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New wackadoodle conspiracy just dropped
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/oct-4-fema-alert-test-5g-anti-vaxx-conspiracy-theory-1234838377/
Anti-Vaxxers Think an Emergency Phone Alert Will Cause a Zombie Apocalypse
The latest paranoia to grip online fringe communities is about FEMA supposedly sending harmful 5G signals to your phone
MILES KLEE
OCTOBER 3, 2023 5:45PM EDT

“Is there a Zombie Apocalypse activated by 5G towers on the way?!?!” wrote the QAnon influencer behind a Telegram channel called The Patriot Voice, which is followed by more than 50,000 people, in a post shared at the end of September. The message cites a supposed military expert’s claim that Covid-19 vaccines contain “sealed pathogens” including E. coli bacteria and the viruses Marburg and Ebola, all of which can be released by an “18 Gigahertz 5G frequency.”

“FEMA plans on doing a ‘test’ of the EBS on Oct 4 or 11 at 2:22PM. I would turn OFF ALL 5G devices,” the writer concluded. Similar claims about a test alert that will “activate” deadly diseases within vaccinated people — and warnings to turn off phones — have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Virtually nothing in these comments is accurate, save for the fact that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Federal Communications Commission are conducting tests of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) on Oct. 4. (The Emergency Broadcast System, or EBS, was replaced by the EAS in 1997.) The wireless portion, to occur at approximately 2:20pm ET, “will be directed to all consumer cell phones,” and consist of a simple message: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” At most, it will be a mild surprise or annoyance. And it certainly won’t turn you into a zombie (which the often fatal Marbug virus doesn’t do in any case).

But for online conspiracists, the bland, bureaucratic announcement of such a test can only portend some kind of disaster — preferably the kind they can brace for while the rest of the clueless public remains unprepared. The exact nature of the Oct. 4 event depends on who is offering the prediction, but theories tend to focus on the alleged dangers of vaccines and 5G signals. 5G cellular networks, which telecoms began implementing in 2019, have been erroneously associated with Covid and vaccines by conspiracists throughout the pandemic; in the U.K. this past June, two anti-vaxxers were convicted of a criminal plot to destroy 5G towers they referred to as “enemy infrastructure.”

“My family believes the end is near,” a redditor wrote recently on r/QAnonCasualties, a subreddit where people can commiserate about their friends and loved ones falling down the rabbit hole of the conspiracist QAnon movement. “According to my father, on October 4th, at 2pm EST, the government is going to use the Emergency Broadcast System to play a frequency that will activate the RFID chips in vaccinated people and trigger the beginning of the great replacement,” the post explained. The idea that the vaccines contain radio frequency identification tags — so that elites like Bill Gates or George Soros can track individuals, according to some anti-vaxxers — is a falsehood typically conflated with paranoia about 5G networks. “The Great Replacement,” meanwhile, is a white nationalist conspiracy theory which holds that white citizens in Western nations are being systematically replaced with nonwhite immigrants. Racist mass shooters have regularly invoked the concept in their manifestoes.

Because most of this fearmongering concerns allegedly harmful cell phone signals, the conspiracist community is also sharing pseudoscientific advice about how to protect oneself during the FEMA test. My Patriot Supply, a retailer that sells survival food kits and other equipment to preppers expecting societal collapse, warned that the U.S. government “will break into your phone” on Oct. 4, and they recommended purchasing one of their Faraday bags, a pouch that blocks electromagnetic fields, to keep their devices in. Others have suggested putting your phone in an (unplugged) microwave, believing it will act as a Faraday cage, likewise blocking electromagnetic radiation.

“My [mom] just told me in a panic, that on Oct. 4th, Joe Biden will use cell phones to attack the whole population of the United States, something about a frequency that can harm and kill,” wrote another redditor on r/QAnonCasualties. “She told me that I need to wrap my cell phone in aluminum foil and place it in the microwave for the day, I shit you not.” Even if FEMA were sending some kind of nefarious 5G signals to your phone, a microwave’s Faraday shields (the technology which ensures the radiation that heats your food remains within the oven) wouldn’t stop them from going through. Microwaves aren’t perfect Faraday cages and actually “leak” — if you put your phone in there and call it, it will probably ring.

