Vaccination: Did You Really Get It?
There are those who swear by homeopathic treatments, and there are those who swear at homeopathy.
This post will shy away from the debate, safe to say that no medical school in America advocates homeopathic treatments, and no recent, double-blind study by any American research organization has proven that homeopathic treatments work. It has largely been debunked.
Juli M. Mazi
Juli Mazi is a full licensed homeopathic physician in Napa, California. Take that with a grain of salt, or not.
What is not debatable, is that she had committed fraud at three levels, two of the levels with the acquiescence of her clients; possibly, all three. The first level is that Mazi distributed what homeopathic physicians call “homeo-prophylaxis immunization pellets.”
The FDA does not recognize the pellets as being efficacious. In fact, there is no known case of one of these pellets standing up to a clinical challenge against the virus. Those who take the pellets are neither ethical nor unethical for believing that they work. Knowledge and belief are, of course, very different things.
However, here is where Dr. Mazi drifted into the unethical realm. She was able to get hold of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – CDC, COVID – 19 vaccination record cards and issue them to her patients as proof of immunization. As no one at the FDA or CDC remotely endorses the homeo-prophylaxis pellets, she instead directed patients to write on the card that they had received the FDA authorized Moderna vaccination
The 41-year-old doctor is charged with wire fraud and misrepresenting her treatment as being effective.
Part of the charges made against her by the California-State Attorney General’s office:
“This defendant allegedly defrauded and endangered the public by preying on fears and spreading misinformation about FDA-authorized vaccinations, while also peddling fake treatments that put people’s lives at risk.
A Family Whistle Blower
Dr. Mazi’s scheme was shut down when a relative of a family member who had received the harmless sugar pills, complained to the hotline of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General. Allegedly, Mazi told the patient that her pellets contained the COVID-19 virus (rendered harmless) and taking the pellets would produce antibodies. Just to “fool the man,” Mazi supplied the vaccination cards along with the pellets and told her patients to write in falsified information that they had received the vaccine.
This move, of course, endangered those who received the pellets as well as those around those who had taken the harmless pellets.
As the investigation deepened and more patients were discovered, it was found that Mazi also handed out pellets that, according to court documents “she falsely claimed would satisfy the immunization requirements for California schools, and falsified immunization cards that were submitted by parents to California schools.” She helped fake records for children.
Fear at the Heart of it All
That homeopathy is controversial is an understatement. There have been numerous lawsuits brought against these “doctors.” Many practices have been shut down.
The problem arises when people like Mazi create a cottage industry based on fear and misinformation. Unfortunately, there is a subset of the population so apprehensive about receiving legitimate treatment based on medical research, that they would rather “not know, what they don’t know.” Mazi fully understands that. She is, in my opinion, a master manipulator unethically “working” misinformed, vulnerable people into a fear frenzy.
As with many manipulators, it is doubtful (again, in my opinion) that even she believed her own deception. That is why she directed patients to fill out cards writing in the Moderna vaccine.
The patients were so duped that they couldn’t see that, Mazi was hiding behind her own scam. If the sugar pills failed, everyone could blame Moderna which played directly into the anti-vaxxer playbook. Far worse, Mazi roped in the children of her patients, having them falsify childhood vaccine records.
Unethical behavior is not known for having a conscience. I was fascinated to read about Mazi’s educational background: two degrees in communication and the degree that made her a naturopathic “medical doctor.”
She played a communication game, slick website and all, but more than that a shell game. If she believes in any higher power, her prayers might include hoping that none of her patients develop a disease that might have been easily prevented.
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