Michelle Guppy was at least at one point coordinator of the Houston Autism Disability Network and has spent some years tirelessly promoting anti-vaccine nonsense in Texas. Guppy is in particular notable for her defense of and advocacy for the work of discredited fraud Andrew Wakefield; Guppy, who believes that her own son is vaccine injured (her list includes PANDAS, which is, needless to say, not a vaccine injury) because he is autistic, something Guppy falsely attributes to vaccines, also thinks that her own son har benefited from Wakefield’s fraudulent nonsense. In 2011, for instance, Guppy received some attention for organizing conference at the Baptist Church in Tomball, Texas, with Wakefield as a keynote speaker; for security, Guppy hired armed guards to intimidate critics, and to journalists there to write about Wakefield, she had some admirably clear instructions: “Be nice to him, or we will hurt you.” So there.
Diagnosis: Antivaxxer with an average antivaxxer ability to identify and evaluate causal relationships, and she fails with precisely the kind of zeal and paranoia that so characterizes her movement. Somewhat dangerous, perhaps, but it is unclear whether her influence extends much beyond the Houston area.
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