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Aug 21, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Better late than never. 🙄 Clare Craig spent most of 2020 claiming we were in a "false positive pseudo epidemic", deleted all her tweets when it became clear she was horribly wrong, then moved on to talking rubbish about vaccines.

She's produced a never-ending stream of wrong... Image
Given Clare Craig's spectacular ability to misinterpret data (all too often because she just hadn't bothered to read the footnotes), it would be easy to chalk this up to incompetence.

But thanks to #hartleaks we know that at least some of the time she was doing it on purpose... Image
But after two years of spreading mis- and disinformation about the pandemic and vaccines, Clare Craig has finally joined fellow HART members such as Tony Hinton, Michael Yeadon (his alt account) and Joel Smalley (twice) in getting kicked off Twitter for breaking their rules.
Unsurprisingly Clare Craig's fellow HART members can't understand why she was removed from Twitter for repeatedly breaking the rules, while their friend Bev Turner inadvertently makes a good case for why Twitter should have banned her much earlier. ImageImageImageImage
Meanwhile the fact that Aseem Malhotra and Jay Bhattacharya think Clare Craig has "impeccable scientific integrity" and that her removal somehow "impoverishes the discussion" probably says more about them than her. ImageImage
Clare Craig's "contribution to the discussion" included false claims about trials of covid vaccines for children, amplified by notorious anti-vaxxers Children's Health Defense.

This video explains how, as usual, she had misread or misrepresented a study:

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Jun 6
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. 🧵



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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.

bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e0…
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Jun 1
Geneva is crank central this weekend, as multiple events target the WHO's annual World Health Assembly. Including a "convoy" of 3 cars, a lawyers' press conference featuring sovereign citizens and 9/11 "truthers", and a host of speakers that may outnumber their audience. 🧵


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I first came across the "Road to Geneva" protest convoy when Dan Astin-Gregory (HART / Pandemic Podcast / "Free Humanity") promoted it at an Andrew Bridgen rally outside Parliament in April.

The whole thing seems to have been rather last minute and shambolic though.


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Unsurprisingly the British leg of the "Road to Geneva" hasn't got much traction. Photos show a "convoy" of 3 vehicles (including Dan's van), while a Telegram post claims about 50 people made it to Geneva for fondue. There's very little chatter in other countries' channels either.


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Apr 19
Andrew Bridgen and his supporters held a rally outside Parliament yesterday, after his speech in the House of Commons blaming covid vaccines for excess deaths. The rally saw calls for executions, a speech by Piers Corbyn, and banners claiming vaccines killed 17 million people! 🧵 Image
Andrew Bridgen modestly suggested that his speech in Parliament (attended by a handful of MPs) "will be totemic, it will go around the world".

He also falsely claimed that covid vaccines are "damaging everyone's immune system .. and making us more prone to cancer". Image
Piers Corbyn also spoke at Bridgen's rally after the debate, but seems to have used it to promote his run for London Mayor, which (unsurprisingly, given his constant begging for petrol money) fell at the first hurdle after an apparent mix up over his deposit. 🤦‍♂️ Image
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Mar 28
Andrew Bridgen has been ordered to pay Matt Hancock £44,300 in defence costs, after his libel claim against the former Health Secretary was ruled "defective" earlier this month, and needing amendments before the case could proceed. 🧵

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While Andrew Bridgen initially tried to claim victory, because the judge didn't throw out his libel claim completely, he's apparently failed to amend his complaint since then.

The latest ruling against him warns that if he doesn't do so soon, the whole case will be dismissed. Image
Andrew Bridgen raised over £100,000 for his libel claim, via a crowdfunding site owned by his former colleagues at Reclaim. Oddly he's still failed to declare most of this money in the Parliamentary Register of Interests.

He's now begging for more .. to pay Hancock's lawyers. 🤦‍♂️ Image
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Mar 27
Of all the "doctors" @Nigel_Farage and @GBNEWS could have invited on to talk about the NHS, they picked Ahmad Malik, a self-proclaimed anti-vaxxer who claims 9/11 was a "false flag" attack and covid was a hoax, calls the NHS a cult, and isn't even licensed to practise anymore. 🧵

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Former foot surgeon Ahmad Malik hasn't worked for the NHS since 2017, and gave up his license to practise medicine completely last month. These days he works as a full time podcaster.

Perhaps unsurprising, given his stance on not just covid vaccines but ALL vaccines.


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Like many, Ahmad Malik first fell down the rabbit hole of 9/11 conspiracy theories. He claims it was a false flag and commemorated the atrocity's anniversary last year by interviewing 9/11 "truther" Richard Gage, and spamming tributes to 9/11 victims with ads for his podcast. 😬


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Mar 5
Andrew Bridgen has shared a letter he recently sent to the Metropolitan Police, accusing the government of murder over the covid vaccine programme! He's calling for police to meet some of the most extreme conspiracy theorists in the UK. Here's who they all are...🧵 Image
The list of "experts" Andrew Bridgen wants police to meet is a who's who of the British covid conspiracy movement, many of whom he's been working with for years. This latest move seems to be supporting a long running campaign by a man who has called for public hangings! 😬 Image
Michael Yeadon claims covid vaccines are "toxic by design" and part of a plot to wipe out most of the Earth's population. He also thinks the Spanish Flu pandemic didn't happen, and everything from nuclear weapons to moon landings were faked. 😳


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