WorldNetDaily has long been a serial misinformer and liar about COVID and its vaccines — and it has continued pushing those lies. A March 26 article is a rehash of a Tucker Carlson interview with
“researcher and surgeon” Patrick Soon-Shiong (he’s actually the owner of the Los Angeles Times) in which he claimed (according to Carlson) that “Covid, and the vaccines that didn’t stop it, are likely causing a global epidemic of terrifyingly aggressive cancers.” In fact, no evidence supports this particular conspiracy theory.
Not to be outdone, Bob Unruh called on one of WND’s favorite COVID misinformers in an April 15 article:
Acute psychosis, anxiety, delusion, mania, panic attack, schizophrenia all at least in part were triggered by the mRNA COVID shots mandated by many governments and even more corporations for workers during the China virus pandemic that killed millions.
Also brain fog, cerebral atrophy, dementia, and mental impairment.
The results are from the “Association Between COVID-19 Vaccination and Neuropsychiatric Conditions” by multiple authors, including Peter McCullough.
A report at Slay News said the “alarming” results reveal that the mRNA treatments, which was unlike any previous “vaccine,” “triggered serious neuropsychiatric conditions, causing, suicidal thoughts, violent behavior and homicidal ideation to skyrocket.”
“The study also found massive surges in brain injury, cerebral hemorrhage, brain clots, and dementia among those who received the injections,” the report explained. “In total, the study identifies 86 serious neuropsychiatric safety signals linked to COVID shots.”
The results were published in PrePrints.
The physicians worked with information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, during the period January 1990 through December 2024.
The biggest red flag here is the presence of McCullough, who is such a notorious medical misinformer that we devoted an entire article to the misinformation he spreads. Also, one of McCullough’s co-authors is Drew Pinsky, the celebrity doctor turned right-wing shill who has continued to spread COVID misinfo.
You will not be surprised that McCullough’s numbers are way off. Note that he got his data from VAERS, As NewsGuard reported:
Reports submitted to VAERS are unverified and can be submitted by anyone, including anti-vaccine activists, making it an unreliable source for drawing conclusions about the safety or side effects of any vaccine or medicine.
[…]There is no credible evidence that COVID vaccines cause neuropsychiatric conditions, according to experts.
Unruh also stole this story from Slay News, the notoriously unreliable far-right “news” operation. He returned with an April 18 article:
But now the White House has exploded the COVID myths pushed by officials and authorities with a new report.
It states bluntly that:
“The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.”
Unruh has lazily summarized the new self-aggrandizing COVID website recent posted by the Trump administration, which is a mess of loud graphics, conspiracy theories and outright falsehoods, as the Washington Post detailed:
Please note, also, that it’s actually not “LAB LEAK: THE TRUE ORIGINS OF Covid-19,” but rather “LAB [full-body portrait of Donald Trump striding purposefully toward the camera] LEAK: THE TRUE ORIGINS OF Covid-19.”
Now visitors to covid.gov are properly oriented. We all understand that we have been hoodwinked by a massive government conspiracy, and only the 47th president — who had nothing to do with anything covid-related — can save us.
[…]This is what is killing me about “LAB LEAK: THE TRUE ORIGINS OF Covid-19.” Not that it’s weird, ugly or lame. But that this was a normal government website until just a few days ago, and now, boom, everything that was once carefully vetted and fact-checked is gone. It’s a full-scale rewriting of history, using official government channels.
In short: More fake news from WND. So much for feeling ashamed.