In Moderation at iSteve

Steve Sailer is all about fame. This is the key to the many strange contradictions in his personality.

Deep in his heart, he wants to be a famous journalist. This did not work out for whatever reason, so in compensation for it he has built an entire career as blogger out of basically trolling the MSM with his HBD shtick. In the course of so doing, he has attracted a small but devoted following of very spergy IYIs who actually think he’s being serious. He cannot let go of this fan club because they are now the only source of the recognition he seeks.

HBD was always a strange fit for Sailer—a man of no scientific background and little naturally ability in the requisite fields of study—but he is helped along in this vein by his deep-seated contempt for black people (a contempt which is quite obvious if you’ve ever caught him in the middle of one of his stealth edits). But if the blacks happen to be famous athletes or entertainers, then even this contempt is overridden by the even stronger compulsion to bask in the reflected glow of their glory.

Posts such as this one make the situation plain. To anyone with any real scientific aptitude and curiosity, who did not have either a totalitarian streak or an insatiable desire for vainglory, it was obvious a year and a half ago that this coronavirus was not a serious threat to health. Everything that has happened since then has done nothing but validate that initial assessment, time and time again. 99.7% of everyone who contracts this virus will survive it. That is a mortality rate roughly three times worse than an average influenza season, which is exactly what I predicted way back in March of 2020. The vaccines have killed more young people than the virus has, and suicides have killed five times more.

You would think this would merit some attention from the man who claims to be the champion of “noticing” and Real Science™ , but you would be wrong. When the issue is anything other than the one his accidentally acquired fan club cares the most about, Steve Sailer is quite willing to throw in his lot with the MSM, the CDC, and Dr. Fauci. He will toe the narrative nonsense on this subject, having calculated (like others he’s commented upon) that this is the surest route to acquiring some “strange new respect.”

So much for noticing. So much for science. So much for standing up for the truth.