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Jan. 20, 2025 - Conspirituality

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Bonus Sample: Calling Out Bullsh*t

Twitter Files journalist Alex Berenson recently published two articles claiming that Moderna covered up a child's death from a Moderna Covid booster trial—and the FDA is complicit. Children’s Health Defense then hosted him on their TV program to learn more about this outrageous scandal. Do Berenson's claims hold up? All Derek did was click on the links in his own article to discover the "truth." He looks at this phenomenon through the lens of the 2020 book, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World. Show Notes Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World Alex Berenson’s article Children’s Health Defense interview The Lancet study on Covid vaccination in children Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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	Did you hear about the young child who died from the COVID booster during Moderna's vaccine trials?
	And that Moderna didn't even let regulators know, quietly slipping it into a huge data set only recently, even though the child died about two years ago?
	On January 3rd, Twitter Files journalist Alex Berenson published, Urgent!
	A young child died of cardiac arrest after being jabbed during Moderna's key COVID vaccine trial on his substack.
	Twelve days later, Children's Health Defense, you know, the organization RFK Jr. runs, Well, they hosted him on their Children's Health Defense TV program to learn more about this outrageous scandal.
	Turns out, according to Berenson, the FDA is even complicit in this horror.
	Moderna claimed in its submission to the Europeans that it had found that the death was not related to the vaccine.
	But we have no idea how it made that determination.
	What other underlying facts there are.
	We don't even know the gender of the child, the race of the child, the age of the child, where this happened, how many days or weeks after the shot it occurred.
	We just know the child died and they sat on it and FDA sat on it.
	That's just awful, isn't it?
	But no idea, Alex?
	I think your reporting might reveal something else.
	By now, you might have guessed there's a hole in this story.
	Several, in fact.
	I'm Derek Barris, and this is a Conspirituality Bonus episode, Calling Out Bullshit.
	And today I want to cover a few of those holes and why outlandish titles and reporting like this are so dangerous.
	And I'm going to do it through the lens of a 2020 book by Professors Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West called Calling Bullshit, The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World.
	I finished reading the book on the very day that the Berenson article and that interview came across my desk, so it's been on my mind.
	Their book offers particular insights into what Berenson and Children's Health Defense are doing here, and why we, as the public, need to keep our bullshit detector on at all times.
	One principle they share in their book, if it sounds too good or too bad to be true, it probably is.
	And if you're an anti-vaxxer searching for more reasons to distrust the job, Berenson provides plenty of them.
	Data and science be damned.
	Let's get into it.
	You've been listening to a Conspirituality bonus episode sample.
	To continue listening, please head over to patreon.com slash conspirituality where you can access all of our main feed episodes ad-free as well as four years of bonus content that we've been producing.
	You can also subscribe to our bonus episodes via Apple subscriptions.

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Did you hear about the young child who died from the COVID booster during Moderna's vaccine trials?

And that Moderna didn't even let regulators know, quietly slipping it into a huge data set only recently, even though the child died about two years ago?

On January 3rd, Twitter Files journalist Alex Berenson published, Urgent!

A young child died of cardiac arrest after being jabbed during Moderna's key COVID vaccine trial on his substack.

Twelve days later, Children's Health Defense, you know, the organization RFK Jr. runs, Well, they hosted him on their Children's Health Defense TV program to learn more about this outrageous scandal.

Turns out, according to Berenson, the FDA is even complicit in this horror.

Moderna claimed in its submission to the Europeans that it had found that the death was not related to the vaccine.

But we have no idea how it made that determination.

What other underlying facts there are.

We don't even know the gender of the child, the race of the child, the age of the child, where this happened, how many days or weeks after the shot it occurred.

We just know the child died and they sat on it and FDA sat on it.

That's just awful, isn't it?

But no idea, Alex?

I think your reporting might reveal something else.

By now, you might have guessed there's a hole in this story.

Several, in fact.

I'm Derek Barris, and this is a Conspirituality Bonus episode, Calling Out Bullshit.

And today I want to cover a few of those holes and why outlandish titles and reporting like this are so dangerous.

And I'm going to do it through the lens of a 2020 book by Professors Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West called Calling Bullshit, The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World.

I finished reading the book on the very day that the Berenson article and that interview came across my desk, so it's been on my mind.

Their book offers particular insights into what Berenson and Children's Health Defense are doing here, and why we, as the public, need to keep our bullshit detector on at all times.

One principle they share in their book, if it sounds too good or too bad to be true, it probably is.

And if you're an anti-vaxxer searching for more reasons to distrust the job, Berenson provides plenty of them.

Data and science be damned.

Let's get into it.

You've been listening to a Conspirituality bonus episode sample.

To continue listening, please head over to patreon.com slash conspirituality where you can access all of our main feed episodes ad-free as well as four years of bonus content that we've been producing.

You can also subscribe to our bonus episodes via Apple subscriptions.