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65% of Online Anti-Vaccine Content Is from 12 Individuals
An analysis of over 812,000 posts extracted from Facebook and Twitter between February 1 and March 16, 2021, shows that 65% of anti-vaccine content is attributable to 12 individuals. A number of these individuals benefit financially from their anti-vax work. None of them are the type of source I would depend on.
- Joseph Mercola – an anti-vaccine entrepreneur who sells dietary supplements and false cures as alternatives to vaccines.
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – a long-standing anti-vaxxer; his group released a film in mid-March targeting members of the Black and Latino communities with tailored anti-vaccine messages.
- Ty and Charlene Bollinger – anti-vax entrepreneurs who market books and DVDs about vaccines, cancer, and COVID-19; promoted the conspiracy theory that Bill Gates plans to inject everyone with microchips as part of the vaccination program.
- Sherri Tenpenny – promotes Andrew Wakefield’s anti-COVID vaccine writings (Wakefield lost his medical license due to involvement in the Lancet MMR autism fraud.)
- Rizza Islam – targets African Americans and promotes the theories that Bill Gates planned the pandemic and that COVID vaccines make women infertile.
- Rashid Buttar – claims that COVID-19 tests contain living microorganisms and that the vaccine makes women infertile.
- Erin Elizabeth – partner to Joseph Mercola, claims vaccines are part of a medical industry plan to create “a chronically ill population” and promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
- Sayer Ji – runs an alternative health website promoting anti-vax positions and claims that the Pfizer vaccine has killed more people than COVID.
- Kelly Brogan – partner of Sayer Ji, claims “there is no such thing as the coronavirus because it’s not possible to prove that any given pathogen has induced death” and claims the pandemic was planned.
- Christiane Northrup – OBGYN who has promoted anti-vaccine conspiracies and claims that vaccines cause an 800% increase in chronic illness.
- Ben Tapper – chiropractor who claims that there is a “total lack of evidence that viruses can live outside the body.”
- Kevin Jenkins – anti-vaccine activist who claims that the black community is being targeted for experimentation with the vaccine.
Wow. Nice assumptions going on here.
The other two are ridiculous. These two are not.
First, Gates’ foundation has been using third world countries for vaccine testing for a long time. His foundation and vaccines have been banned from at least two countries in Africa due to sterilization. Which makes sense as he has said that vaccination is the path to population control.
Second, Bill Gates advocated for micro chipping. Not that he did it, but that he wanted it.
I used to live in New England, where extended Kennedy clan news used to be a staple of all the regional media. If Robert Kennedy Jr. ever told the truth about vaccines, I think it would have been accidental.
The more I learned about him, the less respect I had for him. Then the respect-o-meter hit zero and has stayed there.
It seems to me that there is an objective reality about the vaccines. I understand the fear of the mRNA vaccines. However, I also know that there are some intelligent people at Moderna and Pfizer who see the risks differently. Why can’t we (meaning the public) get Dr. Robert (I’m using Dr. Robert as a stand-in for all of the doctors who have serious reservations about these vaccines) in the same room with a doctor at Moderna to hash this out?
I think Moderna and Pfizer have been very clear about their vaccines: this is what we know and this is what we don’t know. They seem to be following the SEC rules for disclosure pretty faithfully. :-)
Whenever I (as a caregiver or as a patient) have worked with doctors over the course of my lifetime, they have always presented information to me in this clear formula: This is what we know about this problem, and these are the test results. These are the options for treatment, and this is what I think about each of those options.
Two years ago when my husband was treated for prostate cancer at the Lahey Clinic in the Boston area, we had one doctor whose sole job was to amass all that information and go over it with us. He had a whiteboard with a list of the eight treatment options. :-) The doctors and administrators at the Lahey Clinic definitely have their act together. :-) The reason they do such a good job is their attitude toward their patients. They treat their patients as those doctors themselves would like to be treated: as intelligent people.
