A physician who claims he is the scientist who invented the mRNA vaccines that now include the COVID-19 vaccines is leveling apparently baseless accusations of “collusion” and possible “corrupt racketeering” against CNN, Sesame Street, Big Bird, and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.
Robert W. Malone, according to The Atlantic, has a history of spreading “misinformation,” and while he had a hand in the development of the mRNA vaccine platform, so did literally hundreds of other scientists, who don’t claim full credit.
Malone has been accused of promoting Ivermectin – a horse de-wormer that has been used on humans to battle lice infestations – as a COVID treatment, which it is not.
Salon has called Malone “a doctor who has spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on platforms like ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,‘ [and] alleged to have personally used the drug [Ivermectin] to treat COVID-19, further popularizing it among followers of Carlson’s show.”
Republicans have been apoplectic over this tweet:
On Monday CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviewed Big Bird.
Like so many other right wingers, Malone went for the jugular, claiming the interview “appears to involve collusion between CNN, the Sesame Street organization, and Pfizer.” He adds, ludicrously, “This may meet criteria for corrupt racketeering.”
“What is going on is that Pfizer is using CNN as a surrogate to advertise directly to children, thereby driving consumer demand, to cause the USG/CDC to purchase additional Pfizer unlicensed EUA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines,” he said.
This is of course false, especially the false claim that the Pfizer vaccines are “unlicensed,” which Malone has claimed before.
“This constitutes illegal marketing of an unlicensed pharmaceutical product,” Malone claims, again falsely.