Rand Paul Has Something to Say

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Covid and Ballots and Masks...Oh My!

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is out there doing his best to spread misinformation about both the election and COVID-19, pulling off an impressive hat trick of lies and crazy conspiracy theories. 

Pretend news organization Newsmax shares Sen. Paul's latest crazed conspiracy tweet claiming that he is "calling out" voting anomalies and and big tech. The article goes on to criticize Twitter's use of a disputed label on Sen. Paul's tweet and then rehashes the false claims from the article he links to. At no point does the article point out that there is no real or verifiable evidence of voter fraud, or that the election has been proven time and time again to have been secure and free of intervention, something that even Fox News does in it's coverage of Sen. Paul's tweet.

At least he's not spreading false information that could kill people...nevermind

Sen. Paul has also been busy making false claims about masks and COVID-19 immunity. The New York Times shares how the studies about mask effectiveness Sen. Paul cites aren't really true scientific studies and they don't support Sen. Paul's claims. He has also claimed that everyone that has recovered from COVID-19 is immune and should feel free to go rejoin the world with impunity. The Louisville Courier Journal has a helpful write-up of why that's not true, emphasizing actual science and scientists instead of the pseudoscience that Sen. Paul seems to prefer. 

It's important to point out that Sen. Paul's claims are especially dangerous because he is a physician and people are likely to believe him more because of that. The reality is that Sen. Paul is an ophthalmologist, and is in no way an expert on viruses, epidemiology, or post infection immunity. 

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