Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak--and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It

[highplainsdem]

Source: Wired

Anti-vaccine activists with close ties to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are falsely claiming that the measles public health crisis in Texas is caused by a “bioweapon” targeting the Mennonite community. These activists are now trying to sell their followers a range of pseudo-scientific cures—some purportedly powered by artificial intelligence—that supposedly prevent customers from contracting measles.

The claims were made in a webinar posted online last week and hosted by Mikki Willis, an infamous conspiracy filmmaker best known for his Plandemic series of pseudo-documentaries. These helped supercharge COVID-19 disinformation online and were, Kennedy has said, funded in part by Children’s Health Defense (CHD), an anti-vaccine group Kennedy founded. Willis also created a video for Kennedy marking the announcement of his independent run for the presidency.

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The webinar was hosted by Rebel Lion, the supplement company that Willis cofounded. On the website, and prominently featured under the webinar, Willis sells and recommends a “measles treatment and prevention protocol” full of supplements and tools on the site. On the webinar, Willis claimed the protocol will help parents “get prepped for, if God forbid this does get out, and their children get sick.” Together, purchasing the full protocol costs hundreds of dollars.

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Kennedy also praised doctors last month in an interview on Fox News who have been using alternative and unproven treatments within the Mennonite community. Among those doctors is Richard Bartlett, who also appeared on Willis’s webinar last week and is credited on the Rebel Lion site with sharing the measles “protocol” package for purchase.

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Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/antivax-grift-measles-crisis-bioweapon/

[Walleye]

1. If stupidity is a bioweapon

[ananda]

9. LOL. And is itself caused by a bioweapon...

we have a great double conspiracy.

[Walleye]

10. Oh my god that almost makes sense to me

[ananda]

11. New dystopian sci-fi film: Earth Conspiracy

That's our world now.

[SheltieLover]

2. Cripes...

[Owens]

3. Grifters - Republicans? You don't say??

Just surprised they aren't trying to sell a magic bleach pill

[IronLionZion]

4. MAGA is a Jim Jones style suicide cult

Their proof that Measles is a bioweapon is that it targets the unvaccinated.

[scarletlib]

5. The bioweapon is measles freely circulating through the unvaccinated.

[Ray Bruns]

6. America has reached peak stupidity

[mdbl]

7. Antivaxxer morons.

that's all.

[Karasu]

8. The GOP daring to mainstream these loons after 70 years--during a fucking pandemic, no less--will forever be one of

their greatest sins, short of forcing fascism upon us all.