Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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Disinformation Dozen:

1. Joseph Mercola

2. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

3. Ty and Charlene Bollinger

4. Sherri Tenpenny

5. Rizza Islam

6. Rashid Buttar

7. Erin Elizabeth

8. Sayer Ji

9. Kelly Brogan

10. Christiane Northrup

11. BenTapper

12. Kevin Jenkins

Just who is spreading dangerous misinformation about CoVid, its origins, its prevention, and its treatment?  The Center for Countering Digital Hate, a British-based think tank, has assembled a list they call the “Disinformation Dozen.”  These 12 social media influencers are responsible for as much as 65% of general CoVid crap on the web, 73% of Facebook’s anti-vaccine propaganda, and 17% of anti-vax garbage on Twitter. The Center is actively working to push these broadcasters of bunk off our public communication platforms, and we should all applaud and assist in their efforts..  Let’s see who’s on their list so we can all know and oppose these serial liars.

1.  Joseph Mercola is a osteopathic doctor who quit practice to peddle dietary supplements and alternative medicine treatments.  Business Week analysed his businesses and labelled him a “snake oil salesman..”  Without training in either immunology or infectious disease, he rails against vaccines, promotes vitamin D supplements and inhaled hydrogen peroxide for CoVid, and was cited by the FDA for hawking fake CoVid cures.  Oh, and he’s married to Erin Elizabeth Finn, number 7 of the Disinfo Dozen.

2.  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of senator and presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy and nephew of JFK, is a malignant anti-vaxxer who runs the Children’s Health Defense organization.  He targets the black and latino communities spewing garbage that CoVid vaccines harm pregnant women (just the opposite) and that they kill healthy disadvantaged people.  His father and uncle are no doubt spinning in their graves.

3. Ty and Charlene Bollinger are anti-vaxxers selling books of lies about vaccines, CoVid, and cancer.  Continuing for years to the spread the lie that vaccines cause autism, more recently they’re the source of the paranoid garbage that Bill Gates is using CoVid vaccines to inject chips into Americans and others around the globe.

4. Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is an osteopath.  She’s an anti-vaxxer and anti-masker who encourages health care workers to forgo both.  Cutting her fangs on the lie that vaccines cause autism, she now barks that vaccines and masks prevent your immune system from responding to disease.  She badmouths CoVid testing, calls CoVid an alleged plague, and lies saying that CoVid vaccine is killing children.

5.  Ronnie Steven “Rizza” Islam is a Nation of Islam minister. He posts anti-vax lies in addition to antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/bCnTiVULGeI

Disinformation Dozen:

1. Joseph Mercola

2. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

3. Ty and Charlene Bollinger

4. Sherri Tenpenny

5. Rizza Islam

6. Rashid Buttar

7. Erin Elizabeth

8. Sayer Ji

9. Kelly Brogan

10. Christiane Northrup

11. BenTapper

12. Kevin Jenkins

Just who is spreading dangerous misinformation about CoVid, its origins, its prevention, and its treatment?  The Center for Countering Digital Hate, a British-based think tank, has assembled a list they call the “Disinformation Dozen.”  These 12 social media influencers are responsible for as much as 65% of general CoVid crap on the web, 73% of Facebook’s anti-vaccine propaganda, and 17% of anti-vax garbage on Twitter. The Center is actively working to push these broadcasters of bunk off our public communication platforms, and we should all applaud and assist in their efforts..  Let’s see who’s on their list so we can all know and oppose these serial liars.

1.  Joseph Mercola is a osteopathic doctor who quit practice to peddle dietary supplements and alternative medicine treatments.  Business Week analysed his businesses and labelled him a “snake oil salesman..”  Without training in either immunology or infectious disease, he rails against vaccines, promotes vitamin D supplements and inhaled hydrogen peroxide for CoVid, and was cited by the FDA for hawking fake CoVid cures.  Oh, and he’s married to Erin Elizabeth Finn, number 7 of the Disinfo Dozen.

2.  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of senator and presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy and nephew of JFK, is a malignant anti-vaxxer who runs the Children’s Health Defense organization.  He targets the black and latino communities spewing garbage that CoVid vaccines harm pregnant women (just the opposite) and that they kill healthy disadvantaged people.  His father and uncle are no doubt spinning in their graves.

