The Conspirituality Report
“Master Coach” Preston Smiles Gets COVID, Takes Ivermectin, Finds Jesus
Austin conspiritualist says “I’m not a doctor”, and “science is guessing”
“Transformational leader” Preston Smiles took to Instagram on August 18th to tell his 225K followers how he “beat” a COVID infection with a bro-science grab-bag of unproven and possibly dangerous alt-health remedies.
“I’m not a doctor. I’m not telling anyone what to do,” Smiles declared, speaking to followers from the upstairs apartment in his Austin home. But he also said that “science is guessing”, and said “I highly suggest” that followers take Ivermectin.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently denounced off-label human use of Ivermectin, which can be prescribed for some parasitic infections, but is most commonly available as a veterinary medicine. The national advisory came days after the Mississippi State Department of Health released a health alert saying that 70% of recent calls to poison control had come from citizens sickened by taking animal-grade Ivermectin.
Those sickened may have been influenced by right-wing pundits like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham, who have all promoted the dewormer on FOX news, or right-leaning…
