#2811: Richard Enos

Richard Enos is an anti-vaccine activist and general conspiracy theorist affiliated with the woo- and conspiracy website Collective Evolution. Now, exactly who he is or where he comes from (he might be Canadian) is somewhat unclear to us, but what is clear is that he has been caught parroting various anti-vaccine nonsense (e.g. the incorrect claim that unvaccinated children pose no threat to anybody) in various media. In 2019, for instance, he was among several anti-vaccine activists trying to argue that New York Senator Joe Peralta’s death was caused by the flu vaccine, exclusively on the basis that Peralta had received the vaccine relatively briefly before his death at a vaccination event he had himself helped organize – the fact that Peralta had been sick for weeks before the shot and demonstrably died of sepsis notwithstanding (Enos, of course, obfuscates on the timeline and presents it as “After Getting Flu Shot, New York State Senator Gets Sick For Two Weeks, Then Dies”).

 

Enos’s main argument – though he is, of course, just JAQing off – is that Peralta himself allegedly “attributed [his illness] to a flu vaccine he had taken” and that “when a person is sick, they have a pretty good idea what caused it”, the latter claim being, as anyone with any medical background (or awareness of cognitive biases) would immediately tell you, utterly and dangerously false: people are absolutely terrible at determining the causes of their illnesses (partially due to this). Confusions about that simple point, of course, is partially what fuels the anti-vaccine movement to begin with. To Enos, however, there are conspiracies afoot: “What I would like to point out, though, is how deathly silent the Mainstream Media is on this possible connection.” The real reason why mainstream media didn’t mention the connection is of course because there is absolutely no evidence it's there, and plenty of evidence it isn’t. But you know.

 

Apparently Enos has also dabbled in UFO nonsense.

 

Diagnosis: Standard antivaccine loon and conspiracy theorist; not a major fish, but silly and paranoid enough to merit an entry here. His errors of thought are disconcertingly common and his kind is legion.

 

Hat-tip: Respectful Insolence

#2810: Catherine Engelbrecht & True the Vote

After the 2020 election, wingnut election conspiracy theories went mainstream. But such theories have, of course, been with us for a long time, insofar as raising them has been a rhetorically effective means to support the use of legal means to suppress voters that the ruling party doesn’t like. People like Catherine Engelbrecht, for instance, has been promoting election fraud conspiracies at least since 2008, and she continues to be a key player in the popularization and dissemination of such theories. Engelbrecht is the founder of the King Street Patriots, which was established in reponse to what Engelbrecht and others perceived to be problems and irregularities with the 2008 election that “invited fraud and other problems at the polls” and which brought her to the attention of the Tea Party movement, as well as co-founder of the organization True the Vote, one of the most significant and influential promoters of 2020 election conspiracies.

 

2011–2019

True the Vote’s first major effort to try to force elections to yield the results they want outside Texas was their attempt to thwart the attempted recall of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker by using their own methods, mostly consisting of making systematic errors, to “check” petition signatures. The TtV concluded that only about half the signatures were genuine, a claim that was of course dismissed by all legal bodies because it was false and stupid, but which nevertheless allowed Engelbrecht and TtV to claim that fraud was “rampant”. The scary part, though, was that TtV apparently easily managed to recruit some 17 000 volunteers (mostly out of state) to help do the footwork to build their conspiracy theory, and they placed hundreds of people to monitor the polls – the justification being that the monitors were necessary because of “discrepancies” in the recall petition process (a claim that had already been thoroughly refuted) as well as what TtV claimed to be “Wisconsin’s long history of election fraud.” Interestingly, though unsurprisingly, TtV themselves don’t apply their own standards for judging whether signatures are genuine when they sign their own petitions.

 

TtV was instrumental in spreading fear and conspiracy theories (“flood of illegal voters”) surrounding the 2016 election as well, e.g. arguing that reported cyberattacks against elections systems in two states were really orchestrated by the Obama administration to justify taking control of elections in the states. The evidence, according to TtV board member Gregg Phillips, was that it’s “what the left always does”. The incident, whose existence was based solely on it being ‘what the left always does’ will subsequently be used as evidence that this is, in fact, what the left always does, which will be evidence that the next incident is a false flag, and so on in a closed epistemic loop ad infinitum. Indeed, Engelbrecht has accused Obama of running a “political machine” that makes “Watergate seem like a stubbed toe” to target … well, herself in particular.

