A bizarre right wing obsession

As we know,  Resident Dump is prone to magical thinking -- whatever pops into his head, that he says aloud, becomes true by the God-like power of his words. Three million illegal aliens voted for Hillary Clinton. His inaugural crowd was the biggest ever. The coronavirus is just going to disappear, you ' ll see, it will be like magic . . .I could go on endlessly but you already know that he ' s insane. So one of the nonsensical ideas that popped into his head was that an anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, is actually a miracle cure for Covid-19. That is biologically completely implausible -- it is toxic to the metazoan malaria parasite, there is no reason it should have antiviral activity. And it doesn ' t. Millions of dollars in clinical research funding were diverted to this wild goose chase and the result is clear:it doesn ' t work, and accordingly the FDA has revoked its emergency use authorization.But somehow this hoax has become a far right cause celebre, presumably because their God Emperor cannot be wrong. So now guess who they are trotting out as a champion of this ridiculous and dangerous fraud?Pediatrician Stella Immanuel:Immanuel, a pediatrician and a religious minister, has a history of making bizarre claims about medical topics and other issues. She has often claimed that gynecological problems like cysts and endometriosis are in fact caused by people having sex in their dreams with demons and witches. She alleges alien DNA is currently used in medical ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs