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Madhava Setty, MD's avatar

30 hours after publishing this article, my comment on YLE has hit 100 "likes" propelling it to the second most popular comment. (thanks to those of you who liked it).

We are running an interesting experiment. Dr. Jetelina has encouraged her following to listen and engage with humility and a sincere interest to those of us who have concerns about vaccines and the vaccine industry.

She has also cited RFK Jr. as a primary source of misinformation that drives vaccine skepticism. I made it clear that I represented his position. By refusing to respond despite the large interest in the comment it will be her hypocrisy that will speak for her. It may also expose the fact that many of those 280 thousand followers are silent observers or bots.

This was the only opposing response:

"You're the one making extraordinary claims here - it's up to you to substantiate them - which you aren't doing, it's not up to us to refute them. Yawn. Wake me up when you've got something."

which was offered by someone (or something) called "tkpwaeub", an account that was launched exactly a year ago and has a total of two subscribers.

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The Daily Beagle took a hasher take on Katelyn (https://thedailybeagle.substack.com/p/substack-promotes-katelyn-jetelina). The biggest suspicion are the "paying subscribers" are mostly just government accounts (sock or otherwise) creating an artificial boost in Substack rankings to give more exposure to government propaganda talking points and to give the artificial perception of vaccine popularity (why would a full time paid government employee need 10k paying accounts anyway?). The growth is not natural, and when you count the number of likes versus the number of supposed paying subscribers you start to spot a discrepancy.

They will never address any rebuttals or criticisms because all they do is copy-paste talking points from pamphlets and gov documents. There's no original thinking processes to be had here.

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