Conspirituality, Polarization & Anti-Vax Fascism

Politico recently admonished Dr. Anthony Fauci for his choice not to appear on Fox News, saying it deprived Fox viewers of “the Biden administration’s most public-facing figure in the effort to contain Covid-19.” But an appearance by one credible public health communicator wouldn’t be able to correct the imbalance of the network’s concerted effort to serially misinform its viewers about the pandemic.  Fox has repeatedly villainized Fauci, instead hosting a parade of dubious medical guests to justify the network’s skewed political narrative by spreading false or misleading statements to viewers. And because many in Fox’s guest lineup hold an advanced degree in public health or medicine, their willingness to lend credibility to the spread of misinformation is even more dangerous.  With the help of its rotating roster of supposed medical experts, Fox News turned vaccine passports and mandates into culture war battles because it’s “great for ratings.” According to a Media Matters study, Fox News undermined vaccines nearly every day over a six-month period. (Ironically, Fox’s own vaccine and testing policies are more stringent than those put forward by the Biden administration.)  Guests and hosts on Fox also spread many questionable “miracle cures” for COVID-19, including bear bile, vaping, and sunlight. Notably, Fox helped fan the flames of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin misinformation, leading to shortages of these medications which are crucial for treating other ailments.  These kinds of public health misinformation are deadly, especially when it comes from people who should know better. The frequent bad actors listed below each have a history of spreading misleading and false medical advice on Fox News, which gives these medical misinformers a huge platform to spread that bad advice to its viewers. Here are the top 10 most frequent medical guests on Fox News in 2021:

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The Australian far right has joined forces with New Age spiritualists, snake-oil salesmen, and wellness gurus to take advantage of social alienation caused by the pandemic. Despite the new branding, their anti-union, anti-working-class politics remain the same.

All the usual themes: Secret government alliances, anti-Semitic tropes, and nefarious scientists.

Conspiracy theories about covid and vaccines once ran rampant on the likes of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. But months of purges of accounts that trafficked heavily in misinformation - especially after the baseless QAnon ideology helped fuel the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol - have driven adherents to the less visible but still virulent world of private groups on encrypted chat apps such as Telegram. Some groups have hundreds of thousands of users.

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HHS or Ministry of Truth? This Week in American Medical Dystopia

As the U.S. coronavirus death toll passes 155,000, there is still no national testing program, with widespread shortages and delays hampering efforts to contain the pandemic. This continues months after President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner launched a White House task force with the goal of establishing a national testing plan. We speak to investigative reporter Katherine Eban, whose explosive Vanity Fair report chronicles Kushner’s fumbling efforts and the sudden decision to abandon the project on political grounds. “The participants expected that at any moment in early April, the plan would be announced,” says Eban. “It vanished into thin air.”

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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DrWilsonDebunks Here is how you can contact me directly and I will be glad to respond to you when I can: Email: dr.wilson.debunk@gmail.com Facebook (direct message): https://www.facebook.com/DocWilsonDebunks/ Europe excess deaths and COVID vaccination rates: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10357837/pdf/fimmu-14-1151311.pdf COVID vaccines and all-cause mortality: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9763207/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9319484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10043280/ Excess deaths vs. confirmed COVID deaths: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-daily-economist-single-entity NHS emergency crisis led to excess deaths: https://www.ft.com/content/f36c5daa-9c14-4a92-9136-19b26508b9d2 Extended lockdowns increased alcohol abuse: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8183243/ How lockdowns should be used: https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/herd-immunity-lockdowns-and-covid-19 COVID mRNA vaccine phase 1-3 clinical trials: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483 Myocarditis: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X24001270?via%3Dihub https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(22)00059-5/fulltext#tbl1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-023-00681-3 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35442390/ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2793551 https://www.cmaj.ca/content/194/45/E1529 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2780548 https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000373 Children are not at no risk from COVID: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-08-30/06-COVID-Rosenblum-508.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7003e1.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7116e1.htm https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-on-Ages-0-18-Yea/nr4s-juj3/about_data How COVID vaccines still worked against omicron: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04778-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04527-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04460-3 List of essential medications: https://www.fda.gov/media/143406/download?attachment CDC 2024 Vaccination schedule: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/index.html We don’t give too many vaccines too soon: https://vaxopedia.org/2016/09/04/too-many-too-soon/ Smallpox vaccine mandates: https://www.history.com/news/smallpox-vaccine-supreme-court Some vaccine mandates are good: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002578 Yes…mRNA vaccines are vaccines: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.abl5344 https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abm0829 The real process of science: https://undsci.berkeley.edu/understanding-science-101/how-science-works/the-real-process-of-science/ Long term effects of vaccines: https://www.chop.edu/news/long-term-side-effects-covid-19-vaccine Examples of vaccine safety reporting from around the world: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721273/ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(22)00057-8/fulltext https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/archive/2022-01-28/summary.html Meting slides discussing VAERS results and follow-up: https://www.fda.gov/media/159007/download How a study of VAERS should be done: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00054-8/fulltext

A task force created by the UCP government to review the province's pandemic response has issued its final report and, while it is currently being reviewed by the province, Alberta doctors are pushing back, saying it contains misinformation and poses a threat to public health.

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