On Tuesday, the Washington Post’s Style section published a profile of Simone and Malcolm Collins, a Pennsylvanian couple who’ve been covered by countless other media outlets over the years. This includes the Guardian (twice), the Wall Street Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, CBC News, Business Insider, Bloomberg, and Dallas Magazine…
What’s so notable about them? To characterize this as generously as possible, the sole reason reporters keep flocking to this otherwise unremarkable couple is because they keep talking about having babies. Having lots and lots of babies. Not only that, but they claim they’re trying to save the world by giving it more and better babies.
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[Business Insider] told the couple that they’d been branded online as “hipster eugenicists,” a label Simone appeared to embrace.
Most amusingly, the newest piece points out that the couple helms a nonprofit called Hard Effective Altruism—without acknowledging that other effective altruists hold the Collinses in contempt. A Guardian profile from last November notes that the Collinses now appear to be planning a dictatorial city-state for an anonymous wealthy donor, without at all mentioning that their Project Eureka has gone nowhere.
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That should probably close the book on the matter. The Collinses are ineffective, abusive industry plants from Peter Thiel’s extended circle. They know they’re entirely media creations. They play off that fact to ensure that journalists…neglect to interrogate their contradictory stances on issues like abortion and “race science,” and even seem to accept that they’re being taken for a ride by these dorks.
