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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoger Stone speaker at The Truth About Cancer conference? WTF?
what kind of organization is this?
Link to tweet
OAITW r.2.0
(24,467 posts)Ziggysmom
(3,406 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,579 posts)Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)lastlib
(23,222 posts)and it's totally malignant. Only treatment for it is to spend the rest of his life in a federal penal facility.
BeerBarrelPolka
(1,202 posts)It's like having Liberace as the headliner at a manosphere convention.
cojoel
(957 posts)so perhaps it is fitting.
Disaffected
(4,554 posts)an equal opportunity grifter after all.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)>1 million dollars of donor money. More local coverage here:
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/health-care-hucksters-to-host-quack-convention-in-nashville/article_09fbb634-1cab-11ec-a5c2-e383f4597510.html
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"Health Care Hucksters to Host Quack Convention in Nashville
The Truth About Cancer will platform anti-vaxxers, right-wing conspiracists and fraudster health gurus at Opryland
You would think the circus is in town with all the clowns headed to Opryland Resort and Convention Center. But no, its just a gathering of anti-vaxxers and like-minded proponents of alternative medical facts. The Truth About Cancer convention will descend on the convention center from Oct. 22 to 24, and you can bet speakers will spread just about everything but accurate information that's a guarantee when Eric Trump and Roger Stone are two of your keynote speakers.
Preeminent quacks on the lineup include Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, who promoted the whole COVID vaccine makes you magnetic theory, and raw-food-advocate-turned-conspiracy-theorist David Avocado Wolfe, whose page you have probably muted on Facebook by now. Plus Randy Jackson of the Jackson 5 will perform.
Its hard to take this Snake Oil Symposium seriously. The event website calls the COVID-19 outbreak a plandemic, features a lot of all-caps words and for some reason uses scare-quotes when describing their panelists and attendees as natural health gurus and health enthusiasts either the copywriter has a poor grasp of how sarcasm and punctuation interact, or theres a saboteur at the keyboard."...(more)
IcyPeas
(21,863 posts)In this case, they arent just praying on wealthy science-deniers but also desperate people who are looking for anything to help them or their loved ones survive. Were talking about vulnerable people, physically and financially.
CROOKS
Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)IcyPeas
(21,863 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,406 posts)As they die of Covid, or go to prison for treason, one could mark them off of your BINGO card!
We could make a great DU national competition as we huddle in our homes for a SECOND winter because of these idiots!