While @hartgroup_org pull their punches in public, in private they share crazy stories from notorious anti-vaxxers and conspiracy nuts.
Including claims that covid doesn't exist, the vaccines are bioweapons, and other treatments are being sabotaged by governments.
For starters there's Anna Rayner, named in documents seen by logically.ai as HART's coordinator, but choosing to stay "in the shadows" because of her work "in a maligned area of healthcare".
More specifically, "treating" autism and "vaccine damage" with homeopathy.
Unsurprisingly she's a follower of Andrew Wakefield, the discredited former doctor who helped spark the anti-vax movement with claims that childhood vaccines cause autism.
Here she is praising Wakefield's "bravery" on her blog, and in HART's chat group suggesting he was smeared.
And she's not alone. One of HART's public facing members, education adviser Val Fraser, says she "did the research" on childhood vaccines when "it was all freely available", before it was "censored after the Wakefield reports".
Does she too believe the MMR jab causes autism?
Another public member, Harrie Bunker-Smith, cites Tomas Cowan, a former doctor who claims viruses don't cause diseases, vaccines don't stop them, and that covid is caused by 5G.
Oliver Stokes asks if "there is anything in" Cowan's claim that the SARS-COV-2 virus doesn't exist.
Public member Liz Evans shared a video (twice!) titled "5 Doctors Agree Covid-19 Injections Are Bioweapons".
She says it's a "very sensible and informed discussion" despite the "dramatic title".
It's really 5 notorious anti-vaxxers saying covid vaccines are "designed to kill".
The five doctors are long term anti-vaxxers Sherri Tenpenny, Larry Palevsky and Christiane Northrup, QAnon nut Carrie Madej, and Lee Merritt of far right extremists America's Frontline Doctors.
That's the group whose founders were arrested for taking part in the Capitol riots.
A week later Liz Evans shares a video claiming covid itself is a bioweapon.
In it Dr Richard Fleming (a convicted fraudster who believes covid was engineered and intentionally released in Wuhan) is interviewed by Del Bigtree (producer of Andrew Wakefield's "Vaxxed" documentary).
Physician Sam McBride is another prolific poster of nonsense from questionable sources.
Here he is sharing an article by Operation Rescue, an American anti-abortion group implicated in the murder of a doctor. Their co-founder spent 2 years in prison for her part in a bomb plot.
He's also a big fan of Medical Kidnap, part of Brian Shilhavy's anti-vax Health Impact News network, frequently sharing their stories on alleged adverse reactions to covid vaccines and other topics.
Shilhavy "explains real health from a biblical, non-Darwinian perspective".
Basically Shilhavy's a quack, who got in trouble with the FDA for claiming coconut oil can cure anything from dementia to rashes.
He thinks covid is a plandemic, freemasons are taking over the world, and you can cure "vaccine injuries" with pineapples.
Sounds credible.
Meanwhile pretty much the whole of HART seems to be glued to Children's Health Defense, RFK Jr's anti-vax site.
The group claims everything from vaccines and fluoride to wireless signals and paracetamol cause autism, ADHD and other issues.
Highlights from Children's Health Defense that HART seem to consider credible include claims that alternative treatments for covid such as hydroxychloroquin are being sabotaged by governments, and that Bill Gates is trying to "control the food system" and "own everything".
The fact that so many of HART's members follow anti-vax and extremist groups, and seem to take their often bizarre claims seriously, suggests their public caution due to fears of being labelled anti-vaxxers is just a fig leaf to cover what many of them really believe in private.
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Last week Andrew Bridgen claimed Ukraine might be working on a dirty bomb to use in a "false flag" attack in Europe. Unsurprisingly his comments have now been amplified by the Russian military and state media, and echoed back by Russian assets and useful idiots here in the UK. 🧵
Andrew Bridgen had an "incredibly productive" meeting with the Russian ambassador in London earlier this year.
