We note, in passing, that Greg Hinkle, Montana State Senator from 2009 to 2012, returned to the Senate for a brief stint in 2024-25. During his first period, Hinkle became famous for a string of insane clown bills, including the wildly unconstitutional 2011 Sheriffs First bill, which sought to declare sheriffs the supreme authority in their counties, would require federal employees to obtain permission from sheriffs prior to entering said counties, and permitted the sheriffs to arrest federal employees at will. Although he seems to be gone, his recent brief reappearance should make us all worried.
By contrast, Sonja Hintz is apparently still practicing as a registered nurse at Rogers Behavioral Health, Wisconsin. And although Hintz has long experience working with children with disabilities – and is officially qualified for such work – she has some disconcerting ideas about health and wellbeing. According to herself, Hintz managed to cure her own son of autism “through the use of a therapeutic diet, homeopathy, herbs, vitamins, essential oils, and chelation in addition to many other therapies” – yes, chelation therapy. And homeopathy. Subsequently, she has gone on to use “functional medicine to improve the lives of her patients”, apparently with a focus on identifying and treating non-existent parasites. Her approach to health and medicine was surely an asset in her work “at True Health Medical Center with Dr. Anju Usman”, no less.
Hintz is also a coauthor, with her son Alexander, of a chapter in the book Vaccine Epidemic edited by Louise Kuo Habakus, Mary Holland, and Kim Mack Rosenberg – so yes, she is, of course, anti-vaccine as well, and yes: she did blame vaccines for her son’s autism because of course she did. She has also given several presentations at various Autism One conferences.
Diagnosis: Yes, Hintz is a registered nurse, and she does work with children. She is also a dingbat conspiracy theorist, anti-vaccine activist and promoter of the most ridiculous types of pseudoscientific quackery. This is not a benevolent combination. Hintz is genuinely dangerous.
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