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highplainsdem

(55,525 posts)
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 11:59 AM Apr 17

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

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/

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Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak--and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It (Original Post) highplainsdem Apr 17 OP
If stupidity is a bioweapon Walleye Apr 17 #1
LOL. And is itself caused by a bioweapon... ananda Apr 17 #9
Oh my god that almost makes sense to me Walleye Apr 17 #10
New dystopian sci-fi film: Earth Conspiracy ananda Apr 17 #11
Cripes... SheltieLover Apr 17 #2
Grifters - Republicans? You don't say?? Owens Apr 17 #3
MAGA is a Jim Jones style suicide cult IronLionZion Apr 17 #4
The bioweapon is measles freely circulating through the unvaccinated. scarletlib Apr 17 #5
America has reached peak stupidity Ray Bruns Apr 17 #6
Antivaxxer morons. mdbl Apr 17 #7
The GOP daring to mainstream these loons after 70 years--during a fucking pandemic, no less--will forever be one of Karasu Apr 17 #8

Owens

(502 posts)
3. Grifters - Republicans? You don't say??
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 12:08 PM
Apr 17

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

IronLionZion

(48,564 posts)
4. MAGA is a Jim Jones style suicide cult
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 12:25 PM
Apr 17

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

Karasu

(996 posts)
8. The GOP daring to mainstream these loons after 70 years--during a fucking pandemic, no less--will forever be one of
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 05:14 PM
Apr 17

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

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