User talk:Dorothea99
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Happy editing! Kleuske (talk) 22:56, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Talk:Vernon Coleman[edit]
Wikipedia talkpages are intended to discuss (possible) improvements of the article. They are not a forum to discus the subject. So unless you want to propose some improvement, please stop posting huge walls of text. Thanks. Kleuske (talk) 22:58, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
- Ah so it's you has the power to delete at your whim. Who gave you that authority? I thought WP was a consensus.
- Improve the article by allowing the truth! Dorothea99 (talk) 23:02, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
- what makes this which is already published not a huge wall of text and mine a huge wall?>>
- Anti-vaccination and conspiracy theories
- See also: Misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Coleman has claimed that COVID-19 is a hoax, that vaccines are dangerous and that face masks cause cancer. All such claims have been debunked by the medical community. Coleman has also claimed the Coronavirus Pandemic has links to the Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theory and the Great Reset Conspiracy Theory which both suggest a cabal of elite figures are attempting to depopulate the global community. No evidence has been found to support these claims.
- In 2019, Coleman wrote a book titled Anyone Who Tells You Vaccines Are Safe And Effective Is Lying which booksellers were criticised for selling.
- Coleman later claimed "no one can possibly know if the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective because the trial is still underway; thousands of people who had the vaccine have died or been seriously injured by it; legally, all those people giving vaccinations are war criminals". These claims were debunked by Health Feedback, a member of the World Health Organization-led project Vaccine Safety Net. Coleman later claimed "COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous" and that "bodies of vaccinated people are laboratories making lethal viruses". Both claims were similarly debunked as inaccurate, misleading and unsupported by the Poynter Institute due to a lack of evidence from the legitimate medical community. Coleman has also claimed in a viral video that "the jabbed will be lucky to last five years" which was again proven to false due to a lack of evidence. In a similar widely circulated social media post, Coleman claimed "more children will be seriously injured or killed by the vaccination than the COVID-19 infection itself" which was again found to be false as there is no evidence that children suffer more from COVID-19 vaccines than from COVID-19.
- At an anti-lockdown protest in London on 24 July 2021, Coleman claimed that the wearing of face masks caused cancer, dementia, hypoxia and hypercapnia, bacterial pneumonia due to oxygen deficiency. These claims were similarly debunked by the medical community due to a lack of peer-reviewed evidence. Coleman later claimed that the wearing of face masks caused Mucormycosis, despite no link being found between mask wearing and Mucormycosis. All evidence suggests that wearing masks is an effective way towards protecting individuals from COVID-19.
- In November 2021, Coleman made the false claim that "this [vaccination] jab was an experiment certain to kill and injure" which was debunked due to its lack of evidence and a reliance upon a discredited research report authored by Steven Gundry.
- Despite being debunked, Coleman's conspiracy theories have been used to push COVID-19 denial, pseudoscience and anti-mask propaganda. Police officers urged residents in Prestwich, Greater Manchester to dismiss anti-vaccination leaflets in May 2021 which had been distributed in the area and credited to Coleman. In a statement, the local authority "requested the public to dismiss the message being sent out and is encouraging all relevant age groups to take up the offer of a vaccine". The same leaflets were also distributed in Luton, Bedfordshire with Luton Council warning that the leaflets contained "dangerous misinformation". Similar leaflets have been distributed across Scotland and condemned by Shirley-Anne Somerville of the Scottish Parliament. The Catholic Church has also urged parishioners to "read the Vatican document on vaccination morality" after Coleman's anti-vaccination videos and quotations were circulated in 2021 by a Franciscan priest in Gosport, Hampshire. In an investigation, the Diocese of Portsmouth announced "The Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth is very disappointed that one of the Family of Mary Immaculate and St Francis in Gosport has publicly expressed a personal view about the Covid vaccination programme that is contrary to the official position of the Catholic Church and the Diocese. We would encourage all our parishioners to benefit from the protection afforded by the vaccine."
- Coleman has also claimed the National Health Service "kills more people than it saves" referencing a flawed study by The BMJ to support this claim. He has also falsely claimed the NHS reduced "screening tests" to lower carbon emissions. Although there were a reduced number of cancer screenings due to a lack of resources during the Covid-19 pandemic, no evidence was found to support Coleman's claim that screenings were being limited in effort to combat global warming. Dorothea99 (talk) 23:05, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
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- Hello Bots. I am not interested in fringe science, or pseudo science. I'll leave that the the mainstream media. Dorothea99 (talk) 23:09, 4 January 2023 (UTC)