While many HART members love a good conspiracy theory, it's founding member Michael Yeadon's wild claims that there's a global plot to depopulate the Earth using covid vaccines that has come to define the group. So where did it all go so horribly wrong?
As HART launched in January 2021, Michael Yeadon was already by his own admission struggling with mental health problems and depression.
Soon afterwards he deleted his Twitter account when people noticed he'd posted lots of highly offensive, racist content before the pandemic.
Meanwhile Yeadon and other HART members were already sharing crazy conspiracy theories on the group's chat channels. Eugenics, depopulation, Bill Gates, the WEF and the infamous Georgia Guidestones were all mentioned.
This is the echo chamber Michael Yeadon was living in.
Yeadon was particularly taken by Anna de Buisseret's nonsense about depopulation, pondering how it could be done. She replied with a video by Lee Merritt of America's Frontline Doctors, claiming covid vaccines are the first of a "two part biowarfare agent" designed to kill us.
By early March 2021, Yeadon was already starting to put the pieces of his conspiracy theory puzzle together. He talks about "dark possibilities", "dark intents" and "dark strategems", which he thinks could include "totalitarian control" or "population reduction" using vaccines.
Even Yeadon admits he's "right down the rabbit hole here". But instead of helping, some members encourage him to keep digging!
Again he brings up Lee Merritt's "2 part challenge" theory, adding that "the only destination that fits all the observations is ultimate depopulation".
Soon afterwards, Yeadon repeatedly shared a video by 9/11 conspiracy theorist Paul Schreyer about pandemic simulation exercises with scary names like "Event 201" and "Dark Winter".
After watching the video he says he "lay awake most of the night".
In a Telegram post a few weeks later, Michael Yeadon describes how Paul Schreyer's video was the "final piece of the puzzle" dropping into place for him.
Like QAnon indoctrination, "Schreyer leaves many questions hanging", but it's clear what answers he wants you to "find".
By mid March 2021, Michael Yeadon thinks the government is using variants to scare people into getting vaccinated in a "malign & frightening" way.
Yeadon is "properly frightened by my reasoning", but HART co-founder Anna Rayner encourages him to "keep leaking out truth"!
This all culminates in Yeadon going public with his conspiracy theory in an interview with America's Frontline Doctors on March 25th 2021, which he shares with HART. In the interview he claims that covid vaccine booster shots could be used for "massive scale depopulation".
HART members line up to support Michael Yeadon's wild conspiracy theory, including HART co-founder Anna Rayner (who also helps run Together and the Children's Covid Vaccine Advisory Council), UKMFA founder Liz Evans, Smile Free's Gary Sidley, and Safer To Wait's Val Fraser.
Yeadon quickly follows this with a podcast with James Delingpole, appropriately released to the public on April 1st 2021. Again he claims there's "no benign explanation" and vaccines could be used to "depopulate a significant proportion of the world" with "plausible deniability".
And again, HART members line up to cheer on his paranoia. UsForThem's Ros Jones congratulates him, Jemma Moran (who helps run the All Party Parliamentary Group on Pandemic Response and Recovery) calls Yeadon "the voice of reason", and Zoe Harcombe calls it "brilliant and scary".
A few days later, Michael Yeadon tells HART members that "there is no better, more plausible explanation that fits all the observations than my darkest fears: that this is all about depopulation", and that a vaccine passport database "will soon be used to control everything".
He continues in this vein at great length all day, raving about eugenics, Nazis, depopulation, totalitarian tyranny...
"I’ve turned all the evidence over in my mind, night & day, for months."
"My deductions have destroyed all meaning & hope in my life."
He's clearly not well.
How do HART respond to this breakdown? Many of them encourage his increasingly wild claims!
Liz Evans goes on about Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset, while Bernie de Haldevang ponders "how to get this across without seeming to be antivaxx and conspiracy theorists"! 🤔🙄
It ends with Liz Evans suggesting an echo chamber within the echo chamber to "start investigating hidden motives". Several members ask to join, including Bernie de Haldevang (who introduced HART to MPs) and Rachel Marcus (who helps run the APPG on Pandemic Response and Recovery).
Michael Yeadon has carried on promoting this conspiracy theory ever since, with the likes of Children's Health Defense and Together giving him a platform to claim "they" are trying to wipe out most of the world's population using covid vaccines and enslave us with digital ID.
If anything Yeadon has become even more extreme, warning that the people behind the conspiracy are "gonna get hung", talking about strategies to "take them all down", and comparing covid vaccination to Dr Mengele.
And sadly many people still seem willing to believe him. 😞
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