Still others are foreseeing more drastic scenarios and taking more extreme precautions. A TikTok user sowing alarm over the Oct. 4 test alert shared a clip from the 2016 sci-fi horror film Cell, in which a mysterious signal received by phones turns their owners into rabid killers who foam at the mouth. The video has been viewed more than a million times. Another conspiracist anticipates total internet blackout and the need to withdraw any money from bank accounts before systems go down. And one redditor posted screenshots of a text exchange with a worried landlord who said he would be shutting off power to multiple apartments for several hours and told tenants to avoid looking at screens during that time, because “light can also be turned against us.”
That none of these dire prophesies will come to pass on Wednesday is unlikely to dissuade true believers from making the same kind of claims in the future. In the QAnon and anti-vaxxer worlds, many would-be pivotal dates have come and gone without the great upheavals that were meant to occur at appointed moments — Donald Trump wasn’t sworn in as president instead of Biden, John F. Kennedy Jr. didn’t come back to life, and the vaccines haven’t cause a mass die-off. It doesn’t phase these communities, which simply move on to the next narrative.

For the record, though, your phone is transmitting 5G signals every day, including when you text everyone in your life to tell them how dangerous 5G is. Just something to keep in mind.

RFK Jr. Launches Independent 2024 Run: Here Are All The Conspiracies He Promotes—From Vaccines To Mass Shootings

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/10/10/rfk-jr-launches-independent-2024-run-here-are-all-the-conspiracies-he-promotes-from-vaccines-to-mass-shootings/?sh=4cbb244f3cef





Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s family publicly rebuked the longshot Democratic presidential contender for claiming at a dinner party in Manhattan last week Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish people are less susceptible to Covid-19—unverified conspiracy theories widely viewed as racist and among a string of false claims he has helped spread over the better part of the past two decades.


Covid-19 targets certain races and gives others immunity: Kennedy Jr. was caught on camera telling fellow diners that “Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and “the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” according to a video made public in the New York Post, which also shows him saying the U.S. “put hundreds of millions of dollars into ethnically targeted microbes” and labs in Ukraine collected Russian and Chinese DNA “so we can target people by race.”

Mass shootings are linked to prescription drugs: Kennedy Jr. blamed school shootings on drugs like the antidepressant Prozac in a recent Twitter Spaces discussion, telling owner Elon Musk, “Prior to the introduction of Prozac, we had almost none of these events" (there's no scientifically established correlation between psychiatric drugs and mass violence, according to experts cited by PolitiFact).

The 2004 presidential election was stolen: Kennedy Jr. said in a 2006 Rolling Stone article he was “convinced” that voter fraud in the 2004 presidential election allowed former Republican President George W. Bush to steal the victory from Democrat John Kerry, but while a 2005 postmortem by the Democratic Party found a breakdown of the election system in Ohio, it found no evidence of fraud.

The CIA was involved in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy: Reprising the unfounded claim he has made for years, Kennedy Jr. recently made the suggestion to Fox News’ Sean Hannity (though the federal government’s Warren Commission convened to study the killing found that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he shot JFK in 1963).

The wrong person may have been convicted of killing his father: Kennedy Jr. cast doubt on the conviction of Sirhan Sirhan in the 1968 assassination of his father, former U.S. Attorney General and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, to which gunman Sirhan Sirhan confessed days later, though his lawyers have claimed in recent years that he was hypnotized and coerced to kill Kennedy.

The pharmaceutical industry is throwing money at Democrats: After the Affordable Care Act of 2010, “Democrats were getting more money from pharma than Republicans,” Kennedy Jr. claimed on Twitter Spaces, though an analysis by STAT News found 23 of the country’s biggest drug companies and 2 pharmaceutical trade organizations have favored Republicans in 14 of the past 16 elections from 1990-2020, the most recent year STAT studied.

Gun ownership in Switzerland is similar to the United States: While vowing not to “take away anyone’s guns,” if elected president, Kennedy Jr. made the debunked claim, despite data that shows U.S. civilians possess an average of 120.5 firearms per 100 people, the highest per-capita rate in the world, compared to 27.6 in Switzerland, according to the Small Arms Survey by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Covid-19 virus was genetically engineered: “Covid was clearly a bioweapons problem,” he said on Twitter Spaces, repeating a claim promoted by some hard-right lawmakers—U.S. intelligence agencies have said it’s possible the virus originated from a lab accident, but have found no evidence to support the claim that it was deliberately leaked.

