Alex Berenson

2022-02-08 03:01:11 “Most volunteers had now been recruited?” What does that even mean?

Here’s what is clear. The pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial - to the extent it exists at all - is being conducted entirely OUTSIDE China, in Indonesia and Mexico.

Which makes total sense. The People’s Republic is going to be in a huge hurry to give its own citizens a shot that has been tested on a grand total of 230 people inside China. In 2020.

I’m sure there’s a good explanation for all this.

I’m just not sure anyone outside Zhongnanhai is going to want to hear it. Open / Comment

2022-02-08 03:00:49 Here’s the proof. Chinese pharmaceutical companies are also “developing” their own mRNA shot, called ARCoV.

They’re moving fast, too!

How fast.

The Chinese companies finished their preliminary human clinical trial of ARCoV on December 2, 2020. It covered all of 230 people.

Not 2021. 2020. BEFORE Margaret Keenan received her first dose.

14 months have passed since that trial finished.

It is not even clear that those Chinese companies have started human dosing in the larger “Phase 3” clinical trial that would be necessary before China can approve ARCoV. And nobody seems to know when the trial might be done. Open / Comment

2022-02-08 03:00:01 no mRNA jabs in China, day 426

The first person in the world to receive an mRNA Covid vaccine outside a clinical trial was Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old Englishwoman, on Dec. 8, 2020.

In the 14 months since, more than 1 billion people worldwide have received more than 2 billion shots of mRNA.

None are in China.

A Chinese pharmaceutical company signed a deal to buy 100 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine a week after that first shot.

None have been given to anyone in China.

But wait!

This delay has a totally innocent explanation. National pride, ya see. The Chinese don’t want to admit they have to buy an American/German shot.

Yep, that’s the ticket. Open / Comment

2022-02-07 19:54:24 Their masks protect her

Masks for thee, not for me, amirite, Stacey Adams?

It’s like the Democrats are HOPING to get wiped out this fall. Open / Comment

2022-02-07 19:42:13 On Joe Rogan (part 2)

Some of you didn’t get the point of what I wrote about Joe Rogan.

In fact some of you seemed to misinterpret it willfully.

I am not a big fan of commanded apologies. The bluechecks have been ordering me to apologize basically since the first Dept. of Pandemia tweet. They didn’t like these much either.

I didn’t apologize for those, and I don’t plan to. I know what I was trying to say: not that the vaccines were poison or causing a Holocaust, but that the propaganda around them was (and is) despicable.

But that doesn’t mean no one should EVER apologize. The most important and holiest day in the Jewish year is Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement. We speak the words to God, but God doesn’t need our apologies. I’m guessing God’s ego is pretty secure. We are apologizing to each other.

The n-word is out of bounds for white people, okay? I don’t want to hear about how you have black friends and they use it all the time. I don’t want to hear Germans using Holocaust references to make a point, even if I can. Some stuff is only available to the injured party. I can’t believe we’re even talking about this.

But I am not walking away from Rogan.

If he invited me on, I’d go. I can’t see into his heart, but from what I can see his apologies are sincere, and that’s what matters. He’s a comedian who has become the most important journalist in the world because our media outlets have failed so spectacularly. He didn’t ask for that responsibility, and I suspect he is only now understanding the pressure and stakes that go with it. The bluechecks hate him precisely because he is so powerful.

I’m not walking away from Rogan. I’m worried Rogan will feel forced to walk away from me and those of us trying to ask reasonable questions about the vaccines. And that would be a shame. I hope he doesn’t.

The end. Open / Comment

2022-02-07 19:42:07 Open / Comment

2022-02-07 18:41:34 Now Joe Rogan’s in trouble.

Three points can ALL be true.

Rogan’s use of the n-word - and that Planet of the Apes story - are indefensible and humiliating and will haunt him for the rest of his career.

Our woke revolution has brought lots of linguistic rules I’ll argue. Not this one. That word has a unique history and power that give it a unique ugliness. The only slur remotely close might be “kike,” though even it doesn’t compare.

And the problems with the n-word are not new. When he was a Senator from New York, William Seward supposedly said that “no man will ever be President of the United States who spells ‘negro’ with two gs.'‘ That was more than 150 years ago.

So no, I am not going to defend Rogan for what he said. No one should.

Second, I don’t know what is in Joe Rogan’s heart. The clips of him saying the word - to me, anyway - mostly show an overgrown child, thrilled with the pleasure of being naughty, a comedian playing epater les bourgeois with the last unspeakable word rather than a irredeemable and malign racist.

