In July 2021, The New York Times (NYT) published the hit piece,1
"The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online,"
in which they made several blatantly false claims about me. Now, the NYT
is upping the ante with an entire documentary dedicated to yours truly,
titled "Superspreader."
Ever since my book "The Truth About COVID-19" came out, the global
cabal seems to have lost their collective minds. The New York Times has
printed demonstrably false information about me on multiple occasions,
CNN reporters have invaded my office and pursued me on my bicycle with
unmarked vehicles, the president of the United States has utilized his
federal agencies to target me — and my personal and business bank
accounts were closed.
Twitter has banned anyone from sharing any link to my website,
YouTube banned my account with over 15 years of content, while Facebook
and Google have done everything possible to make me disappear. It
certainly would be much easier to cave under the pressure, but if we
don't stand up for our rights and freedom now — when will it be too
late? I will continue 'superspreading' truth and health until my last
days.
NYT Hit Parade Continues With 'Superspreader'
In an August 5, 2022, TV review, Alex Reif writes:2
"News can spread like a virus. In our fast-paced
world, it doesn't take long for either to spread around, which is why
it's so important to get your information from a good source.
In the latest
installment of the FX series The New York Times Presents, viewers will
get a perfect example of this with 'Superspreader,' which takes a look
at one doctor with a massive following, who is credited as being the top
spreader of misinformation regarding the COVID-19 and vaccine in the
wellness industry ...
One of the pre-credit notes at the end of the
documentary states that FDA Commissioner Robert Califf considers
misinformation to be the leading cause of death in the country and
because of this ...
[A]nother highlight of the film is an interview with
Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Encountering Digital Hate who ranked
Mercola at the top of 'The Disinformation Dozen,' a numbers-based list
of the twelve most influential people leading the COVID-19
anti-vaccination effort.
We also see how Mercola was de-platformed by several
social media companies and how that hasn't done all that much to stop
the spread of misinformation.
At face value, The New York Times Presents
'Superspreader' is about Dr. Joseph Mercola, the empire he built, and
the people who believe everything he says without question. But what
viewers ultimately walk away with is a reminder that if something seems
too good to be true, it most surely is."
The NYT documentary premieres Friday, August 19, 2022, at 10 p.m. Eastern and 10 p.m. Pacific time, on FX and Hulu.
Truth Tellers Are Being Vindicated Every Day
In the NYT's July 2021 hit piece, the author, Sheera Frenkel, cited
an article I'd published in which she says I questioned "the legal
definition of vaccines" and declared the COVID shots were "a medical
fraud," for the simple reason that they don't prevent infections, they
don't provide immunity and don't stop transmission of the infection.
According to Frenkel, that was misinformation. According to the U.S.
government and its "experts," the COVID jabs worked like any other
vaccine. Check out the short video above for a sampling of what Bill
Gates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mainstream media,
Dr. Anthony Fauci and President Biden were saying about the shots in
early 2021.
The clear message — the promise — was that if you got the shots, you
would not get COVID and you would not transmit it to others. Getting the
population "vaccinated" would end the pandemic, for sure. Fast-forward
to today, and the reality of the situation is beyond self-evident.
Biden, fully vaxxed and boosted has had COVID twice. Ditto for Fauci
and a long list of government officials around the world. Outbreaks have
repeatedly occurred at events where every single person present was
fully vaxxed. So, the reality is that, back in February 2021, I warned
that a medical fraud was being committed, and today, evidence from
around the world show I was correct.
The shots do not prevent you from being infected, and they don't
prevent you from spreading it to others. As such, the COVID shots do not
function as a vaccine at all, and mass vaccination cannot end the
pandemic because you're just as infectious if you get the shot and
contract COVID as you would be if you were unjabbed.
Yet, despite the fact that time has vindicated me, the NYT has
decided to double down and put out an entire documentary to cement the
"superspreader of misinformation" label to my name when it really should
be permanently attached to their own. It probably is important to note
that they started their efforts on this video last year, in 2021.
