[tomcatfish]

The operating point is that Scott Alexander isn't looking for a few extra dollars selling potentially fake health products.

He makes a *lot* of money on Substack, enough that this concertn isn't valid.

Also, "So and so isn't respected in the whole world, only in the people that know about them" isn't a super helpful argument anyways.

[ajkjk]

Well, the point was that he (or at least the community he is in) is actively disrespected by some people as well, so it's a bit more pointed than just "not known about".

Mentioning this only for completeness' sake. I think he's good, on net. But somewhat adjacent to some more dubious and distasteful stuff.

[floxy]

I heard he's been known to wear white after labor day.

[ajkjk]

Yeah, that's not it.

[astrange]

Well, he is trustworthy on psychiatry even if he’s a member of a religion that worships nonexistent AIs and Bayes’ theorem.

But his main posting hobby is that he wants to be friends with weird internet right-wing intellectuals and that you should too. So every time I glance at the comments there someone wants to give their opinions on exactly who is genetically less intelligent than the commenter.