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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBen Carson Used Unproven COVID Treatment Recommended By The MyPillow Guy
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/11/ben-carson-used-unproven-treatment
11/19/20 10:00am
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Ben Carson Used Unproven COVID Treatment Recommended By The MyPillow Guy
Anybody who has ever gotten covid and taken it, they are fine in five hours, and the next day are running around playing floor hockey in the hallway, said Mike Lindell.
By Ed Scarce
Lindell recommended oleander extract from a company he just happened to have a financial interest in. Within hours Ben Carson's symptoms are said to have magically disappeared. It's unclear if Ben Carson also now has a financial interest or not. Back in August, both of them were promoting the dietary supplement as "a cure" to Trump.
Snake oil salesmen, all of them.
Source: Washington Post
When Ben Carson, Trumps secretary of housing and urban development, came down with covid-19 last week, the former surgeon wasnt worried. He had a Guy for that.
I heard about the oleander extract from Mike, Carson said in an interview.
Mike is Mike Lindell, the pillow magnate who served as a Trump campaign chairman in Minnesota; oleander extract is an unproven therapeutic remedy for the coronavirus that Lindell has been pushing.
Carson said he took the extract, which has not been approved for such purposes by the FDA and which experts say may be dangerous, and within hours his symptoms disappeared to the delight of Lindell, who has a financial stake in the company that makes the extract.
Anybody who has ever gotten covid and taken it, they are fine in five hours, and the next day are running around playing floor hockey in the hallway, said Lindell, who has pitched the Trump administration on its effectiveness (which, again, has not been proved).
I heard about the oleander extract from Mike, Carson said in an interview.
Mike is Mike Lindell, the pillow magnate who served as a Trump campaign chairman in Minnesota; oleander extract is an unproven therapeutic remedy for the coronavirus that Lindell has been pushing.
Carson said he took the extract, which has not been approved for such purposes by the FDA and which experts say may be dangerous, and within hours his symptoms disappeared to the delight of Lindell, who has a financial stake in the company that makes the extract.
Anybody who has ever gotten covid and taken it, they are fine in five hours, and the next day are running around playing floor hockey in the hallway, said Lindell, who has pitched the Trump administration on its effectiveness (which, again, has not been proved).
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Ben Carson Used Unproven COVID Treatment Recommended By The MyPillow Guy (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2020
OP
Oh yea, that's a smart doctor following "best practice"... I feel bad for his previous patients...nt
mitch96
Nov 2020
#3
Had to laugh at the OP title line, which so captures the weirdness of trumpers
empedocles
Nov 2020
#4
sandensea
(21,664 posts)1. Worst of all, it didn't turn him into a Pharoah
Oh, the disappointment.
spanone
(135,873 posts)2. thank gawd he no longer practices medicine
mitch96
(13,924 posts)3. Oh yea, that's a smart doctor following "best practice"... I feel bad for his previous patients...nt
empedocles
(15,751 posts)4. Had to laugh at the OP title line, which so captures the weirdness of trumpers
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)5. Sounds like a paid endorsement.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)6. Did Carson...
Did Carson work out a deal with Lindell for promoting the product? That's really the ultimate question concerning this display of ignorance mixed with snake oil.
You can bet that this will be another source of illness and death due to the fact that oleander is poisonous in large amounts.
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)7. Johns Hopkins finest.
Initech
(100,102 posts)8. Only in the GOP can your net worth be 10 digits, and your IQ is in the double digits.
Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)9. Does Carson really have a medical license?
Why would someone with a M.D. listen to a guy who makes crappy pillows?