'Willful ignorance': doctor who joined Capitol attack condemned for Covid falsehoods | The Guardian - Jan. 22, 2021 |

A key conservative doctors' group pushing misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines faces growing fire from medical experts about its woeful scientific grounding, while its leader, Dr Simone Gold, was charged early this week for taking part in the 6 January attack on the Capitol.

The development comes as the US faces warnings its pandemic death toll could hit 500,000 next month, in part because conspiracy theories and baseless skepticism - especially from rightwing groups - have hampered efforts to tackle it.

Gold, who founded America's Frontline Doctors last spring with help from the Tea Party Patriots organization, was arrested on Monday in Beverly Hills, where she lives, and faces charges of entering a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct.

Prior to her arrest, a headshot of Gold holding a bullhorn that she used to give a talk inside the Capitol appeared on an FBI flyer headlined "Seeking Information" about suspects in the Capitol attack. The group's communications director, John Strand, who writes for the conservative Epoch Times and was with Gold in the Capitol, was also arrested in Beverly Hills and faces similar charges.

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Doctor, Lawyer, Insurrectionist: The Radicalization of Simone Gold | Mother Jones - May 6, 2021 |

When rioters broke into the US Capitol on January 6, chants of "Fuck the police!" "USA!" or "Treason!" echoed in the marble halls. When Dr. Simone Gold got inside the rotunda, she stepped over a velvet rope and announced to anyone who would listen, "I am a Stanford-educated attorney!"

Thus she distinguished herself among the motley crew of Proud Boys, MAGA types, and the QAnon shaman who paraded through the Capitol to overturn the 2020 presidential election, an event that left five people dead.

Not only is Gold a Stanford-educated lawyer, she's also a board-certified emergency room physician. Neither qualification prevented the FBI from coming to her Beverly Hills house on January 18 and arresting her. Nor did it make a federal grand jury think twice in early February before indicting her on five criminal counts, including entering a restricted building and obstructing an official proceeding.

⚠️ Het is te druk bij de demonstratie Unmute Us in het Westerpark. Sluit niet meer aan. Kom hier niet naar toe.

⛔ Vermijd drukke plekken
↔️ Geef elkaar de ruimte

— Gemeente Amsterdam (@AmsterdamNL) September 11, 2021

35,000 March in  Amsterdam freedom protest: Unmute Us

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An ad agency in NC tried to troll the unvaccinated with an ad for a fake funeral home that read: 'Don't get vaccinated. Wilmore Funeral Home.'

'We wanted to do something that...kind of shocks people,' said David Oakley of BooneOakley ad agency to CNN. pic.twitter.com/8EybgCIV8f

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) September 22, 2021