Unsurprisingly many people signing the "Together Declaration" against covid passes are HART members with bizarre views on the subject.
Liz Evans, for example, keeps making crazy claims that vaccination causes surges in deaths all over the world which governments blame on covid.
Joel Smalley has spent months ranting and raving, drawing random lines on graphs, trying to convince everyone that covid vaccines are somehow responsible for vast numbers of deaths.
He even claimed death rates in US children were at least 100 times higher than they really were!
Anna de Buisseret describes herself as a "trained assassin", and keeps going off on wild rants about nurses being hanged for war crimes, people supposedly clamouring for her to launch Nuremberg Trials, and nutty conspiracy theories involving Bill Gates and the World Bank.
Clare Craig thinks a rise in normal childhood illnesses as lockdown ended was somehow caused by their parents getting vaccinated! 🤔
She also claims that vaccines cause covid, and that HART need to "seed the thought" in people's minds.
How about no.
Charlotte Gracias is a conspiracy nut who thinks proposals to make care home workers get vaccinated were a plot to "bring social care to a halt", believes there could be tiny parasitic worms in face masks, and that a surge in covid cases was faked to cover up "vaccine deaths".
Damian Wilde thought former Health Secretary Matt Hancock was a "sick little f*cker" for .. er .. encouraging people to get vaccinated against a deadly disease.
I'm no fan of Hancock, but I don't think you can fault him for that. 🙄
Ros Jones shared videos from anti-vaxxers Children’s Health Defence and cranks like Sucharit Bhakdi, who falsely claims the pandemic is fake and vaccines will decimate the world's population.
She also seems to think ivermectin protected some Indian states from .. er .. vaccines.
Jonathan Engler thinks the vaccines "decondition" your immune system and makes unsubstantiated claims that this will cause "a terrible winter" that the government will blame on either flu or covid.
He also thinks the government may be lying about how many people are vaccinated.
Gary Sidley agrees that the govt exaggerates vaccination rates, but as "psy-ops" to pressure more people into getting it.
And he hailed Michael Yeadon for "truth telling as always" .. after an interview in which Yeadon claimed vaccines will be used to depopulate the Earth! 🤪
Are the more respectable names signing the declaration really sure that they want to "stand together" with this bunch of grifters and conspiracy theorists?
And do they really agree with HART's members that "where this could lead" is totalitarian dictatorship and depopulation? 🤔
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This week sees the second "ARC Forum" in London, a right wing talking shop with overtones of Islamophobia, transphobia and climate change denial, funded by Paul Marshall and Legatum, who are also behind GB News.
Unsurprisingly there are a lot of familiar faces there... 🧵
Alan Miller from anti-lockdown turned anti-everything group Together is on a panel.
He was interviewed at ARC Forum by right wing channel Newsmax Australia, and was apparently "shocked to learn" that, according to them, Australia has no free speech and supports trans people. 🤷♂️
Toby Young founded Daily Sceptic, which like Together started out as anti-lockdown but then branched out into culture war outrage farming and omni-contrarianism.
It's still edited by a member of anti-vax misinformation group HART, who laundered their work through the site.
Struggling to get papers published? Why not start your own scientific journal? 🤷♂️ That's what the Great Barrington Declaration's authors have done.
Martin Kulldorff is editor-in-chief, and Jay Bhattacharya and Sunetra Gupta are on the editorial board. But wait, there's more. 🧵
The editorial board of the GBD's journal also includes their Collateral Global colleagues David Livermore (ex-HART), Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson (whose recent work includes dumpster diving "studies" misrepresenting responses to FOI requests from random members of the public).
Other familiar names include Scott Atlas (former Trump advisor, and co-founder with Kulldorff and Bhattacharya of the "Academy for Science and Freedom"), John Ioannidis (who, like Gupta, underestimated covid's fatality rate) and Marty Makary (Trump's nominee to head the FDA).
BREAKING: None of this is true.
The father was 18 at the time of the Rwandan genocide, and living in Uganda.
He's also a Tutsi - the victims of the genocide, not its perpetrators.
And Keir Starmer didn't represent him.
Needless to say, former Brexit Party MEP turned conspiracy theorist Jim Ferguson gives absolutely no evidence to support these claims, which seem to be based on social media rumours that have been circulating for months.
Conspiracy X's meltdown over Trump backing mRNA cancer vaccines is a thing of beauty. 😆
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Apparently the mRNA cancer vaccines are "all part of the depopulation agenda".
Conspiracy X went from "Make America Healthy Again" to "oh my God, Trump's trying to kill us all" so fast they'll get whiplash. 😆
And if you thought "the depopulation agenda" was wild, how about mRNA cancer vaccines as a CIA assassination tool to off people chosen for termination by AI, or to "shut off people's connection to God"? 🤯
As wildfires continue to burn in LA, Naomi Wolf has falsely claimed they were fueled by cloud seeding, and shared stories linking them to anything from 15 minute cities and a supposed "globalist deindustrialization plan" to the 2028 Olympics and space lasers. 🤨
Whenever there's a fire, conspiracy theorists always blame "directed energy weapons". Although often the videos they share show a far more plausible cause. In this case, it's a sparking power line banging against a tree amidst high winds...
One of the weirder conspiracy theories I've come across in the past is that there's a vast network of tunnels under LA used to traffick children to the stars, linked to the Getty Museum. 🤷♂️
Unsurprisingly QAnon types are linking the nearby Palisades fire to this bizarre story...
After the horrific attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, all the people you'd expect immediately blamed Islam and called for Muslims to be deported en masse for one man's crime. Just one problem... Apparently the suspect isn't a Muslim. 🧵
The apparent suspect in the attack on the Magdeburg market is a Saudi refugee who denounced Islam, accuses Germany of a "secret project to Islamize Europe", and regularly shared posts by far right accounts using similar language to the people who assumed he was an Islamist.
Even after the suspect's identity and beliefs were reported, racists and bigots on X were still blaming Islamists for the attack, or even claiming it was an attempt to "gaslight us" and "we all know why the terrorist carried out the attack".