Medical Voices is a pseudoscience & conspiracy webpage with a particular focus on promoting anti-vaccine material. It is not a good
place for information, but notable for soliciting material from some of the
most widely recognized quacks and crackpots on the Internet, such as Joe Mercola and Suzanne Humphries,
and for really trying to make their posts look like serious studies, which they
are not by any measure of imagination.
Sue McIntosh is an MD, but not one to trust
for advice remotely medical (nor probably anything else). McIntosh is a rabid
conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine activist,
roughly on the lizard-people-are-eating-Arkansas trajectory, and as such a good
match for Medical Voices. Her views are nicely laid out in her article “Stop
All Vaccines!”, in which she complains that children are being protected from more and more dangerous diseases by
vaccines she labels “toxic”,
and laments how delusional conspiracy theories about vaccines are not taken
seriously and are even ridiculed just because they are ridiculous. Ridiculing
ridiculous conspiracy theories can, as McIntosh sees it, only be a result of –
wait for it – corruption and conspiracy. Therefore, McIntosh concludes, doctors and scientists are motivated only by profit,
to create illness rather than health … and the purpose, apparently, is
population control (for which getting rid of vaccines altogether would of course be a far more
effective means – perhaps we ought to speculate about McIntosh’s own
motivations for trying to get people to stop getting them?).
Diagnosis: The
word “toxic” is sort of a dog whistle – it clearly displays to informed readers
that the author using it has no clue about basic chemistry and is the victim of
a severe case of Dunning-Kruger.
McIntosh is a moron and – despite her formal qualifications – obviously
completely unfit to offer health advice.
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