Tom Barnett

Tom Barnett is an anti-vaxxer troll, He was the subject of Feeding The Trolls #124 and #125, making him the newest two-parter and one of the more modern trolls.

As strange as it may sound, Barnett is actually a member of a fringe political party in his native Australia. His group is known as the Informed Medical Options Party (formerly known as the Involuntary Medication Objectors (Vaccination/Fluoride) Party) and was registered for federal elections on 26 October 2016. The party's policies oppose compulsory vaccination programs and water fluoridation. The Party states that these are "mass-medication programs" where there is "genuine scientific uncertainty about the benefits and risks in a genetically diverse population". Controversy concerning them arose when the Australian Medical Association president Tony Bartone said the party's views "lack the backing of scientific evidence" and that its members "should consider the harm that can ensue upon the Australian community." The party ran candidates in NSW, Qld and WA in the May 2019 Australian federal election for the Australian Senate. Tom Barnett was one of them. They were not successful in having a candidate elected. Barnett himself was not any more successful, attaining only 1.2% of the vote in his local New South Wales constituency of Richmond,

Barnett's one rise to infamy was in March 2020. During the rising time of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Australian politician wannabe created a video discussing coronavirus. In it, he stated: "You can’t catch a virus; it's impossible" and "the only way that you can catch a virus is by having it injected into your bloodstream". The backlash was immediate, and the video was removed from Facebook and YouTube, with the companies stating that the video was in breach of their policies.

However, the backlash was not over. A user named Cake Jerry, a Patreon of CuteFuzzyWeasel, found a reupload of Tom Barnett's misinformation and referred Weasel to it. It was time for this Troll to be given a proper feeding!

In the video, Mr. Barnett tried to back up his assertions by boasting of his intelligence. “When I did my last IQ and aptitude tests, I was taken into a separate room and I was interrogated to see if I cheated,” he said.