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The Pandemic's Worst Woman: Dr. Christiane Northrup
How Oprah and PBS helped her become a pseudoscience superstar and why she needs to lose her board certification
Dr. Jen Gunter
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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.
Northrup isn’t some minor league player recently called up from selling butterbur infusions to play in the disinformation big leagues. She is the original women’s health Doyenne of Disinformation. She is a board-certified OB/GYN, which she is sure to mention at the start of almost every video, with a massive reach on Facebook. For a long time she was active on Instagram, but she was recently banned from for spreading disinformation.
How did Northrup get such a national, and even international, voice? She has written several best selling books, including Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom. But her rise to the stratosphere came via Oprah, at least 12 appearances, and eight PBS specials. The dual authority of Oprah and PBS is something to behold. Oprah makes you a household name and PBS makes people believe you have been vetted by academia.
Since the early days of the pandemic, instead of using her platform to support evidence-based care, Northrup has been waging a war against science. She has called for maskless freedom rallies, promoted anti vaccine propaganda, and used phrases to signal her allegiance with QAnon, the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory group that believes, among other things, that some democrats eat babies.
...https://vajenda.substack.com/p/the-pandemics-worst-woman-dr-christiane?
Dr. Jen Gunter
...
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.
Northrup isn’t some minor league player recently called up from selling butterbur infusions to play in the disinformation big leagues. She is the original women’s health Doyenne of Disinformation. She is a board-certified OB/GYN, which she is sure to mention at the start of almost every video, with a massive reach on Facebook. For a long time she was active on Instagram, but she was recently banned from for spreading disinformation.
How did Northrup get such a national, and even international, voice? She has written several best selling books, including Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom. But her rise to the stratosphere came via Oprah, at least 12 appearances, and eight PBS specials. The dual authority of Oprah and PBS is something to behold. Oprah makes you a household name and PBS makes people believe you have been vetted by academia.
Since the early days of the pandemic, instead of using her platform to support evidence-based care, Northrup has been waging a war against science. She has called for maskless freedom rallies, promoted anti vaccine propaganda, and used phrases to signal her allegiance with QAnon, the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory group that believes, among other things, that some democrats eat babies.
...https://vajenda.substack.com/p/the-pandemics-worst-woman-dr-christiane?
crossposted in GD : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215839886
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I didn't realize PBS was using them for their fundraising drives. 