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Derek Beres

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🎙Co-host: Conspirituality ✍️ Writer (bylines: NY Times, The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone)

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories

www.nytimes.com

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 12h

Chaos ERUPTS in Portland today!!!

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 16h

Nice mention of my recent interview with @theguardian.com on Philip DeFranco’s news show today.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 18h

To my fellow Portland dog owners: keep your puppies locked up tight today.

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Police order crowd away from Portland ICE office as Kristi Noem set to visit city

The secretary of Homeland Security is visiting Portland on Tuesday.

www.oregonlive.com

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 21h

No notes

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 22h

Harvest Supermoon at the dog park this morning.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 22h

Adam Smith warned against too much consolidation in markets. He knew a free market couldn't function when a handful of businesses own everything.

Hundreds of businesses and orgs sent Trump a letter asking him to better enforce antitrust laws. I doubt he will.

static.notus.org/d6/41/c014ac...

static.notus.org

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Kennedy Debunked (dot org) @kennedydebunkedorg.bsky.social · 1d

Two amazing Conspirituality episodes dropped last week that everyone really needs to listen to. First, @this-is-mallory.bsky.social covers MAHA’s new BS stories about pregnant women ODing on Tylenol. Then, @derekberes.bsky.social dissects RFK new tax-funded garbage anti-vax vid. Bonkers times.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 1d

Back from a hard day in war-ravaged Portland.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure I’m going to wake up to him standing on my chest.

I’ve seen him in our hood a few times, first time he made his way into our little cul-du-sac.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 1d

My wife saw a silhouette of a cat tail in our front door and in walked this guy.

We gave him a meal which he happily accepted before sending him on his way.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 1d

Let's not overlook the sale of The Free Press netting Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, and Howard Schultz millions to add to their billionaire piles.

Andreessen thinks technofascism is the only path forward.
Sacks is MAGA's "crypto czar."
Schultz made a pastime out of breaking up Starbucks unions.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 1d

It's called The Freest Liberty Freedom Again.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 1d

Hey NBC and/or ABC, I’ll sell you my Substack for the low low price of $100 million. While it’s just me, I promise there’s more factchecking than anything at The Free Press (if you care about that sort of thing).

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent investigation into the problems with private equity taking over IRBs in drug trials.

Once again, the answer is government investment into the drug development and review process. Yet this administration is only concerned with privatizing everything.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research

www.nytimes.com

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 1d

The barrier to getting a Covid-19 booster is now official.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

US CDC pulls broad support for COVID shot

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday recommended COVID-19 vaccines should be administered only through a shared decision of a healthcare provider and the individual, moving away from a broader backing for the shot.

www.reuters.com

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 2d

There’s so much going on in this headline.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t tell you how many pitches I’ve received from hack publicists trying to book someone on Conspirituality, but this might be top 5.

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Stephan Kesting @stephankesting.bsky.social · 3d

This short podcast episode is an amazing rebuttal to the latest Gish gallop of lies from RFK Junior

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 4d

RFK Jr posted a 7-minute video earlier this week that assures us that vaccines aren't all that great, actually.

I read the studies Kennedy references. You might be surprised that the HHS Secretary has very selective reading.

www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-kennedy-coming-for-all-vaccines

Brief: He’s Coming For All Vaccines — Conspirituality

RFK Jr posted a seven-minute video earlier this week that assures us that vaccines aren't all that great, actually. Derek reads the studies Kennedy references as proof. You might be surprised to learn...

www.conspirituality.net

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 3d

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Alex, my partner on this, came up with the funnel. We had a few different iterations, but that one landed IMO.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 3d

The administration has nothing on Portland: the protests are a handful of nonviolent citizens humiliating ICE, not threatening them. So they are digging deep to manufacture controversy where none exists.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 3d

There's literally a dude in a frog suit and about 10 other protestors outside of ICE on a nightly basis. I was just in the area and there's no one there right now.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland

Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota

www.theguardian.com

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 3d

Our reporting on how MAHA influencers radicalize people is now up on the @nytimes.com YouTube page.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTpf...

You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories

YouTube video by New York Times Opinion

www.youtube.com

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 4d

MAHA is and always has been MAGA under the guise of health.

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 4d

RFK Jr posted a 7-minute video earlier this week that assures us that vaccines aren't all that great, actually.

I read the studies Kennedy references. You might be surprised that the HHS Secretary has very selective reading.

www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-kennedy-coming-for-all-vaccines

Brief: He’s Coming For All Vaccines — Conspirituality

RFK Jr posted a seven-minute video earlier this week that assures us that vaccines aren't all that great, actually. Derek reads the studies Kennedy references as proof. You might be surprised to learn...

www.conspirituality.net

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 4d

Kennedy named 5 more Covid contrarians to ACIP. Medpage throwing appropriate shade at one.