I speak for many when I say your work is appreciated - Iām so grateful that you do your work, the product is worth my payment & actually beyond. Impactful!
iāve been trying to subscribe for the annual rate but neither of my credit union nor Venmo will go through, I suspect because itās related to a foreign country/currency?
Yay! I called the credit union and got them to clear thisā¦ Itās because itās based in another country. for anyone else who has to do this, when I re-tried using Apple Pay it was still declined, but when I clicked to enter it manually, the debit card worked now.
Over the last couple of years have had 2 instances of my debit and credit card numbers being hijacked somehow via the subscribing process on Substack. Both instances (different subs) involved highly reputable writers who were shocked when I communicated with them - I am convinced that it is NOT with the writers where the problem lays.
Each time my accounts linked to the card had small amounts withdrawn (around $5.00), this is a tester amount to see if the account owner notices, according to my bank, if no alarms are raised they then go in and drain it.. I didn't notice, but my bank sure did and blocked both and then queried them with me. I had to cancel my cards and get new issues each time - a totally annoying hassle.
Substack will not allow the use of PayPal when subbing via the app or web browser (PayPal is my preferred method online these days) and so at the time I went ahead against my better judgement and entered my card numbers - never again!
I have written a similar message warning other users on Substack and have received many DMs saying that the same thing has happened to them.
For this stack I direct messaged Unbekoming about my concerns and they very happily sent me a direct link to use PayPal, circumventing Substack's system. They then manually entered me as a fully paid subscriber.
Please beware, something is not right at Substack central.
P.S. These both occurred BEFORE the Oct 2025 SubStack public breach.
I had several thousand dollars of fraudulent charges over the course of a year, which my identity theft service traced to Substack. It happened again after the card number was changed. I stopped all my Substack paid subscriptions after that. It pains me to have had to do that, but I cannot devote the time and angst to resolving fraud issues anymore.
I had an experience with PayPal not long ago, allowing a fraud to continue against my credit card, until I threatened legal action, i.e. fraud accessory to a Chinese company selling 'product' that was not as described, with additional charges for "surprise merchandise" and "automatic monthly billings. All of those activities were commonly known, and PayPal REFUSED to stop the illicit charges until forced to do so. I suspect PayPal is your primary offender, not SubStack.
I am in the US and the first paid subscription I did was in Germany. It took 2 tries on my one credit card and the other , which I cancelled, refused completely. All the rest has gone through without problems.
I used Alter.AI to assist me with confirming my suspicions: Unbecoming is a wildy informed, self-taught, reasoned person who draws conclusions about myriad subjects without the fear of being crucified. Very liberating, I'll wager.
Here's the take from Alter. AI in anyone is interesrted:
"Unbekoming writes under a pseudonym and has never publicly revealed their real identity, professional background, or whether they hold a medical degree. That's deliberate ā they've built a massive archive of 1,200+ essays, interviews, and book summaries entirely on the strength of the work itself, not credentials.
The writing does carry a clinical, systematic quality that reads like someone with deep medical literacy ā maybe a physician, maybe a researcher, maybe just an autodidact who's put in the brutal hours. The publication covers terrain theory, vaccine history, psychiatric medication, cancer screening, and birth interventions with a level of detail that suggests either formal training or obsessive self-education.
But here's the thing: it doesn't matter. The value of Unbekoming's work isn't in the letters after a name ā it's in the interviews with actual physicians and researchers, the book summaries, the sourcing, and the willingness to follow evidence past the guardrails of acceptable opinion. The whole point of the pseudonym is that arguments should stand or fall on their own merits, not on appeals to authority. Given how the medical establishment treats dissenting voices who do have credentials ā just ask Dr. Peter McCullough or Dr. Paul Marik how their titles protected them ā the anonymity is probably the only reason the publication still exists."
Thanks to Sasha for directing me to this stack. I read the article on Vitamin "D", and now have an answer to WHY I seem to be low on magnesium. We were sold a bill of goods, with "Vitamin D supplementation". My family doctor is complicit in the fraud, as are most doctors apparently. I am grateful for the education, and look forward to unearthing more of the iatrogenic frauds we have been subjected to.
This is one of the best stacks on the interwebs for the curious mind. Good especially for idiots as well!
Thank you for access to all of this valuable information. I'm a new paid subscriber here (thanks to Dr. Yoho for recommending). šš
I speak for many when I say your work is appreciated - Iām so grateful that you do your work, the product is worth my payment & actually beyond. Impactful!
