DES MOINES, Iowa – Presidential candidate and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson denied claims that she was anti-medicine or anti-vaccine.

“I’m a Jew, I go to the doctor,” she told reporters at the Iowa State Fair Friday.

“This idea of me not being for medicine is preposterous,” she continued. “You’ll never find it written anywhere, you’ll never find that I said it anywhere. It is a … mischaracterization, a caricature, that clearly somebody finds to their political benefit to create and spread.”

As recently as June, Williamson called government vaccine mandates “Draconian” and Orwellian.”

She told reporters Friday that she’s never even written about vaccines in her many best-selling books.

She also said she never told AIDS patients not to take their medicine. She’s been criticized by some gay men for suggesting positive thinking could outpace the disease, which in the early years of the epidemic was a death sentence.

“You will never hear anyone say that I told them not to take their medicine,” she said. “As a matter of fact the work I was doing during the AIDS crisis was before there ever was medicine,” she added.

Williamson has been nicknamed the “orb queen” by fans, as she offers something a little different than the other 23 Democratic candidates. In the debates she’s played the role of zooming the camera lens out, asking them to look at the bigger picture.

On Friday, she suggested something larger was also afoot, as she was peppered with questions about being seen as anti-vax.

“The talking points are obvious. The words are anti-science, anti-medicine, she’s crazy, she’s dangerous, she’s a grifter,” Williamson said, describing how she’s being portrayed as she continues to attract attention on the campaign trail. “What I say is that it’s obviously well strategized, it’s a smear,” she added.

She blamed an “ancient strain of misogyny” for some of the negative news coverage.

But when asked who might be behind it, she shrugged.

“You might know better than me,” she told reporters.