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When “old school” antivaxxers meet the “new school” antivaxxers

Post author By Orac
Post date June 3, 2022
293 Comments on When “old school” antivaxxers meet the “new school” antivaxxers

An old school “vaccines cause autism” antivaxxer hosted new COVID-19 antivaxxers at an antivax conference last month. Although one new antivaxxer, Geert Vanden Bossche, was discomfited and pushed back against old antivax tropes, the rest joined Del Bigtree in spewing longstanding antivax tropes.

Tags antivaccine, Better Way, Bret Weinstein, COVID, COVID vaccine, COVID variants, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Del Bigtree, Geert Vanden Bossche, inventor of mRNA vaccines, mRNA, Robert Malone, Tess Lawrie, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Computers and social media Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery

Substack: The new wretched hive of scum and quackery

Post author By Orac
Post date January 17, 2022
142 Comments on Substack: The new wretched hive of scum and quackery

With social media companies like Twitter and Facebook/Meta deplatforming those spreading misinformation, COVID-19 quacks, antivaxxers, and conspiracy theorists are flocking to Substack, where they can monetize their misinformation.

Tags antivaccine, blogging, COVID, COVID denial, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, social media, Substack, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Quackery

Leonard C. Goodman lays down antivax tropes to argue against vaccinating children

Post author By Orac
Post date November 29, 2021
28 Comments on Leonard C. Goodman lays down antivax tropes to argue against vaccinating children

Leonard C. Goodman is a criminal defense attorney who thinks he understands COVID-19 vaccines. Instead, he’s credulously parroting antivaccine disinformation for The Chicago Reader.