April Update (Patreon)

Hey folks!

I was going to post this update on the first, and then worried people might think it was a joke, so I waited a little while.

Progress on the Vaccines video is going really well. Too well, in fact. We've done so much research and writing and editing and rewriting and consulting experts and digging through ancient archives for sources that the video was starting to feel way too long. We were looking at two or more hours, and for this particular topic, that's a lot to make people sit through to get to the truth.

This is one of those situations where lots of material is obviously important and feels like it should be covered, but the result is a video whose pace would really suffer as a result. In the end, my Producer Kat and I (this was mostly Kat's idea, so you know it's actually good) have settled on splitting the video into two videos, each covering different aspects of the topic.

The first video is more specifically about the anti-vaccine movement and the man behind it, and the science and fraud that went into it, and the second is about how the media's catastrophic reporting helped to make things as bad as they are. Since we worked on both at once, they're both quite close to finished, so they should be both out fairly soon. We're hoping the first one will be out in two weeks, with the second asap after that.

Normally, I'm against splitting videos up, but after the amount of time and effort we've put into this, it's fun to have more than one video to show for it all. 

I also owe you a patron-only video. We're so close to done on two big videos that I put off making one, I promise to make it up to you as soon as one of those is out!

Thanks so much for your patience on this. It's amazing that we've had the chance to go into detail on such an important (and still relevant!) issue and help create a truly informative resource.

- HB