Your argument seems solid on paper, but it conveniently leaves out context and common sense, notably that he wasn't "merely" criticizing Pfizer. He nebulously criticized Pfizer--a COVID vaccine manufacturer, not pharmaceutical companies broadly, not Eli Lilly or Merck--in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and peak of antivax bullshit.
But let's just go even further. He was on the podcast of Shawn Stevenson. The first podcast episode of Shawn Stevenson regarding COVID cites, among others, Geert Vanden Bossche, who advised stopping all mass-immunizations for COVID and has written all kinds of crazy, grammatically-and-factually erroneous content on COVID.
This is prototypical conservative gaslighting bullshit. "Oh, but I didn't say that EXPLICITLY, I only confirmed I agreed with the antivax host of an antivax bullshit "health" podcast that cites bullshit antivax "sources" and, no, I never retracted my statement, and sure I went on 700 Club, and obviously I love Jordan Peterson. BUT I DIDN'T SAY I'M ANTIVAX, TECHNICALLY. WHY WILL NO ONE SEE MY SHITTY MOVIES!? _PERSECUUUUTIOOOON!!! _WAAAAH!?"
Veraticus@lib.lgbt 1 year ago
I think it’s a constellation sort of thing. The individual data points form a line that is very troubling. If it were merely “I hate Pfizer” and he had good reasons for it like “HIV medication in Africa is just too costly” that’d be one thing. But the silence, combined with the other troubling stuff? Not sure why we should blindly assume good faith given what we can see.