https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/flow-damaging-covid-19-disinformation-must-end-now
Misinformation and disinformation about COVID are rampant and have had a very damaging impact on our nation. Well done studies estimate 300,000 to 400,000 Americans died unnecessarily due to refusal to be vaccinated.
How did misinformation about COVID and the vaccines become so prevalent? There are several factors but I think the emergence of fake experts played the biggest role. No one in the media vetted their CVs. No one performed primary source verification on their credentials or the claims of academic appointments on their CVs.
No one, except me that is. When these fake experts began showing up on FOX News I was curious. After a lifetime in academic medicine I had never heard of any of them. So I got suspicious. One by one, I did backgrounds checks, primary source verification, read their bibliographies and their papers as well as patent applications.
I called the schools they attended and the places they claimed to have held various clinical and leadership appointments. I called the places they worked, or claim to have worked.
I called their colleagues at these institutions. I did the hard work, hours of digging into CVs and cross checking resume claims
What did I find? Their resumes are full of false claims, faculty appointments that don't exist, embellished and exaggerated credentials. Folks at institutions they claim to have had major leadership roles have never heard of them.
This isn't isolated to just one or two of these fake experts. Virtually all of them have embellished resumes and CVs riddled with lies and exaggerations about their credentials and professional experience.
When I pointed this out some time ago. I got a very threatening letter from a Trump affiliated lawyer.
So here is what Trump and his team did. They found bottom dwelling mystery doctors no one had ever heard of before with grossly inflated resumes and put them on FOX News without fact checking their resumes.
These fake experts then began pumping out false information all designed to benefit Trump.
With all the effort put into combating misinformation you would think someone in the media would do what I did, call every school, every employer, check every credential, check references. They didn't. No one has except me.
Why did I do that? Because I have recruited over 200 MDs in my career for various organizations and I have found lying on resumes is common. You won't find the lies unless you check.
So I am telling you all, some investigative journalist needs to fact check the resumes of every antivaxx fake COVID expert.
You will be shocked at what you find.
New Israeli MoH study shows COVID vax increases your risk of death over time
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/new-israeli-moh-study-shows-covid
Still stuck on that appeal to authority logical fallacy are you? I'd bet you failed high school debating class too. Well done studies estimate at least 300,000 to 400,000 Americans died unnecessarily due to being injected with a worthless poison being misrepresented as a vaccine.