#3021: Peter Hinderberger

Peter Hinderberger (M.D., Ph.D., DIHom) is a Baltimore-based “integrative” practitioner whose declared mission is to “promote optimal wellbeing by providing health care through an integrated approach, combining conventional and complementary therapies, which include Anthroposophic medicine, homeopathy, and salutogenesis.” Apparently, Hinderberger in particular targets cancer patients, whom he thinks that he and his arsenal of nonsense have something to offer. As he sees it, “[i]ntegrative medicine combines the best of Western and holistic medicine” (i.e. the best of real medicine with the ‘best’ of nonsense), but whereas “Western medicine aims to cure. Holistic medicine’s goal is to heal”, which is, given any reasonable definition, also the goal of real medicine, but Hinderberger needs some snappy formulations for marketing purposes – don’t think too much about what he is actually saying. And to “demonstrate the validity of both approaches”, Hinderberger points out that whereas (real) medicine can remove cancers, “statistics show that many cancers reoccur because ‘cure’ does not address the original disposition to cancer,” which of course is pure nonsense when it comes to why cancers reoccur. Hinderberger, however, offers patients recovering from cancer means to “detox and strengthen the functions of the organs as well as restore balance between body, soul and spirit using different modalities like anthroposophic medicine, homeopathy, nutrition, counseling, movement therapy, etc.”. Needless to say, fluffy bullshit will do nothing to actually prevent the reoccurrence of cancer, but it might provide patients with a (false) sense of empowerment, especially if, as often is the case, the cancer doesn’t reoccur. We’re sure Hinderberger’s got some nice customer reviews (after all, dissatisfied customers are often no longer around to express their side).

 

Though there are many people like Hinderberger around, we took note of him for being the MD of cancer survivor Ivelisse Page, who apparently credited the fact that her cancer (rather unsurprisingly) didn’t reoccur to some bullshit she’d gotten from Hinderberger (including “daily alternating injections of mistletoe and thymus, cimetidine [a real drug with possible anti-tumor effects], homeopathic remedies and additional supplements”) and subsequently, with her husband Jim, founded Believe Big, a nonprofit aimed to ‘educate’ people on “bridging the gap between conventional and complementary medicine for fighting cancer” and which tried to raise funds for mistletoe clinical trials – apparently Hinderberger’s repertoire includes a mistletoe extract that is “not approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA)” and which “falls under the category of homeopathy and is paid for out-of-pocket, at a cost of $100 to $150 per month, depending on the extract intensity and number of injections.” Page’s story is discussed here.

 

Diagnosis: Yet another one. Good grief.

 

Hat-tip: Respectful Insolence

 

#3020: Sid Hill

QAnon gained momentum between 2017 and 2020, and it is not very surprising that the 2020 election saw numerous Congressional candidates endorsing the conspiracy theory or even running on a QAnon platform. Some of them are covered here. In Alaska, for instance, Sidney Hill, an independent candidate running as a “pro-Trump” write-in for the U.S. Senate, had educated himself on matters politics by investigating “massive intel drop[s]” from “Q clearance” on 4chan. Otherwise his political agenda seemed a bit unclear, but he tried again for Lisa Murkowski’s seat in 2022, gaining some 270 votes in total, and he has apparently (as of May 2026) filed the paperwork for the 2026 ballot, too. Previous political experience includes holding up signs and demanding the impeachment of President Obama (e.g. “LaRouche says Impeach Obama Now”), leading e.g. to his arrest for “assault, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief” in 2010. That wasn’t his only brush with the law. 

 

Hill was, by the way, not the only QAnon candidate from Alaska in 2020. At least Thomas “John” Nelson, who ran in Alaska’s At-Large Congressional District, had also been promoting the QAnon slogan WWG1WGA and Dave Hayes’ rantings in a number of tweets.

 

Diagnosis: Ok, so he’s primarily a colorful village clown, and some might think his cognitive situation is not the kind the kind of lunacy we like cover here. The emergence of QAnon has made it harder to draw that distinction, however, and as a general rule: if you appear on a ballot, you’re fair game.

