Sunday, March 13, 2022

#2521: Vicki Batts

Vicki Batts is a deranged conspiracy theorist writing for NaturalNews, one of the most productive fake news factories on the Internet. Batts is a general anti-science conspiracy theorist, having invented fake news stories promoting a range of topics, from climate change denialism to anti-fluoridation and anti-vaccine pseudoscience.

 

A sample of her claims (and style):

 

-       That ADHD is a fake disease invented by Big Pharma to drug children for profit

-       That flu shots actually spread the flu, based on a survey showing that many people think that flu shots spread the flu and some dumpster diving in the VAERS data base.

-       That scientists are engaging in fraud to “adjust” sea level data to create a false impression of rising oceans

-       That adding fluoride to drinking water constitutes “mass poisoning, based in part on the rock-solid foundation that “Some [unnamed] believe that …

 

She is also the author of the book Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence-Based Strategies for Reversing Type 2 Diabetes That Your Doctor Doesn't Know and Drug Companies Hope You Never Find Out, which contains precisely the type of spam it sounds like it contains.

 

Diagnosis: Completely unable to distinguish deranged, paranoid fantasies from reality, or helping people from scamming them. Might be Australian, though.

3 comments:

  1. "Completely unable to distinguish deranged, paranoid fantasies from reality." In other words, perfect for Natural News.

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  2. Why don't these anti-science entities get fined for their fraud like the champions of true science (Pfizer, J&J, the Sacklers) do? It just isn't fair!

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    1. You're a completely deranged koolaid drinker. No doubt, there's vodka in your ritual koolaid, too.

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