Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter revealed that he believes the Earth is actually flat, that there's “never been one single vaccine that’s ever worked ever,” and that COVID is ” just some mental trickery.” He made the revelations during a recent appearance on the Tin Foil Hat with Sam Tripoli podcast.
Carpenter said, “The simplest terms for my perspective with flat Earth is simply, I know we’re not on a spinning, flying space ball. Now, what it actually is and all that, and to what depths it goes to, that’s all still to be discovered and people are are working on those things.”
On the subject of vaccines, Carpenter said, “All poisons, you can never get it out of your body, (your) body has no means to expel it, it’s stuck in you forever and you just suffer with whatever it becomes.”
When Tripoli brought up the polio vaccine, Carpenter said, “We never eradicated (polio) … I’m grateful for COVID, for teaching me the actual germ theory, and that is the virus is something the body creates. You are not capable of catching a virus from somebody. You develop viruses because you have some type of poison or toxin within you.”
He added, “And that’s no disrespect to those who’ve fallen ill and even those who died from whatever they may have died from. Obviously none of that is disregarded, but I do not connect that to what this is, you know? … This is just some mental trickery.”
Deftones released their new album, Ohms, in September. They will release a 20th anniversary deluxe edition of their 2000 album, White Pony, with a bonus disc of new remixes titled Black Stallion.