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Antivaccine nonsense Homeopathy

Slapped on the wrist for misrepresenting homeopathic nosodes as vaccines

Post author By Orac
Post date January 19, 2024
49 Comments on Slapped on the wrist for misrepresenting homeopathic nosodes as vaccines

Jeannette Breen, a certified nurse-midwife, sold homeopathic nosodes as routine childhood vaccinations and got a slap on the wrist for fraud.

Tags antivaccine, homeopathy, Jeanette Breen, midwife, midwifery, New York, New York State Health Department, nosodes, quackery, school vaccine mandates, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense

The antivax bizarro world view of vaccine safety studies

Post author By Orac
Post date March 4, 2024
28 Comments on The antivax bizarro world view of vaccine safety studies

Antivaxxers have weaponized a huge multinational vaccine safety study of 99 million patient records that found rare adverse events and concluded that the risks of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the benefits. How? A combination of the Nirvana fallacy and spin.

Tags adverse events, adverse events of special interest, antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Global Vaccine Data Network, Steve Kirsch, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

The Brownstone Institute embraces old antivax lies about measles

Post author By Orac
Post date March 20, 2024
45 Comments on The Brownstone Institute embraces old antivax lies about measles

The Brownstone Institute long ago went full anti-COVID-19 vaccination. Now it’s embracing old antivax tropes about the measles vaccine. This was inevitable.

Tags Alan Cassels, antivaccine, Brownstone Institute, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Great Barrington Declaration, measles, measles outbreak, measles vaccine, MMR, Pharmawatch Canada, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

The hypervaccinated man who should be dead (according to antivaxxers)

Post author By Orac
Post date March 6, 2024
40 Comments on The hypervaccinated man who should be dead (according to antivaxxers)

A man “hypervaccinated” with 217 COVID-19 vaccines has been in the news lately. According to antivaxxers, he should be dead (or in bad shape), but he’s doing fine.

Tags antivaccine, autoimmune, autoimmune disease, case report, clinical investigation, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, hypervaccinated, hypervaccination, immune memory, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Midazolam as “euthanasia” for COVID, or the most brain-dead paper I’ve ever read?

Post author By Orac
Post date May 2, 2024
34 Comments on Midazolam as “euthanasia” for COVID, or the most brain-dead paper I’ve ever read?

A recent paper, amplified by antivax bloggers and John Campbell, claims that midazolam killed many COVID-19 patients in the UK as a result of “euthanasia.” My brain hurts from reading such stupidity.

Tags 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, Alfred Russell Wallace, antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, excess death, John Campbell, midazolam, Office of National Statistics, ONS, vaccines, Versed, Wilson Sy

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