Dr john Campbell -- any links showing he's a quack?

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I won't link to him because I'm guessing he's a quack. My right-wing brother-in-law thinks he's great and he apparently recommends ivermectin :smh: but otherwise it sounds like he sticks to sanity.


Are there any links showing he's a quack? We'd like to get my brother-in-law off that train before he starts taking ivermectin

I see that he's a retired nurse and that he has a PhD, not an MD, and a link where someone noted points in he videos where he was seeming less objective than he should be but nothing that says ok this guy is a quack.


I mean, that will convince someone who refuses to take "recommends ivermectin" as solid evidence of quackery....

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. What city and state is he in? That's probably a common name. NT

[Rhiagel]

2. I think he is from Carlisle, England.

Been watching him since the pandemic began. He is pro-vaccination, pro-masking, pro-vitamin D, and pro-zinc. He has linked to and examined several peer-reviewed studies that show ivermectin to have positive activity against Covid-19. The more ammunition that we have in the fight against the virus, the better off we'll be.

[obamanut2012]

3. You are spreading disinformation about Covid -- STOP IT STOP IT NOW

Campbell is a known quack, and is a Youtuber known for spreading lies and disinformation about Covid and ivermectin. You are wrong, stop it now.

"COVID-19 misinformation
Further information: COVID-19 misinformation § Ivermectin

In November 2021, Campbell said in a video that Ivermectin might have been responsible for a sudden decline in COVID-19 cases in Japan. In reality, the drug had never been officially authorised for such use in the country—its use was merely promoted by the chair of a non-governmental medical association in Tokyo, and it has no established benefit as a COVID-19 treatment.[3] Meaghan Kall, the Lead Epidemiologist at the UK Health Security Agency said that Campbell was confusing causation and correlation, and that even so there was no evidence of ivermectin use in Japan; rather, the story was based on "anecdata on social media driving wildly damaging misinformation".[3]

In November 2021, Campbell quoted from a non-peer-reviewed journal abstract by Steven Gundry saying that mRNA vaccines might cause heart problems. Campbell said he was not sure about the claim or its quality, but did not mention the expression of concern that had been published for the abstract, saying instead that it could be "incredibly significant". The video was viewed over 2 million times within a few weeks and was seized upon by anti-vaccination activists as support for the misinformation that vaccines cause heart attacks."

There needs to be an alert reason for FAKE NEWS.

[Rhiagel]

5. You didn't mention that he was suspicious of the heart attack data...

"Even though Campbell doesn’t mention the expression of concern, he says he’s surprised by the abstract typos, lack of clear data and methodology, and even by the fact that Gundry sells groceries on his website. “I must have worked with about 20 or 30 cardiologists over my career, and I can’t remember any having a grocery facility,” he says 20 minutes into the video."

[obamanut2012]

4. A very dangerous quack

Very big on YouTube re: Covid disinformation.

COVID-19 misinformation
Further information: COVID-19 misinformation § Ivermectin

In November 2021, Campbell said in a video that Ivermectin might have been responsible for a sudden decline in COVID-19 cases in Japan. In reality, the drug had never been officially authorised for such use in the country—its use was merely promoted by the chair of a non-governmental medical association in Tokyo, and it has no established benefit as a COVID-19 treatment.[3] Meaghan Kall, the Lead Epidemiologist at the UK Health Security Agency said that Campbell was confusing causation and correlation, and that even so there was no evidence of ivermectin use in Japan; rather, the story was based on "anecdata on social media driving wildly damaging misinformation".[3]

In November 2021, Campbell quoted from a non-peer-reviewed journal abstract by Steven Gundry saying that mRNA vaccines might cause heart problems. Campbell said he was not sure about the claim or its quality, but did not mention the expression of concern that had been published for the abstract, saying instead that it could be "incredibly significant". The video was viewed over 2 million times within a few weeks and was seized upon by anti-vaccination activists as support for the misinformation that vaccines cause heart attacks.[8]

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6. Thanks. Don't know why I didn't check wiki...