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Seqex: Ion Cyclotron Resonance quackery boogaloo

Seqex

Meet Seqex. It’s like a Scientology E-meter, only so much more unscientifically complicated, complete with over 2 million waveforms! That must mean it’s better! Actually, Segex is based on decades old pseudoscience.

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Cancer Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

Drs. Alberto Garcia and Alberto Siller’s Clínica 0-19: A mother’s story

Drs Siller and Garcia and Clínica 0-19 and IDOI: Not making DIPG history in Monterrey
Clínica 0-19: Not making DIPG history in Monterrey with Dr. Alberto Garcia and Dr. Alberto Siller.

A mother writes to Orac about her experience at Dr. Alberto Garcia and Dr. Alberto Siller’s quack cancer clinic in Monterrey.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bad science Medicine Pseudoscience

James Lyon-Weiler and IPAK are running a dubious “vaxxed versus unvaxxed” study

James Lyons-Weiler and IPAK, transphobe, antivaxxer
James Lyons-Weiler

An antivaccine group in Washington is raising money for a dubious “vaxxed/unvaxxed” study for IPAK, James Lyons-Weiler, a bioinformatics scientist turned antivaxer, who plans on analyzing data from a large practice.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bad science Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

Dr. David Brownstein versus the New York Times on vaccines

David Browntein

Dr. David Brownstein is a local “holistic medicine” doctor. Unhappy at a pro-vaccine New York Times editorial, he tried to refute it. It didn’t go well—for Dr. Brownstein. His self-own was epic.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Bad science Medicine Pseudoscience

Dr. Andrew Zimmerman: A useful idiot for the antivaccine movement

Sharyl Attkisson on Dr. Andrew Zimmerman

Dr. Andrew Zimmerman issued a press release claiming he had been misrepresented in a news report by antivaxer Sharyl Attkisson. He wasn’t. Rather, he’s been a useful idiot for the antivaccine movement.