An influential irrelevance...
..that is making waves.
It is nice when you are told (as we were) that the Reality of Illness Who’s Who online directory is an irrelevance and we can prove this is demonstrably incorrect.
How so?
I’ll give two examples but other examples are available.
Example one
Our new Feature utility has highlighted a brilliant video as the first item we chose to promote.
We found this stunningly produced video very amusing, extremely relevant to our whole ‘mission’ and yet it had gone almost unnoticed by the world at large.
We knew it had gone largely unnoticed because despite the video being very polished and professional it had received only 572 views on YouTube since it was first posted on 22 Aug 2025 — which is actually 4 days before our website launched.
We found the video while trawling the web for new things to add to our online website directory of resources that refute germ theory.
It was so good that we instantly decided to make it our first ‘Feature’ in order to give it more profile and the exposure we thought it deserved.
Five things then happened all of which are related.
Firstly, the website visitors to Reality of Illness website liked the video and they voted for it — sending it from obscurity to the number one spot for resources in our weekly popularity chart.
It acquired more than twice as many votes as any other resource in that week among the 652 other books, videos or websites that people could have chosen to vote for instead. These votes help bring worthwhile resources or people to the attention of others.
Secondly as a very possible result of the exposure we gave this video the number of viewings on YouTube shot up to 775 (and counting) during the week which has not even finished yet at the time of writing.
Note: In the 10 weeks until we found this video it had amassed 570 views so that is 57 views per week. So we could expect around 60 during the week when were also promoting it.
But the video gained 205 views which we consider is around 145 extra views just because we promoted it.
This increase in views is no small achievement since the video is 45 minutes long and I expect the number of viewings will only be incremented if people watch it to the end ...or watch most of it.
Thirdly our administrator in the Netherlands contacted Dr Sam Bailey (who is regularly voted the most popular person on our website) to inform her of this video since it features a synthetic voice and pictorial representation of Sam herself.
During the video the animated Sam presents in a rhyming poetic way, a narrative that completely destroys germ theory.
The genuine Sam Bailey responded to our administrator in gratitude saying she thought the video was very amusing and very good.
Fourthly, somebody who randomly became a paid subscriber to the Reality of Illness Substack messaged me to say he (or she) was a close friend of the author of the book that the video promotes. They gave me his email and so I wrote to Viktor Ardens Frei to say how much I appreciated his work.
Victor Ardens Frei replied to me in gratitude that we had promoted the video and indirectly his book which I have now purchased and so has my administrator.
His book is identified as a resource in our online database here:
Below is another link where it can be purchased from Amazon (other suppliers are likely available):
Fifth and finally, as a direct consequence of our connection with Viktor we chose to include him in the Reality of Illness Who’s Who database as person of influence.
Viktor chooses for very good reasons to write under a pseudonym but we have decided to add him under his ‘pen name’ since writing his book certainly qualifies him as a notable person. The bio text in our Who’s Who database was provided to us by Viktor.
Note: Viktor mentions in his text some catchy accompanying music videos which are available in four other languages, so please seek these out. They are much shorter at just 9 minutes duration but convey the same very salient message. The English version is here.
These are all good reasons to bookmark and regularly visit Reality of Illness where new people and resources are constantly being added, popularity is measured weekly and across all of time and a different ‘thing’ is now featured each week.
So given the above we can satisfy ourselves we are NOT an irrelevance and it could be seen we are in fact mover-shakers and making beneficial waves within the terrain landscape, furthering the knowledge and the numbers of followers of this medical paradigm.
Example two
The second example is somewhat embarrassing.
As many will know, Tim West runs a Telegram channel in the name of Dr Mike Yeadon where he also regularly speaks for Mike.
Despite Tim having told people in his channel to ignore and have nothing to do with the Reality of Illness website, Mike Yeadon (represented in our Who’s Who as a person of note), from nowhere, suddenly started getting some votes.
While I had been away for a couple of days I checked the website and saw he had suddenly appeared at 13th position in the popularity ranking for the week ending 9th November.
I rather stupidly drew attention to this odd occurrence in a midweek comment I made on the Reality of Illness Telegram channel only to find he then got even more votes finishing the weekly poll in 8th position as you can see.
So it’s another example that we’re not an irrelevance even when people are told to ignore us.
Note: Described above are two examples of what is called the ‘Streisand effect’ which is when you draw attention to something you want everybody to ignore and then, in so doing, you inadvertently promote it.
Any way we shall continue to do our thing and continue to be happily irrelevant.
IMPORTANT FOOTNOTE AND DISCLAIMER
Reality of Illness has been criticised for not promoting the Dr Mike Yeadon Telegram channel run by Tim West.
This criticism has unsurprisingly come from Tim West and not from Dr Mike Yeadon.
Many consider the Tim West Telegram channel which is promoted as the genuine one for Dr Mike Yeadon to be a somewhat hostile place with a chat group where people are often verbally abused for opinions that differ from the channel owner.
Such people are muted or banned and evidence of the abusive conversation thread is then deleted which is claimed was not in ‘good faith.’ This is a term not explained anywhere and presided over by the channel owner. Accordingly, people tell us it is more like a cult than a chat group.
In addition, Tim West has a personal agenda often using the channel to promote his eccentric pink/green scientific view.
However, a duplicate Telegram channel exists which faithfully reproduces all the worthwhile Dr Mike Yeadon comments verbatim. This channel has no chat group, it has more followers and it has been around longer than Tim’s channel …and since the days in 2021 when Dr Mike Yeadon shared a Telegram group with Robin Monotti and Cory Morningstar.
We are also criticised (by Tim) for not including Tim West in our listing as a ‘person of note’ and also for not including his friend Jamie Andrews.
We stand by all our decisions about which channels we promote and we affirm we have no affiliations, financial or vested-interests.
Reality of Illness exists to promote those who refute the germ theory of disease so we have a responsibility to not damage any of these people by ill-judged associations we make with others.
Telegram users are at liberty to follow whichever channels they chose but we will not be bullied into supporting a channel that is presided over by a bully.
However we have no problem in wholeheartedly promoting Dr Mike Yeadon and the videos he has made which are both valuable and worthwhile.
Mike himself can obviously contact us at any time to discuss this matter.