B.C.'s most well-known COVID quack paints picture of a heroic purveyor of truth in an 'anti-Christian nation'

Dr. Charles Hoffe speaks at White Rock church Sunday about Genesis, women's roles, truth, and he double downs on anti-vaxxer conspiracies

"We live in an anti-Christian nation where they have thrown the word of God out of the school and the law courts and people do whatever is right in their own eyes."

So began an Old Testament-fuelled lament about what's wrong with the world by disgraced anti-vaxxer Dr. Charles Hoffe followed by a Biblical self-elevation as the only medical doctor capable of accessing truths in B.C.

Hoffe proselytized Sunday (March 16, 2025) in the pulpit at White Rock Seventh Day Adventist church.

Hoffe hit the headlines mid-pandemic when he came out as the anti-science doctor from Lytton sharing nonsensical mistruths about vaccinations, and recommending his patients take veterinary medicine to treat COVID-19.

He was investigated by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. (the College) and faced a conduct hearing. He was issued a citation in February 2022 for spreading “misleading, incorrect or inflammatory” information about COVID on social media and elsewhere.

There were three specific allegations from the College: that he publicly recommended ivermectin for treating COVID-19 and told people to buy it from animal feed stores; that he publicly stated that COVID-19 vaccinations cause microscopic blood clots, neurological harm, female infertility and a high number of deaths; and that he publicly stated that people who have received the COVID-19 vaccine can harm those who are unvaccinated.

Hoffe then went on speaking tours and became a vocal advocate for the damaging conspiracy theories and outright lies spread about the pandemic.

Last month the College sent a letter to Hoffe's lawyer stating they had dropped the professional misconduct case against Hoffe.

“The circumstances around his citation have materially changed," the College told Castanet in February 2025. "As such, CPSBC’s inquiry committee has determined it is no longer necessary to proceed with Dr. Hoffe’s citation.”

Hoffe and his supporters took this as vindication, somehow coming to the logically fallacious conclusion that this meant his disinformation was in fact the truth.

"This is amazing. I still can't quite believe it. But yeah, it's basically their admission that I was right and that they were wrong," Hoffe told the right-wing online publication Western Standard in February.

Hoffe has not yet had hospital privileges restored by Interior Health, which he lost soon after he started sharing his anti-science nonsense.

Of course, he has not been vindicated nor is the College admitting he was right and the rest of medical science is wrong. As the College said in it's statement the “circumstances around his citation have materially changed." Those circumstances are simply that we are no longer in a COVID-19 public health emergency.

In the statement provided to Castanet, the College said investigations were launched against physicians, including Hoffe, for spouting "unqualified opinions inconsistent with widely accepted views of the profession” during the pandemic.

I got wind of Hoffe's talk at the church via Davis Lim, the anti-vaxxer, religious father who caused an Amber Alert on Friday for abducting his seriously ill child from ministry because he did not trust the doctors or the medical treatments his son is receiving at BC Children's Hospital. Lim shared a link to the livestream, which I watched at much sacrifice to my brain. It's hard to listen to someone so stupid speaking with such ill-placed confidence.

Hoffe read extensively Sunday from Genesis calling it the "summary verse" of the entire Bible, even "the summary verse of all of human history," because it addresses eating of the forbidden fruit, which leads people to mistakenly believe humans can have wisdom without God.

"We had a war against truth in this pandemic," he said to the Seventh Day Adventist congregation on Sunday. "Never before had we heard 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' and all this nonsense.... The government decided I was a spreader of misinformation. Four years later they dropped it because they maybe they decided they were the spreaders of misinformation."

He moved directly from Genesis 3:15 to his claim that "70 per cent of the world's population took an injection that has the capability of genetically modifying people." 

Billions of people were, according to Hoffe, tricked by the entire medical scientific community, doctors and nurses and governments and the media.

"They took that injection believing that it would help them, believing it was going to keep them safe, not realizing how harmful it was and it could literally alter their DNA.

"This is the reason why humans must always look to God to determine what is truth never our own wisdom. Because we never have all the facts."

Then, presumably not ironically or with any sense logic, Hoffe explained that humans are vain if they think they have wisdom and can access the truth. Only God has access to the truth. He says that our inner narcissist makes us think we can do "it" on our own. 

OK, so no human beings have all the facts, only God does. But Dr. Charles Hoffe, a human, has the facts? And which god? And how do we access these truths from a god that is not holding press conferences?

With no evidence (of course) he asserted that medical science and governments were prideful to think they knew any truth.

So he is channelling God and he alone is the voice of truth? This egotism seems hard to fathom, but then he explained he became an infallible spiritual warrior directly as a result of his pain-in-the-ass wife who criticized him all the time.

"She loved fault finding. If you've ever lived or worked with someone who is judgmental or critical all the time, it is exhausting. It's depressing."

Not wanting to give his wife anything to criticize, Hoffe begged God to make him blameless. He set himself up to be "the godliest most righteous person I could by the grace of god."

And it worked!

“We need to make sure everything we say and do is based on absolute truth, no compromises,” he said.

Hoffe's fight with his nagging wife helped him get God to give him the weapons needed to successfully battle the medical community who were, for some reason, out to get him.

“I have girded myself with the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, and I have put my trust in God and my shield is the shield of faith," he said. "We have to be armed with the weapons that God has given us. So we are divinely equipped for this divinely appointed conflict."

Hoffe also explained that "Satanists and witch doctors and people involved in the occult who cast spells," cannot put a curse upon a Christian.

"It doesn't work. because you are divinely protected."

OK.

P.S. Don't watch this.

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