I noticed that this is pretty much all John Fleetwood's stuff, and it made it click for me that this is like Alex is reading off this headline about therapeutics and he thinks it's about virus. The vaccine, excuse me, it made me understand that. He doesn't understand the story he's covering at all, and he's making it up as he goes along. But part of that Fleetwood blog post about shedding included complaints about the use of remdesivir as one of the therapeutics people were trying in relation to Ebola. And he links to that New England Journal of Medicine article that Alex thinks is about vaccines. It seems clear to me that John Fleetwood just sent all this over to Alex. He didn't read the therapeutics article nor John Substack posts and has just made up his own story about it.

But if I had to guess, I would say that a lot of media literacy targeted at Gen Z has not been focused around, like, how to consume information responsibly or, like, as focused on misinformation at all. I think it's probably been, like, don't send nudes, you know? Like, I think that's the majority of, like, internet education for teenagers.

There was a famous survey that was done about a decade back that found that Fox News viewers were the least informed about current events in politics, while Daily Show and NPR viewers were the highest. And just last year, a survey found that Fox watchers were vastly more likely to believe misinformation about climate issues than people who got news from other sources.

After I had posted, quote, That Jews do in fact control Hollywood sure the op-ed he's talking about is a satirical op-ed written by noted humorous Joel Stein The article launches off from an ADL poll that found out That only 22% of Americans thought Jews controlled Hollywood right and Joel thought that number was way too low Yeah, one of the tip-offs That maybe this isn't an article you should be taking as a sincere source about anything is the clear humor-based tone, like in this part.

Alex doesn't read any of the stuff he covers though, so he's just reading the headline and skimming the first two sentences and making up the rest. to suit his purposes, as always.

I sincerely don't think Alex knows the difference between opinion and fact-based reporting. Does not. In 2003 or even in the present day, I think he still doesn't know.

Anyway, Alex not only doesn't understand the difference between an editorial and a news story, he also can't tell when articles are sincere or if they're satire because he doesn't read any of the stuff he reports on. If all you know about the article here is the headline, you'd report it like Alex does because he's stupid and lazy. And he's reporting a satirical article as real.

This kid exists where there is no... There's no distance between them. There's never any distance between a joke and reality. There's no distance between fantasy and reality. It's all the same thing. So he doesn't believe this. But at the same time, he does believe it. But at the same time, he doesn't believe this. This is insane.

That clip was fascinating to me because he is kind of getting it, but he also doesn't seem to understand that it's a piece of fiction. No.

The information that he throws out there, I mean, it's because of your information, Alex, that I no longer just hear the news. I create a web of information in my mind, and it is so liberating. I can't tell you how liberating it is to be able to discern from the news, not just hear the news.

That's the connection. They all think that sci-fi is real. So. Sci-fi is nothing but the dreams of men. Sci-fi is the dreams of men. All deal with sci-fi as like a documentary as opposed to elucidating trends that are part of the human condition.

And I want to play it because I think it really sums up why people shouldn't casually address Alex Jones. Like, I think you need to know what he's talking about in order to have a conversation about him or else you're going to fall into his traps.

He's furious at fiction stuff because he thinks that other people will think it's real because his mind can't integrate reality and fiction. He thinks everybody's brain works like his, or they're just so stupid that they'll think anything that they see in fiction is a depiction of reality.

He just straight up admitted that he doesn't know anything about the Pope. All he knows is stories that he's read.

He says it in major publications. He knows you don't read them, so he laughs at you.