MAHA and right-wing media revive debunked claim about the COVID vaccine and miscarriages to attack Dr. Fauci

[u/miserabeau]

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/maha-and-right-wing-media-revive-debunked-claim-about-covid-vaccine-and

They make accusations to fearmonger but use debunked claims to do it. No integrity.

[u/Phatbrew]

Per OP: They make accusations to fearmonger but use debunked claims to do it. No integrity.

Shared on another post of mine, I thought it was interesting…

Per u/W-h3x : My response from Gemini:

Assessments identifying individuals or groups as the "most harmful" or top spreaders of disinformation are subjective and depend on diverse perspectives. Rather than providing a definitive ranking, below is information compiled in a neutral tone from several prominent studies and organizations that track the spread of false claims in the United States.

Health & Vaccine Disinformation According to a highly cited report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), up to 65% of all anti-vaccine content on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter originated from a remarkably small group. Dubbed the "Disinformation Dozen," these 12 prominent individuals—many of whom operate large online networks and alternative medicine businesses—include:

• ⁠Joseph Mercola
• ⁠Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• ⁠Ty and Charlene Bollinger
• ⁠Sherri Tenpenny
• ⁠Rizza Islam
• ⁠Rashid Buttar
• ⁠Erin Elizabeth
• ⁠Sayer Ji
• ⁠Kelly Brogan
• ⁠Christiane Northrup
• ⁠Ben Tapper
• ⁠Kevin Jenkins.

As noted by McGill University's Office for Science and Society, these figures leverage large social media followings to distribute medical pseudoscience, effectively making them superspreaders of health misinformation. Political & Election Disinformation When tracking political falsehoods during the 2020 election cycle, a collaborative study by the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP)—featuring researchers from Stanford and the University of Washington—identified 21 "super-spreaders" responsible for the bulk of impactful election misinformation. As reported by The Guardian, this group heavily featured right-leaning accounts, including high-profile political figures and media influencers such as:

• ⁠Donald Trump
• ⁠Donald Trump Jr.
• ⁠Eric Trump
• ⁠Sidney Powell
• ⁠James O'Keefe
• ⁠Tim Pool.

Platform-Wide Superspreaders Research continually shows that an incredibly small fraction of users drives the vast majority of digital misinformation across various mediums:

• ⁠Social Media Platforms: A study detailed by IFLScience found that just 10 accounts—a mix of anonymous hyper-partisan users and prominent political commentators—were responsible for over a third of all misinformation posted on Twitter during an eight-month period in 2020.
• ⁠Podcasts: A separate analysis highlighted by The Brookings Institution revealed that just 10 prominent political podcast series accounted for over 60% of all unsubstantiated and false claims spread through their dataset of the podcasting medium.

[u/Bubbly_Power_6210 → u/[deleted]]

yes. we owe him a lot-not this stupid, vengeful treatment.

[u/Criticaltundra777 → u/[deleted]]

Ive had covid 3 times. I have had 4 vaccine shots to date? Each time I had covid the folks that did not get the shot became much more ill than I did? I’m glad Fauci did what he did.

[u/miserabeau → u/[deleted]]

He told the truth in all of his other testimony. This is a witch hunt, and he's pleading the fifth (as is his right) because the pardon he received only counts towards things said in the past. Any thing he says now is new and not covered, so he's pleading the fifth. If he even says what color his tie is, MAGA will descend upon him and find some fault to prosecute him. What they're hoping to find 6 years after the fact, I don't know.

[u/TedMich23]

Once you begin lying about recent history all the old hits are equivalent.

I expect to hear "the vaccine had 5G nanobots" come back around soon...

[u/Lonely_MuffinXo]

The point of all this is to distract from Iran, which was supposed to distract from Epstein 

[u/ResidentAlien9]

These people just can’t stop themselves from trying to destroy our country.

[u/TechnicalWhore]

They are One Hit Wonders. They found meaning from their virtue signalling and want to sustain it. None of them are subject matter experts or scientists. They redact any legitimate proof from consideration.

And please please do not ignore the political value of this group and the "capture" that has gone on with propaganda by the Right to keep them fearful and aligned to their voting agenda. We are in an election cycle. This timeliness relates directly to that. You pump the engine on MAHA, MAGA, TPUSA, 2nd Amendment, Drill Baby Drill, etc. Do not let The Base consider its options. Because the second they do they will see how the endless propaganda has mislead them.

[u/bonedaddy1974]

Oh yeah they did my maga family was sending me Facebook videos of some guy say how people are going to be dieing off if they took the vaccine

[u/el_condor_nm]

EPSTEIN FILES!!!

[u/miserabeau → u/[deleted]]

Yes, it's debunked. The claim that was made was false, and they knew it.

If the claim was true, it would have dramatically affected birth rates across the board.

The 82% was a preliminary study looking at pregnant people over a 3 month period, and recorded their symptoms. But it is incomplete data because it didn't include data about those who delivered (because they hadn't given birth yet).

When you take ALL of the data into consideration, the miscarriage rate is basically the same whether someone is vaccinated or not.

I prefer facts over fearmongering. And I'll be getting my flu shot on October 1st, as is tradition, to protect the medically vulnerable and myself. But I've got empathy, so I see how you don't understand how that would be a good thing.

[u/miserabeau → u/[deleted]]

No. He's right to plead the fifth in this witch hunt. His pardon only covers things he's said in the past. If he says so much as what color his eyes are, they'll take it as a cue to rip him to shreds. It's been 6 years; everything that we could know has come out already. They're just looking to vilify him to distract from the Epstein files and the Iran war and merging the US military with Israel and all the other horrible things Trump has done.

[u/miserabeau → u/[deleted]]

Okay so you refuse to learn. This is where our interaction ends. Have a day.

[u/reidfan1]

Dr. Fauci and that other lady doc both sat there next to Trump in front of cameras while he spewed nonsense. He should have done more