'The best thing that could happen is you get Covid'
Dr. Rashid Buttar often appears on his promotional materials donning scrubs or a white coat.
The bio in his 2010 book, "The 9 Steps to Keep the Doctor Away" -- which landed on USA Today's best-seller list -- is a three-page compendium of credentials: double major in biology and theology from the prestigious Washington University in St. Louis; doctor-of-osteopathic-medicine degree at the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Surgery in Iowa; visiting scientist and nutritional scientist at North Carolina State University.
His website adds another: "MOST CENSORED Doctor."
Buttar has shared all manner of outrageous claims and misleading statements about the pandemic:
Most people who took the vaccine will be dead by 2025.
It's all part of a "depopulation plan."
Covid-19, he wrote on Twitter -- where he has 88,000 followers -- was a "planned operation."
In a recent interview with CNN's Drew Griffin, Buttar stood by it all.
"I've told people the best thing that could happen is you get Covid," he said.
"The best thing that can happen is get Covid?" Griffin asked.
"Of course," Buttar replied. "You're going to build your own innate immune system and then you don't have to worry about it anymore."
He later said, falsely: "More people are dying from the Covid vaccine than from Covid."
Northrup and Buttar are sowing doubt about the Covid-19 vaccines at a time when roughly a third of eligible Americans -- a large share of whom are Trump Republicans -- are not yet fully vaccinated.
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