'Easily Disprovable' Assertions Are in Fact True
In her 2021 hit piece, Frenkel also highlighted my comments about the
COVID shots' ability to "alter your genetic coding, essentially turning
you into a bioweapon spike protein factory that has no off-switch."
According to Frenkel, these assertions "were easily disprovable."
But did she disprove them? No. Here's the reality: mRNA vaccines are
by definition a genetic instruction set. That's what messenger RNA
(mRNA) is. And the mRNA created by Pfizer or Moderna are synthetic
instructions that have never before existed in humans.
This is true for a variety of reasons, but the primary one is the
substitution of pseudouridine for uridine to prevent the mRNA from being
degraded. Natural mRNA is normally rapidly destroyed and this is by
design as your body is very precise about producing proteins and does
not produce them willy-nilly.
So is there an off switch? Absolutely not. There's no off-switch
programmed into these jabs. They are relying on your body's normal
degradation systems. The biotech industry has even referred to this
reprogramming of your body as turning you into a "human bioreactor."3
If an off-switch existed, the manufacturers would have assured us of
that fact by now. In fact, they probably would have used the existence
of a timed off-switch as the justification for boosters, but that has
never come up. We know for sure that the mRNA jabs last at least 60 days
and that is all we have for hard data. They more than likely last for
six months and in some cases could last for years.
Asking Pointed, Nuanced Questions Is Bad?
Next, Frenkel went on to state that:4
"When the coronavirus hit last year, Dr. Mercola
jumped on the news, with posts questioning the origins of the disease.
In December, he used a study that examined mask-wearing by doctors to
argue that masks did not stop the spread of the virus ...
[R]ather than directly stating online that vaccines
don't work, Dr. Mercola's posts often ask pointed questions about their
safety and discuss studies that other doctors have refuted. Facebook and
Twitter have allowed some of his posts to remain up with caution
labels, and the companies have struggled to create rules to pull down
posts that have nuance ..."
So, I not only committed the "sin" of correctly warning people about
the vaccine fraud committed, and had the audacity to follow science and
reference published research, but I was also guilty of the "crime" of
asking pointed, nuanced questions?
When merely asking questions is deemed a dangerous, if not criminal,
act, you know you're living under an authoritarian regime. It's
certainly far outside the accepted norms of "democracy" and "freedom"
that the United States has been a beacon of since its inception.
Ineptitude at Its Finest
Further on in her hit piece, Frenkel makes a truly crucial error that no respectable journalist would ever dare make:
"In an email, Dr. Mercola said it was 'quite peculiar
to me that I am named as the #1 superspreader of misinformation.' Some
of his Facebook posts were only liked by hundreds of people, he said, so
he didn't understand 'how the relatively small number of shares could
possibly cause such calamity to Biden's multibillion dollar vaccination
campaign.'
The efforts against him are political, Dr. Mercola
added, and he accused the White House of 'illegal censorship by
colluding with social media companies.' He did not address whether his
coronavirus claims were factual.
'I am the lead author of a peer reviewed publication
regarding vitamin D and the risk of COVID-19 and I have every right to
inform the public by sharing my medical research,' he said. He did not
identify the publication, and The Times was unable to verify his claim."
The problem with Frenkel's assertion is that I did identify the
publication. In fact, I emailed her the direct link. So, she lied.
Secondly, my paper is beyond easy to locate. Just put my name into
PubMed and you'll find it. Believe it or not, you can even find it using
the most biased search engine on earth, Google.
