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(47,245 posts)Since his advocacy effects official government policies.
Leonard Horowitz
"Scientists ignore him; if they debate him, it will build him up as an evangelical huckster. The only people who love him are talk show hosts and the good people who are so paranoid that they will believe anything that supports their deranged thought processes." --an admirer
Leonard Horowitz is a former dentist, anti-vaxxer, promoter of various "natural cures," and self-publisher of books and pamphlets expressing such unfounded beliefs as that the AIDS and Ebola epidemics were intentionally caused by the U.S. government. These and other claims made by Horowitz have influenced some black leaders into boycotting vaccination programs.*
Horowitz recently told Al-Jazeera that H1N1 vaccines would cause sterility, as part of a plan of "pangenocide" against Muslims. In a press release describing his belief that the H1N1 vaccine would cause sterility, Horowitz added this "note to journalists":
Dr. Horowitz is advancing Healthy World Organization (HWO), a natural alternative to the UN's World Health Organization. Information about HWO is available at: HealthyWorldOrganization.org. For more information about the dangers of flu vaccinations, see Dr. Horowitz's comprehensive website FLUscam.com. Dr. Horowitz endorses natural alternatives to vaccines including covalently-bonded silver hydrosols, alkalizing water, and vitamins C and D. See FLU "TO Dos" and OxySilver.com.
His company mission statement for OxySilver might nauseate the unspiritual or the clearheaded:
"To celebrate the manifestation of Divinity in biology, health science, and emerging biospiritual technologies, and through our loving service, deliver the most advanced knowledge and equipment for personal and planetary purification, physical salvation, and spiritual evolution."
In addition to his HWO, FLUscam, and Oxysilver websites, Horowitz also promotes his fantasies on at least two other sites: tetrahedron.org and drlenhorowitz.com. He describes himself as "Humanitarian, Clinician, Prophet, Scholar and Natural Healer." Some might add Charlatan to this list, but that would be too kind. Horowitz promotes himself as "Dr." Horowitz on his websites and in his many health-related books. He has no formal medical training, but it has been reported that he has a master's degree in public health from Harvard University.*
http://www.skepdic.com/horowitz.html