The Upside-Down Doctor

[BeckyDem]

( 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 Mercola’s 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.

Mercola’s 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 book’s 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 world’s 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]

1. i have a special hate for that asshole.

he's a local, out in the chi burbs. sets my teeth on edge.
when are these people gonna start going TO JAIL?

[BeckyDem]

3. Oh my gosh, that would drive me nuts too.

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]

7. i see he's moved to fla. cuz of course he has.

good riddance. tho his clinic is still there.

[orwell]

2. I know some otherwise smart people...

...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]

4. Yep, and he gets away with it.

[3catwoman3]

5. A relative of mine heads up the NVIC - National Vaccine...

…Information Center, which, according to Wikipedia, receives funding from Mercola. The organization does not support vaccination.

[BeckyDem]

6. I read that too. It is shameful how he is allowed to profit from selling fraud.

That group is toxic for Americans, feeding fear and raising money off it.

[3catwoman3]

8. And this non-profit organization got $136, 000+...

…from the Paycheck Protection Program.

[BeckyDem]

9. wow talk about nuts.