Daniel Engber, senior editor at the typically highly progressive
mainstream media outlet, The Atlantic, commented on Frenkel's clear
ineptitude or malicious prevarication in a tweet:5
"A truly bizarre moment in the NYT piece on Joseph
Mercola ... you can literally verify the existence of this peer-reviewed
publication in one second via googling. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33142828/"
Legal Notice Sent to NYT
July 26, 2021, my attorneys sent the following legal notice to
Frenkel at the NYT, demanding a retraction of her false statements:6
"Dear Ms. Frenkel,
The undersigned law firm represents Dr. Joseph
Mercola in connection with the attached article that was widely
published on July 24, 2021. We are providing notice that you have made
several false and defamatory statements in this article:
1. You identified that you could not
validate that Dr. Mercola published a peer reviewed study on Vitamin D
in the severity of COVID-19. Dr. Mercola provided the direct link in
response to you (attached) and any journalist or fact checker would
simply find the study by searching "Mercola" in PubMed.
2. Your article falsely states Dr.
Mercola has been fined "millions" by the FDA. This is completely
fabricated, Dr. Mercola has never been fined by the FDA.
... On behalf of Dr. Mercola, we hereby demand you
immediately retract the article. We also request that you preserve all
communications and documents that relate to Dr. Mercola."
Where's the Proof That I Am the 'No. 1' Misinformant?
To this day, the NYT insists I'm the No.1 spreader of misinformation
online, based on the fabrications of a group called Center for
Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) — a "foreign dark money group," to quote
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley,7 which sprang out of nowhere to create lists of people to be censored into oblivion.
The CCDH's data gathering is so questionable, even ultra-biased
Facebook ended up publicly criticizing it. In an August 18, 2021,
Facebook report, Monika Bickert, vice president of Facebook content
policy, set the record straight:8
"In recent weeks, there has been a debate about
whether the global problem of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation can be
solved simply by removing 12 people from social media platforms. People
who have advanced this narrative contend that these 12 people are
responsible for 73% of online vaccine misinformation on Facebook. There
isn't any evidence to support this claim …
In fact, these 12 people are responsible for about
just 0.05% of all views of vaccine-related content on Facebook. This
includes all vaccine-related posts they've shared, whether true or
false, as well as URLs associated with these people."
At the time that Frenkel made her accusations, a Crowdtangle search
for Facebook posts about the COVID jabs, from mid-June to mid-July 2021,
also confirmed that my online reach was negligible. Topping the list of
top performing Facebook posts expressing negative views about the COVID
jabs was Candace Owens, followed by the mainstream news outlet ABC
World News Tonight.9
The befuddling reality here is that most of the people identified as
"top spreaders of misinformation" actually have negligible reach — at
least compared to the people on this Crowdtangle list. None of the
CCDH's "top vaccine misinformants" are on the list above, and our reach
certainly has not improved or expanded since then.
If You're Targeted, You're On-Target
This naturally raises the question, why were we targeted in the first
place? Is it because we have high credibility from being one of the
first natural health sites on the web with the most followers? Is it
because we've spent a quarter of a century gaining people's trust by
mostly being correct about the health care system and criminal Big
Pharma behavior?
Is it because we, more than others, have well-established credibility
and are directly over the target? Is it because we have the experience
and know-how to make accurate predictions? Is it because we see and
explain the bigger picture?
Or is it some other reason entirely? It's a mystery, really, but what
is clear is that we've been deemed a threat to the official propaganda
narrative, and I, for whatever reason, am at the very top of that threat
identification list. Well, I've said this before, and I'll say it
again: I'm beyond truly honored to have been widely disparaged by one of
the arms of the U.S. military and intelligence operations.
Being targeted in this fashion — tedious as it may be — is in fact a
badge of honor. It tells me I'm doing the right thing, and that I've not
misinterpreted the intentions behind the COVID machinations. More so
than any intuition, it tells me I'm on target.
In the bright light of undeniable reality — as it is, a year later —
it's clear that Frenkel's hit piece has not aged well. I doubt the NYT's
"Superspreader" documentary will fare much better. In the final
analysis, if you want any hope of controlling your health, and that of
your family, you'd be wise to understand legacy media speaks in
Orwellian Doublespeak and reality is the opposite of virtually
everything they are telling you.