 

With regard to the same election, Engelbrecht claimed that polling places staying open late – referring to an entirely legitimate practice – is evidence of voter fraud. She also claimed, based entirely on her own imaginative capacities as a village idiot, that Obama was intentionally signing up noncitizens to commit voter fraud, and TtV released a report falsely claiming that mass-murderer Arcan Cetin had illegally voted as a noncitizen in three elections because Cetin had in fact voted in those elections – TtV did of course not bother to check whether he was a citizen, which he was.

 

TtV did, however, since the early 2010s, manage to ally themselves with politicians and government bodies to aggressively suppress voter registration efforts under the guise of combatting a (completely mythical) “epidemic” of voter fraud. Ultimately, however, for Engelbrecht the voter fraud conspiracy theories are a religious issue: the fight over vote-by-mail, for instance, is a “spiritual battle” for “control of the free world”.

 

In the aftermath of the 2016 election, Engelbrecht was attempting to raise $1.2 million “to conduct a comprehensive forensic audit of the entire election – all 136+ million votes” under the false assumption that “between 800,000 to 3,000,000” votes may have been cast by noncitizens, so as to ensure that then-president Trump’s claim to have won not only the electoral vote but the popular vote as well became true.

 

2020 Election

Shortly after the 2020 election, TtV launched its Validate the Vote campaign led by Engelbrecht herself. Officially, the purpose was to ensure that the 2020 election was proper and to “ensure public confidence and acceptance of election outcomes”. The campaign promptly went about using any conceivable effort to support Trump’s Stop the Steal claims, including finding (or creating) whistleblower witnesses to election wrongdoing, data analyses to locate irregularities, and a number of lawsuits to obtain access to voter rolls. Their whistleblower locating efforts included creating a “whistleblower compensation fund” to “incentivize election malfeasance reporting”, i.e. to pay people to make accusations of voter fraud – or, in other words, to undermine public confidence in the vote and acceptance of election outcomes, by any means possible.

 

None of their efforts provided a shred of evidence, of course, but since the goal of the effort was of course not to verify the integrity of the election or to help ensure public confidence that it was legit, but rather to promote the Stop the Steal Agenda, Engelbrecht continued to state that the group’s investigations are “ongoing”. Rather shortly after the election, TtV was sued by North Carolina money manager Fred Eshelman, who had donated $2.5 million to the group, for failing to come up with convincing evidence for voter fraud (that suit was also quickly dismissed by the courts but the fact that it was filed is pretty telling).

 

2021 and Beyond

Ahead of the 2021 Senate runoff in Georgia, TtV tried to challenge the validity of hundreds of thousands of voter registrations. According to the courts, though TtV’s efforts didn’t quite amount to illegal voter intimidation, the group had facilitated “a mass number of seemingly frivolous challenges […] TTV’s list utterly lacked reliability. Indeed, it verges on recklessness […] The Court has heard no testimony and seen no evidence of any significant quality control efforts, or any expertise guiding the data process.” In 2022, TtV officially partnered with Mark Lamb’s militant conspiracy organization of “constitutional sheriffs” Protect America Now.

 

2000 Mules nonsense

TtV was heavily involved in – and indeed largely responsible for the misinformation that served as the premise for – Dinesh D’Souza’s 2022 conspiracy theory flick 2000 Mules. The premise of the film was, based on faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analyses of cellphone location data, that Democrat-aligned individuals had been paid to illegally collect and deposit ballots into drop boxes in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin during the 2020 election, and the claims were quickly picked up and endorsed by Donald Trump. Among TtV’s main claims was that phone pings to cellphone towers could help identify individuals who had passed near ballot drop boxes and various unnamed nonprofit organizations multiple times per day,  and they concluded that such people – rather than having legitimate businesses or living in the areas or being e.g. postal workers, delivery drivers or police officers – were paid mules for ballot collection and deposits. The claim is as insane as it sounds. But TtV went on to assert that some of the geolocated alleged mules were present at what they called “antifa riots” in Atlanta in 2020.

