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Barbara Loe Fisher cries “McCarthyism!” over vaccines

Barbara Loe fisher cries McCarthyism

Barbara Loe Fisher is back. This time, instead of Nazis and the Holocaust, she’s comparing vaccine mandates and bad press about antivaxers to McCarthyism and their “persecution” to that faced by anyone suspected of Communism in the early 1950s.

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Why did the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities elect antivaccine quack Yehuda Shoenfeld to its ranks?

Yehuda Shoenfeld
Yehuda Shoenfeld

Last month, the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities elected antivax quack Yehuda Shoenfeld to its ranks? Why and how could this have happened?

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Antivaccine nonsense Politics Popular culture

SB 277 and bogus medical exemptions to vaccine mandates in California

California and medical exemptions
An antivaccine protest against SB 277 in California. Unfortunately, such protests aren't just for California any more.

In 2015 California passed SB 277, which eliminated nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine mandates. Unfortunately quacks are writing bogus exemptions. What can be done?

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

HPV vaccination works. Period.

HPV vaccine

Antivaxers really, really don’t like HPV vaccines. Too bad that a new meta-analysis shows that they’re really effective.

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Has Google finally adjusted its algorithm to deprioritize quack content? Dr. Mercola thinks so.

Google vs. Sayer Ji

Everyone’s favorite quack Joe Mercola is ranting about Google. It’s not surprising, given how Google has apparently deprioritized content from quack websites..