COVID Pandemic will come out. Someday more truth about the vaccines will come out. I'm pretty sure Alex will be on it.

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Alex, you should look into seed oils. If you think the pharma is bad, the food companies are worse - and less regulated.

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Yes please. Let’s take a real look at both Big Pharma and Big Food.

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Agree. Each are vitally important to wellbeing and overall health.

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And they have mutual incentives that are good for them and likely very bad for long term health

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I like to hear an honest opinion on the seed oils as well.

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Big Food is rapidly becoming a monopoly -- welcoming government regulations to oust any new incoming competitors. It is particularly bad in the meat industry. The meat processors are basically price fixing and now even running their own feedlots to control the market.

This is why you never see livestock on corn and soybean farms like was commonplace just 40 years ago.

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Meat is one of the best food products for humans. Not interested in reading anything trying to scare people from eating a top notch nutritious food. 🙂

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Take a look at what’s happening in the meat industry: https://deeprootsathome.com/darkfield-blood-analysis-on-contaminated-grocery-meat-products/

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Good call. And yes, as for free speech as a whole as a topic, shellenberger and taibbi seem to have it covered. Not that it hurts to have more voices talking about it.

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Absolutely! Seed oils are among the worst as they are in virtually all the processed foods people are eating these days.

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I am definitely interested in the updates of your Berenson v Biden lawsuit. I am so tired of the corruption and the weaponization of the FBI & DOJ. Keep up the good work. I also love your fiction!

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I second that motion on the lawsuit. I'd be interested in your perspective on the strengths of your case vs the strengths the other side thinks they have.

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I started reading your writing in the summer of 2021 and finally subscribed in the Cyber Monday deal in November - specifically to support your lawsuits.

Democracy dies in the dark and I do not think it's an exaggeration to say that your lawsuits may be among the most important in the history our nation. Worst case could be that you and others you mentioned lose all ability to publish wrongthink - an

outcome that goes to a dark place very quickly.

Although important, your other topics (MRNA, Covid, Ivermectin, death rates, and pharma corruption, etc) do not matter unless you win the right to continue speaking truth to power.

That's worth my subscription, and my money should be viewed as ammunition for that fight. Failure is not an option.

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This substack subscription is worth every penny, It is the only place that I feel that we get the truth about Covid and Big Pharma. Keep up the fight Alex!

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I would be interested in reporting on how dehumanizing the current US hospital experience is. Hospital's showed their worst side during Covid but that was just an acceleration of on ongoing long-term trend in how awful being in a hospital can be. I believe that because of the government/insurance company reimbursement system, hospitals have no interest in curing anyone, just doing as many billable procedures until the patient dies.

Latest example. I had a distant family member, a 91-year old man, who was in almost perfect condition for a 91-year old. Slim and exercised daily. He even got remarried just two months prior, to an 82-year old woman. But he had a slightly irregular heart beat, arrhythmia I believe. It was not life-threatening, just annoying. Making him prone to dizziness and fainting. So his cardiologist recommended a catheter heart cell ablation to "improve his lifestyle", not to prolong his life. If you research heart cell ablation, it seems crazy, but by itself, might be an ok procedure. But in his case it involved 4 hours of general anesthesia, which I would assume would be an absolute no no for any 91-year old for anything except a surgery that was essential to stay alive. Anyway, they sent him home after the surgery but he was back in the hospital 24 hours later with kidney failure and fluid in his lungs and died a few hours later, leaving his new wife as a widow after only two months of marriage. And this was an elective surgery! For a 91-year old. Requiring 4 hours general anesthesia. Admittedly, I believe the patient should have used better judgment, but sadly, got no real help from the docs. They just recommended an elective, lucrative surgery for a 91-year old and sent him home dead.

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Elective surgery and 91 years of age do not belong in the same sentence. I am so sorry for your loss.

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What a terrible story this is. It shows how some physicians are more interested in lining their own pockets rather than helping patients. I'm sorry for your loss.

About five years ago, I began getting a skipped heartbeat once every 20 beats. I guess you could call that a "slightly irregular heartbeat." My cardiologist recommended magnesium. I tried it, but it didn't help. Then, I started taking a high quality multivitamin, multi mineral table on a daily basis. The skipped heartbeats went away and never came back. I am in my late 60s.

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Doctors cannot solve everything. I have trigeminal neuragia. My dentist said had nothing to do with my teeth and my doctor, after an MRI said it was live with it or have surgery to kill the nerve. So I went on the internet and in 5 minutes had the answer. It was food triggers. I had changed coffee to higher caffeine content and switched from orange juice to fresh oranges. So I switched coffees and went to apples instead of oranges and the problem went away. Like you, I did my own research and came up with the answer.

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Sometimes it's better to just not go to the doctor until it's something a little worse.

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same with dentists...and I'm from a medical family...

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"It shows how 'some' physicians . . . ."

Given the demise of our once-great American Doctors and the advent of First Aid Techs (doctors) relying upon computer-mandated diagnoses, I think the word "some" in your statement referenced above should be changed to "most."