 

D’Souza and Gregg Phillips also claimed to have matched their geolocation data with data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). ACLED, on their side – who do not track cellphone data anyways – asserted that Phillips’s claims were categorically false. Engelbrecht tried to help him out by claiming that Phillips was actually referring to a different organization, but declined the invitation to name that different organization.

 

TtV’s claim that there were 1155 paid mules in Philadelphia alone is false, and the Arizona claims were based on a single anonymous witness who said she saw people picking up what she “assumed” to be payments for ballot collection in Arizona. They didn’t even bother to try to provide evidence of payments in any of the other states they covered. Nor did they bother to provide evidence that ballots were collected from a nonprofit to be deposited in drop boxes. As for the claim that individuals dropped off ballots more than once, it is not remotely supported by any of the surveillance videos they actually show – TtV claimed to have a video of multiple drops by an individual, but that they had to have “it taken out because the video is extremely poor quality.” So it goes. TtV also claimed to have helped solve the murder of an eight-year-old girl in Atlanta, which turned out to be a ridiculously false claim as well.

 

Of course, the movie doesn’t find room to mention that even if the events it claims took place, actually took place, it couldn’t imply voter fraud since absentee ballots deposited in a drop box must anyways be inside an envelope sent to each registered voter that includes the voter's registration information, signature, and a barcode for verification.

 

Legal issues

It is somewhat telling that the TtV has refused to cooperate with official state boards and officials trying to launch investigations into their claims, and Engelbrecht and Phillips have landed themselves in some legal trouble as well over lies, refusing to comply with subpoenas and illegal political donations. Indeed, in February 2024, TtV admitted in a filing with the Fulton County Superior Court in response to the Election Board lawsuit that “it doesn’t have documents about illegal ballot collection, the name of its purported informant or confidentiality agreements it previously said existed.”

 

TtV’s Phillips also landed himself in some trouble when he falsely asserted that Konnech, a poll worker management software company, had stored data on a Chinese server and allowed the Chinese government to access it. That one actually ended up providing Phillips and Engelbrecht with a brief stint in jail.

 

Other Antics

Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were also the founders of “The Freedom Hospital”, a much-hyped effort to solicit donations ostensibly for a mobile hospital to Ukraine, marketing the effort through lies, fraud and disinformation; the hospital never materialized, of course.

 

It is worth pointing out that serious questions have been raised on several occasions about Engelbrecht and Phillips using TtV funds for personal gain. This one is illuminating in that respect. Here is another one.

 

Diagnosis: Insane and zealous conspiracy theorist and myth maker with an enormous amount of influence, especially given that her conspiracies and FUD tactics are largely aimed toward serving the political interests of people in power. Indeed, Engelbrecht must be considered a significant component of one of the most severe threats to democracy and civilization that the US is currently facing.

#2809: Yousef Elyaman

Yousef Elyaman is a Florida-based MD who specializes in the quackery known as “functional medicine”. But even though functional medicine is quackery, medical doctors could actually get continuing medical education credits for attending his talk on the subject at the Integrative Addiction Conference 2015 (“A New Era in Natural Treatment”), given that the conference was sponsored in part by Continuing Education, Inc., which is accredited by the American Council for Continuing Medical Education. Elyaman is also affiliated with the Institute for Functional Medicine and the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, a horrible quack organization.

 

Elyaman’s day job is Medical Director of Absolute Health in Ocala, Florida, where he, according to himself, has “integrated a functional medicine approach into insurance-based primary care”. Moreover, Elyaman is Medical Director at HumanN, a “leading nutraceutical company”, i.e. a supplement producer – Elyaman pushes a lot of supplements through his Doctor E’s Choice online supplement store – and the author of Your Healing Power, which is ostensibly “a guide to mastering one’s genes to reverse disease.” Needless to say, you can safely leave that one on the shelf.

 

Diagnosis: Yes, Elyaman is a real MD. But there are many real MDs, and it might be wise to choose one that hasn’t given in to the useless tests and useless supplements (and hefty invoices) that make up most of the quackery known as ‘functional medicine’.

#2808: Phil Elmore

As a former WND correspondent, Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor deputy undersecretary (under Trump) and well-established conspiracy theorist Curtis Ellis seems to have passed away, but there are more where he came from: Phil Elmore has also written columns for the WND, lambasting libruls and gay people.

