Someone remind us to bring Paddington Bear with me to the next anti-lockdown protest…ģ. The post was accompanied with an adorable snap of the bear in a hi vis jacket and face mask, holding a ‘I’ve had my COVID vaccine’ sticker.ĭr Wolf’s response in a quote tweet was one of sheer horror. Taking to Twitter on 26 May, the “famous globetrotting entrepreneurial bear”, Stanley Bear, wrote that he “helped out at Leamington Spa vaccination centre as a NHS volunteer steward. Well, in the case of Dr Wolf, one tweet from May suggests that it was a cuddly toy bear:īefore she left, Naomi Wolf left us with one of the funniest tweets in the history of this garbage site. For the general population, we’d argue that a deadly pandemic is pretty scary, but for those who are against the jab, is it 5G? The supposed chips inserted into you which turns your Nan into a Wi-Fi router, or something far more sinister? Sometimes one wonders what truly strikes fear into the hearts of anti-vaxxers. If she had researched properly, who knows, she would not only realise her mistake, but learn that a lot of her arguments about COVID and the vaccine are flawed and/or unsubstantiated. Naturally, Dr Wolf shared the anti-vaxx post without confirming whether a Dr John Sims, MD existed, whether he actually said that, and whether he actually looked like that (he definitely doesn’t). The photo in question is of adult film star Johnny Sins in a doctor’s costume, accompanied with the completely false quote: “If a vaccine is effective, then why do you need to pressure people to take it? Informed consent means letting patients make their own choices.” Sending Wolf a DM on Twitter, Klippenstein told the writer that he was a “huge fan of your work” and that he “ your outspokenness”, attaching the image for Dr Wolf to share. Most notably, both Twitter and Facebook moved to ban former US president Donald Trump from their platforms over rule violations.In an incredible display of poor fact-checking, The Intercept reporter Ken Klippenstein managed to trick Dr Wolf into tweeting a completely made-up quote, on an image featuring an American porn star. Social media platforms have recently shown themselves to be increasingly willing to ban prominent figures over misinformation or potentially dangerous posts, despite some parties raising fears about freedom of speech. Dr Wolf earned her PhD on the same subject. Governments and health organisations around the world have made efforts to tackle vaccine misinformation in the belief that it may discourage people from taking vaccines and hamper the response to Covid-19.Ī former political adviser to Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Dr Wolf was at one time an influential mainstream figure, but has recently faced increasingly bad press, as well as criticism over the promotion of conspiracy theories.Ī central aspect of her Outrages book, about the criminalisation of same-sex relationships in Victorian Britain, was picked apart on BBC radio in 2019. Anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists use vile anti-Semitic memes to spread Covid misinformation online
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