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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

The Geiers go dumpster-diving yet again

Mark and David Geier, the père et fils duo of antivaccine pseudoscientists once again go dumpster diving in the VAERS database, using it for purposes for which it was not intended to “prove” vaccines cause autism.

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Antivaccine nonsense Politics Popular culture

MAHA: The “we’re not antivax” mask has been dropped

Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Quackery

Dr. Pierre Kory promotes an old lie about vaccines and SIDS

Dr. Pierre Kory name-checked me in a post falsely claiming that vaccines cause SIDS. I finally get around to responding.

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Antivaccine nonsense Politics Pseudoscience

RFK Jr. guts ACIP to pack it with antivaxxers

As predicted, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired all the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Watch him replace them with antivaxxers. I hope you’re up to date on your vaccines.

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Antivaccine nonsense History Medicine Quackery

MAHA: The new Lysenkoism

Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet scientist whose dogmatic science denialism led to mass famine when his ideas were applied to agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lot like Lysenko in his science denial. Will his results be as disastrous?