 

As Elmore sees it, the “progressive mind-control mob” (e.g. those in favor of marriage equality) is not only trying “to establish thoughtcrime” punishments and take away the rights of conservatives but really wish to have their opponents killed – “You must therefore be denigrated, punished and silenced – and that’s only because the libs haven’t yet worked up the courage to murder you. Yet” – presumably because that’s what he himself would have liked to do to those who voice their political disagreement with him (at least he cites no other evidence for his conjecture). 

 

So ok, that one’s old, and subsequent encounters we’ve had with Elmore mostly consist of him accusing those who disagree with him on politics of being “simpering pansies”, “fat, arm-flailing children”, “effete liars” and “almost certainly gay”.

 

Diagnosis: Angry, stupid and irrelevant.

#2807: Jenna Ellis

Jenna Lynn Ellis is a lawyer, dominionism-adjacent religious fundamentalist and Christian nationalist, member of Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign’s legal team, legal advisor for Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and as such a prominent promoter of 2020 election-related conspiracy theories. During the Trump presidency, Ellis presented herself as a “constitutional law attorney”, a characterization that her background does not support. She also falsely claimed to have a history of being a “professor of constitutional law”, presumably referring to her time as assistant professor at Colorado Christian University (rather than her time as director of the public policy division at the James Dobson Family Institute), which does not have a law school. Her background instead includes being educated at the fundamentalist Bible school Cedarville University, having held a position as deputy district attorney in Weld County, Colorado, from which she was fired after six months due to “mistakes” attributed to “deficiencies in her education and experience”, as well as fellowships at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center and being a special counsel to the Thomas More Law Center.

 

Before joining the Trump team, she also self-published a book, The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution: A Guide for Christians to Understand America’s Constitutional Crisis, where she argued that the US Constitution must only be interpreted according to the Bible (as she reads the Bible) and (e.g.) that Obergefell v. Hodges would lead to polygamy and pedophilia becoming accepted – Ellis describes homosexuals as “sinners” whose “conduct is vile and abominable”.

 

Trump’s Elite Strike Force Team

Ellis rose to national fame after being hired as a senior legal adviser for Trump and his 2020 re-election campaign in November 2019, becoming in effect Rudy Giuliani’s protégé and an obvious pick for Trump’s legal team to challenge the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election results, what Ellis called the “elite strike force team” to overturn Biden’s victory.

 

As a member of the team, Ellis made numerous claims to the effect that Trump really won the election (the “election was stolen and President Trump won by a landslide”) based on no evidence or anything recognizable as a reason – indeed, at the November 2019 press conference, she explicitly declined to present evidence of fraud when asked to do so, responding instead that asking for evidence at the press conference was “fundamentally flawed”. Of course, the complete lack of evidence proved to be an obstacle when the cases were brought before the courts: the Pennsylvania case was dismissed with prejudice given its “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations” that were “unsupported by evidence”; Ellis and Giuliani reacted by claiming that the ruling in fact “helps” the Trump campaign “get expeditiously to the U.S. Supreme Court” though they simultaneously accused the judge, a Federalist Society member, of being “Obama-appointed”.

 

The lawsuit was later dismissed by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, on the grounds of having provided neither “specific allegations” nor “proof” and because the “claims have no merit”; this time, Giuliani and Ellis promptly condemned the “activist judicial machinery in Pennsylvania” (of the three judges, one was appointed by Trump and the two others by George W. Bush), and when they, some days later, appeared in front of the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee, they urged Pennsylvania lawmakers to fix what they claimed to be a “corrupted, irredeemably compromised election” by either arranging for a new “special election” or to “direct the manner of your electors” to ensure that the electors would support Trump rather than the candidate who in fact won the election. Ellis and Giuliani subsequently made similar (and similarly quickly dismissed) baseless and silly suggestions to Arizona lawmakers, including claiming that there were 500,000 votes “that were cast illegally” in Arizona (something Ellis later admitted was a complete fabrication); to Michigan’s House Oversight Committee; and to state lawmakers in Georgia.

