{"id":81337,"date":"2021-08-29T10:07:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=81337"},"modified":"2021-08-29T10:07:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T14:07:59","slug":"twitter-bans-science-journalist-for-posting-authoritative-scientific-study-on-overwhelming-success-of-covid-natural-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=81337","title":{"rendered":"<b>Twitter Bans Science Journalist for Posting Authoritative Scientific Study on Overwhelming Success of Covid Natural Immunity<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Berenson After Viral COVID Tweets<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>It was never a matter of if, but when.<\/p>\n<p>Science journalist Alex Berenson has been permanently suspended from Twitter, just one day after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/ends-debate-israeli-study-shows-natural-immunity-13x-more-effective-vaccines-stopping\">viral series of tweets<\/a>\u00a0spotlighting an Israeli\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.08.24.21262415v1.full.pdf\">preprint study<\/a>\u00a0which showed that natural immunity from a prior Covid-19 infection is 13 times more effective than vaccines against the delta variant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/berenson1.jpg?itok=jCpj2zeL\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/berenson1.jpg?itok=jCpj2zeL\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/berenson1.jpg?itok=jCpj2zeL\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"8e007264-e89e-417a-9bf4-987efec30beb\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"Advert_verticallySpaced__wnPy3\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The account you referenced has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules,&#8221; a Twitter spokesperson told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/media\/twitter-permanently-suspends-alex-berenson-over-coronavirus-tweets\"><em>Fox News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/goodbye-twitter\">last tweet<\/a>\u00a0he posted, meanwhile, accurately noted that the vaccine &#8220;doesn&#8217;t stop infection. Or transmission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t think of it as a vaccine,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Think of it &#8211; at best &#8211; as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And we want to mandate it? Insanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was the tweet that did it. Entirely accurate. I can\u2019t wait to hear what a jury will make of this,&#8221; wrote Berenson on his substack blog,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/goodbye-twitter\">Unreported Truths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/https%20_bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_ccc2076f-4cac-40b4-aa07-1465761f1d69_750x784.jpeg?itok=S1u4fLZL\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/https%20_bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_ccc2076f-4cac-40b4-aa07-1465761f1d69_750x784.jpeg?itok=S1u4fLZL\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/https%20_bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_ccc2076f-4cac-40b4-aa07-1465761f1d69_750x784.jpeg?itok=S1u4fLZL\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"523\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"8bfe0d8c-9ac8-4274-8eb8-de3e06a34255\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a subsequent blog post, Berenson wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>They have defamed me and denied me a very important platform. But with your help I\u2019ll do my best to keep getting the truth out.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adding his tweet activity from the Israeli study &#8211; revealing nearly\u00a0<strong>three million impressions<\/strong>\u00a0and over a quarter million people who interacted with the tweet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/https%20_bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_c5d5c7ca-f8d3-49fe-8e60-57c252ea1a6f_750x1334.png?itok=mNIYdoGb\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/https%20_bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_c5d5c7ca-f8d3-49fe-8e60-57c252ea1a6f_750x1334.png?itok=mNIYdoGb\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/https%20_bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_c5d5c7ca-f8d3-49fe-8e60-57c252ea1a6f_750x1334.png?itok=mNIYdoGb\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"889\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"dac0d9e9-c97d-4916-815a-98cc8a977ffb\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Berenson made headlines in July\u00a0<strong>when Dr. Anthony Fauci\u00a0<\/strong>appeared on\u00a0<em>CNN<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; calling Berenson&#8217;s CPAC comments that the vaccine effort is a &#8216;scam&#8217; was<strong>\u00a0&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/fauci-calls-more-vaccine-mandates-local-level-slams-alex-berenson-spreading-facts-cpac\">horrifying<\/a>.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/fauci%20look_0.jpg?itok=DJ00yagP\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/fauci%20look_0.jpg?itok=DJ00yagP\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/fauci%20look_0.jpg?itok=DJ00yagP\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"57950547-122a-4184-83dc-e76f0573c5f3\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>The government was hoping that they could sort of sucker 90% of the population into getting vaccinated<\/strong>,&#8221; Berenson said. &#8220;<strong>And it isn&#8217;t happening.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1414212780434108420&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Ftwitter-permanently-bans-alex-berenson-after-viral-tweets&amp;sessionId=4e5bbb7f2ca0b68ccec4f607e613ffa0fe891b4c&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1414212780434108420\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Berenson&#8217;s full speech &#8211;\u00a0<strong>where he slams big tech for controlling narratives and censoring divergent opinions, is (for now), below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iynBWp87PQQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/media\/twitter-permanently-suspends-alex-berenson-over-coronavirus-tweets\"><em>Fox News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0notes, Berenson wrote in a December op-ed in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-and-the-new-age-of-censorship-11607381415\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that the pandemic had ushered in a &#8220;new age of censorship and suppression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Information has never been more plentiful or easier to distribute. Yet we are sliding into a new age of censorship and suppression, encouraged by technology giants and traditional media companies. As someone who\u2019s been falsely characterized as a coronavirus \u2018denier,\u2019&#8221; he wrote, adding &#8220;I have seen this crisis firsthand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When he wrote the Op-Ed, Berenson had been in a recent battle with Amazon over his self-published books.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since June, Amazon has twice tried to suppress self-published booklets I have written about Covid-19 and the response to it,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;These booklets don\u2019t contain conspiracy theories. Like the scientists who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, I simply believe many measures to control the coronavirus have been damaging, counterproductive and unsupported by science.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Berenson&#8217;s Saturday night Substack post alluded to a lawsuit against Twitter,\u00a0<strong>attorney Preston Byrne\u00a0thinks it&#8217;s a long shot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1431779162272976906&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Ftwitter-permanently-bans-alex-berenson-after-viral-tweets&amp;sessionId=4e5bbb7f2ca0b68ccec4f607e613ffa0fe891b4c&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1431779162272976906\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=true&amp;id=1431802319776231427&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Ftwitter-permanently-bans-alex-berenson-after-viral-tweets&amp;sessionId=4e5bbb7f2ca0b68ccec4f607e613ffa0fe891b4c&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1431802319776231427\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Berenson was a\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0journalist from 1999 to 2010 before becoming a full time author of both fiction and nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/twitter-permanently-bans-alex-berenson-after-viral-tweets\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/twitter-permanently-bans-alex-berenson-after-viral-tweets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Berenson After Viral COVID Tweets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}