3. Ty and Charlene Bollinger are anti-vaxxers selling books of lies about vaccines, CoVid, and cancer.  Continuing for years to the spread the lie that vaccines cause autism, more recently they’re the source of the paranoid garbage that Bill Gates is using CoVid vaccines to inject chips into Americans and others around the globe.

4. Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is an osteopath.  She’s an anti-vaxxer and anti-masker who encourages health care workers to forgo both.  Cutting her fangs on the lie that vaccines cause autism, she now barks that vaccines and masks prevent your immune system from responding to disease.  She badmouths CoVid testing, calls CoVid an alleged plague, and lies saying that CoVid vaccine is killing children.

5.  Ronnie Steven “Rizza” Islam is a Nation of Islam minister. He posts anti-vax lies in addition to antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ propaganda.  He screams that CoVid vaccines make women infertile, cause autism, and are a tool of Satan.  He blames Bill Gates for causing the pandemic in order to increase profits. Though a man of God, he and other family members were arrested on insurance fraud charges at a Scientology-affiliated Narconon rehab center in Compton, California.

6.  Dr. Rashid Buttar is an osteopath who claims that CoVid vaccines cause infertility, don’t work, have terrible side effects, cause HIV, and only provide 2 months of any immunity.  He warns that CoVid testing will infect you with germs of some sort.

7.  Erin Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Mercola, runs Health Nut News (now here’s some truth in advertising).  She claims that the medical-industrial complex uses vaccines to make us all chronically-ill.  She’s another one that falsely targets Bill Gates as a CoVid profiteer, lies saying that hydroxychloroquine is better tested for CoVid treatment than the vaccines, and makes antisemitic accusations.

8.  Sayer Ji is a self-proclaimed expert on alternative medicine after graduating Rutgers with a philosophy major.  He spreads false information about vaccine and mask safety and efficacy on his website GreenMedInfo.  He crows that the CoVid vaccine kills 40 times more adults than CoVid and 260 times more younger people than CoVid. His site filters out legitimate scientific references while cherry picking and promoting only those voices justifying alternative medicine therapy.  He promotes the anti-vax video sold by our old friends and grifters #3 Ty and Charlene Bollinger.  Quite the club don’t you think?

9.  Dr. Kelly Brogen, Sayer Ji’s partner, claims to practice holistic psychiatry at her Manhattan office.  She is a medical physician and graduate of Cornell medical school. ( I’m sure they’re proud of this alumna.).  Guess she skipped her infectious disease courses since she claims infections are caused not by viruses and bacteria but by psychological factors. For example, she insists that death from AIDS isn’t due to HIV but caused by the treatments that are prescribed to fight it.  She doesn’t believe the CoVid virus even exists.  But wait, she does support the unproven theory that severe depression is caused by intestinal bacteria and advocates coffee enemas.  Wonder if Starbucks offers these.  As a rabid anti-vaxxer, she denies that the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines tamed this dread disease.

10.  Dr. Christiane Northrup is another medical doc, an OB-GYN, who went to Dartmouth med and presumably finished her MD at Harvard.  She began her career legitimately by founding a women’s medical practice in Maine, writing popular books on women’s health, but then somehow blasted off into the outer limnits.  She advocates that tarot cards can diagnose disease, trauma in past lives causes chronic illness, denies the germ theory of infectious disease, claims thyroid disease is caused by throat blockage and is helped by iodine that is the opposite of the truth, suggests treating insomnia by covering mirrors, opposes HPV, human papilloma virus, vaccines to prevent cervical and other cancers in young adults, and opposes mammography screening for breast cancer.  On CoVid, she opposes contact tracing, masking, and vaccine development while recommending hydroxychloroquine ands ivermectin.  She claims that mRNA vaccines can mutate your DNA, which they cannot, and cause sterility, which they don’t.

11.  Ben Tapper DC is a chiropractor and social influencer who spreads peculiar and frankly false information about CoVid.  He whines that viruses cannot live outside the body and decries disinfectants, masks, and vaccines.  He screams that vaccines only help Big Pharma with profits and immunity from prosecution.

And finally  $  12. 12.  Kevin Jenkins.  Another anti-vaxer associated with Bobby Kennedy Jr.  Runs the Urban Global Health Alliance. He plays the race card and screams that vaccines are a conspiracy to wipe out black people and that American medicine is experimenting on blacks.  He encourages the flouting of public health measures including masking, distancing, and vaccination.

