Derek Beres
@derekberes.bsky.social
🎙Co-host: Conspirituality
✍️ Writer (bylines: NY Times, The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone)
✍️ Writer (bylines: NY Times, The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone)
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Derek Beres
@derekberes.bsky.social
· Sep 9
Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories
www.nytimes.com
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...
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...
Every body part will be exploited through fear and "optimization" in order to keep industries churning along.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Every body part will be exploited through fear and "optimization" in order to keep industries churning along.
With all my heart, fuck this guy.
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
With all my heart, fuck this guy.
I wish I had a better message about the CDC website becoming a 4chan conspiracy.
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I wish I had a better message about the CDC website becoming a 4chan conspiracy.
I really appreciate all the experts sharing studies that vaccines don't cause autism.
Anti-vaxxers have never cared about clinical proof or science. Studies won't sway them.
They've clawed their way to power and won't give it up willingly.
And we're all going to be worse off for it.
Anti-vaxxers have never cared about clinical proof or science. Studies won't sway them.
They've clawed their way to power and won't give it up willingly.
And we're all going to be worse off for it.
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I really appreciate all the experts sharing studies that vaccines don't cause autism.
Anti-vaxxers have never cared about clinical proof or science. Studies won't sway them.
They've clawed their way to power and won't give it up willingly.
And we're all going to be worse off for it.
Anti-vaxxers have never cared about clinical proof or science. Studies won't sway them.
They've clawed their way to power and won't give it up willingly.
And we're all going to be worse off for it.
Never ever thought our cranky old Maine Coon, Magellan, would take to Tempo, but now they’re sleeping next to each other daily.
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Never ever thought our cranky old Maine Coon, Magellan, would take to Tempo, but now they’re sleeping next to each other daily.
I need to log off for a few years at this point. And yes, she’s being serious.
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I need to log off for a few years at this point. And yes, she’s being serious.
Black Death was also way overblown. Boccaccio was a shill for the Florentine oligarchs.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The anti-vax movement's wildest claim yet: Polio wasn't so bad
Add this to vaccines make you magnetic, cause AIDS, and measles is not a big deal.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Black Death was also way overblown. Boccaccio was a shill for the Florentine oligarchs.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
WTF does this even mean?
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
WTF does this even mean?
The First Amendment doesn't protect you against "woke." It protects you against governmental persecution for your speech.
Which this administration has no interest in.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Which this administration has no interest in.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The First Amendment doesn't protect you against "woke." It protects you against governmental persecution for your speech.
Which this administration has no interest in.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Which this administration has no interest in.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
This chiropractor sells synthetic drugs called supplements.
There’s a serious movement by wellness grifters trying to rewrite early 20th century medicine right now.
And they all position “natural” medicine as if it was effective, and pharma ruined it all, when the opposite is true.
There’s a serious movement by wellness grifters trying to rewrite early 20th century medicine right now.
And they all position “natural” medicine as if it was effective, and pharma ruined it all, when the opposite is true.
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
This chiropractor sells synthetic drugs called supplements.
There’s a serious movement by wellness grifters trying to rewrite early 20th century medicine right now.
And they all position “natural” medicine as if it was effective, and pharma ruined it all, when the opposite is true.
There’s a serious movement by wellness grifters trying to rewrite early 20th century medicine right now.
And they all position “natural” medicine as if it was effective, and pharma ruined it all, when the opposite is true.
Who was Olivia Nuzzi's editor and why didn't they edit her.
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Who was Olivia Nuzzi's editor and why didn't they edit her.
So you mean the Democrats who voted to reopen the government for a promise of a vote on healthcare won't get what they wanted? No way.
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
So you mean the Democrats who voted to reopen the government for a promise of a vote on healthcare won't get what they wanted? No way.
Didn't wake up thinking "I'm going to agree with Ritz today," but here we are.
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Didn't wake up thinking "I'm going to agree with Ritz today," but here we are.
Reagan’s trickle-down theory failed for many reasons. Big Wellness functions under the same illusion—and will certainly yield the same results.
derekberes.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
derekberes.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
Dispatch from a wellness summit
My weekend at Eudemonia
derekberes.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Reagan’s trickle-down theory failed for many reasons. Big Wellness functions under the same illusion—and will certainly yield the same results.
derekberes.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
derekberes.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
Of course! The reason healthcare is so expensive in America is our fault! Duh!
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Of course! The reason healthcare is so expensive in America is our fault! Duh!
Every time I think it can’t get any dumber, RFK Jr proves me wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Every time I think it can’t get any dumber, RFK Jr proves me wrong.
Lies about the "war in Portland" may have died down, but ICE's work has not: a 550% increase in detentions in October over previous months.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
‘Detain first and ask questions later’: Oregon ICE arrests shot up in October
The Portland Immigrants Rights Coalition reported 329 arrests in Oregon last month.
www.opb.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Lies about the "war in Portland" may have died down, but ICE's work has not: a 550% increase in detentions in October over previous months.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
I’ve always enjoyed visiting Dallas but what is this airport.
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I’ve always enjoyed visiting Dallas but what is this airport.
I had a great live podcast recording with Dr Jessica Knurick today, which will be on the Conspirituality feed in the coming weeks!
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I had a great live podcast recording with Dr Jessica Knurick today, which will be on the Conspirituality feed in the coming weeks!
Debating Dave Asprey on seed oils in Palm Beach.
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Debating Dave Asprey on seed oils in Palm Beach.
RFK Jr's senior advisor and supplements salesman, Calley Means, has repeatedly fabricated the story of Abraham Flexner and the birth of the modern medical system.
I look into his historical revisionism and what it could mean for the MAHA movement.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
I look into his historical revisionism and what it could mean for the MAHA movement.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
Brief: Does Calley Means Get Anything Right? — Conspirituality
RFK Jr's senior advisor and supplements salesman, Calley Means, has repeatedly fabricated the story of Abraham Flexner and the birth of the modern medical system. Derek looks into his historical revis...
www.conspirituality.net
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
RFK Jr's senior advisor and supplements salesman, Calley Means, has repeatedly fabricated the story of Abraham Flexner and the birth of the modern medical system.
I look into his historical revisionism and what it could mean for the MAHA movement.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
I look into his historical revisionism and what it could mean for the MAHA movement.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
In which men talk about men.
Specifically, Mamdani and Platner in the “masculine” age.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/283...
Specifically, Mamdani and Platner in the “masculine” age.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/283...
283: Guys — Conspirituality
Zohran Mamdani and Graham Platner present very differently as masculine role models, but share the same economic populism, but also a deep challenge in the long shadow of patriarchy: how do men become...
www.conspirituality.net
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In which men talk about men.
Specifically, Mamdani and Platner in the “masculine” age.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/283...
Specifically, Mamdani and Platner in the “masculine” age.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/283...