Editing Simone Gold

{{Villain_Infobox 
|Image = Simone Gold.jpg
|fullname = Simone Melissa Gold 
|alias = Dr. Gold
|origin = Long Island, New York, United States 
|occupation = Leader of [[America's Frontline Doctors]]
|type of villain = Delusional Doctor 
|goals = Outlaw the COVID-19 vaccine (failed)<br>Overturn the 2020 election results (failed)
|crimes = Sedition<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[COVID denialism]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]
|hobby = 
}}{{quote|If you don't want to take an experimental biological agent deceptively named a vaccine, you must not allow yourself to be coerced!|Simone Gold}}
'''Simone Melissa Gold''' (née '''Tizes''') is an American physician, attorney, author, and the founder of [[America's Frontline Doctors]], an American right-wing political organization known for spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.

She gained attention when a video of an America's Frontline Doctors press conference in front of the US Supreme Court Building went viral in July 2020. She has commented on the COVID-19 vaccine: "[w]e doctors are pro-vaccine, but this is not a vaccine."

On January 5, 2021, Gold spoke at a rally in Washington D.C., telling attendees to refuse to be vaccinated for COVID-19 and the next day took part in the [[2021 United States Capitol storming]]. She spoke from the rotunda of the Capitol and was later arrested for her participation in the storming, having admitted she entered the building.
==Biography==
Gold was born to medical school professor Reuben Tizes and elementary school teacher for special needs children Carol Tizes, and raised in Long Island, New York. 

She graduated from the City College of New York at age 19, and received her Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree from the Chicago Medical School in 1989. After obtaining a medical license in California, Gold attended Stanford Law School, graduating in 1993; Gold described attending law school as her "rebellion" against her father, who wanted his children to be doctors. She was admitted to the New York bar in 1997 and shortly afterward completed a residency in emergency medicine at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.

Gold has regularly promoted hydroxychloroquine as a "safe" alternative to COVID vaccines, despite evidence that it is ineffective as a COVID-19 treatment and can carry significant risks.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/14/1035915598/doctors-covid-misinformation-medical-license This Doctor Spread False Information About COVID. She Still Kept Her Medical License.], ''NPR Morning Edition''</ref> She most notably held a press conference called the "White Coat Summit" extolling the positives of hydroxychloroquine. The press conference was co-sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots and was broadcast by Breitbart News.

She is also against face masks and think they are unnecessary and unhelpful.

Gold has alleged the United States Government experimented on black people to test the general safety of vaccines.

Gold was a speaker at AMPFest, a pro-[[Donald Trump|Trump]] event held in Miami in October 2020. She spoke at an event for donors to the Council for National Policy in November of the same year, and in December she was part of a summit hosted by Turning Point USA.

In April 2021, Gold appeared at the "Health and Freedom Conference" at Rhema Bible Church in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, along with speakers including actor Jim Caviezel, Mike Lindell, and L. Lin Wood. Gold and America's Frontline Doctors held an RV tour across the US in May 2021, called the "Uncensored Truth Tour". On the tour, Gold held an event at Legacy Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which drew hundreds of guests.

On January 5, 2021, Gold spoke at a rally in Washington D.C. to a crowd of people gathering in the city for the following day's "[[Stop the Steal movement|Stop the Steal]]" rally. She criticized the COVID-19 vaccines, said the COVID-19 was non-fatal and made additional unfounded claims about the vaccines.She told supporters, "If you don't want to take an experimental biological agent deceptively named a vaccine, you must not allow yourself to be coerced!" 

Gold was scheduled to speak the at the Rally for Health Freedom scheduled for 6 January but the rally was cancelled before her speech. She then joined the crowd and illegally entered the Capitol building, along with America's Frontline Doctors Communications Director John Strand. Gold and Strand were seen on video footage "in the middle of a crowd attempting to push past law enforcement officials to get inside." She then gave the speech she had planned to give at the rally in the rotunda of the Capitol building. Gold said that she spent approximately 20 minutes in the Capitol.

Gold and Strand were later identified by FBI wanted images from the event circulated on social media. Gold was arrested at her home in Beverly Hills, California on January 18 on five charges including entering a restricted building and disorderly conduct. Gold admitted entering the Capitol building, saying that she did not know it was illegal to do so and that she did not witness any violence, saying "where I was, was incredibly peaceful." She said: "I do regret being there," because she was concerned that the controversy would detract from her work with America's Frontline Doctors. In April 2021, Gold told Ted Nugent in an interview that "20 FBI agents" had come to arrest her and that she had been placed on the No Fly List.

In February 2022, she pleaded guilty to knowingly and unlawfully "entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds," which is a Class A misdemeanor.<ref>[https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o153 Founder of America’s Frontline Doctors is sentenced to prison for role in Capitol riot], ''The BMJ''</ref><ref>[https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/gold-simone-melissa GOLD, Simone Melissa], United States Department of Justice</ref>
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