Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, has invited a doctor known for rejecting vaccines and promoting hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 to testify in the Senate Tuesday about the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Jane Orient “will be the main witness at a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee hearing Tuesday, and will generate criticism from Democrats for saying Republicans should not provide a platform for promoting conspiracy theories,” reports the New York Times.
She is the leader of two fringe groups, the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons and Doctors for Disaster Preparedness.
Orient and its groups oppose vaccine mandates, support false claims of being gay, which reduces life expectancy, and warned in a 2018 article: “Tattooed MS-13 gang members, rapists, jihadists, human traffickers and other criminals who want to harm Americans. Such people infect, harass, attack or even murder people in their own countries and in the caravan. “
Doctors for Disaster Risk Reduction (DDP) reject the scientifically proven theory of man-made climate change and support exposed quacks known as AIDS denialism. At its 2015 annual meeting, Bloomberg, a speaker, reported that “a retired heart surgeon from Seattle had argued for nearly an hour that HIV does not cause AIDS; Rather, he said the compound was invented by government scientists trying to cover up other health risks of “gay male lifestyles”. “
In an interview with the Times, she criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal government’s most respected public voice on the coronavirus pandemic, asked, “Why is he dictating the care of 340 million Americans?”
Orient has described vaccine mandates as “a serious interference with individual freedom, autonomy and parental decisions,” according to the Times, and “refused to be classified as” anti-Vaxxers “but” spoke out against government pressure to to be vaccinated against all Americans “the coronavirus.”
“Your selection as a witness as a federal health officer seeks to promote a vaccine to end a pandemic that killed more than 281,000 Americans. This drew heavy criticism from Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and minority leader. “
Orient is funded by extremist Robert Mercer, Bloomberg added in its January 2016 prescient article.
“Working with his daughter, Rebekah, he has spent an additional ten million to drive a conservative agenda and invested in think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, media company Breitbart.com and Cambridge Analytica, a data company that creates psychological profiles of voters. ”
Cambridge Analytica was the scandal-ridden political advisory firm that brought Donald Trump to the White House.
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