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( Fraud is not a crime? )
June 2021
Joe Mercola is a doctor at war with medicine. His take on the pandemic is a lucrative, conspiratorial fever dream
Dr. Joe Mercola, an osteopathic physician who has made an impressive fortune selling supplements through his online store, has a new book out about the COVID-19 pandemic, a book which he co-authored with Ronnie Cummins, an organic food crusader. This book, as well as Mercolas decades of peddling health misinformation on the Internet, exemplifies the dangerous blind spot of the wellness movement. Health gurus are not in the business of public health; they rise to fame by framing health as a personal choice and by selling immune boosters that have earned, they wrongfully claim, a scientific seal of approval.
Mercolas conspiratorial take on COVID-19 is monumentally wrong, but the upside-down world he paints with his alarming words is based on real concerns. Mercola invites the already leery reader to follow him down a very deep rabbit hole.
The books black cover, devoid of imagery, is used as a minimalist canvas for its interminable title: The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal: Why We Must Unite in a Global Movement for Health and Freedom. Amazon currently lists it as the #1 best-seller in its Political Freedom category.
Summarizing the book is, in effect, summarizing the misinformation surrounding COVID-19. In short, Mercola and Cummins argue that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was engineered in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and its escape was capitalized on by every cabal, government, and corporation you can think of to scare people into looking away while they stole most of the worlds financial resources for themselves. None of the diagnostic tests, treatments, or public health measures can be trusted; rather, the disease is mild and protection is afforded to smart people who have no health conditions, eat the right food, and load themselves up with the right supplements.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-health-pseudoscience/upside-down-doctor
mopinko
(70,074 posts)he's a local, out in the chi burbs. sets my teeth on edge.
when are these people gonna start going TO JAIL?
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)I don't get why he is not charged with at least fraud. Eric Garner was allegedly selling loose cigarettes on the street in NYC. For sure Garner was the next Al Capone, so the cops came as a group to arrest him, but this guy?
Just look at the warnings Mercola gets for YEARS, while Garner is dead by crazy racist cops for a damn loose cigarette.
https://quackwatch.org/11ind/mercola/
mopinko
(70,074 posts)good riddance. tho his clinic is still there.
orwell
(7,771 posts)...that religiously follow this clown. He is worse than a snake oil salesman.
He actually kills people for profit under the guise of medicine.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)3catwoman3
(23,970 posts)Information Center, which, according to Wikipedia, receives funding from Mercola. The organization does not support vaccination.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)That group is toxic for Americans, feeding fear and raising money off it.
3catwoman3
(23,970 posts)from the Paycheck Protection Program.