Of all the things I’ve expected to see from Big-tech, I never expected to see this: a prominent YouTuber like Bret Weinstein can post a podcast and claim, without evidence, that a COVID-19 vaccination is splitting the brains of fetuses in half; however, a tiny podcast with virtually no listeners can’t post a podcast outlining the dangers of COVID-19, the safety of the vaccines, backed up with dozens of scientific sources. This video got less than 200 views, and it got taken down for “medical misinformation.” Why? They won’t say.
Maybe I misspoke or made a mistake. Perhaps the algorithm took my VAERS points out of context. The appeal process will fix all this! Even if I misspoke, YouTube would tell me what I said to correct the issue!
Nope. YouTube is not interested in telling me what’s wrong.
YouTube “reviewed” my 119-minute podcast in about 60 minutes, and YouTube reaffirmed the ban without any explanation. Now, I’m a law graduate awaiting his Bar results that aren’t coming until November. I’m in between jobs hoping I pass. I financially can’t afford to sue YouTube. I can’t muster up an army of fans. What can I do? How many people have been in my position? How many have been helpless to the algorithms supposedly dedicated to the truth?
What even is the truth? Is the truth only discoverable by famous “intellectuals” with large followings? Is the truth only discoverable by people with PhDs and MDs instead of a lowly JD with a BS in biology? Is the truth only discoverable by people with the financial resources and clout to challenge YouTube publicly and force a manual review? Is the truth only discoverable by people willing to post on “Rumble” because YouTube may arbitrarily and incorrectly strike you down? YouTube told me that, at least for today, the answer to these questions is “yes.”
What’s interesting is that I have another COVID-19 episode with Yuri Deigin. We talk on a much higher level regarding COVID-19, Ivermectin, and Bret Weinstein. I did not provide a single source for any of my claims on that episode. That episode even got more views! The Yuri video is permissible, for now. All my episodes with guests and my cohost without sources where we rip on our thoughts? Fine! The episode I’ve put the most work in and showed my receipts, banned.
Let’s break down what happened:
I posted an episode with Dr. Craig Story, Ph.D., a biology professor based out of Gordon College. I start with a call to action in this episode: I only want to discuss science, not policy. This call to action was crucial because, typically, my podcast is political. Then, I interview Dr. Story. We talk about the mechanisms of COVID-19, viruses in general, and the vaccine. We also touch on how VAERS isn’t a great resource for determining the risks of the vaccines.
Dr. Story, a biology expert, believes the issue might be how he, the expert, clarified the difference between infection and illness. YouTube may think an expert in biology is wrong regarding accepted biology definitions and concepts. You can’t make this up. The basis for this hypothesis is that the YouTube rules do not allow “Claims that COVID-19 vaccines do not reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19.” We never made such claims for contracting COVID-19; however, we did distinguish between “infection” and “illness” because so many vaccine skeptics use such language to discredit vaccination. This is the only situation where these actions make sense to me; however, Dr. Story is correct. The vaccines prevent illness (manifestation of symptoms), not infection (the entrance of a pathogen into the body). We said all of this information on the show. I’ll avoid repeating it even though I know the expert is right and YouTube is wrong – if this was the issue, remember I have no idea if it is.
The vaccines do not place a magical force field around you that prevent the invasion and growth of COVID-19. COVID-19 can enter your body when vaccinated, and vaccination does not prevent it from entering your body in any way; COVID-19 will grow inside a vaccinated individual. The question is whether the immunological response vaccine provides is strong enough to prevent illness, which the answer is “yes” the vast majority of the time. YouTube does not understand the terms it enforces.
The last part of the episode was just myself going through my research thus far. I read and paraphrased excerpts from scientific articles. I simplified the complicated jargon down to simple analogies so even non-scientists listening could understand the risks of COVID-19 and the benefits of vaccines. I tried to be safe here; I only used articles I found on Pubmed. No mainstream media, no weird internet websites. Just scientific articles. What did YouTube essentially call controversial “medical misinformation” by banning my video? What did I say in this terrible episode?
The amount of viral load shed by a vaccinated person is orders of magnitude lower than a person with a natural infection at a similar duration. This is a basic mathematic concept set out in the podcast.
The chances of variant escape caused by the vaccines are mathematically orders of magnitude less likely than the chances from a natural infection. This is a basic mathematic concept set out in the podcast.
VAERS is misused by the general public.
How the COVID-19 spike protein enters the cell.
How COVID-19 causes damage in the lungs.
And many more completely reasonable, correct claims.
Just in case you thought this event was a fluke, the very next day, David Fuller let his followers on Twitter know that his videos are affected too.
David fuller runs Rebel Wisdom, with over 230,000 subscribers. David is well researched, something that we used to strive for in intellectual debates. David at least stood a chance to get his video back; YouTube has denied his appeal so far.
What does all this tell me? For me, the message from YouTube (the arbitrators of the truth) is clear: the truth is only maybe pursuable for people with large audiences. Perhaps I should have falsely claimed that baby brains are being split in half by vaccines.
Luckily, I always post the audio onto a separate feed for podcast listeners. Thanks to this debacle, I will begin mirroring my content onto other video-sharing platforms.