A minor but rather obnoxious
conspiracy theorist, John Best is the guy behind the blog Hating Autism, in
which he denies the existence of autism and argues that the condition can be cured through various types of woo. Best
believes that autism is the same as mercury poisoning, which according to him
became epidemic with the invention of thimerosal – in cases of autism where thimerosal-preserved vaccines were demonstrably not
given, Best blames dental amalgam fillings,
which is possibly even sillier (though not by much). The cure for mercury
poisoning, according to Best, is chelation,
which is not the case but according to Best has produced immediate (but
non-verified) results. Accordingly, he seems to view the Geiers as heroes, even though Mark Geier lost his license to practice medicine in
several states due to his chelation therapy. And that, for Best, is one entry
to insane conspiracy-land.
According to Best, the “truth about
autism” is being hidden. Best claims that there exists a record of a meeting in
1999 where Big Pharma agreed to continue to poison children with vaccines – and
that all politicians around the world are aware of this but paid off. He has accordingly
called for the arrest of politicians by the FBI. He also subscribes to
Illuminati and Rothschild family conspiracy theories, to the extent that even the loons at Age of Autism have been somewhat wary of allying themselves to him – Best has accordingly
accused them of supporting the continued poisoning of children by failing to act on his
conspiracies.
After the Sandy Hook shootings,
Best speculated that the perpetrator, Adam Lanza, had Asperger’s syndrome and
subsequently that everyone with Asperger’s syndrome were potential “psycho
killers” that should be forcibly cured via chelation. He also blamed the
Autistic Self Advocacy Network and President Obama for the shootings because
they don’t listen to him.
He has furthermore tried to ask his
readers to vote for him as President of the US and for Senate, but
unfortunately mainstream media is corrupt and won’t give him a voice.
Diagnosis: A minor but particularly vicious player on the
nonsense side. His influence is probably limited.
Ahhh.... John Best. Back when I was an autism blogger, I had numerous debates with people, but he was the only one who was particularly vicious. He was the only person who was so terrible that I had to save screenshots of. He harassed me on both my blog and Facebook. I won't repeat what he said.
ReplyDeleteI've come across him now and then. He called me a "pharma shill" years ago, which was pretty laughable since I have never got a cent to promote "big pharma". I hadn't seen him on Facebook for a couple of years but he's still kicking around as evidenced by recent facebook posts.
ReplyDeleteBlow me.
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