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27 Apr 2020
Desiree Jennings' claim that a flu shot caused her dystonia and that Rashid Battar cured it was supported by Jenny McCarthy but lacked medical proof.

Boutar is famous because he had an association with fellow anti-vaxxer Jenny McCarthy and because the media played along with his bullshit in 2009. An aspiring cheerleader for the Washington football team named Desiree Jennings claimed that a flu shot had given her dystonia, a neurological disorder, but she was cured by Boutar's chelation treatments. Oh, God. There are so many problems with her story. Chief among them, according to the initial story about her case in the Lewden Times, she saw over 60 doctors trying to diagnose her condition. From the article, quote, Desiree has seen her primary care physician, physical therapist, speech therapist, neurologist, neuropsychologist, psychiatrist, and a bevy of nurses. Amazingly, it was her physical therapist who provided the clinical diagnosis, dystonia. That's intensely suspicious. The fact that she saw a neurologist who didn't catch this, but somehow her physical therapist did, that's weird. I have no idea what the reality of the situation is, but I don't see any proof that this is what she had, nor do I see any evidence that this was caused by a flu shot, nor do I see any evidence that Batar did anything to cure her.