Former White House medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates sought to exaggerate the pandemic, in part, to promote vaccines: Kennedy Jr. accused the pair in his 2021 book, The Real Anthony Fauci of launching "a historic coup d'état against Western democracy" by exercising outsize influence over the media and public health realm, while Kennedy also promoted use of unapproved treatments for Covid-19, such as ivermectin.

Vaccines can cause autism: For years, Kennedy Jr. has promoted the theory that the preservative, thimerosal, which has largely been phased out of modern vaccine formulas, appears to be responsible for a rise in autism diagnoses and that the government knew but “knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children,” he wrote in Rolling Stone and Salon in 2006, despite consensus among a number of certified health organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and more that have found no credible link between vaccines and autism.


Four of Kennedy Jr.’s 10 siblings criticized his independent run Monday, calling it “dangerous” in a statement by Rory Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend released shortly after his announcement. “Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same vision, values or judgment,” they wrote. The rebuke marks the latest effort by members of his family to publicly distance themselves from his controversial views. His sister, Kerry Kennedy called his comments about a genetically engineered Covid-19 virus “deplorable and untruthful,” his brother Joseph Kennedy II told the The Boston Globe the statements were “morally and factually wrong” and a “play on antisemitic myths and stoke mistrust of the Chinese” that “in no way reflect the words and actions of our father, Robert F. Kennedy.” His nephew, Joe Kennedy III, called the statements were “hurtful and wrong,” tweeting “I unequivocally condemn what he said.” His wife, actress Cheryl Hines, who introduced him on stage in Philadelphia Monday, said his “opinions are not a reflection of [her] own,” in a tweet last year after he compared vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany.

Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly disavowed the “anti-vaxx” label, claiming he is not against safe vaccines and has vaccinated his children.

14%. That’s the share of voters who would cast their ballots for Kennedy Jr. in a three-way general election matchup with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll that found Biden received support from 31% of voters and Trump received 35%.

Kennedy Jr., a former environmental lawyer and Harvard Law graduate, veered into the fringe in the early 2000s with articles in Rolling Stone and Salon promoting conspiracies about vaccines and the 2004 election. He is the founder and chairman of the Children’s Health Defense nonprofit, a leading promoter of vaccine skepticism. The group’s influence surged during the Covid-19 pandemic and was the subject of widespread condemnation for a controversial film critics said targeted the Black community with vaccine misinformation. Kennedy Jr. announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination on April 6, calling Biden a close family friend and vowing not to run a “mean-spirited campaign,” while explaining the two “differ really dramatically on issues like the war, like censorship, like the control of Wall Street and the big corporations of our federal government and the pharmaceutical companies and also use of fear as a governing tool,” he told CNN. Politicos have observed Kennedy Jr.’s relatively strong polling numbers (similar to those of GOP candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis) are more of a reflection of his name recognition and a lack of enthusiasm about Biden, who more than half of Democratic voters don’t want to run again, according to an April Associated Press/NORC poll.


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Sometimes it’s easier to believe in space lasers than climate change

Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) would seemingly rather claim that the government can create hurricanes than that warm Gulf water does.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/sometimes-its-easier-believe-space-lasers-than-climate-change/





Hurricane Helene roared through the Southeast two weeks ago, destroying an uncounted number of buildings, triggering massive flooding and leaving more than 200 people dead. In a statement, President Joe Biden extended his sympathies, saying he was “praying for those who lost loved ones from Hurricane Helene, and for those whose homes, businesses, and communities were impacted by this terrible storm.”

Except that if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is to be believed: Maybe he caused it??

Greene is perhaps America’s second most-famous conspiracy theorist, having risen to national attention by combining doomsday rhetoric with Republican politicking — mirroring the person who holds the top spot.

One of her best-known and most dubious assertions centered around a natural disaster. When a wildfire erupted in California, Greene speculated that the conflagration had been caused by a laser beam targeted from space at the direction of investment bankers. This was not when she was a kid, mind you; she offered this explanation in 2018. So perhaps it is not surprising that her explanation for Helene’s 2024 arrival is broadly similar.

She got there slowly. First, on Oct. 3, she posted a hard-to-read map showing how Helene’s path overlapped with heavily Republican areas of Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. This isn’t incorrect, as The Washington Post also reported, but the idea is hampered by the same inaccuracy that plagues presidential election maps: lots of lightly populated rural areas vote red but occupy a lot of square mileage.

Later that day, she made the subtext explicit.

