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Robert Malone shared several COVID conspiracy theories during a controversial appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast at the height of the pandemic.

Robert Malone, one of the eight new members named by Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. on Wednesday to serve on the committee tasked with advising the U.S. government on vaccines, has a long track record of sharing conspiracy theories about life-saving COVID shots.

Malone, a former mRNA researcher who also runs a blog on Substack with over 357,000 subscribers that he has used to spread COVID misinformation, gained prominence spreading baseless claims about the pandemic, including in an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast in December 2021.

During the three-hour sitdown, Malone falsely suggested that former Joe Biden lied about being vaccinated for COVID while receiving his booster on live TV, and claimed that Israel, where over two-thirds of the population had received the vaccine, had a higher mortality rate than Gaza and the West Bank, which had lower vaccination rates, despite figures pointing to the contrary, according to The New York Times. He also drew a comparison between the country’s pandemic policies and medical experiments in Nazi Germany, and accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of hypnotizing a third of the U.S. population into believing his recommendations on COVID.

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[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, FFS. I wish people would stop misusing the term "skeptic".

A denialist is not a skeptic.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Denialist isn't strong enough. Misinformation spreader. Deserves prosecution for trying to kill people.

We had one in a Chamber of Commerce that I belonged to. He got really insufferable after the first time he caught it, because "it wasn't even as bad as the flu." The second time he caught it he ended up intubated in the hospital with brain damage. I didn't donate to the relief effort because the outcome pleased me. He eventually lost his business. I don't know what became of him. He couldn't really talk after "he recovered. " sadly, they don't all get the outcome they deserve.

[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

anti-vax Santa Claus says covid isn’t real