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Category: Antivaccine nonsense

Celebrity “vegan cardiologist” Dr. Joel Kahn has become an antivaccine COVID-19 crank

Post author By Orac
Post date July 9, 2021
37 Comments on Celebrity “vegan cardiologist” Dr. Joel Kahn has become an antivaccine COVID-19 crank

Dr. Joel Kahn is a well-regarded “integrative” cardiologist. So why is he spreading COVID-19 and antivaccine disinformation on Twitter? Simple. “Integrative” medicine can be a “gateway” to antivaccine beliefs.

Tags antivaccine, cardiology, Cleveland Clinic, COVID denial, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, functional medicine, Joel Kahn, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Clinical trials Computers and social media Medicine Quackery

Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, take 3: Conspiracy theories and grift

Post author By Orac
Post date July 7, 2021
123 Comments on Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, take 3: Conspiracy theories and grift

As the drip-drip-drip of negative evidence for ivermectin against COVID-19 continues to roll in, conspiracy theorists are doubling down. Why? It’s always about the grift.

Tags Andrew Wakefield, Bret Weinstein, COVID denial, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, FLCCC, Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, Heather Heying, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, MMR, Pierre Kory, SARS-CoV-2

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Myocarditis and COVID-19 vaccines

Post author By Orac
Post date June 23, 2021
159 Comments on Myocarditis and COVID-19 vaccines

Antivaxxers have been publicizing reports of myocarditis in young people, mostly male, after COVID-19 vaccination. ACIP will be meeting to discuss these reports to the VAERS database today. Is there a connection between mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis?

Tags ACIP, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, myocarditis, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, Vaccine Safety Datalink, VAERS, VSD

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

COVID-19 vaccines as part of a “depopulation agenda”

Post author By Orac
Post date June 21, 2021
236 Comments on COVID-19 vaccines as part of a “depopulation agenda”

Global depopulation — Yep. If you believe antivaxxers, COVID-19 vaccines are part of a "global depopulation" agenda, along with GMOs, the Federal Reserve, eugenics, and all the other conspiracies out there.

It’s ba-ack. Antivaxxers are once again claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are part of a “depopulation agenda.” Same as it ever was.

Tags COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, depopulation, Joe Mercola, Jon Rappoport, Joseph Mercola, Michael Yeadon, Mike Adams, Oblivion Agenda, Peter McCullough

Anti-Semitism Antivaccine nonsense Holocaust denial Medicine Politics Popular culture

Juneteenth and Naomi Wolf: Antivaxxers co-opt another symbol to portray themselves as “oppressed”

Post author By Orac
Post date June 15, 2021
56 Comments on Juneteenth and Naomi Wolf: Antivaxxers co-opt another symbol to portray themselves as “oppressed”

Antivaxxers love to claim the mantle of the oppressed, even going so far as to use the Yellow Star of David to liken their “oppression” to that of the Jews under the Nazis. Now they’re trying to top even that by co-opting Juneteenth.

Tags antivaccine, civil rights movement, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Juneteenth, Naomi Wolf, slavery, vaccines, Yellow Star, Yellow Star of David

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