Trump's Quacks

In an act of public safety, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube took down a video providing wildly misleading and dangerous medical "advice" that was shared by moron vector Donald "Person, woman, man, camera, tv" Trump Monday night:

The video, published by the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News, featured a group of people wearing white lab coats calling themselves "America's Frontline Doctors" staging a press conference in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC.

President Trump shared multiple versions of the video with his 84 million Twitter followers Monday night despite the dubious claims running counter to his administration's own public health experts. Spokespersons for the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.  [snip]

During the press conference, a speaker who identifies herself as a doctor makes a number of dubious claims, including that "you don't need masks" to prevent spread of the coronavirus, and that recent studies showing hydroxychloroquine is ineffective for the treatment of Covid-19 are "fake science" sponsored by "fake pharma companies."

"This virus has a cure, it's called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax," the woman claims. "You don't need masks, there is a cure."

The claims run contrary to multiple studies on the anti-malarial drug and advice from public health officials to prevent spread of the virus.  (our emphasis)

Breitbart, huh.  Are those fascist, Russian intelligence useful idiots still around? 

And just who are "America's Frontline Doctors," who obviously take to heart the main principle of the Hippocratic Oath -- first, do no harm:

According to the website for America's Frontline Doctors, the group is led by Dr. Simone Gold, a Los Angeles-based emergency medicine specialist who has previously been featured on Fox News for her views that stay-at-home orders are harmful. Gold told the Associated Press in May she wanted to speak out against stay-home orders because there was "no scientific basis that the average American should be concerned" about Covid-19.  (our emphasis)

She sounds reasonable and mainstream.  It seems the "news conference" they held was sponsored in part by the (wait for it) Tea Party Patriots (are those fascist, fill- in- the- blank useful idiots still around, too?). 

Here's more on some of the quacks who were also part of this dangerous nonsense. Let's dig a little deeper and focus on one of the stars of this show:

A Houston doctor who praises hydroxychloroquine and says that face masks aren’t necessary to stop transmission of the highly contagious coronavirus has become a star on the right-wing internet, garnering tens of millions of views on Facebook on Monday alone. Donald Trump Jr. declared the video of Stella Immanuel a “must watch,” while Donald Trump himself retweeted the video.

Before Trump and his supporters embrace Immanuel’s medical expertise, though, they should consider other medical claims Immanuel has made—including those about alien DNA and the physical effects of having sex with witches and demons in your dreams. 

Immanuel, a pediatrician and a religious minister, has a history of making bizarre claims about medical topics and other issues. She has often claimed that gynecological problems like cysts and endometriosis are in fact caused by people having sex in their dreams with demons and witches.

She alleges alien DNA is currently used in medical treatments, and that scientists are cooking up a vaccine to prevent people from being religious. And, despite appearing in Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress on Monday, she has said that the government is run in part not by humans but by “reptilians” and other aliens.  (our emphasis)

She also sounds reasonable and mainstream. And a "minister" and a "doctor"!?  That's so convenient!  She can officiate at the funerals of parishioners who follow her "medical" advice! 

Facebook didn't like the harmful, bogus crap she was posting, so they put the kibosh on her.  Then,

Hello Facebook put back my profile page and videos up or your computers with start crashing till you do. You are not bigger that God. I promise you. If my page is not back up face book will be down in Jesus name.

— Stella Immanuel MD (@stella_immanuel) July 28, 2020

  

Her Twitter profile includes this: "Entrepreneur, Deliverance Minister, God's battle axe and weapon of war."  She's comes across like a battle axe, and she's a weapon all right -- of disinformation, dystopia and death.  Fits right in with the Trump regime death cult.