OB/GYN Dr. Christiane Northrup has been a giant in women’s healthcare advocacy for decades. She has persuasively argued for lower-intervention childbirth, an end to circumcision, and policies that place family unity at the heart of health care. She’s known and loved for challenging her medical training with faith-based values and an intuition framed as feminine (if not feminist) and “sovereign.”Northrup draws on astrology, feng shui, chakra theory, and “vibrational” healing as modes of resistance to what she sees as medical patriarchy. This resistance began seamlessly intersecting with COVID trutherism in April, when she started posting daily Facebook sermons to her half-million followers. The series is called “The Great Awakening” — a phrase first used to describe 18th-century American spiritual revival movements, but was recently co-opted by QAnon conspiracists to describe the inevitable triumph of Trump over the Deep State.Northrup’s sermons, combined with her posts of Plandemic, Tony Robbins interviewing anti-vaxxers, and a podcast with “Andy” Wakefield in which she called COVID a “flu” and expressed concern about Bill Gates taking over public education, give a rich glimpse into the seduction of conspirituality in the hands of a wellness matriarch.Most recently, Northrup has strengthened her alignment with QAnon by posting a trailer for a follow-up to a key recruiting video. With up to a dozen QAnon supporters running for office in November, Northrup is positioned to nudge middle-class white wellness women with money into a cult that believes Trump is a messianic figure.This week’s interview is with Britt Hermes, who earned her doctorate in naturopathic medicine from Bastyr University in 2011. After three years of practice, Hermes left the profession to became its most vocal public critic. We asked her to weigh in on women’s wellness in the pandemic and the appeal of Dr. Northrup.03:27 This Week in Conspirituality18:11: Doctoring COVID: Christiane Northrup’s Great Truther Awakening51:48 Interview with Britt Hermes1:10:58 Interview Discussion1:18:58 Closing RemarksAll music by EarthRise SoundSystem (Duke Schommer + Derek Beres).Support Conspirituality on PatreonShow NotesPharmaceutical Ethics and Grassroots Activism in the United States: A Social History PerspectiveJust 50% of Americans plan to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s how to win over the restTo celebrate the Fourth, Michael Flynn posts a pledge to conspiracy group QAnonHow New Age Guru Louise Hay Harmed a Generation of Gay MenHow the ‘Plandemic’ Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely OnlineHow Oprah helped spread anti-vaccine pseudoscienceQAnon conspiracy theory followers step out of the shadows and may be headed to CongressNorthrup’s