 

#3019: Jim Hill

Jim Hill is pastor of the North Clairemont United, San Diego and author of books with titles like “Dealing with Demons”. His most famous literary contribution, however, is probably his 2014 book The Gay Emperor is Naked (an interesting choice of title – perhaps worth a thought or two but we can’t be bothered), where he expounds on the evils of homosexuality. Did you for instance know that “Statistically, it is healthier to be a chain smoker and a practicing alcoholic than an active homosexual. In fact, 2% of all active homosexuals experience 80% of all STD’s”? Neither, of course, does Jim Hill, but he’s got faith and ye doubters got none. Or did you ever wonder “Why do 75% of the people who try homosexuality go on to conclude that that is not who they are, while 98% of those who try heterosexuality find it is who they are? More people have left homosexuality than have ever remained in it, by far.” Apparently Hill is a sufficiently high-level loon to be able to cast the transmute statistics spell several times a day.

 

The Jim Hill in question is presumably different from Alabama House of Representative member Jim Hill, sponsor of the Alabama “Freedom of Religion in Marriage Protection Act”, though they seem to be in agreement on some issues.

 

Diagnosis: His books have apparently failed to make a real splash, and he seems to be pretty old. Hopefully we can just forget about him.

 

#3018: Steven Higgs

Steven Higgs is a photographer, author, former editor and publisher at The Bloomington Alternative and journalist for a variety of outlets, including Counterpunch. Higgs is also an antivaccine activist, and many of his articles have, over the years, been pushing antivaccine propaganda, usually in the form of reports on complaints from antivaccine organizations, like SafeMinds, and portraits of various leaders in the antivaccine movement, like JB Handley. The Handley portraits and Higgs’ angle is discussed in some detail here. In particular, Higgs has been pushing the myth that vaccines cause autism, and he makes sure to cover all the standard gambits, like blaming thimerosal and pushing Generation Rescue’s idea that nations with higher vaccination rates have higher autism rates (and that vaccination does not correlate with lower childhood mortality) based on one of the most incompetent “studies” ever done.

 

Higgs describes his approach to the issue rather well himself: “I’ve spent most of the past 28 years journalistically investigating conflicts between environmental victims and experts in the relevant fields. And, I can say without qualification, the victims have been right and the experts wrong in every significant story I’ve covered. I can’t think of a single exception,” and he is apparently going to make damn sure vaccines ain’t gonna be an exception either: or, in other words, since medical scientists clearly agree that vaccines don’t cause autism, they must be wrong. At least it is hard to argue with something like that. This one at least tries to pick apart some of the layers of anger, nonsense and motivated reasoning that grounds Higgs’s efforts.

 

Diagnosis: Though pretty dumb, most of the antivaccine content from Steven Higgs’ hand seems to be pretty old, and his current stuff seems to be mostly concerned with travelling and photography. Maybe he has come to his senses?

 

#3017: Lee Hieb

A.k.a. Lee Merritt (current name, though we file her under ‘Hieb’ partially to distinguish her from other famous people called ‘Lee Merritt’)

 

Lee Hieb – currently Merritt – is, without doubt, one of the craziest, angriest and most paranoid anti-vaccine activists, medicine denialists and pseudoscience promoters out there. Hieb is also a wingnut, and has served as one of the main purveyors of antivaccine conspiracy theories for the WND. And yes, Hieb is, in fact, an MD – an orthopedic surgeon who currently runs a Nebraska clinic that offers e.g. tattoo removal – which means that readers of the WND might consider her something of an authority on medical issues (but then readers of the WND would largely take advice from a monkey playing a drum if it wore a MAGA hat). Hieb is also former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), which is generally known as a John Birch Society for MDs disguised as a medical professional society (many of its members – which include e.g. Tom Price, Trump’s first Secretary of Health and Human Services – are certified brave maverick doctors; indeed, Hieb herself has adopted the moniker “The Medical Rebel”) and which is familiar for endorsing the ridiculous and dangerous nonsense that shaken baby syndrome is a “misdiagnosis” for vaccine injury, COVID-19 misinformation, Andrew Wakefield’s claim that the measles vaccine will result in a mass extinction of humans, climate science denialism, and the spurious abortion-breast cancer link based on idiotic excuses for scientific research. The AAPS even gone to court to protect their “right” to promote antivaccine misinformation. The WND, meanwhile, consistenly pushes anti-vaccine information except when they can use the low rates of vaccine uptake in certain immigrant communities to portray immigrants as stupid.

