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Antivax quacks: It’s always (also) about the grifter and grift

FLCCC Alliance quacks and grift
One typical group of antivax grifters doing their thing via Zoom.

When it comes to the behavior of antivax quacks, I like to say: Come for the quackery and ideology, stay for the grift. A Washington Post story this week confirms this characterization.

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State medical boards have always been toothless

The quacksalver. Found in the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A recent report in The Washington Post last week reveals just how badly state medical boards have been failing when dealing with physicians spreading COVID-19 misinformation and using quackery to prevent and treat the disease. None of this is anything new, unfortunately. The pandemic has merely stress tested state medical boards, and most have failed because of political choices made long ago.

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Defeat The Mandates: Green Our Vaccines reconstituted for COVID-19

Defeat the Mandates

A month ago, Dr. Robert Malone announced the “Defeat the Mandates” rally on Joe Rogan’s podcast, to be held this Sunday. I sensed many echoes of Jenny McCarthy’s 2008 “Green Our Vaccines” rally, although what’s different is even more disturbing than the antivaccine misinformation that’s the same.