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John Lorimer Campbell is an English YouTuber and retired nurse educator who has made videos about the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, the videos received praise, but they later diverged into COVID-19 misinformation.[2] He has been criticised for suggesting COVID-19 deaths have been over-counted,[3] repeating false claims about the use of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, and providing misleading commentary about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
And just to illustrate how snake oil salesmen can take the internet by storm:
As of March 2024, his YouTube channel had 3 million subscribers and over 750 million views.
And:
On the BBC's statistical programme More or Less, editor Richard Vadon said that Campbell – who was neither a scientist nor a medical doctor – had been on "quite a journey" since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic transitioning from "wholesome" videos on topics such as hand-washing, to what could be regarded as more fringe topics, garnering a large audience in the process.
Sorta like television viewers got the notion of Donald Trump as a successful businessman by watching “The Apprentice”
He’s a crank and a charlatan, who undoubtedly has convinced himelf that he is a savior. And because many folks have convinced themselves that he is a genius in spite of the fact that claim after claim of his has been disproven, here we are.
Which again, is sorta like most of the claims that come out of Donald Trump’s mouth.
Truth is what these people and their youtube enablers tell you it is.
The result, for many people, of “Do your own research” is to find themselves algorithm-ed down a conspiracy infected rabbit hole.