 

Hieb on Vaccines and COVID-19

Hieb’s (official) main schtick is, of course, medical freedom (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Health_freedom). And articles from her hand tend to carry titles and taglines like “The feds’ plan to force vaccines on adults” (complete with some desperate red-baiting), “Public health does not trump individual liberty” or “vaccine hysteria could spark totalitarian nightmare”. Of course, those titles could immediately be taken to signal a disagreement in values – and level of paranoia – more than a denial of medical facts. The titles of articles like “Big Pharma’s vaccines: Naked profit over safety”, “Feds attempt to squash homeopathic medicine” and “Government medicine is evil” (complete with plenty of references to Nazis and eugenics) are somewhat harder to explain away in that maner. But yes, Hieb employs a range of standard anti-vaccine tropes – called “scientific concerns over vaccination” because that sounds better than ‘unscientific concerns movitated by paranoia’, which is far more accurate – including variants of the “vaccines didn’t save us” trope. And yes, Hieb also suggests, falsely, that vaccines cause autism and SIDS, and that not only did the vaccine not save us but that the diseases vaccinated against were benign anyways. They were … not.

 

As for health freedom, we’ll leave it to readers to identify the face-palm moments in her gotcha argument against defenders of vaccine mandates: “I have made the point that the pro-forced vaccination crowd are generally also the pro Roe v. Wade crowd – and you can’t have both. You cannot scream for a ‘woman’s right to choose’ when it applies to abortion but give her no right to choose what gets administered to her in a syringe”. And yes, she even does the “If you believe absolutely in the benefit and protective value of vaccination, why does it matter what others do? Or don’t do?”.

 

Of course, paranoia got ramped up exponentially during Covid, which allowed Hieb to truly don the mantle of a civil rights activist on behalf of medical freedom and become one of the more influential antivaxxers and champions of COVID-related misinformation on the internet. She also became member of America’s Frontline Doctors, the infamous organizations of crackpots and wingnuts devoted to COVID-19 minimizing, pushing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, antivaccine conspiracy theories and that dreams about sex with demons explains many gynecological problems, but which is today recognized primarily for their unprecedented levels of cynical grifting. As for her own misinformation, Hieb was, among much else, a staunch promoter of the casedemic conspiracy theory, but she also suspected that the whole pandemic was a ploy by the powers that be to cause us to believe in a “virus that’s never been proven to exist”. In fact, Hieb has even invoked 5G conspiracy theories at various points and called COVID-19 mitigation methods a “satanic ritual.”

 

Elsewhere, e.g. when helping Liberty Counsel spread conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and COVID vaccines (which they seem to have done pretty effectively), she claimed that there was a conspiracy to keep hydroxychloroquine and “other effective COVID-19 treatments” hidden from the medical community and the public – “we are being sold a whole matrix narrative of information” – and the conspiracy goes beyond Big Pharma protecting the market for vaccines: “You cannot terrorize a world with designer viruses if you have a treatment in your back pocket,” said Hieb: “I think this is a big psychologic operation that’s designed not to make us healthier but for control.”

 

As for the vaccine – Hieb has spread numerous silly conspiracy theories about the COVID vaccine – you should ostensibly “think of it like a computer chip;” also COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental biologic agent” and “experimental gene therapy.” They aren’t, but what does reality or accuracy matter at this point? She of also suggested that the vaccine could “spread” from vaccinated people to unvaccinated people – and by that, she doesn’t merely mean the myth that vaccines might “shed” but that “they” may have weaponized spike proteins by turning them into self-replicating proteins that also transmit to others for some nefarious purposes – and pointed out that if she were pregnant, she wouldn’t work around vaccinated people. To support her case, she pointed out that “I myself had the experience of touching a recently vaccinated patient, and almost a week later, developed significant nose bleeding that stopped only after dosing with hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. Many would say that this was a coincidence, but at age 68, this was the first nosebleed of my life.” It’s hard to argue with that. She also predicted that doctors’ offices would, as a consequence, soon begin turning away vaccinated people rather than unvaccinated ones.

