Saturday, July 24, 2021

The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online. (Sheera Frenkel, for the NYT.)

 


Joseph Mercola, an osteopath,

doesn't know bupkis but he can do math.

Misinformation is his stock in trade;

he's pulling in money with his masquerade.

Facebook and Twitter have posted his trash

and viewers seem willing to give him their cash.

No vaccination! he endlessly posts.

They're unnecessary, he constantly boasts.

Eat plenty of yogurt, and mattresses shun,

and this, he does claim, is how health will be won.

A quack with some letters right after his name

is often believed by the mentally lame;

they lap up his products at prices immense

and show all the world how they lack common sense.

How sad that a market will always exist

for mountebank promises that turn to mist!



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