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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Steve “Debate me, bro” Kirsch is at it again with SIDS and The Great Autism Debate

Post author By Orac
Post date September 30, 2023
40 Comments on Steve “Debate me, bro” Kirsch is at it again with SIDS and The Great Autism Debate

Tech bro turned COVID-19 conspiracy theorist and antivaxxer is back spreading more misinformation about vaccines and SIDS.

Tags antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, detective, Helen Grus, Jennifer, Neil Miller, police, police officer, sids, Steve Kirsch, sudden infant death syndrome, sudden unexpected infant death, SUIDS, vaccine, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Politics Popular culture

Sherri Tenpenny: A quack’s medical license bites the dust, but for the wrong reasons

Post author By Orac
Post date August 21, 2023
15 Comments on Sherri Tenpenny: A quack’s medical license bites the dust, but for the wrong reasons

Earlier this month, the Ohio State Medical Board suspended the medical license of Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, a longtime antivax quack. The only question is: What took them so long, and why did it take the pandemic for them to act? Also, is there less to this action than meets the eye?

Tags antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, law, Ohio State Medical Board, quackery, Sherri Tenpenny, Thomas Renz, vaccines, zeolite

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Vaccines and SIDS: Steve Kirsch amps up the stupid

Post author By Orac
Post date August 18, 2023
31 Comments on Vaccines and SIDS: Steve Kirsch amps up the stupid

Antivaxxers have long claimed that childhood vaccines cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Now “new school” antivaxxer Steve Kirsch has resurrected this hoary old lie using the thinnest of evidence plus a lot of handwaving.