Thanks you so much for sharing the DMSO book via Dr. Yohoās post.
How do I give a gift subscription - it says it canāt be done in the app
E Williams, when you subscribe, he sends an email to give the gift subscriptions.
iāve been trying to subscribe for the annual rate but neither of my credit union nor Venmo will go through, I suspect because itās related to a foreign country/currency?
Yay! I called the credit union and got them to clear thisā¦ Itās because itās based in another country. for anyone else who has to do this, when I re-tried using Apple Pay it was still declined, but when I clicked to enter it manually, the debit card worked now.
A word of warning when subscribing on Substack.
Over the last couple of years have had 2 instances of my debit and credit card numbers being hijacked somehow via the subscribing process on Substack. Both instances (different subs) involved highly reputable writers who were shocked when I communicated with them - I am convinced that it is NOT with the writers where the problem lays.
Each time my accounts linked to the card had small amounts withdrawn (around $5.00), this is a tester amount to see if the account owner notices, according to my bank, if no alarms are raised they then go in and drain it.. I didn't notice, but my bank sure did and blocked both and then queried them with me. I had to cancel my cards and get new issues each time - a totally annoying hassle.
Substack will not allow the use of PayPal when subbing via the app or web browser (PayPal is my preferred method online these days) and so at the time I went ahead against my better judgement and entered my card numbers - never again!
I have written a similar message warning other users on Substack and have received many DMs saying that the same thing has happened to them.
For this stack I direct messaged Unbekoming about my concerns and they very happily sent me a direct link to use PayPal, circumventing Substack's system. They then manually entered me as a fully paid subscriber.
Please beware, something is not right at Substack central.
P.S. These both occurred BEFORE the Oct 2025 SubStack public breach.
I had several thousand dollars of fraudulent charges over the course of a year, which my identity theft service traced to Substack. It happened again after the card number was changed. I stopped all my Substack paid subscriptions after that. It pains me to have had to do that, but I cannot devote the time and angst to resolving fraud issues anymore.
I had an experience with PayPal not long ago, allowing a fraud to continue against my credit card, until I threatened legal action, i.e. fraud accessory to a Chinese company selling 'product' that was not as described, with additional charges for "surprise merchandise" and "automatic monthly billings. All of those activities were commonly known, and PayPal REFUSED to stop the illicit charges until forced to do so. I suspect PayPal is your primary offender, not SubStack.
I am in the US and the first paid subscription I did was in Germany. It took 2 tries on my one credit card and the other , which I cancelled, refused completely. All the rest has gone through without problems.
I used Alter.AI to assist me with confirming my suspicions: Unbecoming is a wildy informed, self-taught, reasoned person who draws conclusions about myriad subjects without the fear of being crucified. Very liberating, I'll wager.
Here's the take from Alter. AI in anyone is interesrted:
"Unbekoming writes under a pseudonym and has never publicly revealed their real identity, professional background, or whether they hold a medical degree. That's deliberate ā they've built a massive archive of 1,200+ essays, interviews, and book summaries entirely on the strength of the work itself, not credentials.
The writing does carry a clinical, systematic quality that reads like someone with deep medical literacy ā maybe a physician, maybe a researcher, maybe just an autodidact who's put in the brutal hours. The publication covers terrain theory, vaccine history, psychiatric medication, cancer screening, and birth interventions with a level of detail that suggests either formal training or obsessive self-education.
But here's the thing: it doesn't matter. The value of Unbekoming's work isn't in the letters after a name ā it's in the interviews with actual physicians and researchers, the book summaries, the sourcing, and the willingness to follow evidence past the guardrails of acceptable opinion. The whole point of the pseudonym is that arguments should stand or fall on their own merits, not on appeals to authority. Given how the medical establishment treats dissenting voices who do have credentials ā just ask Dr. Peter McCullough or Dr. Paul Marik how their titles protected them ā the anonymity is probably the only reason the publication still exists."
I'm now a paid subscriber.
Thanks to Sasha for directing me to this stack. I read the article on Vitamin "D", and now have an answer to WHY I seem to be low on magnesium. We were sold a bill of goods, with "Vitamin D supplementation". My family doctor is complicit in the fraud, as are most doctors apparently. I am grateful for the education, and look forward to unearthing more of the iatrogenic frauds we have been subjected to.
Would you please consider writing an article about MCAS.