I challenged Alex Berenson to defend his defamatory remarks about me. He refused.
Alex Berenson said in a post on X that I am either a liar or I fabricate data. I immediately reached out to him to suggest we have a public recorded discussion to resolve the question. He refused.
Alex Berenson posted this on X:
I immediately reached out directly and via a mutual friend, Rav Arora, who offered to moderate the discussion.
Berenson didn’t respond to me, but he responded to Rav and said he’d debate if I made a donation to the Salvation Army.
I said he should defend his statements without my having to write a check.
He should either do it without strings attached or, if he wanted to attach stakes to the discussion, we’d agree on an amount and the loser would pay the funds to the other person’s selected charity.
He refused.
That makes no sense to me. If he’s confident in his statement, then my offer is equivalent to the terms he outlined. I pointed that out here:
I think it’s important to resolve this issue. Apparently, Alex doesn’t agree. What do you think?
He acknowledges the vaxx injures and causes death.
Uh, that latter part means mortality increases above baseline without vaxx.
Is the guy stupid?
Berenson attacked Robert Malone in 2021, I believe, on Fox with Raymond Aroyo as host, and it was unprovoked. He attack Robert for claiming that he had invented the technology platform for MRNA vaccines, which is true and supported by multiple US patents. He never apologized. He also attacked Naomi Wolff for uncertain reasons.
He also recently alleged on Tucker Carlson that ONLY randomized controlled trials would provide answers to the issues of vaccine-related adverse events / mortality, which is pure BS. Harvey Reisch PhD Epidemiologist from Yale addressed this issue (https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/dr-harvey-reisch-exposes-the-central#media-2284653b-92d1-442e-b615-f1cad49f9959) in a 23 minute video, and he pointed out that this RCT paradigm that Berenson shares with the FDA & CDC ... is a central fallacy of evidence-based medicine ... i.e., RCTs do not represent the gold-standard for evidence.
I am an MD, PhD with biostatistics and evidence-based medicine training and experience, and I believe Berenson is a bully who can't compete with those whose intellects challenge him. He shoots from the hip in an intellectual environment where a scope is required to hit the target. Don't waste a lot of time on him.
Richard Phillips MD MPH MS