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HART caim to be " a group of highly qualified UK doctors, scientists .. and other academic experts", but in private they have some truly bizarre beliefs, including that vaccines make you magnetic or are designed to turn us into zombies that can be remote controlled using 5G. 🤪
Many HART members believe that covid vaccines cause "shedding". Basically, they think vaccinated people walk around in a cloud of spike proteins that can "infect" those around them. They blamed everying from unusual periods to rising covid cases on alleged "vaccine shedding".
Christine Padgham was particularly active in "vaccine shedding" discussions. Initially questioning if it was "mass hysteria" or "nonsense", within weeks she was asking fellow members if anything from a child with shingles to a baby with a temperature could be due to shedding.
Members wondered if mask mandates were lifted so that vaccinated people could spread "whatever it is being shedded", and seriously suggested "removing" vaccinated teachers to stop them shedding on pupils, or even that unvaccinated people should wear masks to protect themselves!
This paranoia took its toll. One member asked if he should stop his vaccinated sister holding his baby in case she shed on it! Ros Jones and Clare Craig both advised him to steer clear. So masks and social distancing don't stop covid spreading but do protect you from vaccines? 🤔
Another popular belief amongst HART members that has no basis in reality is that covid vaccines are mostly made up of graphene oxide and make you magnetic. Liz Evans in particular fell for this story, even sharing a Not On The Beeb petition calling it a "crime against humanity".
Liz Evans' obsession with the ridiculous graphene oxide story included calling it "an unprecedented and deliberately orchestrated health crisis", questioning whether vaccinated mothers could pass the substance on to their babies, and even suggesting analysing their breast milk!
Other members discussed unbelievable stories about "EMF readings" coming from the spot where people were injected, whether graphene oxide rather than a virus was causing covid, or whether blood clots were causing the magnetism because haemoglobin contains iron, so .. er. 🤦‍♂️
"This culminated in a group of well refreshed HART members sticking magnets to Tony Hinton's arm in a London pub after a protest march!

The man with the magnets, Colin Natali, later revealed he'd been sticking them to his patients too! Did @SchoenClinicLON know about this?"
But wait, it gets worse. HART members wondered if the graphene oxide they wrongly believe is making people magnetic could be used for "brain control", while Liz Evans thought covid vaccines might contain "nanotech" to build a "platform for wireless interaction with humans".
HART had long wanted to examine covid vaccines themselves, and they finally got their chance recently when UK Citizen 2021 provided a stolen vial to Tess Lawrie. Unfortunately the "lab report" she commissioned was so poor even Michael Yeadon trashed it.

Having mistaken a dirty microscope slide for graphene oxide nanotech in vaccines, it's no surprise HART also spent several days arguing over whether textile fibres in a mask were really tiny parasitic worms. 🤦‍♂️
Despite more sceptical members repeatedly saying the supposed mask worms were just inorganic fibres, other HART members insisted "we need to get them analysed to be sure", and suggested testing covid test swabs for them as well.
Even though she thought they might just be inorganic fibres, Clare Craig was keen to put them under a better microscope, and worried they might be lung worm larvae! Eventually Ros Jones asked a nematode expert to clear it up. Unsurprisingly he thought it was just a fibre. 🤷‍♂️
While HART members believe in a lot of crazy things, some don't seem to believe that viruses can be transmitted and cause disease ("germ theory"). Members repeatedly cite leading virus deniers like Zach Bush and Thomas Cowan (who last year lost his medical license).
And in recent weeks, HART's Michael Yeadon repeatedly questioned if a pandemic happened at all and whether viruses in general or SARS-CoV-2 in particular cause diseases. He even co-signed a letter by Thomas Cowan challenging virologists to prove they do!

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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. 🤷‍♂️ Image
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