The Lowest Covid Delusion Yet

 I am obviously not going to link to this, but today there is circulating on the wingnut web an article by one Dr. Betty Martini, offering what she claims to be a home recipe for manufacturing Hydroxychloroquine.

Dr. Betty Martini.  No, really, that's her.


"Dr." Betty Martini is not a medical doctor of any kind; she has an honorary doctorate from an unaccredited bible college.  Nevertheless, she has a quarter century long history of pushing anti-vaccine, anti-fluoride, and a variety of other conspiracy theories.  Now she has jumped with all four feet into the Covid conspiracy theory, not content to let a chance to make money off the suckers go to waste.


But Dr. Betty has gone one step farther, and is publishing what she alleges to be a recipe for Hydroxychloroquine which you can make at home from lemon and grapefruit skins.  So, she wants you not only to take a useless and dangerous medicine, but she wants you to make your own.


Now here's the thing, and don't tell me that you didn't expect this:  Grapefruit skins do contain a certain amount of the drug quinine, which can be extracted without too much trouble, but Hydroxychloroquine, or to be more specific, Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate, which is the actual drug, is not quinine, any more than Scotch Tape is Scotch Whiskey.  The real thing can only be made in a laboratory with fairly sophisticated equipment, by someone with a working knowledge of organic chemistry.  But of course this didn't stop Dr. Betty from promoting this "cure" for people who may be in urgent need of real medical treatment.  It is nothing but remote control murder.


This is just one of the most malignant misuses of the internet I have ever seen, and it should result in this woman spending a very long time in prison, but of course it won't.

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Mostly.A.Cynic said…
I encourage those who believe what this woman is saying is to follow her advice, cleansing of the gene pool will happen
August 13, 2020 at 8:18 AM
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