Twitter bans mRNA pioneer, one of 2021's top dissidents
Dr. Robert Malone burst onto the scene last June in a famous podcast appearance
On December 29, Dr. Robert Malone, a prominent critic of the mRNA technology that he helped pioneer, was banned from Twitter. He had amassed nearly 520,000 followers on the platform.
A widely published immunologist and virologist, Dr. Malone appeared as the inventor on the earliest mRNA patents in 1989, but he only became known to the general public last year in a famous June 11, 2021 podcast appearance with the evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein, which featured a wide-ranging discussion on safety concerns surrounding mRNA vaccines, as well as regulatory capture in the United States. The three-hour video of that conversation was racking up around 100,000 views a day before YouTube quashed it.
Malone was himself jabbed early in the vaccine rollout, but after safety data that concerned him began to emerge he became a critic of government vaccination policy. This was one of his final tweets:
Regarding the Twitter ban Malone posted the following on his Substack:
Like White House correspondent Emerald Robinson, who was expelled from the platform in November, Malone had been critical of the globalist agenda often referred to as the Great Reset, and frequently lambasted the mainstream media and Big Tech censorship.
Asked in a recent interview about his foremost vaccine concerns Malone offered up this five-minute response.
A Twitter spokesperson said that Malone had been suspended from the platform for “repeated violation of our COVID-19 misinformation policy.”
Malone is the latest casualty of Twitter’s purge of vaccine critics. Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson was banned in August, just days after President Biden asked social media companies to crack down on vaccine “misinformation” as a "good will gesture.” Last month, Berenson filed a lawsuit against the tech giant.
It was Malone who introduced me, via his Twitter feed, to one of the most interesting artifacts that I’ve come across during the pandemic: a decades-old clipping of the Federal Register revealing that even in 1984 the U.S. government sought to conceal safety concerns around new vaccines.
The difference between 1984 and the present day, of course, is that dissidents can now harness digital technology to challenge official narratives.
A couple of days after his Twitter ban Malone appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast, and had the following to say:
Whether or not I'm right in everything I say—and I freely admit, no one’s perfect. I’m not perfect. It’s one of my core points—people should think for themselves…
I try really hard to give people the information and help them to think—not to tell them what to think, okay? But the point is if it’s not okay for me to be part of the conversation, even though I’m pointing out scientific facts that may be inconvenient, then who can be allowed?
Here is a link to a writeup of the interview.