 

When the Trump administration’s Attorney General William Barr stated that the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security had investigated fraud but found nothing, Ellis and Giuliani reacted by accusing Barr and the DoJ of, in effect, having misunderstood what ‘investigating fraud’ means: the DoJ apparently thought it meant finding out what actually transpired when it really means finding support for what Giuliani and Ellis wanted to believe had transpired.

 

Ellis was also responsible for drafting two memos (blatantly) falsely asserting that vice president Mike Pence could change the results (her grasp of constitutional law is tenuous). The first memo contained a detailed (and insane) plan to overturn the election results, and the second argued that certain provisions of the Electoral Count Act that restricted Pence’s authority to accept or reject selected electors were unconstitutional. As a guest on David Brody’s show, she even managed to maintain a straight face while claiming that such an act “wouldn’t be political” and would create a “clean outcome” for the election (Brody endorsed Ellis’s scheme, of course). In 2022, Ellis was subpoenaed to testify before the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack (the memos would presumably figure prominently in that appearance), but pleaded the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination.

 

Post Strike Force Team

Despite being obviously and demonstrably wrong, Ellis continued to spread falsehoods about the 2020 election and calling for President Joe Biden to be impeached long afterwards, e.g. on her program Just the Truth and at various QAnon-themed rightwing rallies. She has also promoted conspiracy theories about e.g. the Mar-a-Lago raid. In 2022, she was hired by Doug Mastriano as a senior legal adviser for Mastriano’s 2022 campaign for governor of Pennsylvania, presumably to do the same thing she did for Trump if it became necessary.

 

In March 2023, Ellis was publicly censured by the chief disciplinary judge of the Colorado Supreme Court for recklessly making 10 public misrepresentations about the 2020 presidential election, including claims that Trump won the election and that the election was stolen from him, something Ellis admitted to. In August 2023, she was among the people indicted in the Georgia election racketeering prosecution for participating in a criminal enterprise to support Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, and in April 2024, she was indicted in Arizona for attempts to overturn the 2020 election in the state. In October 2023, she pleaded guilty to one felony count of “knowingly, willfully and unlawfully” aiding and abetting false statements in writing during a Georgia legislative hearing in December 2020 (the blatant lies included claiming that the Georgia election had included illegal votes from over 10,000 dead people, 2,500+ felons, and 2,400+ unregistered people), and in May 2024 her Colorado law license was suspended for 3 years. (For what it’s worth, Christian nationalist Jarrin Jackson declared that by pleading guilty, Ellis was “living the feminist tragedy”, and blamed feminism – “this is how feminism lies to women” – for fooling her into thinking that she, as a woman, could build a successful career rather than a family.)

 

After the Club Q shooting in November 2022, Ellis complained that the shooting was being exploited to suggest that “Christians hate homosexual and transgender individuals and somehow that ‘hate’ led to the shooting”. Moreover, as Ellis saw it, there is “no evidence at all” that the victims were Christians, so as a consequence, the victims “are now reaping the consequences of having eternal damnation [...] Instead of just the tragedy of what happened to the body, we need to be talking about what happened to the soul and the fact that they are now in eternal separation from our lord and savior Jesus Christ.” She was adamant that she wasn’t hateful or judgmental towards the victims, however; it’s just that if you don’t share her views of things – especially on politics – you can’t be Christian, and then you deserve suffering; and since her belief that those who disagree with her deserve suffering is a genuine belief, it can’t be hateful. As for Israel and Palestine, Ellis was among the fundie wingnuts who heartily welcomed the violence as a sign of the End Times: “Biblical prophecy has been fulfilled, so that the rapture literally could happen at any moment,” said Ellis, adding that good Christians like herself “will return with [Jesus] on white horses.” Just take a moment to reflect on how much mindrot you have to entertain for something like that to fall out of your mouth.

 

It is worth pointing out, though, that by 2023, Ellis seemed to have returned to her pre-2016 views, arguing e.g. that she couldn’t support Trump “for elected office again” due to Trump’s “malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s never done anything wrong ... And the total idolatry that I’m seeing from some of the supporters that are unwilling to put the constitution and the country and the conservative principles above their love for a star is really troubling”. She remains a hateful conspiracy theorist, however: by 2024, Ellis was caught pushing Taylor Swift conspiracy theories on her show (which is hosted by the hate-group the American Family Association and which has featured a number of white nationalists and anti-semitic activists), suggesting, together with Auron MacIntyre and not entirely jokingly, that Swift might replace Biden on the 2024 Ticket – the Democrats are just “so completely just enamored with celebrity,” said Ellis, the former lawyer for a washed-up reality star and celebrity businessman turned president.

