Anti-Vaxxers Are Flipping Out Over Justin Bieber’s Facial Paralysis
Scientists haven’t found a definitive link between Covid-19 vaccines and Ramsay Hunt Syndrome — but that’s not stopping people online from making that claim
“Everybody pretending Justin Bieber isn’t vaccine injured. The denial is way too deep,” reads one tweet with more than 3,400 shares. Many also connected Bieber’s illness with the fact that his wife, Hailey Bieber, developed a blood clot that traveled to her brain, requiring her to have surgery back in March. (Hailey spoke about this shortly afterward, claiming the blood clot was a perfect storm of multiple factors, including having taken birth control pills — a known risk factor for clots — taking a transcontinental flight, and having recently had Covid.)
TikTok also became a petri dish for such conspiracy-mongering content. “Both Hailey (clot) and Justin Bieber are having SEs [side effects],” one user wrote in the caption to her video, along with an emoji of a syringe. “GUYS, WAKE THE FUCK UP.” Many of these videos are under the #ramsayhuntsyndrome hashtag on TikTok, which currently has 34 million views, though they have been getting comparatively few views and are not at the top of search results.
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Scientists haven’t found a definitive link between Covid-19 vaccines and Ramsay Hunt Syndrome — but that’s not stopping people online from making that claim
“Everybody pretending Justin Bieber isn’t vaccine injured. The denial is way too deep,” reads one tweet with more than 3,400 shares. Many also connected Bieber’s illness with the fact that his wife, Hailey Bieber, developed a blood clot that traveled to her brain, requiring her to have surgery back in March. (Hailey spoke about this shortly afterward, claiming the blood clot was a perfect storm of multiple factors, including having taken birth control pills — a known risk factor for clots — taking a transcontinental flight, and having recently had Covid.)
TikTok also became a petri dish for such conspiracy-mongering content. “Both Hailey (clot) and Justin Bieber are having SEs [side effects],” one user wrote in the caption to her video, along with an emoji of a syringe. “GUYS, WAKE THE FUCK UP.” Many of these videos are under the #ramsayhuntsyndrome hashtag on TikTok, which currently has 34 million views, though they have been getting comparatively few views and are not at the top of search results.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cul...67430/amp/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
