[grc] Grc statement on covid?

[Simon Frech]

Wow, I can’t believe Gary Null is still on the air! 
My memory is that our station had him on in the early years (we started 1987), but during the AIDS crisis it became clear that Mr. Null was an irresponsible effing HIV denialist nutcase, selling his vitamins, herbal and mineral concoctions… We got rid of the show in the early nineties. 
Incredible that WBAI has him still on the air. 


Simon Frech
Technical Director
Redwood Community Radio, Inc.
Redway, CA 95560	

> On Apr 19, 2021, at 4:02 PM, generalrokoyura via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
> 
> I just caught the first few minutes of Gary Null's show on WBAI while driving away from the signal area. It made me so mad and disgusted that I wanted to crash the car in to a pole just to destroy the radio.In the first 5 minutes of the show, Null recited the usual litany of pandemic-denial conspiracy garbage talking.points, claiming that Covid deaths are "negligible", and that people are dying, instead, from "co-morbidities", that the World Health Organization is doing the bidding of Bill Gates, "the most powerful man in the world", that "tens of thousands of doctors" have signed on to a letter calling Covid a hoax, and that preventative treatments (including Hydroxichloroquin) are being denied or discouraged.He stopped short of recommending bleach injections, but he sounded like an artificially calm and articulate Alex Jones.Would there, perhaps, be value in the GRC issuing a collective editorial statement indicating that we take our collective public health responsibilitie
> s seriously and expressing a commitment to broadcasting accurate, verified information?My concern is that community radio stations be seen as beacons of sanity, not as magnets for fact-and-analysis-averse slepticism-junkies who might, on another day, be theatening public health.officials, or storming their places of employment.Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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