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1/ Bizarrely wrong claim in John Campbell's most recent video, in which he gently implies to his viewers they should go try to get infected by omicron. pic.twitter.com/UqyBDuJxD6

— bad_stats (@thebadstats) January 23, 2022

3/ seems to be based solely on the fact that because the booster doses are recent, the UK surveillance report has only collected enough data on boosters to measure up to a "10+" week category, and not a "20+" week category, like the original doses. https://t.co/OXkwb8cSgQ

— bad_stats (@thebadstats) January 23, 2022

5/ I guess he looked at this plot, saw that it ends for boosters after 10 weeks, and was like "i guess that must mean there is no more protection after the plot ends!" lmao

— bad_stats (@thebadstats) January 23, 2022

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You see, he has no business speculating that a fourth dose will do very little. He has no idea. Chances are, a fourth dose will augment quite a bit, and maybe even more so if the fourth is a different vaccine. This is where John Campbell goes wrong. Nihilistic speculation

— David Young (@davideyoungmd) January 24, 2022

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Dr John Campbell has been airing weird Omicron lab mice conspiracy theories on his channel. Here's why they are wrong:https://t.co/qR43kkkPFK

— Dr Susan Oliver (@DrSusanOliver1) January 19, 2022

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I’m actually shocked to see John Campbell digging up the old misunderstanding of how death certificates are filled out. “No underlying causes” does not mean “healthy.” There will almost always be other contributing factors *caused by* COVID. He is egregiously wrong here. pic.twitter.com/C9Qsw2FbDe

— Debunk the Funk (@Debunk_the_Funk) January 21, 2022

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Imagine spending your time on this. Knowingly twisting statistics to mislead your audience of millions about the number of UK Covid deaths by an order of magnitude. And for what? YouTube clout?

— Lafargue (@Lafargue) January 24, 2022

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https://t.co/4XzFEtVIQQ https://t.co/RomiLQFja6 pic.twitter.com/Hx266CvHfV

— KittyPooh (@KittyPo80176717) January 24, 2022

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NZ: 52 covid deaths.

UK: 153,787 covid deaths. pic.twitter.com/baEHo2FtBb

— Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 (@uk_domain_names) January 23, 2022

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John Campbell and Ivermectin

In November 2021, Campbell made false claims about the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment.^[3] A few weeks later, another widely-viewed video of his was used by anti-vaccination activists to support the misinformation that COVID vaccines cause widespread heart attacks, which he had not said.^[4]

COVID-19 misinformation

Further information: Ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic

In November 2021, Campbell said in a video that ivermectin might have been responsible for a sudden decline in COVID-19 cases in Japan. However, the drug had never been officially authorised for such use in the country—its use was merely promoted by the chair of a non-governmental medical association in Tokyo, and it has no established benefit as a COVID-19 treatment.^[3] Meaghan Kall, the lead epidemiologist for COVID-19 at the UK Health Security Agency, said that Campbell was confusing causation and correlation. Further, Kall said that there was no evidence of ivermectin being used in large numbers in Japan; rather, she said it “appears this was based on anecdata on social media driving wildly damaging misinformation”.^[3]

In November 2021, Campbell quoted from a non-peer-reviewed journal abstract by Steven Gundry saying that mRNA vaccines might cause heart problems. Campbell said he was not sure about the claim or its quality, but did not mention the expression of concern that had been published for the abstract, saying instead that it could be “incredibly significant”. The video was viewed over 2 million times within a few weeks and was used by anti-vaccination activists as support for the misinformation that COVID-19 vaccination will cause a wave of heart attacks. According to a FactCheck review, Campbell had in his video drawn attention to the poor quality of the research on which these claims were based, pointing to typos in the abstract, poor methodology, and a lack of clear data.^[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber)

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