It seems to me that the current problem is in the field of public health specifically. It has departed from the objective-subjective formula that doctors in all of the other specialty areas use.
I have never bought into the CDC’s nonsense that everyone must be vaccinated in order for vaccines to work. If they would admit they are wrong about that, then everything else would change. We could return to the normal practice of medicine: This is what’s wrong, this is what’s available to treat it, and this is how you, an individual unique patient, will most likely react to each of those treatment options.
Public health agencies should operate purely to gather good statistics. That’s all they should do.
There are a lot of government agencies that do only that. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, for example.
The medical field has to reign in the public health specialty area so that it operates within the boundaries of good medical practice. The doctors in the public health area need to return to the advice and recommendation model and get out of the regulatory model. That’s what needs to change.
Is this what serendipity is?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/curing-disease-not-a-sustainable-business-model-goldman-sachs-analysts-say/
You forgot Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey. 😉
These twelve try their best to bring forth needed research on such items as how for every dollar of profit the vax industry receives from the actual vaccine programs, there is five times that amount coming to the industry from the remedies needed by people once a vaccine ruins their health.
All a person has to do is to see the endless numbers of Humira ads on TV, for a drug that will solve the problems of Gardasil-injured teenagers who now suffer from chronic rheumatoid arthritis, chronic skin problems and Crohn’s disease. (While other prescriptions are of course needed for them if they suffer from migraines.) Meanwhile our society allowed a handful of people to dictate that we shut down our businesses, deprive our children of real in- classroom learning, deprive our elderly of visits from family members while they were isolated in their care facilities, deprive us of our weddings, funerals, and family get togethers. Some of the funerals were for people who committed suicide during the lockdowns.
In the end, Dr Fauci’s wondrous recommendations cost our society some 12 trillions of dollars.
But for Pete’s sake, let’s not stop picking on the twelve people who work night and day to bring about the other side of the equation. For a small percentage per each penny accumulated by the Fauci and Bill Gates of the world.
Unlike Fauci, who succeeded in raising Pfizer’s profits above and beyond even their executives wildest wet dreams, no one in that list of 12 was given a million dollar award. Nor do they hob nob, as Bill Gates does, with the three hundred top families whose policies run the world.
The president or prime minister of Belarus recently revealed he was offered over 970 million dollars, for his country, if he would simply agree to the lockdown and masking restrictions and some type of vaccine passports.
I was reading last week of six governors who have assured their citizens there will be no vaccine passports in their states. I wonder how many of them will be offered a suitable price to re-consider their decision.
What did I put there? I don’t even remember, but obviously I thought it was impertinent.
I’m very curious. What things did he sell? And what were his claims? Do you have links?
Your comment was empty.
Here is his online store: mercolamarket.com
Here is an article about the FDA action. Comments on the article are both pro and con.
Thanks. I don’t deliberately make an empty comment, so I can attest that I deleted it. And I’m sure that upon review I thought it was extraneous to the conversation and perhaps off-topic or too provocative.
It must be implied insofar as it applies to vaccine concerns like those of Dr. Robert here, and Dr. McCullough.
Insofar as it applies to the people named in the post, I think it’s only a fallacy if they present any good arguments themselves. I can’t say that they do, but I can’t pretend to have looked into it carefully.
That seems like a good place to start looking into it. Is there some source on that I could see?
Have you stopped to consider how many people are benefitting financially from their worldwide Covid injection crusade upon people who don’t and never will need it? You’re comparing apples with aircraft carriers.
Follow the money is always a good principle to start from in any investigative endeavor. Who stands to gain the most from the mass hysteria over Covid? Certainly not the handful of people providing research that will get them booted from the public sphere but who do it anyway because principles matter more than the accolades of their peers. If you listen to that podcast I linked (comment #5) you’ll get an insiders perspective of this.
