The people at Substack tell me I should be getting a paid to free subscriber ratio of 20% or more. I’m getting less than 5%.
I have 22 paid subscribers and Stripe told me yesterday that 7 of those sent in bogus payments that didn’t go through. So I only have 15. I’m supposed to have 120.
Look at what is written at the end of every post Dr. Robert Malone makes
“By Robert W Malone MD · Tens of thousands of paid subscribers
Medicine, science, bioethics, analytics, politics and life.”
‘Tens of thousands of PAID subscribers’ ?!
WOW. Most of what Dr. Malone does is analyze papers written by researchers studying the latest issues. Right now, it is efficacy of vaccines against COVID (specifically Omicron Variants). Dr. Malone does this very well and writes beautifully and I know he is much more famous than me. But tens of thousands of paid subscribers vs. 15?
My stuff comes from a different angle than the rest of the medical community. Due to my generally skeptical nature and some good habits I picked up studying physics, I reason from first principles on almost every problem I set out to solve. If the problem is amenable to my way of doing things, I come up with the answer before the studies are even undertaken (lockdowns, masks, school closures, number exposed in US when experts said it was 9% (it was 50%), reaching herd immunity for the Wuhan, Alpha, Delta and Omicron strains without the help of vaccines, the vaccines not blocking transmission, etc. I figured all of this out (and the correct IFR and the fact that the virus came from a lab) before anyone else because I used first principles. When the data came out and everyone else tried to make 2 cents out of it, it merely confirmed the claims I had made months earlier.
I need a lot more paid subscribers. I’m getting paid about $2.00 per hour as it stands. I don’t mind too much because I feel it is my duty as a doctor to inform the public, especially when they are purposefully being misled. But it digs deeply into my free time. I don’t want to make a mistake so I think deeply and research the problem before I post anything. It takes a lot of time to make quality videos and original graphs.
Please don’t forget that paid subscribers can contact me with medical questions free of charge when they need some help and don’t want to pay 200 - 300 dollars for a consultation. There are other perks- free books sometimes and paid subs will probably get a discount on my books when they come out.
One more small thing. If you do join as a paid subscriber, please pay for the whole year at once. If you divide it up into smaller monthly payments, the company they force everyone to use Stripe, takes $1.40 out of each payment- over 20%. They must have a minimum.
Thank you very much
I am one of the paying guys. There are lots of Substacks out there, but Reid’s is worth the subscription price. I wish I could do what he does, but at least buying a subscription allows me to contribute a little to making the world a better place. Thanks, Reid.
I think unless you have a bunch of paid subscribers who just magically migrate with you (i.e. I suspect some are bogus, for example if I give out a paid subscription then it costs me nothing and the subscriber nothing but it's still a paid subscription by Substack) then you're stuck with this. At 20% I too should have about 120 paid subscribers. I think it's more like about 10 or so. On my first few hundred it was about 5% as well. Lately it's 0%.
And like you I'm doing this free of charge basically.