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The COVID-19 “vaccine holocaust” accelerates in antivax messaging

Vaccine holocaust?
No, COVID-19 vaccines are not causing a "vaccine holocaust."

The antivax lie that vaccines are killing lots of people long predates COVID-19, but now the idea of the “vaccine holocaust” has reached the ridiculously implausible proportions of 20 million dead and 2 billion injured. How did antivaxxers do this?

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Florida makes its antivax disinformation “official”

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida Surgeon General
To paraphrase Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ladapo elsewhere: "Don't worry. Just eat right, lose weight, exercise, and get vaccinated (but ONLY if you want to). Everything will be alright." Also: vaccines are killing young men. Also: "I changed the study."

This month Florida State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo released a non-peer-reviewed “study” that recommends against males aged 18 to 39 receiving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines based on bad epidemiology and science. This is the first time that we’ve seen a state government weaponize bad science to spread antivaccine disinformation as official policy, a dangerous new escalation in antivaccine propaganda.

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Mikki Willis has expanded from Plandemic to ivermectin conspiracy theories

Mikki Willis
Mikki Willis, looking so very, very serious.

Mikki Willis of “Plandemic” fame is back, and this time he’s flogging conspiracy theories about ivermectin as a “suppressed” cure for COVID-19.

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Self-assembling nanostructures? COVID-19 vaccine “blood clots” revisited.

Graphene or self-assembling nanostructures?
No, this isn't, as claimed, graphene in the blood of the vaccinated.

Antivaxxers can’t stop misidentifying blood clots as “self-assembling nanostructures” from COVID-19 vaccines, with often hilarious results.

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Overconfidence as a contributor to science denial among physicians and scientists

Overconfidence Figure 2

The pandemic has brought scientists who have rejected science with respect to COVID-19 public health measures a disturbing level of influence. Recent research suggests reasons why and who among the public susceptible to such misinformation remains persuadable.