“Yes they can control the weather,” she wrote on X, the rumor-driven site that replaced Twitter. “It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

A “community note” — a form of internal fact-checking — was appended to that post noting that control of the weather to the scale of a hurricane was very much not possible.

But Greene dug in. Two days later, she shared a clip from CBS News describing how lasers could be used to control the weather. What was presented was theoretical, though, with the scientist being interviewed indicating that the idea was not demonstrably functional. What’s more, the same issue of scale applied. Making rain fall from a cumulonimbus is very different than ginning up massive regions of rain-filled clouds.

On Monday evening, Greene posted a meme getting at her original point, that evidence of the ability to manipulate weather was extensive. But it relied on a familiar tactic in the world of conspiracy theorizing: scraping together and misrepresenting a number of disparate and unrelated things.





Finally, about an hour later, Greene offered her most revealing assessment of the situation. Sharing a post from another user on X, she sarcastically joked that her theory was no more ludicrous than the idea that such storms were caused by “cow farts.” The question she was posing to readers was obvious: Which seemed more likely, that the government could whip up a hurricane or that Helene and other storms are worsened by methane emissions from the cattle industry?

The answer, of course, is the cow one.

Let’s set aside the ridiculousness of the weather-control argument, an argument that depends on nonexistent technology and on our assuming that the government never used this to, say, ground Russian aircraft preparing to invade Ukraine but instead saved it so they could wipe out western North Carolina.

Let’s instead focus on the abundant and convincing evidence that climate change is real, contributes to strengthening storms like Helene (and Hurricane Milton, now headed toward Florida) — and is driven to a small degree by emissions from livestock.

Climate change is a broad term referring primarily to the increase in global temperatures that has resulted from emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. Those gases rise into the upper atmosphere and remain there, keeping some heat that would otherwise escape into space within the atmosphere. That has raised global air and water temperatures, including in the Gulf of Mexico.

Hurricanes draw energy from ocean water, with warmer water offering the storms more fuel. Warmer air holds more precipitation. In a warmer world, then, we would expect to see hurricanes grow large, quickly. And we do.

Cow flatulence doesn’t contribute a lot of methane to the atmosphere. As NASA explains, cow burps are the bigger problem. It’s emissions from the agriculture industry more broadly that are the bigger contributor to atmospheric methane, though. And while methane is more effective at trapping heat, it makes up much less of the greenhouse gas that blankets the planet than carbon dioxide, produced largely by burning fossil fuels.

We don’t need to post random memes with patent numbers to demonstrate this. We can, instead, point to voluminous, detailed scientific research.

But Republicans such as Greene have invested enormous political capital in the idea that climate change isn’t real or is overstated. The issue has been deeply politicized over the past two decades, in part thanks to the efforts of fossil fuel companies. By now, the partisan damage has been done, with politicians such as Greene tossing out goofy claims about cow farts as a way to trigger conditioned scoffing from her political allies. To her and to many of her allies, climate change is as ridiculous an explanation for a hurricane as “maybe it was a government megalaser” is to objective observers.

This is the world we live in, one where a random person’s motivated poking around on the internet is presented as equivalent to actual controlled research. Where the poking around, when done by the right person, can spur a cadre of allies to step up in defense — regardless of how silly the results of the “research.”

Over on her official X account, Greene summarized her argument, again suggesting that the weather is under government control.

“Climate change is the new Covid,” she claimed. But this is backward. The right spent more than a decade devising ways to undercut climate science and stoke distrust in scientists, efforts that were leveraged to undercut confidence in the pandemic response and vaccines.

At the very least, Greene is (seeming inadvertently) admitting that climate change, like covid, is dangerous.

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RFK Jr. says he has spasmodic dysphonia, a voice disorder. What is it?

A neurological movement disorder, it causes difficulty in speaking, and a voice that often breaks and sounds strained or strangled.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/11/15/robert-kennedy-jr-voice-spasmodic-dysphonia/

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., president-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has said he has spasmodic dysphonia. It is a voice disorder characterized by involuntary spasms in the muscles that control the vocal cords, or folds. This causes difficulty in speaking, and a voice that often breaks and sounds strained or strangled.

It is known as a focal dystonia, a neurological movement disorder that affects one specific part of the body. Writer’s cramp, where there are spasms in the hands or fingers, or persistent eye spasms or eye closure are others in the same category.

