User talk:Matt18224

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I want to thank you for creating redirects for Harvey Specter and Louis Litt and for adding Mike Ross to the Michael Ross disam page. It is sincerely appreciated! This is a photo of a pie in gratitude. ~Cheers, Ten Ton Parasol 23:12, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Matt18224 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is 173.44.74.81. This is my ISP-assigned IP address. A simple lookup will indicate that it is not a shared IP address and that it is in fact a consumer IP address. The block instated on this range of IP addresses (173.44.0.0/16) does not seem to be valid, at least not for my IP address and many others in this range previously assigned to me by my ISP. Matt18224 (talk) 23:55, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

Unblocked ST47 (talk) 00:26, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ST47, you blocked Special:Contributions/173.44.0.0/16. Whois doesn't mention QuadraNet Enterprises, and the Proxy Checker didn't indicate any issues. Was the block overbroad, or am I missing something? Huon (talk) 00:16, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'll tighten it up. ST47 (talk) 00:26, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Berenson's latest foray: criticizing Covid-19 epidemiological models

In case you hadn't seen this article, you might find it interesting:

Does the King of the COVID-19 Contrarians Have a Case? - Alex Berenson, thriller writer, former Timesman, and marijuana alarmist, thinks scientists, politicians, and the media are fueling coronavirus hysteria. Some scientists think he’s dead wrong. “He should go back to school to learn some science,” says one.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/does-the-king-of-the-covid-19-contrarians-have-a-case

Friends and former colleagues say that Berenson genuinely believes in what he is doing, that he believes that he has found the data that backs up his argument and thinks he must warn the world of the mistake they are making. (He recently tweeted a list of the top five greatest policy failures in American history, among them slavery, the Vietnam War, and only a few weeks into it, the government’s COVID-19 response.) But they also see a guy cast out from his old media world, living in the upstate media enclave of Garrison, New York, and playing to his newfound friends on the right, a trajectory that began with his contrarian book last year on marijuana, Tell Your Children, and accelerated amid the pandemic. Former colleagues speak of someone who has a significant ego, and a sense of embattlement. “He always seemed to me like the kind of a guy who is a legend in his own mind,” said one former fellow business reporter, who wrote in a text that after the marijuana book came out, Berenson “got all defensive and convinced himself that The Politically Correct were trying to Silence him for having Different Opinions. And the next thing you know all these people with Deplorable in their bio are like ‘Yeah! You are a Truth Teller!’ And that becomes your new identity, you become the Rebel leader in this gang of dipshits.”

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