The Planet of the Apes story is worse. Rogan - like all of us - is imperfect, and like many of us sometimes has dark thoughts about race and religion. We are trained, as we should be, to shoo those away and certainly never say them aloud. The fact he did shows at best terrible judgment.

The good news is that Rogan seems to have realized the harm of his words. His mortification appears genuine. I hope and suspect he will follow up his apology this weekend with more words and deeds. Not because he’s going to satisfy his critics, but because he should.

If he does, I hope people will listen to his apologies as closely as they have scrutinized his clips.

Third, what is happening to Rogan right now is not about his use of the n-word.

How do I know?

Because those clips have been around for years - more than a decade, in some cases. They long predate his Spotify deal. They are being used against him right now because they can be, because in having me and a handful of other vaccine and Covid skeptics on Rogan has driven the public health and media establishment mad.

I don’t know if these people believe Joe Rogan is all that stands between them and a Covid-free paradise. I don’t see how they could; they (some of them, anyway) must know the data from European countries with essentially universal adult vaccinations.

But the public health mandarins are both fearful and furious; they staked their political careers and medical reputations on vaccines that have provably failed. Joe Rogan is the last excuse and distraction they have left.

Now they are happy enough to beat him into submission with the hammer he’s given them. Whether or not he survives on Spotify, he has learned he is vulnerable. Very vulnerable. He risks being pushed to the 8chan fringes.

He also knows that maybe he can avoid that fate (assuming there aren’t more, and worse, clips). Along with apologizing - which he should do in any case - Rogan just has to stop asking too many questions about the billion-person medical experiment of 2021. Admit he’s just a comedian who didn’t actually understand The Science. Get back to safe and happy talk about psychedelics and universal basic income.

Put his jester’s hat back on, in other words. Leave Covid behind.

Or he can use his platform to keep asking hard questions.

What will Rogan do? Like I said, I don’t know him particularly well.

I can only hope he takes the hard road. Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Open / Comment

2022-02-07 18:41:11 On Joe Rogan

I don’t know Joe Rogan that well.

I’ve been on his show three times - once to talk about the mental health dangers of cannabis, an appearance that came out of my book Tell Your Children, twice for Covid and the vaccines. Each time I spent far longer in the studio with him than anywhere else. We shook hands and chatted for a minute before sitting down and a couple minutes afterward.

Then he vanished and I walked to the car waiting for me. The third time I actually felt a little disappointed - Hey, Joe, can’t we hang out? Have a beer? Mainly tired, though. Three hours of intense conversation that millions of people are going to see will do that.

He’s a lot shorter than I am, and a lot stronger; and his security has increased notably since the first time I met him, in February 2019, in those halcyon pre-Spotify days. Now he works from an anonymous office park in Austin, Texas. But back then he was in Los Angeles, in a studio the size of a warehouse and filled with cool toys: vintage guitars, vintage posters, a pool table. Apparently his car collection was at the far end of the warehouse, though I didn’t see it.

The LA warehouse looked like what it was - the man cave to end all man caves, built by a guy who had won life’s lottery and could afford every pleasure he imagined. Rogan was no longer just a comedian. He had built a mammoth audience of young men, the hardest-to-reach and most coveted demographic in the media. Politicians and comedians and authors all clamored to be on his show.

Life was good. Open / Comment

2022-02-07 18:16:36 This is the same BBC that barely a month ago sicced Rachel Schraer, its “health and disinformation reporter” - lolcatz - on a physician who had the temerity to speak out against the policy to Britain’s health secretary.

The BBC calls these little bits of virtue signaling “reality checks.”

Hey, Rachel Schraer, I got your reality check right here.

Meanwhile, Britain has now dropped jabs mandate for health-care workers. Unlike the Biden Administration, which doesn’t seem to care particularly if the Medicare mandate causes hospitals to collapse, the British government has realized that trading vaccines that don’t stop infection for a functioning health-care system doesn’t make much sense.

Uncle Joe or whoever is at the controls this month will get there eventually. With luck not too many people die along the way.

Reality grinds slow, but it grinds exceeding fine.

Let’s all be sure to save our receipts. Open / Comment

2022-02-07 18:16:07 The times they are a changin'
The Democrats are finally reading the room. They've got an election coming up. The media bluechecks will be the last to go.

New Jersey - New Jersey! - may drop school mask mandates.

But even that move isn’t the biggest sign of late that Team Apocalypse is finally starting to see how out of touch with reality it has become.

No, the biggest sign came from Britain, where the BBC wrote a story comparing vaccine mandates for health care workers to FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION.

I kid you not. Open / Comment