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The New Republic on a two decade war against medical quackery

War against quackery

A story is told in “The New Republic” about a certain entity that readers here might know well, at least longtime regulars.

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Brownstone flack Gabrielle Bauer admits that the Great Barrington Declaration was wrong

Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration
Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration.

Gabrielle Bauer of the Brownstone Institute tacitly admits that the central premise of the Great Barrington Declaration was badly wrong, but brushes it off a just “details.”

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Nattokinase: The latest COVID-19 spike protein “detox” quackery

Nattokinase
Nattokinase.

The latest big thing among all the hippest COVID-19 quacks and antivaxxers is nattokinase, which is claimed to bust clots and “detox” spike protein.

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Antivax lies about vaccines and infant mortality, 12 years later

Infant mortality.
This is what we call some seriously bad science. Read on to find out why!

Since COVID-19, in the antivax world everything old is new again. That’s right, Gary S. Goldman and Neil Z. Miller are back to defend their 2011 infant mortality “study” and RFK Jr. is flogging it as slam-dunk “evidence” that vaccines kill babies.

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“Heroism” in the face of COVID-19?

A hero with heroism
How antivaxers view themselves—and us.

Brownstone Institute flack Haley Kynefin claims that COVID-19 “inverts the Heroic Archetype” in yet another instance of how antivaxxers claim “heroism” and portray science advocates as “cowardly.”