 

Hieb on Cancer

So Hieb’s denialism, conspiracy mongering and predilection for pseudoscientific rather than science- and reality-based explanations goes far beyond vaccines (and why not: if your standards admit antivaccine nonsense, they’ll admit anything). Hieb has for instance also been “Fellowship Certified by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine”, which is, to put it mildly, not a good look if you don’t want to be associated with the quack label. Most strikingly, perhaps, Hieb, “The Medical Rebel” – who is very much not an oncologist – has done her own research (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Do_your_own_research) and discovered the true cause of cancer; according to Hieb, and something she “stumbled across during COVID”, all cancer is caused by parasites. The idea, of course, isn’t really that new – it’s been around in the fringiest fringe germ theory denialist corners of quackery for decades (it was, for instance, the basis for Hulda Clark’s legendary bullshit). so it’s not surprising that Hieb encountered it in her frequent forays into the rabbit hole. In particular, Hieb stumbled across pictures on the Internet of “cancer cells containing micro-parasites” and drew upon her own memories of biopsy of spine tumors, which she in retrospect “knows” contained parasites. And not only are doctors (and the government) hiding this knowledge: although “the government” has 70,000 codes for diseases, these might really be 70,000 presentations of just a “few root causes”. And yes, this is one of the central moves of quacks everywhere: medicine and disease is, contrary to what scientists say, not complex, but simple, with one or a very few “root causes” that can be treated by their favorite panacea. So Hieb believes that not only are parasites the cause of cancer, but of multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and acne rosacea and probably a lot of other things as well. For what is the accumulated evidence of countless, carefully conducted studies by people who know what they are doing compared to the speculation and imagination of a wingnut conspiracy theorist? Apparently Stew Peters, who also thinks Nazi gas chambers is a “fairy tale”, was impressed by Hieb’s ideas in the interview he did with her.

 

As for why we don’t know any of this, Hieb claims that MI-6, the CIA, and the Mossad own all the medical publications in the world, so they control all scientific information and control the narrative – Hieb (with Peters) even likens it all to The Truman Show. The proximal reason for hiding the information is less obvious to the rest of us, but we are confident it’s stunningly clear to Peters’ listeners.

 

Diagnosis: A thoroughly dangerous lunatic. Everything she believes, and everything she says, is completely bonkers – this is Hulda Clark-level woo and conspiracy nonsense – at all possible levels.

 

Hat-tip: Respectful Insolence

 

#3016: John Hicks

John Hicks is a California-based MD who has decided, instead of practicing medicine, to dedicate “himself to the art and science of integrated holistic medicine. Using a cooperative medical, nutritional, emotional and energetic approach.” Yes, Hicks offers “holistic medicine”, including “energy medicine”. Perhaps we should let him try to explain it himself?

 

“Cutting edge quantum physics and ancient mystic traditions tell us the same thing: The universe and everything in it, including the human body, is made up of energy. Pure energy is unmanifested potential. When that energy is manifested, it takes on physical form. Our bodies, therefore, are manifested energy. Each of us has our own unique energetic vibration and energy field that is connected to the energy of the universe. Energy flows from us, through us and to us every minute of every day.”

 

Needless to say, this is not what cutting edge quantum physics tells us. It is baldfaced quantum woo, of course, and it touches on an impressive array to technobabble mainstays in just a few sentences. Oh, but Hicks isn’t done:

 

“Energy Medicine works with this energetic footprint and uses the innate wisdom of the body to shift negative energy, release blockages and restore balance and energy flow. The body always wants to heal itself. As energy medicine healers, we engage and facilitate the body’s own healing capacity. Because we believe that human beings are an energetic matrix of mind/body/spirit, energy medicine plays a role in all of our work.”

 

There are, to put it mildly, some metaphors in there that effectively insulates his choprawoo from pesky scientific testing or accountability. Indeed, this is rarefied pseudoscience.

 

Hicks also uses modalities like the raindrop technique and various fad-sensitive nutrition nonsense. Indeed, Hicks also appears to be the author of The Medicinal Power of Cannabis: Using a Natural Herb to Heal Arthritis, Nausea, Pain, and Other Ailments, which we are sure had the potential to become a commercial success and equally sure is completely bonkers. It is probably noteworthy that Hicks was a speaker at the 2014 version of the annual autism quackfest known as AutismOne together with antivaccine luminaries like Kerri Rivera and Andrew Wakefield.

