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by acdha 1687 days ago
I only met Dan a couple of times at Toorcon, so I can only imagine how angry you are. His memory doesn’t deserve this.

Unfortunately that’s Alex Berenson’s shtick of latching on to someone else’s problems to sell his work in the culture wars. Prior to COVID he had, despite having no qualifications or experience, written a book arguing against cannabis legalization alleging that it caused psychosis. This was flatly rejected by the scientific community for analytic errors but acted as a warmup for what he’d do during the pandemic when he found a larger audience for his lies and came pretty close to parlaying them into his own Fox show.