Now that you know the mega-liars who are spreading garbage, look for their trash online if only to recognize it, rebut it in replies and dislikes, and warn all those you know and love about the dangers of this Disinformation Dozen.

https://252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_b7cedc0553604720b7137f8663366ee5.pdf

#CoVid #disinformation #lies #conspiracy #paranoia #vaccines #masks

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/a8vVVuEkeQM

A handheld device enables pediatric and primary care professionals to quickly and accurately screen for unequal eye performance problems including strabismus and amblyopia permitting an earlier diagnosis and institution of corrective therapy.  Investigators at NIH’s National Eye Institute in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente Southern California studied 300 children, ages 2 to 6 years, with no known eye disorders.

Comparing the electronic device’s performance with the gold standard, an exam by a pediatric ophthalmologist, showed that the screener properly flagged 100% of children with improper eye performance while over-diagnosing issues in only 15% of cases.

The screening is rapid requiring only 28 seconds to position the child, hold the device 14 inches from the child’s eyes, have the child fixate on the smiley face, allow the device to laser scan both retinas for subtle misalignment, and report the results on the LED panel.

The device, called the Blinq, was co-invented by pediatric ophthalmologist David Hunter MD at Boston Children’s Hospital.

https://www.jaapos.org/article/S1091-8531(21)00174-9/fulltext

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34246763/

#strabismus #amblyopia #lazyeye #blinq #screening

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/a8vVVuEkeQM

A handheld device enables pediatric and primary care professionals to quickly and accurately screen for unequal eye performance problems including strabismus and amblyopia permitting an earlier diagnosis and institution of corrective therapy.  Investigators at NIH’s National Eye Institute in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente Southern California studied 300 children, ages 2 to 6 years, with no known eye disorders.

Comparing the electronic device’s performance with the gold standard, an exam by a pediatric ophthalmologist, showed that the screener properly flagged 100% of children with improper eye performance while over-diagnosing issues in only 15% of cases.

The screening is rapid requiring only 28 seconds to position the child, hold the device 14 inches from the child’s eyes, have the child fixate on the smiley face, allow the device to laser scan both retinas for subtle misalignment, and report the results on the LED panel.

The device, called the Blinq, was co-invented by pediatric ophthalmologist David Hunter MD at Boston Children’s Hospital.

https://www.jaapos.org/article/S1091-8531(21)00174-9/fulltext

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34246763/

#strabismus #amblyopia #lazyeye #blinq #screening

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/NuKGjwGNsR0

The use of face masks in regions blanketed with wildfire smoke could reduce the risk of hospital visits due to respiratory distress by 22 to 39%.  Environmental scientists at  Colorado State University compared the abilities of masks made of various materials to protect their users against pollution from wildfires and other sources.

N95 non-medical dust masks or their KN95 equivalents are the most effective at reducing hospital and ICU admissions for respiratory disease when compared with single layer cotton masks, single layered nylon or other synthetics as masks, and multilayered surgical masks .  This effect is even more pronounced as a greater proportion of the affected population embraces defensive mask-wearing.

Looking directly at the pollution filtration effectiveness of various mask mask materials, all materials perform poorest for particles with diameters of 0.5-0.6 um.  Cloth and nylon masks work better as particle sizes rise from 1 to 10 um.

The bottom line: use at least surgical masks or even better N95 or KN95 masks when you are exposed to smoke, dust, airborne pollution of any kind, and allergens.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GH000482

#smoke #masks #pollution #cotton #synthetics #surgical

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/NuKGjwGNsR0

The use of face masks in regions blanketed with wildfire smoke could reduce the risk of hospital visits due to respiratory distress by 22 to 39%.  Environmental scientists at  Colorado State University compared the abilities of masks made of various materials to protect their users against pollution from wildfires and other sources.

N95 non-medical dust masks or their KN95 equivalents are the most effective at reducing hospital and ICU admissions for respiratory disease when compared with single layer cotton masks, single layered nylon or other synthetics as masks, and multilayered surgical masks .  This effect is even more pronounced as a greater proportion of the affected population embraces defensive mask-wearing.

