On Monday, the Four Horsemen of the Woo-pocalypse joined President Trump to blame autism on acetaminophen use during pregnancy. They couldn’t resist adding antivax misinformation as well.
On Monday, the Four Horsemen of the Woo-pocalypse joined President Trump to blame autism on acetaminophen use during pregnancy. They couldn’t resist adding antivax misinformation as well.
Dr. Oz recently advocated “cooperation” with food companies to “make America healthy again.” His call for “cooperation” was really a threat, and his message to poor Americans has been that you don’t deserve healthcare unless you prove yourself “worthy.”
“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams recently revealed that he has stage 4 prostate cancer. He tried to treat it with cancer quack William Makis’ protocol and realized that quackery doesn’t work, leading Makis to attack the victim.
Last month I referred to the “soft eugenics” of RFK Jr. and MAHA. More recently, he and Dr. Oz provided new examples, one about autism, the other about public health.
I’ve long said that the antivax movement is borderline eugenicist (or at least social Darwinist) in nature. Given the ongoing measles outbreak, with two children dead so far, it’s time for me to take a look at the “soft eugenics” of the antivax movement and, more generally, the MAHA movement.