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Honestly, Bret's general worldview is solid, but he has a habit of irrational dot connection that he digs-in on instead of allowing it to be modified with new info. He is a great guy, which is why people love him, but he is dead wrong about the extent of vaccine injury and Fauci 's Mafia hits.

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But is Bret a great guy? What if he turned his implacable snideness on you?

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possible, but as an adolescent addiction psychiatrist, I eat implacable snideness for breakfast. I think he sees a world falling apart and correctly diagnoses some problems, and incorrectly diagnoses others. Just as combat soldiers get battle fatigue, I think a lot of culture warriors who face real, personal consequences get a period of hyper-reactivity and "battle fatigue". I'd attach a graph if I could get this to work on my phone. They have their period of usefulness, followed by over-confidence, followed by becoming a shell of their former selves... https://lermanet.org/scientology/hubbard2percentrule.html

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My issue is that most people in the general world of people who follow Jesse wouldn't tolerate "he's a great guy aside from all of the falsehoods he doggedly defends" from, say, Michael Hobbes.

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sure - but he has been a valuable contributor to a lot of discussions, whereas Michael Hobbes doesn't really meet that category. I think that the data contradicts what he says, and Weinstein is doing people a disservice by not reflecting on it and modifying, I really believe he has this conclusion laid-down in his brain as solidly as a memory at this point. It's effectively a "central dogma" he is working from. In issues not related to this one, I find him a useful contributor... never said that about Michael Hobbes.

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