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My 78 yr old mother went into the hospital less than 24 hrs after her first chemo treatment for newly diagnosed pancreatic cancer, for breathing difficulty (she had chronic COPD and the chemo just took her down, but that's actually a whole other story). The tumor was causing a gallbladder obstruction that was making her jaundiced. In the hospital , 24 hrs later, they put her under and removed the obstruction THE SAME NIGHT she was to be transported to a hospice intake center. The next day she was barely alive and basically comatose. She died 48 hrs later. There just aren't enough WTF's to cover how I feel about the whole thing.

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Awful.

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I'm so sorry for your loss A Anderson. Oh, so sad. I agree wholeheartedly with your suggestion for Alex to tear into the dehumanization of US healthcare. I was going to suggest he dig into the insurance, medical debt, and charity care racket, organizations such as Dollar For

https://www.linkedin.com/company/38109987

that helps patients receive the charity care they are entitled to via the ACA, that non profit hoapitals fall very short in providing to them. Also shining a light on the emerging field of self pay, ie the work of Leon Wisnewski https://www.linkedin.com/in/leon-wisniewski-a38174b?trk=feed_main-feed-card_comment_actor-name

Self pay is becoming a reality now that there are price transparency laws in place with some teeth in them.

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Yes. I am a nurse. After Covid, I was so burnt out and disgusted with the healthcare system and I left the floor and I went to the cath lab where the ablations are done. I didn’t last long there because I really didn’t like watching ablations and these elective procedures being done on the elderly. Many cardiologists mean well and really want to help, but it is a very invasive procedure. I personally feel like when we are elderly, heart arrhythmias are normal and we should stop interfering with invasive procedures as often as we do. It’s been tough. I’m now just trying to do as much good as I can and plant seeds in people’s minds to get them to start looking at healthcare in a new way and see how corrupt it is.

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Life is finite. Everyone dies. Let's talk about death. Don't spend millions prolonging life at the end--it's inevitable. Just make those at the end comfortable, and let life [God] take its course.

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TOTALLY Agree with you!

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His insurance policy must have paid for that procedure; hence they recommend it! It is all about how much money they can suck off the policy.

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God bless you and your family, Alex. Your work is excellent and you are a very brave man to take on this giant entities. You are one of only a very few true investigative journalists in today's world. God's speed.

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Hi Alex, I will continue to support your efforts and follow your reporting wherever it leads. However, I believe one of the biggest "stories" of the past 25 years is the convergence of "healthcare" with "health insurance". This is akin to the goal of many on the left to pull Healthcare from private industry altogether and put it under complete government control (a la the UK). We fought that takeover somewhat successfully, however we now have something equally dangerous - collusion between all the "players" in both providing Healthcare and the insurance companies we contract with to help pay for that care. It all started with regular "wellchecks" which seemed innocuous enough, but the money is flowing every possible direction, enriching these conglomerates while actual care for patients and payment to doctors is suffering..

We have the right hand -

insurance companies - determining what the left hand - doctors and other health providers - recommend and provide in terms of care. At the same time we have many doctors padding their own and hospitals coffers with unnecessary tests.

A recent personal example was taking my anxious daughter to a primary care Dr. for stomach pain (gas, as it turns put), and having her write an order for us to visit the ER for a CAT scan. Of course, it wasn't appendicitis as she had suggested, it was NOTHING. And about $18k later, much paid by insurance but about $2500 paid out of pocket by me.

Please Alex, could you add this topic for a look-see? Heath care should be separate from health insurance in my book....that way Drs can take care of patients without coercion or wrong incentives.

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🎯

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Alex keep after Biden and the rest for their censoring you. I fear you will discover justice is the first casualty followed closely by the truth. But someone has to try and make them accountable.

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I'll probably be a subscriber for life. Your credibility is 100%, and anything you think is worth covering is very likely something I want to know. I don't have many heroes, but Alex Berenson, you are one to me.

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I love your writing style and your reporting. I don't agree with everything you say, specially Trump and Ivermectin. But it is alright to disagree

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Hi Alex, the Matthew Perry article really touched a nerve, especially when the toxicology came back and noted the amount of Buprenorphine and Ketamine in his system. I had the misfortune to work for a methadone clinic and to see people get flat lined by methadone (a heroine derivative) and still lose their teeth - that's one of the worst treatment methodologies for opioid addiction I've ever seen because it trades one addiction for another and supports the clinical model with feeble attempts at counseling. It's one big legalized dosing clinic. Disgusting.

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Alex, here are a few ideas for future writing by you:

1. The possibility that a low-fat diet renders a person MORE susceptible to dementia, with a high-fat diet being protective. Two people I know who both got dementia were on low fat diets, one being on the ultra low-fat Pritikin Diet. Each was tall, slender and got lots and lots of exercise. Not the type of people you would think would end up with dementia, but they did.

2. The possibility that high-fat diets are actually better for your health than low-fat diets (see Nina Teicholz, "The Big Fat Surprise.")

