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Rashid Ali Buttar (January 20, 1966 – May 18, 2023) was an American conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer and osteopathic physician. [1] He was known for his controversial use of chelation therapy for numerous conditions, including autism and cancer. [2]
May 22, 2023 · Dr. Rashid Buttar, an osteopathic physician who spent years promoting vaccine and COVID conspiracy theories and a well-known figure in the suspicion-tinged world of “medical freedom,” died at home...
Jul 15, 2023 · A conspiracy went viral that Dr. Rahsid Buttar, one of the 'Disinformation Dozen', was killed for his anti-vaccine rhetoric. That has no basis. Hurricane-prone states The day in pictures Get...
- Who Was Dr. Rashid Buttar?
- “Covid-19 Accines Killed Dr. Buttar!”
- Dr. Buttar: Ill Since at Least 2015
- Quacks Can Be Victims of Their Own Quackery
Before I get into the story of Dr. Buttar’s death, let me briefly recount the story of his life, specifically his longstanding role as one of the influential practitioners of “integrative medicine” quackery in the US. To be honest, I hadn’t paid much attention to Dr. Buttar in a while. The last time I mentioned him was last fall, when he was featur...
The conspiracy theories started flying fast and furious as soon as news of Dr. Buttar’s death was confirmed, starting with Sayer Ji himself in his tribute, starting with misrepresenting the Disinformation Dozen list as a “digital hit list”: Quack tycoon Joe Mercola’s girlfriend Erin Elizabeth was quick to add to the conspiracy mongering about Dr. B...
I’ll start at the beginning, using Jonathan Otto’s account, specifically the chapter in his e-book about Dr. Buttar’s story. By way of background, I knew this from accounts that I was able to read in the aftermath of Dr. Buttar’s death, before I learned of Otto’s ebook. Going back to the video referenced by Sayer Ji, Buttar noted that he had first ...
The “died suddenly” conspiracy theory demands that healthy people cannot just “die suddenly” and that only the COVID-19 vaccine is causing people to “die suddenly” (even though there has been, for example, a small but consistent incidence of sudden arrhythmic deaths for a very long time, a phenomenon first described in the 1970s). When someone who ...
Jul 6, 2023 · There is no evidence to support the claim that the recent death of Dr. Rashid Buttar — known for spreading COVID-19 misinformation — and the 2015 deaths of three other doctors were suspicious.
Oct 20, 2021 · High-profile doctors spreading Covid-19 disinformation collectively reach millions of Americans, and a dangerous number of people believe their falsehoods. CNN speaks to one of these doctors and...
May 24, 2023 · Rashid Buttar, DO, a well-documented COVID conspiracy theorist, died days after claiming he had been poisoned, according to the Daily Star.
