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RFK Jr. doesn’t like being called antivaccine and antimask

Post author By Orac
Post date January 13, 2021
146 Comments on RFK Jr. doesn’t like being called antivaccine and antimask

RFK Jr. is angry—so very, very angry—because Terry Gross had pro-science guests on her NPR show “Fresh Air” who called him antivaccine and antimask.

Tags antimask, antivaccine, Bill Gates, Children's Health Defense, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, denial, Denialism, Donald Trump, masks, pandemic, QAnon, Querdenken 711, RFK Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., science denial, vaccines

Bad science Bioethics Medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Looking back on 2020: Too many physicians behaving badly

Post author By Orac
Post date January 4, 2021
74 Comments on Looking back on 2020: Too many physicians behaving badly

Looking back on 2020, if there’s one thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, it’s that crises reveal character. Unfortunately, even as many doctors bravely risked their lives taking care of COVID-19 patients, the character of too many other physicians was been found wanting, as they spent 2020 denying the pandemic and spreading misinformation. What can be done?

Tags Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, COVID denial, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, doctors, Dr. Oz, hydroxychloroquine, Mehmet Oz, physician, quackery, SARS-CoV-2

Bad science Medicine Politics Popular culture Skepticism/critical thinking

AIER likens anti-“lockdown” cranks to abolitionists. Hilarity ensues

Post author By Orac
Post date October 29, 2020
68 Comments on AIER likens anti-“lockdown” cranks to abolitionists. Hilarity ensues

Cranks love a heroic persecution narrative, and the climate science-denying right wing think tank American Institute of Economic Research (AIER) has a doozy: COVID-19 “anti-lockdown” cranks like Scott Atlas and those behind the Great Barrington Declaration are the new abolitionists! This is a page from the antivax playbook.

Tags AIER, American Institute for Economic Research, antivaccine, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, Focused Protection, Fugitive Slave Act, Great Barrington Declaration, herd immunity, lockdown, persecution, SARS-CoV-2, slavery, Stacey Rudin, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Politics Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

Dr. Cammy Benton: An antivaxxer plays the “both sides” card on masks for COVID-19

Post author By Orac
Post date July 1, 2020
140 Comments on Dr. Cammy Benton: An antivaxxer plays the “both sides” card on masks for COVID-19

Dr. Cammy Benton is an antivaxxer. She also thinks that “both sides” are way over the top when it comes to masks for COVID-19, in a classic case of false equivalence.

Tags antivaccine, Cammy Benton, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, mask, SARS-CoV-2, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics Skepticism/critical thinking

No, eliminating religious exemptions to school vaccine mandates will not endanger immunosuppressed children

Post author By Orac
Post date February 27, 2020
54 Comments on No, eliminating religious exemptions to school vaccine mandates will not endanger immunosuppressed children

Liz Rovegno claims that eliminating the religious exemption to school vaccine mandates in New Jersey will kill her son Keanu. It won’t.

Tags Liz Rovegno, New Jersey, vaccine

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