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Derek Beres @derekberes

🎙 Co-host, Conspirituality ✍️ derekberes.substack.com 🧵@derekberes

Joined February 2009
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Derek Beres@derekberes
10 Nov 2024
I keep my account open because I monitor misinformation for a living, and this is obviously somewhere I have to spend time. But I post and engage with people here: threads.net/@derekberes And here: bsky.app/profile/derekberes.…

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10.8K Followers • 3.5K Threads • 🎙Co-host @conspiritualitypod 📕 Well Enough ✍️ Emmy-nominated journalist (NY Times, The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Playboy, Rolling Stone). See the latest...

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How does someone become an anti-vaxxer or come to believe that chemotherapy is more dangerous than cancer? I’ve spent all year working with Alexander Stockton and The NY Times trying to answer that question. Here’s our findings. nytimes.com/2025/09/09/opini…

Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories (Gift Article)

How does MAHA turn some health-conscious people against all health care? We found out.

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Thanks to @harikunzru for including our book, Conspirituality, is this excellent deep dive into conspiracy culture.
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While I'm not on this platform much, quite happy to return for this tonight.
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13 Feb 2025
We are back THURSDAY NIGHT! @derekberes from the Conspirituality podcast joins the space! 6:05 PM Pacific. x.com/i/spaces/1vOxwXbYbANKB
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8 Jan 2025
Cancer misinformation is rampant and causes serious harm. Misinformation about causes and treatments of cancer cause worse health outcomes and premature death. I speak with @derekberes of Siris Health on their podcast, Clarity Lab ⬇️ youtu.be/LI2cTztummE?si=RRzc…

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9 Nov 2024
This meditation from @derekberes on Tucker Carlson and intergenerational violence was so good we had to unlock it from Patreon. conspirituality.net/episodes…

Brief: Tucker Carlson's Daddy Issues — Conspirituality

Derek discusses Tucker Carlson advocating for corporal punishment as a way to discipline children in his appearance at the Turning Points USA MAGA rally.

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Arthur Dent@ArthurCDent
30 Oct 2024
After seeing @derekberes up in Portland, just fantastic to eat some amazing Indian food and hang out with @JulianMWalker in Palm Springs. Definitely making my odyssey across the USA more special! Thanks heaps guys
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Still thinking about a question I asked Dan Carlin 4 years ago. derekberes.substack.com/p/wh…
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The depths of their cynicism is sickening. "A Republican super PAC is running ads invoking the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to help Donald Trump win voters who favor abortion rights." nytimes.com/2024/10/25/us/po…

New ‘RBG PAC’ Spending $19 Million From Secret Donors to Aid Trump on Abortion (Published 2024)

A Republican super PAC is running ads invoking the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to help Donald Trump win voters who favor abortion rights. Her family denounced the effort as “nothing short of appall...

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Billionaire legal activist Leonard Leo has had a role in placing all six conservative justices on the SCOTUS, and so therefore is in large part responsible for the overturning of Roe V Wade. Julian and I discuss Leo’s dark vision for the future. conspirituality.net/episodes…

Brief: Leonard Leo’s Plan to “Crush” Democracy — Conspirituality

Billionaire legal activist Leonard Leo has had a role in placing all six conservative justices on the SCOTUS, and so therefore is in large part responsible for the overturning of Roe V Wade. But his...

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Perhaps the biggest red flag about "Good Energy" by Casey and Calley Means is that a book that purports to be about science has no footnotes. derekberes.substack.com/p/go…
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10 major gun companies hand gun owners' private data to the industry’s chief lobbying group, which has been feeding it to pro-gun politicians since the late nineties. This is why the right doesn't want journalists doing their job. propublica.org/article/gunma…

Without Knowledge or Consent

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm...

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A group of anti-lockdown (and mostly anti-vax) contrarians recently met at Stanford to make sure businesses never close again. Was the science of pandemics repeatedly confused with corporate interests? You bet. conspirituality.net/episodes…

229: Stanford Has Fallen — Conspirituality

“Pandemic Policy: Planning the Future, Assessing the Past” was recently held at Stanford. The anti-vax, anti-lockdown symposium was not all it claimed to be.

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Conspirituality x @GurusPod @ArthurCDent
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This week’s Siris Health newsletter covers @jonathanstea excellent new book, the inglorious resurrection of the Food Babe, some positive news in Oregon healthcare, and more. Make sure to sign up, it’s free every week! sirishealth.substack.com/p/h…
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I've been working on Siris Health for about six months now. And I'm very excited to launch this nonprofit into the world. derekberes.substack.com/p/in…
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Hey @Unicity can your reps claims your products replace Ozempic? Thanks @derekberes for stopping by for tea 🫖
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Ruining human health isn't enough for RFK Jr's nonprofit. Now they're coming for our pets.
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Laurie Garrett identified the dissolution of trust in public health in a 2001 book. While she couldn't have foreseen the scourge of health misinformation on social media, her book identifies key issues we continue to grapple with. derekberes.substack.com/p/wh…
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