Derek Beres

How does someone become an anti-vaxxer or come to believe that chemotherapy is more dangerous than cancer? I’ve spent all year working with Alexander Stockton and The NY Times trying to answer that question. Here’s our findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Who was a teacher that greatly influenced you? Mine was Ivan Van Sertima.

That time I could have seen Jeff Buckley live, but didn’t 😭

America, where millions of citizens are choosing the "no health insurance and praying I make it to Medicare age" plan. www.statnews.com/2026/10/22/k...

Mikki Willis is back with the latest installment of his Plandemic project. It might be the most factually challenged to date.

“Don’t listen to rap because it’s about being poor” is some wild but predictable sht. No joke: she recommends “Viking music” because it’s “empowering.”

Rainy Sunday morning in Portland with Apple cider donuts and sad puppies.

Our hood looked like Stranger Things during the morning dog walk.

Milwaukee ain’t fkin around.

This is the very definition of soft eugenics: not an outright pogrom, but a shrug as millions of Americans abandon the healthcare plans they can no longer afford. www.statnews.com/2026/10/22/k...

Who would have thought the guy who’s been injecting untested, unregulated drugs for years would have a meltdown? 🤔

Mos Def (Yasiin Bey) is a force. One show in particular stands out.

The latest sign that MAHA is fracturing. This was inevitable. @derekberes.bsky.social called it out in a piece for AJI: The movement was an inherent contradiction. You can’t deregulate industry and make food and healthcare safer or better.

I’ll never not be baffled by how horrible Sonos’s UX is. Finding music shouldn’t be this hard when THAT’S YOUR THING.

Keep religion out of healthcare.

Ready to get healthy, ladies?

RFK Jr’s policies vs his vibes. Neither are good. A new report by @publiccitizen.bsky.social brings the receipts.

Getting in some Seattle time before winter. Perfect weekend for it.

In college, I worked one shift at a fine dining cafe. I was so frustrated with the "fork goes here, replace this spoon now" nonsense that I walked out and never looked back. After school, I worked as an Olive Garden server for a few months, where silverware wasn't an issue.

Does one of Gen X’s most iconic pop stars really believe in Thetans? I talk with @josie.zone about her new book on Beck on today's Conspirituality Book Club. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/boo...

Reporters: hold RFK Jr to account more often. This was a good start, but more is needed from you.

Shortly after 3 children were killed by a shooter in Bend, this happened in downtown Portland. Not a good day for Oregon. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/1...

Here we go again: multiple people shot at a school in Bend. www.cnn.com/2026/10/15/u...

Russell Brand is currently on trial for seven sexual offense charges: 3 counts of r*pe, 3 of sexual assault, 1 of indecent assault. These are the court artist’s drawings. 11/10, no notes. 🙏 @lisabraundubbels.com for sharing.

We discuss the carnivore turned well fruit and honey is ok but protein bars definitely suck except if you buy my protein bar now let me yell at you with my shirt off in a produce aisle oh and did you know I run a company with liver king influencer. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/330...

RFK Jr is using federal money to open “vaccine injury clinics” — and the new billing code associated with them is ripe for exploitation.

Celebrating Primus Lady … and Primus.

What is America if not promising to get Kid Rock your music in exchange for paying off six-figure credit card debt? How far we’ve fallen.

3 of the big 5 book publishers are tripling employee workload while demanding they use AI without author consent. Guess who profits?

Journalist @sgcarney.bsky.social joins me on today's Conspirituality Book Club to discuss Andrew Huberman's new book, Protocols. You might be shocked to learn he gets a number of things wrong... www.conspirituality.net/episodes/boo...

Meanwhile, I showed up at Costco for my vaccine yesterday only to find out they were out of my preferred shot. (Luckily, I was able to get a Pfizer vaccine.) Supply chains for vaccines have been suspect in Oregon this entire season. I WONDER WHY.

I knew we'd get here at some point in this administration.

Our government is kicking millions off of healthcare plans (besides the millions more who can't afford a plan) while Kennedy is funding a trial in Africa that willingly withholds a successful vaccine from babies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I wonder what's happened in the last 2 years to cause such a drop...

Nicholas Carr likens LLM writing to JPGs becoming blurrier as they’re copied and shared on the web. They lose clarity with each iteration. derekberes.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Can chatbots really displace the guru economy? Some wellness influencers are willing to take a risk. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/329...

Wellness influencers are losing their only strength to AI.

Blind Melon, ‘94, Rutgers. Amazing band. Ham sandwiches were involved.

Threads mistaking Jay Shetty for Kash Patel is something 😂 Shetty is awful but he’s not THAT bad.

It’s cool Tempo, I don’t need any room (which is exactly what he’s thinking).

Canadaland recently hosted anti-vax contrarian doctor, Peter McCullough, in what he claims was a focus on media, but which really turned into a science-denying sh*t show. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/328...

Jungle blew the roof off last night in Portland.

MAGA Drazen would be horrible for Oregon. The problem, as often happens with Democrat leaders, is that Kotek has been completely unremarkable (looking at you, too, Keith Wilson). www.opb.org/article/2026...

You can tell how much the MAHA movement values women (aka MAHA Moms) by looking at the speaker list for this week's MAHA Summit: 49 men vs 7 women.

As critical as I am of MAHA and its perverse incentives, the answer is not industry lobbying groups funding influencers. "GAHA" is NOT the way to fight misinformation. (Yeah, that's the acronym some are using.) www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Can you believe Children’s Health Defense got another “study” wrong?

Tempo weighs 112 pounds and he looks like a toy dog here.

Re-upping this great interview with @derekberes.bsky.social about our book. Still getting kudos from physicians and scientists — just got another today out of the blue. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/boo...

Maybe don’t listen to chiropractors who suggest raw milk 🤷🏻