Derek Beres
@derekberes.bsky.social
🎙Co-host: Conspirituality
✍️ Writer (bylines: NY Times, The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone)
✍️ Writer (bylines: NY Times, The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone)
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Derek Beres
@derekberes.bsky.social
· Sep 9
Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories
www.nytimes.com
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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
I’ve spent all year working with Alexander Stockton and The NY Times trying to answer that question. Here’s our findings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
Nothing’s funny when dinner is late.
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Nothing’s funny when dinner is late.
Shout out to my dad who, at age 81, got his first hole in one this morning.
Which means we are now tied for most holes in one by a Beres.
Which means we are now tied for most holes in one by a Beres.
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Shout out to my dad who, at age 81, got his first hole in one this morning.
Which means we are now tied for most holes in one by a Beres.
Which means we are now tied for most holes in one by a Beres.
I know refuting misinformation can seem futile, but science matters.
derekberes.substack.com/p/the-cdc-ha...
derekberes.substack.com/p/the-cdc-ha...
The CDC has fallen
This past week has been a doozy
derekberes.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I know refuting misinformation can seem futile, but science matters.
derekberes.substack.com/p/the-cdc-ha...
derekberes.substack.com/p/the-cdc-ha...
Gold-standard propaganda.
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Gold-standard propaganda.
Vaccines also cause hangnails, hiccups, misophonia, itchy scalp, those annoying creaks your house makes as it "settles," puppy diarrhea, and shitty neighbors. It's all connected, wake up sheeple.
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Vaccines also cause hangnails, hiccups, misophonia, itchy scalp, those annoying creaks your house makes as it "settles," puppy diarrhea, and shitty neighbors. It's all connected, wake up sheeple.
How’s your “hormonal chaos” today, ladies?
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
How’s your “hormonal chaos” today, ladies?
Cats help you absorb information. Proven science.
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Cats help you absorb information. Proven science.
Yolande Norris Clark used to call us the “Conspirituality bros” as a slur when we covered her shady ass business back in 2020.
Reading how many people she fked over, and the number of babies who died because of her “school,” is horrifying.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Reading how many people she fked over, and the number of babies who died because of her “school,” is horrifying.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Yolande Norris Clark used to call us the “Conspirituality bros” as a slur when we covered her shady ass business back in 2020.
Reading how many people she fked over, and the number of babies who died because of her “school,” is horrifying.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Reading how many people she fked over, and the number of babies who died because of her “school,” is horrifying.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
If tools like this spent as much time learning how to read a study and assess data as they do complaining about things they don’t understand, we might not be where we are as a society.
The 2nd slide is wild: technology doesn’t depend on the scientific process? My man 🫠
The 2nd slide is wild: technology doesn’t depend on the scientific process? My man 🫠
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
If tools like this spent as much time learning how to read a study and assess data as they do complaining about things they don’t understand, we might not be where we are as a society.
The 2nd slide is wild: technology doesn’t depend on the scientific process? My man 🫠
The 2nd slide is wild: technology doesn’t depend on the scientific process? My man 🫠
Me, every time I open my phone to check on what MAHA is doing.
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Me, every time I open my phone to check on what MAHA is doing.
I’ve been smoking marijuana for 32 years and I’ve still never found a strain this potent 😔
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I’ve been smoking marijuana for 32 years and I’ve still never found a strain this potent 😔
I’m sorry I’m rubbernecking here, but my god. Olivia Nuzzi’s ex, Ryan Lizza, published a poem Kennedy supposedly texted to his then-fiancee.
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I’m sorry I’m rubbernecking here, but my god. Olivia Nuzzi’s ex, Ryan Lizza, published a poem Kennedy supposedly texted to his then-fiancee.
"Beres did a great job of reminding everyone of the importance of stepping outside of ourselves when it comes to health, and recognizing what it means to think about health in terms of a collective, public health, and not just on an individual basis."
creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...
creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...
I Went to Eudemonia – a Wellness Summit with the Industry's Top Thought Leaders – Here's What It Was Like
Eudemonia gathered 5,000 attendees and 150 experts for a 3-day wellness summit in West Palm Beach, FL.
creators.yahoo.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"Beres did a great job of reminding everyone of the importance of stepping outside of ourselves when it comes to health, and recognizing what it means to think about health in terms of a collective, public health, and not just on an individual basis."
creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...
creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...
So happy HHS is focused on making healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone and not getting bogged down in culture war issues the right invented.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
So happy HHS is focused on making healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone and not getting bogged down in culture war issues the right invented.
Honestly surprised this wasn't one of his first grifts. (Yes, it's real.)
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Honestly surprised this wasn't one of his first grifts. (Yes, it's real.)
Every body part will be exploited through fear and "optimization" in order to keep industries churning along.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Every body part will be exploited through fear and "optimization" in order to keep industries churning along.
With all my heart, fuck this guy.
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
With all my heart, fuck this guy.
I wish I had a better message about the CDC website becoming a 4chan conspiracy.
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I wish I had a better message about the CDC website becoming a 4chan conspiracy.
I really appreciate all the experts sharing studies that vaccines don't cause autism.
Anti-vaxxers have never cared about clinical proof or science. Studies won't sway them.
They've clawed their way to power and won't give it up willingly.
And we're all going to be worse off for it.
Anti-vaxxers have never cared about clinical proof or science. Studies won't sway them.
They've clawed their way to power and won't give it up willingly.
And we're all going to be worse off for it.
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I really appreciate all the experts sharing studies that vaccines don't cause autism.
Anti-vaxxers have never cared about clinical proof or science. Studies won't sway them.
They've clawed their way to power and won't give it up willingly.
And we're all going to be worse off for it.
Anti-vaxxers have never cared about clinical proof or science. Studies won't sway them.
They've clawed their way to power and won't give it up willingly.
And we're all going to be worse off for it.
Never ever thought our cranky old Maine Coon, Magellan, would take to Tempo, but now they’re sleeping next to each other daily.
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Never ever thought our cranky old Maine Coon, Magellan, would take to Tempo, but now they’re sleeping next to each other daily.
I need to log off for a few years at this point. And yes, she’s being serious.
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I need to log off for a few years at this point. And yes, she’s being serious.
Black Death was also way overblown. Boccaccio was a shill for the Florentine oligarchs.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The anti-vax movement's wildest claim yet: Polio wasn't so bad
Add this to vaccines make you magnetic, cause AIDS, and measles is not a big deal.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Black Death was also way overblown. Boccaccio was a shill for the Florentine oligarchs.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
WTF does this even mean?
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
WTF does this even mean?