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Antivaxxer Levi Quackenboss vs. reality on COVID-19

Levi Quackenboss, COVID-19 with spike protein, and hydroxychloroquine

Antivaxxer Levi Quackenboss is back, and she’s looking on the bright side of the COVID-19 pandemic for antivaxxers. Hilarity ensues.

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Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19: Science-based medicine has no chance against Donald Trump, Peter Navarro, and Dr. Oz

President Trump’s COVID-19 advisors include Dr. Oz, Rudy Giuliani, and Peter Navarro, the latter an economist who thinks he can science better than Anthony Fauci. Can science- and evidence-based medicine prevail with respect to hydroxychloroquine and coronavirus?

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Drs. Vladimir Zelenko and Stephen Smith: Abandoning evidence-based medicine to promote unproven drugs for COVID-19

Dr. Stephen Smith on The Ingraham Angle

Drs. Vladimir Zelenko and Stephen Smith have been claiming that hydroxychloroquine is a miracle drug based on anecdotes. Their shoddy, poorly reported case series are not evidence of efficacy.

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No, the flu vaccine does not increase your chance of getting coronavirus by 36% due to viral interference

Antivax claims that the flu vaccine increases risk of coronavirus infection

An antivaccine meme claiming that, because of viral interference, the flu vaccine increases the risk of coronavirus by 36%. It’s a lie based on a cherry-picked result of a negative study and confusing benign coronavirus with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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An embarrassing paean to reiki in The Atlantic

Reiki

For some inexplicable reason, The Atlantic published an embarrassing paean to the mystical magical woo that is reiki.