The Dirty Dozen - Medical Misinformation Miscreants

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EPISODE 38 | The Dirty Dozen - Medical Misinformation Miscreants

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Just 12 people are responsible for the vast bulk of misinformation about COVID vaccines on social media. 12. Are they cuckoo banana pants true believers or just modern day snake oil hucksters endangering people to make a buck? We'll take a look at this dirty dozen and see what they say and speculate as to why they say those things.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:15 - Pooping in our Rice Krispies
2. 03:21 - 1. The Big Cheese - Joseph Mercola
3. 10:26 - 2. Oh, Junior! - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
4. 15:12 - 3. The Terrible Twofer - Ty & Charlene Bollinger
5. 19:53 - 4. A Dime in the Dozen - Sherri Tenpenny
6. 23:52 - 5. Straight Outta Compton - Rizza (Ronnie) Islam
7. 27:37 - 6. Testing His Metal - Rashid Buttar
8. 31:01 - 7. In It Together - Erin Elizabeth (Finn)
9. 33:17 - 8. I'll Raise You 200 - (Ali Zeck) Sayer Ji
10. 37:04 - 9. If It Walks Like a Quack - Kelly Brogan "M.D."
11. 40:56 - 10. Hearts in Atlantis - Christiane Northrup
12. 47:22 - 11. Paging Dr. Hitler - Ben Tapper
13. 49:10 - 12. Junior's Jr. - Kevin Jenkins

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

LAPSUS LINGUAE: I keep calling Charlene Bollinger "Charlane" for some reason. I must have been thinking of the word "charlatan".

More on this stuff:

• CCDH - Center for Countering Digital Hate
• Stop the Spread of Misinformation online petition
• The Disinformation Dozen report
• Disinformation Dozen: The Sequel report
• Pandemic Profiteers report
• The Anti-Vaxx Playbook
• Quackwatch
• Fraudulent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Products - an ongoing database from the USFDA
• When bad science is a recipe for business success on .coda
• Spreading Vaccine Fears. And Cashing In. on the Center for Public Integrity
• Osteopathic Oath (note paragraph two especially)
• Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows on NPR
• Who are the ‘super-spreaders’ of medical misinformation, and how do their hoaxes spread so quickly on social media? A graphic guide. on the Globe & Mail
• Debunking the Disinformation Dozen playlist on the Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson YouTube channel (very worthwhile!)

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