Thanks for the link. As a side note, I hadn’t heard about Mercola having to refund $2,590,000 to customers who had bought his tanning beds because he said using them would “slash their risk of cancer.” I wonder what kind of cancer he was talking about, since tanning beds pretty much raise your risk of skin cancer. @headedwest
You are asking so much of me here. Since Covid and The Steal, search engines are stupid on certain subjects. I have a Ricochet comment on a Pseudo Gates post from around a year or so ago, but I don’t know how to find it out of 993 pages of comments and can only see ahead by 2 pages.
If I can recall anything, what I had found had an African country president announcing the problem in a press release video.
I think it’s fair to say that Dr. Mercola was doing his best to insert himself into the money stream.
This is about vaccines, and it is also about population reduction. The implications of the last 10 or 20 seconds of the clip are significant. To reach Zero, at least one of these four categories must be Zero. And in this clip Bill Gates himself, speaking at a TED talk equates new vaccines with lowering the world’s population.
“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that [population number] by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
How could life-sparing new vaccines, health care and reproductive services ever LOWER the world’s population?
Health care and reproductive services are kinder and gentler terms for massive numbers of abortions. Also sterilization.
That’s a bold claim. Can you provide cites?
(Cites from people associated with Robert Kennedy Jr. do not count.)
And birth control pills and condoms.
But yes.
The simplest explanation is that he just misspoke when he mentioned vaccines in this context. I need better evidence than what looks like an idiotic misstatement.
I can’t find the original article which went into specifics about hCG testing that was done at the time in Africa; it’s been impossible for me to locate for the past couple of years, but I’ll keep looking for it. It was as credible as anything that you read on the internet, and locally sourced out of African reporting. If I recall correctly, the impetus for checking the hCG addition to the tetanus vaccine came from a local African priest.
Here is the abstract from an HLI report via https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12346214/:
PIP: A priest, president of Human Life International (HLI) based in Maryland, has asked Congress to investigate reports of women in some developing countries unknowingly receiving a tetanus vaccine laced with the anti-fertility drug human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). If it is true, he wants Congress to publicly condemn the mass vaccinations and to cut off funding to UN agencies and other involved organizations. The natural hormone hCG is needed to maintain pregnancy. The hormone would produce antibodies against hCG to prevent pregnancy. In the fall of 1994, the Pro Life Committee of Mexico was suspicious of the protocols for the tetanus toxoid campaign because they excluded all males and children and called for multiple injections of the vaccine in only women of reproductive age. Yet, one injection provides protection for at least 10 years. The Committee had vials of the tetanus vaccine analyzed for hCG. It informed HLI about the tetanus toxoid vaccine. HLI then told its World Council members and HLI affiliates in more than 60 countries. Similar tetanus vaccines laced with hCG have been uncovered in the Philippines and in Nicaragua. In addition to the World Health Organization (WHO), other organizations involved in the development of an anti-fertility vaccine using hCG include the UN Population Fund, the UN Development Programme, the World Bank, the Population Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and Uppsala, Helsinki, and Ohio State universities. The priest objects that, if indeed the purpose of the mass vaccinations is to prevent pregnancies, women are uninformed, unsuspecting, and unconsenting victims.
Please tell us something about Changing America, the source of your analysis.
This is an article on the efficacy of hCG used in so-called infertility vaccines, which includes more information along the lines of this early sentence: “Vaccines inducing antibodies against the human chorionic gonadotropin have gone through phase I trials with satisfactory results.”
And there’s this, which I believe is from Kenya, and includes the following:
There are a lot of articles related to testing on various third world populations (e.g.,Niaragua, India, Kenya), deaths, sterilizing, and Bill Gates that can be found by DDGing “african bishop claims Gates funded tetanus vaccine causes sterility” if anyone wants to look at it.
From the news today, it looks like Melinda Gates is in a “take no prisoners” mode with the divorce. This might help solve the Bill Gates problem for us.
Any chance she’s not with him on that goal, and maybe that’s why they split?