The Panican Ledger

Four Horsemen of Herd Immunity

Tract II: The Rider of Paranoia — David Geier

“The Mercury is Rising”

He does not gallop — he lingers. In comment sections. In outdated forums. In the whispered recommendations between desperate parents.

Once banished from the kingdom of science — stripped of license, rejected by journals, rebuked by courts — David Geier returned, not as a doctor, but as a myth.

His gospel? A crude alloy of fear and falsehood. Autism, he claimed, had a chemical culprit: mercury in vaccines. The science said otherwise. He kept going.

Alongside his father, he built a house of mirrors: retracted studies, cherry-picked charts, expert testimony so dubious it bordered on performance art.

The courts caught up. The licenses vanished. But the lies endured, like lead in water.

There is no such thing as “just raising awareness” when the awareness is a weapon.

Today, his words echo through digital catacombs — recycled by influencers, repackaged by activists, reanimated by algorithms that cannot distinguish harm from engagement.

And so he rides on: a revenant of the early internet, dragging behind him a legacy of mistrust and a thousand unread disclaimers.

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🧴 Next: From television to tinctures, the grift gallops forth in a lab coat and designer shoes.
Tract III: The Rider of Grift — Dr. Oz

To be continued...