Author and Covid conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf showed just how far she’ll go to fact check anti-vaxxing messaging when she shared a quote on Twitter from Dr. John Sims.
“If a vaccine is effective, then why do we need to pressure people to take it?” Dr. Sims said, according to Wolf.
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) March 21, 2021
Except there is no Dr. John Sims, and the image Wolf shared was actually adult film performer Johnny Sins dressed up as a doctor for a scene.
Intercept reporter Ken Klippenstein took credit for tricking Wolf, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, with the fake-out.
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Wolf quickly deleted the post, but not before it could be used against her credibility.
Ken got Naomi Wolf — who is an anti-vaxxer and has been spreading misinformation left and right — to post a fake quote from a fake doctor along with a photo of the adult film star Johnny Sins.
This is how top-notch her vetting of information is. https://t.co/MAmsKFAS0F
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) March 21, 2021
The irony is that Johnny Sins probably has a much better idea of infection control than Naomi Wolf.
— Damon Young (@damonayoung) March 21, 2021
This isn’t the first time Wolf’s sourcing has been called into serious question.
In February she claimed that she overheard an Apple employee “boasting about attending a top secret demo” where “they had a new tech to deliver vaccines w nanopatticles that let you travel back in time.”
Good morning pic.twitter.com/3VolAx63Xn
— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) February 26, 2021
In 2019, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt canceled the U.S. release of Wolf’s book, “Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love,” after it was discovered she got wide swaths of information completely wrong.
The 400-page book examines the persecution of homosexuality in Victorian Britain and could have been a very useful resource for LGBTQ historians and the general public… if only the information Wolf provided in it was actually accurate.
AxelDC
Dr. Simms will give you a shot, but it won’t prevent COVID.
Thad
And there’s a gay porn series featuring a Dr. Wolf, who is considerably hunkier than Naomi Wolf.
rural queer socialist
Hello! Making references to Naomi Wolf’s body – by comparison to a allegedly ‘hunkier’ allegedly male-bodied porn star is
SEXIST, MISOGYNIST, and TRANSPHOBIC … and social-structural systemic HATE VIOLENCE!.
Get with the program! We are not supposed to compare anyone to anyone! That’s RACIST!.
Ya’ll!
Cam
@rural queer socialist
Awwwww, the right wing troll under it’s other screename is desperately trying to derail the topic.
(Yawn).
maddog
What happens when some person reads this drivel and makes a decision not to get to get vaccinated and dies?
When will these people be held accountable for their lies?
rural queer socialist
Hello! THAT is CALLED being ‘pro’ choice! Democrats are all over being ‘pro’ choice. Rights to CHOOSE – without government coercion – to get gay-married or not! Rights to CHOOSE – without government coercion – to cut your unborn human baby apart while alive (the unborn human being in the second and third trimesters having an OBSERVABLE HUMAN BODY that measurably reacts to being cut apart alive). Rights to CHOOSE – without government coercion – to get medical treatments or not! ONLY rarely can the government COERCE medical treatments, such as coercing oral therapy for TB, in guarantine if you are TB-infected.
Cam
@rural queer socialist
The right wing troll account desperately trying to deflect from lies put out by anti-Vaxxers.
cuteguy
That’s what happens when you listen to faux news, uh I mean Fox News. Same difference
rural queer socialist
You mean FAKE LYING NEWS like CNN – who were all about bowing down and bending over for Evil Governor Cuomo while he was LYING about COVID deaths, PUTTING SICK OLD VULNERABLE PEOPLE into places that were like ‘death camps’, sexually abusing women he had power over, etc …. You mean that FAKE LYING NEWS!?
Cam
@rural queer socialist
Sounds like the Biden Administration’s competence is starting to make you lose it.
LilMesican
Well, after seeing some of his videos I would believe what he has to say… or do!!!
McSteve
Naomi Wolf wrote a terrific book in 1990 called “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”. Why, Naomi, why do you have to now be a covid crazy conspiracy theorist batshit anti-vaxxer?
ronniebs
I had to google if it was the same Naomi Wolf who wrote that book. What the hell happened?
jsmu
Nope. Wolf was always a shallow, opportunistic bitch, and ‘The Beauty Myth’ was mediocre at best. Just took her a while to show her full MAGAtude, that’s all.
jsmu
From the NYT review of Wolf’s first atrocity: “sloppily researched polemic as dismissible as a hackneyed adventure film … Even by the standards of pop-cultural feminist studies, The Beauty Myth is a mess.”
dhmonarch89
Hey- I’d love to travel back in time- give me that vaccine!!!! I hate the world we live in today!!!
Mehki
Let’s say she actually overheard such a conversation and before they started talking, all of them randomly identified themselves as Apple employees. I mean they could have been the janitors, but whatever.
Anyway, wouldn’t a sane person have said to themselves, well that’s the most batshit crazy crap I’ve ever heard and would *not* repeat it publically, as proof that… What? Time travel is real?
Are any of these good doctors, fake or otherwise, checking her meds? Friends? Family members?
Who’s letting her loose to run wild and naked through the streets?
Another question: is anyone on the right actually sane? Or are they all just coo-coo for cocoa puffs?
yup5hioop
nano quantum inter dimensional porn star reboot of quantum leap just jumps from from sex acts through time
andyjt66
No difference to the so called experts, the msm put on every day.
avesraggiana
Too bad he only does straight porn. He’s kinda hot.
jsmu
This cretinous and opportunistic Q*nt lies at every opportunity. Read the partial dissection of her ‘career’ from NYT, two years ago (this effing site won’t allow the link to be posted)
jsmu
I visited a friend at Oxford several times while Wolf was polluting the academic environment there. She was and is a total laughingstock; she only got a degree out of Oxford, after THIRTY YEARS, because they were so sick of dealing with her lies and psychoses dressed up as ‘feminism.’ It will come back to bite them, though; the thesis still can’t be viewed, six years afterwards, which is illegal according to their own rules.