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jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:43 PM Mar 2020

Never Fear, The Anti-Vaxxers And Fake Cure Hucksters Are Here


So, we all chuckled at Jim Bakker selling his colloidal silver covid-19 cure.

But, dress it up as "science", and you've got yourself something....




What I like about the "Quinine Cures Covid-19" thing is that it pretends that the information is somehow coming from the National Institutes of Health, because it links to an honest to goodness real NIH link.

And the reason for that is because the NIH, among other organizations, provides a gateway to a vast index of "things someone wrote somewhere". In other words, just because something that looks like a research paper can be found in the PubMed database, that doesn't make it true.

A completely unvetted, unverified, unduplicated, and since-uncommented-upon-in-the-literature "pre publication copy" of what purports to be a report of covid-19 treatment appeared in late February. The paper describes no methodology whatsoever. None of that, of course, matters.

What matters is that "Big Pharma" is, as usual, suppressing a cure, and "Mainstream Media" is helping them cover it up. Your only hope is to rely on the good intentions of strangers on Twitter to tell you the truth!


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Never Fear, The Anti-Vaxxers And Fake Cure Hucksters Are Here (Original Post) jberryhill Mar 2020 OP
I heard. They (the Feds) told Jim Bakker to stop w/ his fake cure for CV nonsense. SWBTATTReg Mar 2020 #1
You heard wrong jberryhill Mar 2020 #3
Thanks! SWBTATTReg Mar 2020 #5
Pseudoscientific beliefs Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #2
I'm probably going to catch something from having to pick my jaw up off the floor jberryhill Mar 2020 #4
I think people Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #7
I don't know how to fact check this Phoenix61 Mar 2020 #10
Absolutely jberryhill Mar 2020 #11
Drinking your own urine will repel the virus or cure it if you're infected. panader0 Mar 2020 #6
I'm not sure about that durablend Mar 2020 #8
I wear a black hat. panader0 Mar 2020 #9
Alex Jones magic toothpaste: panader0 Mar 2020 #12
Not too long ago, right here on this site, I saw folks raving about quinine water. cwydro Mar 2020 #13
By "not too long ago", you mean "today" jberryhill Mar 2020 #14
Oh my, missed that one, but I've been mostly playing in my garden today. cwydro Mar 2020 #15
I despise anti-vaxxers ismnotwasm Mar 2020 #16

SWBTATTReg

(22,133 posts)
1. I heard. They (the Feds) told Jim Bakker to stop w/ his fake cure for CV nonsense.
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:47 PM
Mar 2020

I hope he gets his a&& handed to him in court with his phony cure.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. You heard wrong
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:51 PM
Mar 2020

The State of NY sent him a letter.

The State of Missouri filed a civil suit to stop him.

Turin_C3PO

(14,004 posts)
2. Pseudoscientific beliefs
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:49 PM
Mar 2020

reign in this country, unfortunately. My Facebook feed is filled constantly with snake-oil bullshit marketed as “the real deal”.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
4. I'm probably going to catch something from having to pick my jaw up off the floor
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:53 PM
Mar 2020

I don't do Facebook, so I am sometimes mystified by how bullshit seems to just start spontaneously gushing out of people. I guess that's it.

This quinine bullshit has been posted on DU a couple of times now. It's amazing.

Turin_C3PO

(14,004 posts)
7. I think people
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:57 PM
Mar 2020

we’re fooled by the quinine thing because it appeared to come from a valid source. They didn’t bother actually looking at the article and noticing that there was no methodology to the claims.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
11. Absolutely
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 02:07 PM
Mar 2020


As you are probably aware, any news outlet that has President Xi's picture on it:



...is every bit as reliable as President Xi himself.

panader0

(25,816 posts)
6. Drinking your own urine will repel the virus or cure it if you're infected.
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:56 PM
Mar 2020

Never drink the urine of other people because they may have used a
gas station bathroom. Oh, and pray hard, I mean really hard.

durablend

(7,460 posts)
8. I'm not sure about that
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:59 PM
Mar 2020

I think drinking bleach is more effective, especially if you hate vaccines and like going around with a red hat on your head.

panader0

(25,816 posts)
9. I wear a black hat.
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 02:04 PM
Mar 2020

I actually knew a guy who drank bleach to pass a drug test.
He was a laborer (hod carrier) on a job I did. I knew another
guy, a hoddie, who got tested while dirty and blew up the steel
mail box the lab used.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
13. Not too long ago, right here on this site, I saw folks raving about quinine water.
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 02:09 PM
Mar 2020

They were going right out to buy bunches.

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