 

Diagnosis: Fundie conspiracy theorist – that’s all, and that’s apparently precisely the desired characteristic for the positions she’s been appointed to. 

#2806: Ann Eller

Ann Eller is a nurse, new age religious fundie and conspiracy theorist. Eller has, according to herself and as laid out in her book Dragon in the Sky: Prophecy from the Stars, had numerous encounters with “other-worldly beings” and views it as her mission to spread what is usually rather fluffy and insubstantial messages to humanity she has received during these encounters; her book has been kindly described as a “fruit salad of vague, warmed-over new age claptrap, peppered with rambling musings about dreams, Eastern mysticism, folk theology, encounters with celestial beings, and fringe urban mythology”.

 

In particular, Eller claims to have met with the Anunnaki, and a recurrent message from those is that humans have to change their ways if they are to have any hopes of surviving the Earth changes that will come when planet Nibiru approaches. Apparently, the Anunnaki has done this warning thing before: Last time Nibiru approached, they warned a guy called Noah so that he’d build an ark to survive the subsequent cataclysm. A major source of evidence for Eller is her dreams – “In a recent dream, I was shown the exact location of Planet X” (her dreams are, of course, IM’s from angels) – but she has apparently also, unlike anyone else, seen Nibiru with her own eyes. And of course, the fact that the government isn’t talking about this shows that there is a conspiracy afoot: instead of telling us what Eller perceives to be the truth, the government serves us nonsense about “man-made ‘global warming’ ” to hide what’s happening.

 

Coast to Coast AM has of course featured her work.

 

Diagnosis: Pretty obscure, and we frankly have no idea how we came by the name. Interviews and podcasts from her occasionally pop up at the fringes of the Internet, but we honestly have no idea whether her current rants align with her previous ones (in light of the 2012 disappointment) or whether she’s received the help and support she needs in the meantime (doubtful).

#2805: Linda Elkins

Anti-vaccine activists have long tried to argue, with no basis in fact, that unvaccinated children are healthier than children who has been vaccinated according to schedule. And since, according to them, no such study has been carried out by the establishemt (that claim is abundantly false; real studies just don’t yield the conclusions antivaxxers would have liked them to yield), they do their own, so that they can violate any methodological constraint and contort the data as they like. An infamous example is the hilariously inept 2016 Anthony Mawson study (co-authors Brian D. Ray, Azad R. Bhuiyan and Binu Jacob should also be noted as untrustworthy pseudoscientists if their names ever come up in other contexts), which was so incompetent, dishonest and bad that it was formally “unpublished”, after having been provisionally accepted, even by the bottom-feeding journal Frontiers in Public Health (which is published by Frontiers Media, which is on Beall’s list of predatory publishers and which has also published – before retracting – e.g. a study on chemtrails).

 

But how did that “study” get provisionally accepted by Frontiers in the first place? It turns out that Frontiers was using a too-literal interpretation of ‘peer-review’ for such a piece of shoddy pseudoscience and sent it to Linda Mullin Elkins. And Elkins is far from being a reputable scientific authority on anything but a chiropractor at Life University, a non-accredited pseudo-educational business billing itself as a “Holistic Health University”; Life University offers studies “within the fields of Chiropractic, Functional Kinesiology, Vitalistic Nutrition, Positive Psychology, Functional Neurology and Positive Business” . Indeed, Elkins is not only a doctor of chiropractic (DC), but “DACFP, DGSS, FGCSS, FICPA, CACFP”, and there is little that signals dingbat pseudoscience more immediately than altmed alphabet soups; even more worrisomely, Elkins has apparently focused on pediatric chiropractic care.

 

Diagnosis: No, we haven’t determined what Linda Elkins’s personal views on vaccines may be, but regardless of that, she’s i) a woo-practitioner affiliated with a quack institution, and ii) partially responsible for promulgating antivaccine conspiracy theories, and that’s enough for us.