 

Note that our John Hicks appears to be a different guy from John Hicks, author and cofounder of the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine (CICM) in Reading, UK, which “integrates Five Element and TCM theory and involves an integrated treatment”, and who apparently trained in Chinese herbal medicine with Ted Kaptchuk.

 

Diagnosis: Amazing bullshit, and although Hicks is genuinely an MD, he has completely gone over to the dark side – his bullshit is probably lucrative, and notice that he rarely says anything that is close enough to being meaningful that it could risk landing him in any kind of legal trouble. 

 

Hat-tip: Respectful Insolence

 

#3015: Jody Hice

Jody Brownlow Hice is a wingnut radio show host, political activist, former senior pastor of various churches, president of the Family Research Council’s political action arm. and, from 2015 to 2023, the U.S. representative for Georgia’s 10th congressional district. He was also a candidate in the 2022 Georgia Secretary of State election, where he ran against Brad Raffensperger on the grounds that Raffensperger had refused to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia after Trump and his allies had made baseless claims of election fraud there. And yes, Hice, who believes that elections are part of a “spiritual battle”, is a firm promoter of 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories. Despite endorsement from Trump, Hice lost the 2022 secretary of state primary.

 

Hice’s rather febrile approach to politics is presumably motivated, in part, by his view that we are now living in the End Times and the worry that “we have little time” left on Earth to effect major change. As evidence that the end is near, Hice has cited the appearance of blood moons as harbingers of imminent cataclysmic “world-changing events”. That said, whereas the destructive consequences of blood moons are a source of real worries about the status of the Earth, Hice dismisses climate change as a “propaganda” tool of the “Radical Environmental Movement” to make people of believe in an “impending environmental disaster”. His attempts at reasoning do not tend to observe discernible standards.

 

Election fraud conspiracy mongering

Hice was one of the 139 Republican representatives who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Congress. He was also one of 126 members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania, the utterly silly and quickly dismissed lawsuit filed at the Supreme Court to contest the results of the 2020 election – though remember that the motivation for the signatories was not to win because the claims in the suit were correct, but to undermine public trust in US democratic institutions. In June 2021, Hice was one of 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

 

And in January 2021, Hice made an unsuccessful objection to the counting of Georgia’s electoral votes on the grounds (de facto) that the count was likely to lead to a result he didn’t favor. Indeed, Hice continued to make false claims about the Georgia results being tainted by mass fraud and Trump really winning throughout his secretary of state campaigns – which is, of course, particularly notable since the secretary of state is the person who oversees Georgia’s elections and who is in charge of voter registration, certification of results, investigations into alleged election fraud, and a number of other elections-related issues. There is a (non-comprehensive) list of baldfaced lies Hice promoted about the 2020 Georgia elections during his campaign here.

 

In 2020, Hice supported Louie Gohmert’s bill to, just as well, ban the Democratic Party. That would take care of all those pesky election-related troubles.

 

Christian nationalism

A genuine MAGA cultist, Hice refers to himself as a “constitutional conservative”, and has a remarkable history of sharing quotes falsely attributed to various Founding Fathers in order to support that label (there’s a brief list here). His abject disregard for accuracy when it comes to issues related to the Constituion is worth keeping in mind when you look at e.g. his view on the separation of church and state: Hice believes that Christians have been “tricked” into a “false belief” about such a separation. As Hice sees it, not only is the church-state separation a myth but something that only leads to government corruption as the government will miss input from “uprighteous, nice people who have moral compasses” (presumably, such government corruption has ceased during the second Trump presidency); indeed, the idea of a separation of church and state is, according to Hice, the source of all social ills (including, in particular, gang violence) and all decline Hice – demonstrably falsely, in fact – believes have befallen America.

 

And of course, the separation of church and state is only a myth for Christians. Muslims are a different matter. The First Amendment doesn’t apply to Muslims. As Hice wrote in his 2012 book A Call to Reclaim America, “[a]lthough Islam has a religious component, it is much more than a simple religious ideology. It is a complete geo-political structure and, as such, does not deserve First Amendment protection”. He predictably neglects to mention that his description of Islam precisely encapsulates his own view of Christianity, though maybe that’s fine since he also explicitly believes that what consistutional rights you have should be determined by whether you belong to a cultural majority; he also, of course, neglects to consider the rather obvious point that, even if the description of Islam were correct, the First Amendment is usually understood as supporting political speech as well.

