Maybe too minor to bother, but Joe Gooding is an internet cesspool operator, conspiracy theorist and general troll. On his website, Gooding covers most of the standard anti-vaccine tropes, or more accurately: He posts coverage by other anti-vaccine activists of standard anti-vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories. Otherwise, Gooding is primarily a tireless originator of smear campaigns against scientists and public health advocates – even though there is little new or original on Gooding’s site, he is somewhat notable for his commitment to the pharma shill gambit; anyone speaking out in favor of vaccines or criticizing anti-vaccine misinformation is, as Gooding sees it, necessarily on the Big Pharma payroll, and he is therefore justified in posting your (poorly manipulated) picture, start hashtags, and encourage associates and other antivaxxers to attack and harass you. (A bit like we do with loons – apart from encouraging anyone to harass anyone – but we are right and Gooding is deluded.) Gooding is also, like many antivaxxers, under the delusion that he is not anti-vaccine (“the Pro-Forced Vaccine element [who would that be, precisely?] has attempted to marginalize the Vaccine Choice supporters with the completely made up term ‘Anti-Vax’”) but fair and balanced (“In an attempt to be balanced, I have created the term “Vax Shill” (#vaxshill) and will articulate it here”)
Diagnosis: A minor figure, but an active and angry one. If you ever come across him in any context, you can safely ignore anything he has to say.
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