Looking directly at the pollution filtration effectiveness of various mask mask materials, all materials perform poorest for particles with diameters of 0.5-0.6 um.  Cloth and nylon masks work better as particle sizes rise from 1 to 10 um.

The bottom line: use at least surgical masks or even better N95 or KN95 masks when you are exposed to smoke, dust, airborne pollution of any kind, and allergens.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GH000482

#smoke #masks #pollution #cotton #synthetics #surgical

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/n-SVmIdnUak

Type 2 diabetics using GLP-1 receptor agonists that lower blood glucose and hemoglobin A1C are more likely to experience mild CoVid infections that don’t put them in the ICU, on ventilators, or on an autopsy slab.  Researchers at Penn State reviewed the electronic medical records of nearly 30,000 type 2 diabetics testing positive for CoVid during the pre-vaccine 2020’s.  Of these about 7,000 were on these drugs and 23,000 were not.

Those CoVid patients taking these GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide, more familiar to TV viewers as Trulicity and Victoza, within 6 months of their CoVid diagnosis showed a 33% lower risk of hospitalization, a 38.4% lower risk of major respiratory complications, and a 42.1% lower risk of death.

Studies are continuing to clarify if this protective phenomenon is directly due this class of drugs.  The investigators also want to know if GLP-1- receptor agonists can also protect non-diabetics.

https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2021/09/14/db21-0385

#CoVid #diabetes #ozempic #rybelsus #hospitalization #icu #death

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/n-SVmIdnUak

Type 2 diabetics using GLP-1 receptor agonists that lower blood glucose and hemoglobin A1C are more likely to experience mild CoVid infections that don’t put them in the ICU, on ventilators, or on an autopsy slab.  Researchers at Penn State reviewed the electronic medical records of nearly 30,000 type 2 diabetics testing positive for CoVid during the pre-vaccine 2020’s.  Of these about 7,000 were on these drugs and 23,000 were not.

Those CoVid patients taking these GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide, more familiar to TV viewers as Trulicity and Victoza, within 6 months of their CoVid diagnosis showed a 33% lower risk of hospitalization, a 38.4% lower risk of major respiratory complications, and a 42.1% lower risk of death.

Studies are continuing to clarify if this protective phenomenon is directly due this class of drugs.  The investigators also want to know if GLP-1- receptor agonists can also protect non-diabetics.

https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2021/09/14/db21-0385

#CoVid #diabetes #ozempic #rybelsus #hospitalization #icu #death

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/uYq04u8QMx4

Infants demonstrating unusual ways of looking at objects at 9 months of age are more likely to develop autism or autism spectrum disorder later in childhood.  Paychiatrists at UC-Davis analyzed the behaviors of a high autism risk group, 89 infants whose older siblings had from diagnoses of autism, and compared them with 58 infants at low risk as their siblings showed age-typical developmental parameters.  Observations were made at 9, 12, 15, 18, 24, and 36 months of age.

The result: children who engaged in atypical visual inspection of objects at 9 months were more likely to be diagnosed with autism at 3 years of age.  These atypical visual behaviors included: looking out of the corners of the eyes, holding an object close to the face, examining the object with one eye closed, and staring continuously at an object for more than 10 seconds.

This observation supports the theory that infants with autistic tendencies over-focus on objects due to their relative disinterest in person-to-person interactions.

https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fabn0000692

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210924182521.htm

#autism #vision #inspection #objects #social 

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/uYq04u8QMx4

Infants demonstrating unusual ways of looking at objects at 9 months of age are more likely to develop autism or autism spectrum disorder later in childhood.  Paychiatrists at UC-Davis analyzed the behaviors of a high autism risk group, 89 infants whose older siblings had from diagnoses of autism, and compared them with 58 infants at low risk as their siblings showed age-typical developmental parameters.  Observations were made at 9, 12, 15, 18, 24, and 36 months of age.

The result: children who engaged in atypical visual inspection of objects at 9 months were more likely to be diagnosed with autism at 3 years of age.  These atypical visual behaviors included: looking out of the corners of the eyes, holding an object close to the face, examining the object with one eye closed, and staring continuously at an object for more than 10 seconds.

This observation supports the theory that infants with autistic tendencies over-focus on objects due to their relative disinterest in person-to-person interactions.

https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fabn0000692

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210924182521.htm

#autism #vision #inspection #objects #social