Thread by @gsgraf

1/ During the pandemic, alternative treatments for Covid were pitched as part of an ongoing misinformation campaign to stir anger towards Republicans who were not part of the #IFFNetwork. Was it all another big lie?
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2/ Elected officials including Idaho State Legislators promoted alternative treatments like Ivermectin. This aligned with national far-right propaganda networks that promoted this "treatment" to attack mainstream medicine.

3/ This led to a rush on an untested and unverified treatment that was potentially harmful. Some far-right followers caught up in the hysteria went so far as to get this from local farm supply stores and used a drug packaged for use in treating animals. businessinsider.com/people-poisoni…

4/ The FDA came out strongly against this.

https://twitter.com/US_FDA/status/1429050070243192839?s=20&t=ndR7jLmM5jX0uPmmOiXiZw

5/ That did not stop far-right Idaho legislators from promoting this unproven treatment.

6/ In fact, the entire #IFFNetwork went all in to back Dr. Ryan Cole who admittedly prescribed this alternative treatment to his patients. Even @WayneHoff, President of The Idaho Freedom Foundation published an article on Redoubt News supporting Dr. Cole.

7/ Lt. Governor Janice McGeachin got in on the Dr. Cole act and interviewed him in a campaign video.

8/ In the video, Dr. Cole pitched a telehealth service linked to America's Front Line Doctors. This group was led by Dr. Stella Immanuel and Dr. Simone Gold.

9/ Dr. Simone Gold plead guilty to her role in the January 6 insurrection.
arstechnica.com/science/2022/0…

10/ Dr. Stella Immanuel believed the pandemic was rooted in "Demon Sperm." thedailybeast.com/stella-immanue…

11/ And what about that website Dr. Cole was pitching? It was part of an elaborate "telemedicine" grift that sold ongoing subscriptions to alternative pandemic treatments. time.com/6092368/americ…

12/ Dr. Stella Immameul recently appeared on the Stew Peters show to discuss a new alternative treatment...

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1509532073568079879?s=20&t=ndR7jLmM5jX0uPmmOiXiZw

13/ Stew Peters was a speaker at the Nick Fuentes white nationalist event called AFPAC. It's the same event Janice McGeachin presented a video thanking white nationalists for their help.

14/ Even Rep. Dorothy Moon got in on this misinformation movement with Dr. Cole.

15/ True Idaho News, a website often used to promote and defend far-right legislators like Ron Nate and Priscilla Giddings, has content like this...

16/ This shows a coordinated effort to promote an alternative treatment that was making Frontline Doctors a lot of money.

The big question, however, was whether or not Ivermectin actually worked.

The answer is NO.
nytimes.com/2022/03/30/hea…

17/ The New England Journal of Medicine came to this conclusion:

18/ NEJM source: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

19/ If the far-right wants to try and challenge this, perhaps they should ask why Rep. Ron Nate used NEJM as a source of information. Even they trust this source.

20/ In conclusion, the far-right #IFFNetwork is not honest. They are part of a larger misinformation network rooted in grifting and have deep ties to white nationalism.
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