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A Prominent Anti-Vaxxer Got Tricked Into Endorsing A Fake Quote From A Fake Doctor In A Porno

If you want proof that anti-vaxxers don't fact-check, just look at Naomi Wolf.

by Michelle Rennex  22 March 2021
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We all know that anti-vaxxers aren’t really the best at fact-checking their arguments before they try and convince everyone to not get vaccinated. And it seems that Naomi Wolf, a feminist author from the ’90s, and former advisor to Bill Clinton turned popular anti-vaxxer, is no different.

You see, Wolf was beautifully fooled into sharing a fake quote about how harmful vaccinations are, along with a photo of who she believed to be a doctor. But it wasn’t a doctor at all. It was actually a pornstar, in a still from a porno.

The Intercept reporter and professional troller Ken Klippenstein put the plan in motion on March 21 when he privately messaged Wolf and told her he was a “huge fan” and admires her “outspokenness”.

Klippenstein then sent a photo of “Dr. John Sims MD”, which was actually popular pornstar Johnny Sins dressed in scrubs for one of his very, very, very popular adult movie roles: An extremely horny doctor.


On the image was a fake quote that supported the anti-vaccination movement — a quote that Naomi Wolf failed to fact-check before sharing to her 100,000 Twitter followers.

“If a vaccine is effective, then why do you need to pressure people to take it?” the quote read, before Wolf deleted her tweet. “Informed consent means letting patients make their own choices.”

While it’s pretty funny to see how easily an anti-vaxxer will fall for anything that will support their narrative, it’s alarming to see just how little fact-checking actually goes on.

It’s even more worrying to see this lack of information vetting when people, like Naomi Wolf, constantly tweet out anti-vaccination “facts” while having “Dr” in their handles and huge audiences of more than 100,000 people.

Sadly Naomi Wolf, who was once a well-respected feminist, has since fallen down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole in recent months.

In February, Wolf was mercilessly mocked for tweeting about hearing Apple employees “boast about attending a top-secret demo” where new technology had apparently been developed to “deliver vaccines with nanopatticles [sic] that let you travel back in time”. Wolf clearly misunderstood that ‘Time Machine’ was actually an Apple product that backs up software, not helps you travel back in time.

During the same month, the author also suggested that the best way for people under 65 to “show respect for health workers” was to “socialise sensibly” and just get sick to develop immunities. Hell, just earlier today, Wolf even endorsed the idea that children wearing masks is “child abuse”.

But beyond being very against vaccinations, Naomi Wolf is also aggressively anti-lockdown.

Despite being left-wing, Wolf actually agreed with Fox News host Tucker Carlson on COVID-19 lockdown policies being too harsh. When on the show last month, Wolf shared that she believes lockdown policies have turned America into a “totalitarian state before everyone’s eyes” and that the left and right should band together to “protect our Constitution”.

Similarly, after November’s US presidential election, Naomi Wolf even tweeted that if she had known that “Biden was open to ‘lockdowns'” she would have “never have voted for him” as lockdowns won’t ever end because “elites love it”.

Luckily for us, if Ken Klippenstein’s little prank has taught us anything today, it’s to take every single thing that Naomi Wolf, and all other anti-vaxxers, say with a grain of salt.