The Pandemic's Worst Woman: Dr. Christiane Northrup

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://vajenda.substack.com/p/the-pandemics-worst-woman-dr-christiane

It seems as if every day I hear about an unvaccinated pregnant person who has died from COVID-19 or is near death. I might read about it in the news, such as this story of Davy Macias, who died shortly after being delivered. She was a labor and delivery nurse who left her newborn and four other children without a mother. Or Paige Ruiz, who died shortly after delivery, also never holding her newborn and leaving her two-year-old without a mother. I also hear from numerous colleagues about intensive care units filled with unvaccinated pregnant people with a surgical crash cart at the bedside for an emergency cesarean section, which is often done in a last ditch effort to save the life of the pregnant person. And of course, I get direct messages from those desperate for any insight I might have to help convince their pregnant best friend, spouse, or child to get vaccinated. Fear that vaccination against COVID-19 could harm a pregnancy is sadly all too common.

And it’s not just pregnant people who are afraid of being vaccinated, people are avoiding vaccination for fear it could affect future fertility or negatively affect a future theoretical pregnancy. There are even people who are afraid if they are around someone who has been vaccinated, it could affect their fertility or pregnancy.

These lies about the vaccine didn’t go mainstream because people did their own research. What has happened was the exact opposite. They were exposed to disinformation by what they thought were credible sources, and it stuck, effectively blocking accurate content that happened to show up second. That is what propaganda does. It is important to note that it can take just being exposed to incorrect information once to believe in it.

Where does this anti vaccine propaganda related to fertility and pregnancy come from? Much of it has been touched in some way, either created or amplified, by Dr. Christiane Northrup.

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[raging moderate]

1. These gullible people think what they do IS research.

Somehow, these people have no idea of the painstaking, rigorous, repetitive, mathematical, exhaustive, time-consuming drudgery that real research actually is. They think that research is listening to a few cranks bloviating online in a style they like with a confirmation bias that flatters them and backs up opinions they would like to spread. I love DU, but I know I am not really doing research by reading things here.

[3catwoman3]

6. I want to ask these "researchers"...

…a few questions:

-what was your sample size
-what was your p-value
-how many peer-reviewed journal articles did you read

And watch their eyes glaze over.

[Skittles]

2. what was Oprah's obsession with hacks

ugh, I am proud to say I was never a fan

[slightlv]

3. I used to like Oprah

until the number of "hacks" started piling up...!

[Skittles]

5. I thought she was a phony

maybe she identified with those people

[slightlv]

7. Something drew her to them! n/t

[tenderfoot]

8. I called her out a while back and got flamed with the "this is why we lose" talking points

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216193059

[Skittles]

9. recommended

she is a phony, though and through....even when she does good it's all about her

[Trueblue1968]

4. Christiane Northrup is a monster. she is so hateful.

[dalton99a]

10. The Doctor Carl Sagan Warned Us About

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking/doctor-carl-sagan-warned-us-about

The Doctor Carl Sagan Warned Us About
Dr. Christiane Northrup, a medical doctor, uses her intuition to tell her fans that medicine is wrong and magic is real.
Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. | 8 Jan 2021

Predictions made by psychics and astrologers tend to quickly fade from memory because of how wrong they often turn out to be, but one prediction made by Carl Sagan, an astrophysicist and famous science communicator, is so unfortunately on the money that it continues to outlive him. He spelled it out in the second chapter of his last book, The Demon-Haunted World: “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”

Superstitions did not disappear in the modern age, but with the COVID-19 pandemic driving people to spend more and more time online, anxiously searching for and simultaneously being bombarded by anything that looks like information, this prophesied crystal-clutching and horoscope-consulting is all the more evident. And there are misenlightened gurus who epitomize Sagan’s dire warning, chief among them Dr. Christiane Northrup.

An obstetrician-gynecologist by training, Northrup rose to fame as a New York Times bestselling author of books like Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause. She was platformed by Oprah Winfrey on many occasions and was named by Reader’s Digest in 2013 as one of the 100 most trusted people in America. Her online fanbase is considerable: 149,000 followers on Instagram and over half a million fans on her Facebook page. For a medical doctor’s star to shine so brightly during a pandemic should be a boon, but Dr. Northrup is no ordinary doctor. Every night, she addresses tens of thousands of followers in ten-minute videos that deny the reality of the pandemic, promote every magical belief under the sun, and weave a grand Dungeons-and-Dragons-style narrative about the Age of Aquarius and Northrup’s Warriors of the Radical Light.

As Carl Sagan wrote in The Demon-Haunted World, “sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”

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[3catwoman3]

12. He certainly nailed that!

The ignorance and gullibility of so many Americans is astonishing and horrifying.

[3catwoman3]

11. Stella Immanuel, the demon sex doctor, is a...

…very close second, IMO. Maybe even a tie.

[oregonjen]

13. I unfollowed her when the pandemic started. She's awful.

I appreciated her bringing women’s health to the forefront, but too much woo woo for me over the years. When she stated she was against masks and anti vax, that was the final straw.

[struggle4progress]

14. 'Disinformation Dozen' driving anti-vaccine content

By Carolyn Crist

March 25, 2021 -- About two-thirds of anti-vaccine content on major social media sites is tied to 12 prominent anti-vaccine leaders, according to a .. report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate and Anti-Vax Watch ...

The “Disinformation Dozen” is made up of Ty and Charlene Bollinger, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Joseph Mercola, Sherri Tenpenny, Rizza Islam, Rashid Buttar, Erin Elizabeth, Sayer Ji, Kelly Brogan, Christiane Northrup, Ben Tapper, and Kevin Jenkins ...

https://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/news/20210325/disinformation-dozen-driving-anti-vaccine-content