People have started passing around video clips of this guy: Shiva Ayyadurai. Here’s his website. Until now, he was known for claiming he invented email and running for the Senate in Massachusetts with the tagline “MIT PhD for US Senate”. Marketing at its peak.
Now he’s become the darling of Fox News and the Right Wing. He spouts out shit like this, “Dr.SHIVA LIVE: Truth Freedom & Health. Vs. Fear Fauci & Fascism”. Fauci is a dangerous madman, you see, and if we all just took Vitamin C, and D, and B, and something else, well, we’d be fine. There is no danger from COVID-19. We don’t need a vaccine. BIG PHARMA is conducting a scam on a worldwide basis to make bank.
Fuck. this. guy. He’s obviously smart. I can only conclude that he’s willfully being deceptive for the press coverage. MIT should be ashamed that they ever admitted him, let alone gave him a degree of any kind. The very least of his sins is that he is playing into this horrible false narrative and people are going to get killed because of it.
May he lose ignominiously. May his dreams fail. May he die alone and unmourned.
I know it isn’t safe to assume that Trump supporters are the only ones who’ll pay for their own ignorance, but part of me is all… what if Sam Harris is right?
The slogan that he’s more known for is “Only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.” This was in reference to Elizabeth Warren. I see his slogan on an old school bus with his campaign ads on the side still parked alongside Concord Ave in Cambridge.
BTW, if this wasn’t very inappropriate for most threads (and I didn’t have an issue with accidentally including my signature when I don’t mean to), this would totally be my signature.
I actually looked it up to see if you were quoting someone, but didn’t find anything.