Spasmodic dysphonia most often develops at midlife — in one’s 30s or 40s — and can be life altering, particularly for those whose careers depend on speech.

“Most people take their voice for granted until they don’t have it,” said Pryor Brenner, a otolaryngologist in D.C. “It can be very discouraging. People don’t feel comfortable speaking, or don’t want to speak. They are embarrassed. It has a huge impact because they aren’t able to express themselves.”

Moreover, “it’s an invisible condition, meaning others can’t see it,” said Michael M. Johns, professor of clinical otolaryngology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and director of the USC Voice Center. “It’s not associated with any cognitive impairment, and these people look normal to the eye.”

What causes spasmodic dysphonia?

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Scientists agree that the disorder is neurological but don’t know its exact cause, according to Dysphonia International. Researchers are still trying to identify which part of the brain is involved and whether there may be a genetic component, according to the organization.

Some cases also may be triggered by a viral illness such as a cold or influenza, or a traumatic life event such as the death of a loved one, Brenner said. “An incredibly stressful event in life can turn it on,” he said.

Andrew Tritter, a laryngologist at UTHealth Houston, said such cases are rare, but they do occur. “I’ve seen them from a traumatic experience to going in for routine surgery,” he said. “I had one patient who woke up with it after she had a hysterectomy. Her voice was terrible, and it became chronic.”

Tritter said for people with spasmodic dysphonia, it “can be frustrating and upsetting to not be understood or heard, or be asked to constantly repeat yourself.”

There also are idiopathic cases, which occur spontaneously with no obvious cause. “It just happens,” Brenner said.

What are the types of spasmodic dysphonia?

There are three kinds of spasmodic dysphonia.

Adductor spasmodic dysphonia is the most common type, which accounts for 80 percent of cases, including Kennedy’s, experts said. It causes sudden involuntary spasms that trigger the vocal cords to stiffen and close. The spasms disrupt the vibration of the vocal cords and the ability to make sounds.

Abductor spasmodic dysphonia is less common — accounting for about 20 percent of cases, experts said. It results in involuntary spasms that trigger the vocal cords to open, making vibration impossible and forming words difficult. Also, the open position lets air escape during speech, making the person sound weak, quiet and breathy.

Mixed spasmodic dysphonia is very rare and has symptoms common to the other two types.

How is spasmodic dysphonia diagnosed?
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An otolaryngologist and speech-language pathologist will evaluate a patient’s symptoms and medical history and visualize their vocal cord movement through a stroboscopy exam, which is an endoscopy through the nose or mouth with a special camera and light that provides a detailed visual of vocal cord vibration to diagnose the condition.

They also will rate voice quality, record the voice to obtain acoustic measures and may palpate the neck to determine the presence of tension in and around the larynx. They may also ask the patient to read or repeat several specific sentences.

At times, the condition can be confused with other vocal issues such as a vocal tremor, Brenner said. But there is a distinction.

“Someone who has a vocal tremor can’t hold a pitch.” he said, describing a wavering that occurs when the person tries. Someone with spasmodic dysphonia, on the other hand, “can usually hold a single pitch but has trouble forming and articulating words.

How is spasmodic dysphonia treated?

Spasmodic dysphonia can’t be cured, experts said. Usually, once someone has it, “it doesn’t fluctuate over time,” Brenner said. “It levels off fairly quickly, with not a lot of variation over the years.”

It’s an office-based procedure using local anesthesia. Needles are passed into the neck and through the vocal cords, Johns said, and “it helps the vast majority of people become more functional in their lives.”

Botox works by blocking nerve impulses at the muscle receptor site, which normally signal the muscle to contract, and must be repeated periodically. The response varies, but the average relief lasts for about three to four months, according to Dysphonia International.

There can be some side effects, including breathiness, difficulty swallowing and pain at the injection site. Still, “it is a great treatment for most people,” Brenner said.

There also are at least two surgeries available, experts said. “Both are operations on the larynx and vocal cords to try to separate and relax them,” Johns said. “But they are fraught with complications and not considered standard treatment for the condition.”

Also, “I’ve never seen a child with it,” he added.

But there are several treatments, including surgery and voice therapy, though injections with botulinum toxin (Botox) is the gold standard in providing temporary relief, usually for several months, experts said.

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The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax, the families announced Thursday.

“The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the 2012 shooting in Connecticut, said in a statement provided by his lawyers.



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