Since then he's claimed Rishi Sunak called the election to avoid being a wartime PM, and that Ukraine's planning a "false flag" nuclear attack in Europe "like 9/11". 😳
Meanwhile Russian assets and useful idiots here in the UK have been amplifying these claims of false flag attacks and dirty bombs.
John and Irina Mappin at least are known to have visited the Russian embassy recently, and all frequently share Russian propaganda on social media.
Reform's manifesto (or "contract") panders to conspiracy theorists, falsely linking covid vaccines to excess deaths and pledging to "reject" the WEF, WHO and digital currencies.
Unsurprising, given many of their supporters and candidates have rather odd views on these topics. 🧵
Nigel Farage and his Reform Party recently got an endorsement from Laurence Fox of the similarly named Reclaim Party.
Farage even recorded a video with Fox, who has repeatedly compared the Pride flag to the Swastika and promoted Islamophobia.
With friends like these...
Laurence Fox's fiancée also took selfies with Farage while out supporting him in Clacton.
She's recently claimed (amongst many other things) that the pandemic didn't happen and that "they" manipulate the weather to rob us of vital Vitamin D. Right before a heat wave started. 🤦♂️
Reform's candidate in Edinburgh South West, Ian Harper, was a vocal backer of ivermectin, and the grifters and frauds who promoted it as a cure for covid. In his bio for Reform, he talks about a "globalist agenda" seeking to "collapse society".
Not the worst thing he's said. 🧵
Ian Harper's first Twitter account was suspended, and he's now locked his second (presumably to stop voters seeing it). Luckily the internet (and its archives) remembers.
Most of his pandemic posts seem to consist of vastly exaggerated claims about the wonders of ivermectin. 🙄
Unsurprisingly Reform's Ian Harper was an enthusiastic supporter of Tess Lawrie, founder of a British group called BIRD which promoted the dewormer ivermectin as a miracle "cure" for covid, much of it based on flawed or outright fraudulent studies.
Reform's candidate in Twickenham is a member of anti-vax misinformation group HART. In leaked chat logs, Alex Starling called vaccinating children "a perverted abomination", and talked about sneaking HART content and campaigns into articles he wrote for UK news site Reaction. 🧵
If you've not come across them before, HART identify as "a group of highly qualified doctors, scientists and other experts" who just "question the narrative". But many of their members believe covid vaccines were designed to depopulate the Earth! 😳
Alex Starling fit right in at HART, calling wearing masks at school "depraved cruelty" and vaccinating children against covid "a perverted abomination". He also repeatedly suggested covid vaccines work in the same way lions "work" on a herd of zebras, "by taking out the weakest".
John Mappin appeared on Russian TV at the weekend, claiming the British public doesn't support Ukraine. Because he spoke to a few friends, and they all love Russia too. 🤷♂️
Mappin often retweets Putin's propaganda, and last year claimed he could instantly end the Ukraine war. 🤔
Russian asset / useful idiot John Mappin has also been out campaigning for Nigel Farage in Clacton-on-Sea. Haven't they suffered enough already?
Mappin previously backed Andrew Bridgen, after the MP compared covid vaccines to the Holocaust. Just the man you want on your side. 🤦♂️
John Mappin rather optimistically claimed afterwards that Nigel Farage is going to be Prime Minister, hailing him for "one of the most brilliant and sanest speeches in this island's history". 🤪
But then he's already fallen for Scientology, QAnon, and covid conspiracy theories.
The BMJ has had to issue a statement after everyone from The Telegraph and former Brexit Minister David Davis to anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists claimed that covid vaccines may be responsible for excess deaths, based on a dubious study published in @BMJPublicHealth. 🧵
The Telegraph's @sarahknapton has a history of this. Two years ago she tried to blame excess deaths (including some covid deaths!) on lockdowns, with a clickbait headline that the article (behind a paywall) failed to support. This is more of the same.
As for the BMJ article that inspired all of this, it simply takes excess death data from 47 "western" countries (ranging from the US and UK to Australia and New Zealand to Bulgaria and Moldova), adds them all up, then engages in a lot of vague arm waving.