3. The possibility that we are hugely damaging our health by not getting enough sun exposure on our skin. And it may be more than just Vitamin D that's involved. Skin exposure to sun may generate important benefits that science doesn't know about yet.

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I believe exactly what you wrote, I've seen it. Your brain needs fat for fuel, and low fat diets deprive a person of that essential fat. People became fat-phobic after Ancel Keys fudged his studies, and people have bought into it ever since. And it's not just so much a HIGH fat diet in that sense, but percentage wise more fat of the good kind (not trans fats, not seed oils). Moderate protein, and fairly low carbs, little to no sugar. That's the prescription for good health, for good brain health. Me and my husband are 74 and 77 and in fantastic health from eating this way for the past 20 years.

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Mark, you are so correct about good fat in our diets and “The Big Fat Surprise”. Several years ago, our PCP recommended Teicholz’s book to me because he knew I had basically grown up on a healthful Mediterranean type diet with no stinting on good fats - and also my beloved ribeye at least once a week - and remarked that after having read the book, he felt that had been a great contributor to my good health. (Duhhhh)

He is a Harvard Medical School grad (back when “Harvard” meant something), MASS General doc for a couple of decades and then went on to a concierge practice. Long story short - He said he always reads the studies but did not read the low fat heart healthy studies because he thought it was “settled science.” He said it changed his thinking.

Of course this is just one example of so called “settled science” negatively impacting people’s lives. For years, I’ve used Reagan’s quote - changed a bit - on health and just about everything else - “Don’t trust and always verify.”

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I believe you’re right about all of these.

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FIRE is also doing a great job on the speech issue.

I read everything. Seldom comment.

YOU stay on medicine. I know there are a lot of Docs out there who will provide you with the tips and leads and complex explanations you may need. I would love to see some investigative reporting into our medical schools. I am very concerned about the quality of Docs graduating and I’d like to know if my concern is genuinely warranted. Some other related topics I am I interested in...the corruption of the hospital systems, concierge medicine and how we can keep it an affordable / reliable option for the middle class. We must move away from the “check the box” style of treatment and allow doctors to truly practice medicine.

I have so many more questions and comments...but that’s all for now.

Thank you for all you do. Worth every dime.

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I am a nurse. Yes, you should be concerned about the new MD’s graduating. They are NOTHING like the older ones. They are arrogant and incompetent, many of them anyway. I would not want to be treated by most of them.

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It’s not that I don’t want to hear your take on free speech...it’s that others have that covered. You guys can’t cover all subjects...there’s a need to specialize. Spread out the talent over various subjects so we have reliable sources on each issue.

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Follow Midwestern Doctor / Forgotten side of Medicine

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I'm interested in the trial. The problem with the articles is they get bogged down with technical jargon which makes them hard to finish. Maybe do a cliff notes version of the trial details?

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You are correct. Taibbi, Shellenberger, Gutentag, etc. are already covering government censorship very well. But many of us were alarmed by the extent to which the medical field was willing to jettison science for power and profit, and are wondering what else is wrong. My doctor recently recommended a common screening exam requiring anesthesia due to my age. I looked into it and found there is no evidence the exams reduce cancer outcomes, and the studies that have been done show they don't work. Many of us are quite skeptical of medicine now, and are interested in being either reassured about our concerns or learning more about what to watch out for. Thanks for your reporting.

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Never take an md’s recommendation for treatment without checking out results yourself. It’s easy with so much information available literally at your fingertips. Your health & life depend on taking responsibility for it.

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Add Vinay Prasad to your list of people to follow on Twitter and Substack. He is a Stanford cardiologist who is always questioning the costs/benefits of different treatments. Today, he said that we do not know if regular mammograms improves net outcomes.

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Long story short - they don’t. Been known for over a decade, prob longer. To wit: “Mammography Screening: Truth, Lies and Controversy” by Peter C Gotzsche ©️2012

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I'm definitely interesting in seeing Big Pharma taken down, and one way is by spreading the truth about them and their accomplices in the medical system.

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Free speech is the most urgent political issue of the day. Censorship is the door to all manner of horrors. Do keep us posted on your perspective of how the battle is going.

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Thanks Alex. I think Free Speech is a huge issue. Unreported Truths is fighting that fight as well as Twitter and other platforms. It is a huge fight. You bring issues more in focus-like that fake corporate guy who makes millions of dollars. I want you to win your lawsuit. I also want to be part of taking down any other entities that can be exposed or at least have a big spotlight shone on them. I want you to continue to be the tip of the spear particularly against the pharma-psych cabal. This is really the government-psych-pharma cabal as it is all tied together. But I really enjoy when you expose a specific target within that world. Stats and data are interesting but when you can reveal an evil person.... that is great. Thanks again. Happy Holidays.

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Yes, free speech (or rather, the increasing lack thereof) is one of the major issues we are grappling with right now. It should be discussed whenever relevant. Many people are still unaware of what is happening to free speech.

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