 

Muslims, by the way, don’t only have objectionable political beliefs; as Hice stated in his book It’s Now or Never, there is also an active Muslim Brotherhood plot to take over the United States. Hice quoted former U.S. general William G. Boykin as a source for that claim, which is a slightly less trustworthy source than his own paranoid imagination; indeed, quoting William Boykin as an authority on anything is in itself more than sufficient to warrant an entry here. Hice admitted that he couldn’t actually name any of the people he was afraid were taking over America, but that’s unimportant since he “usually can’t pronounce Muslim names anyway.”

 

Of course, it should also be remembered that Hice has long been involved in the Pulpit Freedom Sunday project to repeal the Johnson Amendment, which makes churches’ tax exempt status dependent on not endorsing political figures from the pulpit; Hice, of course, angrily and at length complains that going after churches’ tax status for violating the amendment – he describes requiring Christians to follow the law is tantamount to threatening, bullying, and intimidating Christians into silence – is precisely a violation of the separation of church and state. The separation of church and state is, in other words, real when Hice needs it to be.

 

Hice has also been a leading supporter of the public display of the Ten Commandments in government buildings and is the founder of Ten Commandments Georgia, Inc., a group advocating for the display of the Ten Commandments in every Georgia county courthouse. Courts that disagree are, in Hice’s view, “judicial terrorists” – how could anyone who disagrees with him, Jody Hice, not be a terrorist? It is, after all, the duty of every American – the courts included – to ensure that the government follows God’s law, not secular laws.

 

Now, even though he has a muddy view of the First Amendment, Hice has a very clear view of the Second Amendment. “It is my belief that any, any, any, any weapon that our government and law enforcement possesses ought to be allowed for individuals to possess in this country”, said Hice, something that is worth keeping in mind when Hice suggests a “Second Amendment response” to immigration – indeed, he suggested that combatting immigration is “the reason we have a Second Amendment” in the first place. His reasoning for his take on the matter is of course the putative need good citizens have to defend themselves against government overreach. And to deflect an obvious worry with that maxim, Hice blames mass shootings, such as those that occurred at Virginia Tech and in Aurora on abortion rights, on the separation of church and state and the teaching of evolution in public schools (indeed, Hice thinks that public schools are “totalitarian” “camps for indoctrination” reminiscent of Nazi Germany and in fact that the very existence of public schools is a Nazi-like scheme – of course, Hice wants schools to be camps for totalitarian indoctrination; the complaint is more precisely that schools currently don’t indoctrinate kids with the kind of totalitarian ideology he wants). As for the Sandy Hook school shooting, Hice declared that it was the result of “kicking God out of the public square” with the end of school-organized prayer. The latter factor was, according to Hice, also the direct cause of the Penn State child molestation affair, never mind that Sandusky went to school before organized school prayers were banned, and never mind that prayers apparently don’t work quite as well for Catholics; details – Hice has never cared much for those.

 

Social issues

Hice is a staunch opponent of same-sex marriage and cosponsored, in 2015, a resolution to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Criticizing advocates for same sex marriage (prior to Obergefell v Hodges), Hice denied that legal discrimination towards gays and lesbians existed at all: “If anything”, said Hice, it is the Christian community that faces government discrimination as a result of a Satanic plot to “chip away” at “our Christian rights”. He is also opposed to bans on conversion therapy, since by banning such therapy “we are enslaving and entrapping potentially hundreds of thousands of individuals in a lifestyle that frankly they are not.”

 

He has, moreover, compared homosexuality to alcoholism, drug addiction, “tendencies to lie” and “tendencies to be violent”, and gay relationships to incest and bestiality. And a mind like Hice’s quickly goes into paranoid conspiracy theory land on these issues: In his 2012 book, for instance, Hice asserted that the gay agenda included a covert plot from zeh gays to recruit and sodomize children. He also thinks that supporters of abortion rights are worse than Adolf Hitler.

 

And keep in mind that, although he is out of Congress, he remains in a position to do significant harm as president of FRC’s political action arm. There is a decent Jody Hice resource here.

 

Diagnosis: No, he hasn’t gone away at all. And he remains as flamboyantly delusional, paranoid and fanatic as ever. No one is safe.