Dr Rashid Buttar: BUSTED (Patreon)

This is the crazy thing. When Youtube deleted my first video debunking some ignorant representative from Ohio, loads of people sent me LOADS of videos about conspiracy theories on masks all over youtube. This one struck me as particularly egregious as its being advanced by a doctor (of sorts). Not only does he claim polypropylene reacts with humidity in your breathe to poison in a similar fashion to cyanide, but that you can easily measure oxygen depletion with a fingerclip oxygen meter. The first claim is absolutely crazy to a chemist. Polypropylene is one of the least chemically reactive polymers. You can use it to store almost anything…. many concentrated acids and alkalis, as well as things like sodium potassium alloy. The idea that it will chemically react with water is like saying the Moon is brighter than the Sun! The second claim that masks deplete blood oxygen level fall as soon as you put on a mask is also something that is easy to debunk…. simply by performing the suggested experiment!

This is hardly a suprising outcome… Surgeons after all perform operations with these masks without suffering from ‘cyanide poisoning’ or ‘fight or flight responses’ suggested by this 'doctor'. 

Maybe unsurprisingly if you look him up online, hes a complete quack who was hauled before a medical misconduct board for injecting cancer patients with hydrogen peroxide….. by its action.. that’s BLEACH!