"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

Category: Antivaccine nonsense

The “Nuremberg Code” gambit

Post author By Orac
Post date July 20, 2021
181 Comments on The “Nuremberg Code” gambit

Antivaxxers love to claim that vaccine mandates (especially COVID-19 vaccine mandates) violate the Nuremberg Code. As usual, they have no idea what they are talking about.

Tags antivaccine, Belmont Report, Common Rule, Declaration of Helsinki, Doctors Trial, informed consent, misinformed consent, misinformed refusal, Nuremberg, Nuremberg 2, Nuremberg Code, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Computers and social media Medicine

Is “mRNA vaccine inventor” Robert Malone “being erased from Wikipedia” for his claims about COVID-19?

Post author By Orac
Post date July 13, 2021
298 Comments on Is “mRNA vaccine inventor” Robert Malone “being erased from Wikipedia” for his claims about COVID-19?

Robert Malone claims to be the “inventor of mRNA vaccines,.” Whether his claim is legitimate or not, his fans are editing Wikipedia, and he’s spreading COVID-19 misinformation of the worst kind.

Tags antivaccine, COVID denial, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, inventor of mRNA vaccines, Robert Malone, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Quackery

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

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