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I think I would have remembered hearing it anyway. So I'm gonna say congratulations to the people who put in the time. I feel like I tried to help as much as possible. I don't know if I did but I tried. And it looks like it happened. I mean if five years ago I said to you, I think we'll have a complete agreement on this nuclear energy thing, would you believe that? I mean it seemed like if someth…
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I mean kids is obviously the ultimate. If you could do something about a story where kids are being injured that's your ultimate persuasion. But Haitians have something going for them too don't they? What the Haitians have going for them is that they're black. And in this country if there's a story about a massive group of black people being mistreated that's a damn big story, right? Because you got kids in cages, Haitians being forced to live under bridges, horrible conditions. It does add that extra spice to the story and not in a good way but it does.
So anyway, good persuasion play from the right, whoever came up with that.
I tweeted a story for you to debunk. There's some claim, I won't even tell you who it is, but there's a tweet and a tweet thread claiming that India beat the delta variant when they introduced ivermectin. And it comes complete with graphs that I don't believe etc. So I asked my skeptics to debunk that. I think it'll be debunked b
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y the time we're done here. I haven't checked the comments yet but it looked really persuasive. If you had only seen the claim you absolutely would be convinced. If you've never seen any pushback on it, it looks very convincing. There's a graph and it shows that the time that ivermectin was put into place and then the graph falls. And then you compare it to the United States and other countries an…
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