Rising on Substack this week: Health Politics

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

A Midwestern Doctor

425k followers · #1 Health Politics Bestsellers

50+ in 30 days · +4 in 7 days 79 in all

53 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Dr. Robert W. Malone

448k followers · #6 Health Politics Bestsellers

+22 in 30 days 86 in all

38 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Dr. Joseph Mercola

338k followers · #4 Health Politics Bestsellers

+21 in 30 days 55 in all

41 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

William Makis

189k followers · #3 Health Politics Bestsellers

+20 in 30 days 66 in all

51 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Peter A McCullough, MD, MPH

238k followers · #7 Health Politics Bestsellers

+15 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 82 in all

27 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Steve Kirsch

340k followers · #9 Health Politics Bestsellers

+13 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 84 in all

19 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

The Truth About Cancer

1.1M followers · #18 Health Politics Bestsellers

+13 in 30 days 52 in all

22 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Pierre Kory, MD, MPA

193k followers · #8 Health Politics Bestsellers

+11 in 30 days 76 in all

17 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Sayer Ji

74k followers · #12 Health Politics Bestsellers

+10 in 30 days 65 in all

25 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

PsychiatRick

2.7k followers · #6 Health Politics Rising

+9 in 30 days 15 in all

12 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Carter Williams

30k followers · #45 Health Politics Bestsellers

+8 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 43 in all

15 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

The MAHA Report

283k followers · #22 Health Politics Bestsellers

+8 in 30 days 60 in all

20 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live. Outlined weeks are incomplete: Substack lists only a publication's 50 newest recommenders, so for busy writers older weeks can't be counted, and a 30-day count marked + is a floor.