Marianne Williamson, Longtime Wacko, Is Now a Dangerous Wacko- The Daily Beast

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For decades, Williamson said that medicines don’t cure disease but positive thinking does. Now she’s taking her quackery to a new and dangerous level: the anti-vaxxer conspiracy.


To most observers, Marianne Williamson’s quirky presidential candidacy is a footnote. She’s running at around 1 percent in the polls. Few Americans know who she is, even though she’s written a few best-sellers and has managed to qualify for the 20-person Democratic debate squad next week.

But that may change thanks to Williamson’s anti-vaxxer statement last week that policies requiring children to get life-saving vaccines is “Orwellian” and “draconian” and that the issue is “no different than the abortion debate.”

Now she’s headline news—at least in the context of the noxious, moronic, false, and dangerous anti-vaxxer conspiracy theory, which now has a Democratic presidential candidate backing it. (Donald Trump, of course, has backed it for years.)

Williamson seemed to walk back her comments in a tweet last Friday morning, saying, “I understand that many vaccines are important and save lives,” and, “I recognize that there are epidemics around the world that are stopped by vaccines.”But Williamson also noted, “I also understand some of the skepticism that abounds today about drugs which are rushed to market by Big Pharma.”

In fact, if you read the tweet closely, and if you know about Williamson’s 30-year career in the New Age world, two things become clear: first, she hasn’t backed down at all, and second, she’s been anti-science, anti-medicine, and anti-rationality for decades.Williamson was an anti-vaxxer before anti-vaxxers were anti-vaxxers.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marianne-williamson-longtime-wacko-is-now-a-dangerous-wacko

[LuvNewcastle]

1. With 20+ candidates running, you're bound to have at least one flake.

Marianne Williamson (D-Sedona)

[Wounded Bear]

2. Woo politics...

[octoberlib]

3. True. I just don't like it when they're dangerous. I loved Michael Bennett, btw at the debate and

hope he qualifies for the next one. Great guy!

[LuvNewcastle]

5. I thought he did well, too, but I don't think he was really noticed that much.

I wanted him to get more attention in this debate, but I'm happy that he didn't make any obvious errors.

[PatrickforO]

7. Bennet did pretty good. I call his office at least once every couple weeks on issues.

I'm glad he's cancer free, for sure.

I think he'd make a very good member of a Democratic Cabinet. But not prez.

[onetexan]

9. she's another one whose taken a page from the Idiot's playbook: usurp the system to line your pocket

W/ms is getting the media coverage to raise her profile, get her 15 minutes of infamy, and rake in millions in book sales from simple-minded people. She's this election cycle's Jill Stein.

[Tactical Peek]

4. "I'm not going to say I'll be needing the help of Aliens"

Link to tweet

[PatrickforO]

6. As a grandfather, I tend toward a firmer stance on vaccines.

They need to be required because my granddaughters and grandson should NEVER have to get sick because someone else didn't vaccinate their own kid. That is just thoughtless, narcissistic to the max.

[octoberlib]

8. I've noticed most anti- vaxxers are white, upper middle class,

privileged folks. The state with the highest rate of vaccination? Mississippi. Poor folks can't afford to get sick.