Pascal Najadi is someone who's made some of the rounds doing COVID conspiracy content and pushing Bitcoin. So adding a layer that his dad was the co-founder of the World Economic Forum does tend to give him a bit of outsized importance, given that Klaus Schwab is this season's grand villain. It's unfortunately not true, but good for a story.

I'm not going to get too deep into the weeds, and I'm not investing any energy in defending Kirshner's comments, but Alex is misrepresenting them. Kirshner was talking about alleged reports in, quote, some cultures of grandmothers filleting children to calm them down when they're colicky. He says that he doesn't know if these reports are true or if it's an effective treatment, but if those things were true, he doesn't understand what would be wrong about that action. That's messed up. I don't agree with Kirshner, and I think it's a bad line of inquiry to go down, but also, Alex is not dealing with what he's actually saying.