and like other disinformers, he is using false, twisted information and unproven conspiracies to do it. do you think the covid vaccine works? i think that the covid vaccine is very effective at what it was designed for, perhaps. but it s not preventing death, certainly not. it s not preventing death? no. reporter: even faced with indisputable facts, he doubles down on his belief that lifesaving vaccines are more dangerous than the virus itself. people don t die from covid. you have her already seen the data. so why are we getting a vaccine that causes more deaths than the problem, itself? 6.34 billion doses of this vaccine have been given. if you are right, people would be dropping dead all around us. it s not orchestrated to do that. it s not orchestrated to do that? each vaccine has been geared up. so you can look at the ingredients of the vaccines themselves. it is a all been published. complete the sentence. each vaccine has been geared up for what?
information. as atrocious as his fake conclusions and conspiracy theories are, he is just one of the doctors spreading dangerous covid disinformation to millions of people across social media. according to the center for countering digital hate let s be absolutely clear, lies cost lives in a pandemic. if you re encouraging people not to vaccinate, you will cause people to lose their lives. buttar is encouraging people to distrust life-saving vaccines. like other disinformers, he is using false, twisted information and unproven conspiracies to do it. do you think the covid vaccine works? i think it is very effective at what it was designed for perhaps but not preventing death. certainly not it s not preventing death? no. even when faced with undisputable facts, he doubles down that the vaccines are more
understand this. again, drew, i m a reasonable person. you re asking me what i think, and i said it could be this. but i can tell you that dr. fauci is not an innocent bystander. he s very well aware of what he s doing, and the extent of it, his involvement, i don t know. i m not privy to that information. as atrocious as dr. buttar s conspiracy theories are, he is just one of the doctors spreading dangerous covid disinformation to millions of people across social media according to the center for countering digital hate. let s be absolutely clear. lies cost lives in a pandemic. if you re encouraging people not to vaccinate, you will cause people to lose their lives. reporter: buttar is encouraging people to distrust lifesaving vaccines. and like other disinformers, he is using false, twisted information and unproven conspiracies to do it. do you think the covid vaccine works? i think that the covid vaccine is very effective at what it was designed for,
showing that now. that s just not true. i don t want to be part of this mass genocide that i see happening. and i think that what s going on right now will be remembered as a worst time in history compared to what world war ii happened. i just want to be straight with you. i think you re crazy. before covid, north carolina s board of medicine reprimanded rashid buttar twice for the way he was treating autism and cancer patients. the board accused him of charging exorbitant fees for his ineffectual therapies which he denied including injecting a patient with hydrogen peroxide. the fda, also, sent him a warning letter over products he made and sold that promised to do everything from treating chronic pain to improving sex drive. and yet, i have unrestricted license to practice for 30 years. reporter: and that is the problem.
and 35 states have vaccinated more than one half half of their residents. meanwhile, all across the country, high-profile doctors, physicians who went to medical school, are persuading people not to get the covid vaccine. to ignore health measures like wearing masks. you are about to hear exclusively from one doctor who makes frightening statements about covid and the vaccine that are wrong. but we think it s important for the public to hear his beliefs, together, with the truth because he and other high-profile physicians who deny the facts collectively reach millions of americans. while the vast majority realize it s bs, a dangerous number of people believe the lies. here is cnn s senior investigative correspondent, drew griffin. reporter: dr. rasha, at one time, had more than a million followers and is considered one of the top spreaders of disinformation about covid-19. more people are dying from the covid vaccine than from covid. reporter: that is not true. neither is his tw