Antivaccine conspiracy theorists
have
, with COVID-19, gotten
quite a bit of press, but Nancy Banks is a veteran in the game. Banks is,
in fact, an MD (one-time
gynaecologist), and
therefore
frequently appears on
vaccine denialist lists of anti-vaccine doctors,
such as Ricardo Beas’s
2017 federal class action lawsuit and criminal complaint against ‘
mandatory vaccination’.
And she is, indeed, an excellent example of the kind of deranged dingbats you
will find on such otherwise laughably unimpressive lists. Banks has no
background in infectious diseases and has never done research – her
self-published book
AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire: The Deadly Virus of
International Greed is, needless to say, no substitute. She is, however,
also an
HIV/AIDS denialist
and
holocaust denier.
As a HIV/AIDS denier, Banks was even recruited as an “expert” witness by Clark Baker’s
AIDS denialism legal team,
which tells you a bit about Baker’s access to genuine experts who support their
views.
In her book (she has, as mentioned, done no actual research),
Banks claims that
AIDS is not caused by HIV but by a global conspiracy in league with a range of
secret societies and Western governments conspiring to loot Africa of natural
resources, in particular diamonds, and that the AIDS epidemic is manufactured
to divert attention (“AIDS is the subterfuge for the economic destruction of
a continent and psychological warfare against the African people of the
Diaspora”). As Banks imagines it, AIDS symptoms are actually due to
antiretroviral AIDS drugs, tuberculosis or other diseases that afflict diamond
mine workers – they are all work-related,
but the categorization as AIDS ostensibly allows diamond corporations to
avoid being sued for their working conditions. To support her case, Banks draws
heavily on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and literature, such as Eustace Mullins,
Andrew Carrington Hitchcock, and Salvador Astucia,
and explicitly blames Jewish conspiracies for the AIDS situation in Africa,
including Israel, the American Jewish Congress, and Maurice Tempelsman
(chairman of the Harvard School of Public Health’s AIDS).
For good measure, the book also pushes a large and
variegated group of assorted conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination,
fluoridated water,
the Matrix, and 9/11.
It is all connected, in the grandest and most unified possible way, to her
theory of HIV/AIDS. Indeed, according to Banks, almost all world events past WWII
can be tied to HIV hysteria: “The AIDS paradigm has created a universal
belief system based not on science but on inference, innuendo, and association.
Very few people will exercise the capacity to synthesize what on the surface
may appear to be unrelated events. The assassination of President Kennedy, the
prolongation of the Vietnam War, the War on Drugs, the War on Cancer, the rise
of Kissinger and Iran-Contra, the de-industrialization of the United States and
the strengthening of China as a world power, the genocide in the Congo and the
current financial crisis are different acts of the same psychodrama.” For
instance, “The legal and illegal drug trafficking helps to finance the
covert operations within the Deep State,”
according to Banks.
To connect the dots (or, rather, putting the dots in a
blender to mix them together) – she once hosted a radio program called Connect
the Dots – she relies on the works of John Coleman,
who believes that world governments are controlled by a group of 300 families
in England that got their power from the Opium Wars with China; The Gemstone File conspiracy
that Aristotle Onassis, Joseph Kennedy, Eugene Meyer, and others were involved
in a global conspiracy with the mafia, oil and drug cartels, and rogue
militaries (and killed off the Kennedys when they became a nuisance); and Sal
Astucia’s idea that the World Jewish Congress, in league with Jewish gangster
Meyer Lansky and the FBI, hired French heroin traffickers to murder JFK. A
central figure in her thought is, of course, the CIA, whose mission “is to have
everything people believe to be true, false.” It is unclear what that
means, but it sure sounds bad.
Banks’s views on medicine are generally unusual. For
instance, according to Banks:
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“The Rockefeller Foundation
created the Molecule Biology Model for modern medicine that is fatally flawed
from it’s [sic] beginnings” It’s hard to find much details about what the
fatal flaws actually are supposed to be, but if you listen to Banks in
the first place, you’re unlikely to care much about such details.
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“Medicine today is in place to control the
population, weed out the weak and for profit”
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“The molecules in the cells are 99% water and 1%
DNA, proteins etc. and allopathic medicine
studies the 1%.” We admit that that is a new one to us.
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“Disease is a simple combination of too many toxins
and not enough nutrients and cause a lack of energy”. This is not true.
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“Low energy cells will replicate more low energy
cells in their built in programming to survive.” Whatever that might mean.
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“negative emotions and thoughts we accept as real
deplete the cells of energy
and a significant factor of ‘disease’ ”
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“Liver stagnation and toxicity can be a useful place
for most to start the cleansing process.” Yes, it’s all about detoxing;
of course it is.
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“The entire vaccine theory is essentially bad
science, going after viruses that don’t exist.”
And yes, there you go: Nancy Banks is also a germ theory denialist.
No, really. She also promotes Bill Gates depopulation conspiracy theories:
“The Gates Foundation’s vision of vaccinating third World countries is
ostensibly genocide.”
Keep in mind that this character once, apparently, received
a professional
degree.
Diagnosis: And there you have it: an example of the kind of
person who passes as an expert in anti-vaccine circles and figures on their lists of doctors to consult. It’s illuminating.
Hat-tip: Denyingaids.blogspot
