"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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Something I never thought I’d see: RFK Jr. is apparently running for President

Post author By Orac
Post date April 6, 2023
128 Comments on Something I never thought I’d see: RFK Jr. is apparently running for President

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is apparently planning to challenge President Biden for the Democratic Presidential nomination. WTF is going on?

Tags 2024 Presidential Election, antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Marianne Williamson, RFK Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Steve Bannon, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Clinical trials Medicine Pseudoscience

Andrew Wakefield 25 years later: Paving the way for FLCCC and COVID quacks

Post author By Orac
Post date March 6, 2023
41 Comments on Andrew Wakefield 25 years later: Paving the way for FLCCC and COVID quacks

It was 25 years ago last week that Andrew Wakefield launched the modern iteration of the antivaccine movement.In doing so, he laid down a template that antivax quacks today still follow.

Tags Andrew Wakefield, antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, measles, measles vaccine, MMR, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine

Antivax lies about vaccines and infant mortality, 12 years later

Post author By Orac
Post date February 20, 2023
66 Comments on Antivax lies about vaccines and infant mortality, 12 years later

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.

Tags antivaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Gary Goldman, homoscedasticity, infant mortality, infant mortality rate, Michael Nevradakis, Neil Miller, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vaccines, Walter Schumm

Antivaccine nonsense Clinical trials Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking

Economist Mark Skidmore publishes antivax propaganda disguised as a survey

Post author By Orac
Post date January 25, 2023
117 Comments on Economist Mark Skidmore publishes antivax propaganda disguised as a survey

Antivaxxers love surveys. This time BMC Infectious Diseases has the dubious “honor” of publishing a truly awful one by an economist named Mark Skidmore that claims that COVID-19 vaccine have killed nearly 300K people.

Tags Biomed Central, BMC, BMC Infectious Diseases, COVID, COVID contrarian, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, economics, Mark Skidmore, Michigan State University, MSU, Steve Kirsch, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, VAERS

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

When “died suddenly” comes for a colleague and friend

Post author By Orac
Post date January 18, 2023
54 Comments on When “died suddenly” comes for a colleague and friend

Since Dr. Harriet Hall (a.k.a. The SkepDoc) died last week, antivaxxers have been blaming COVID-19 vaccines. Their vileness knows no limits.

Tags COVID, COVID contrarian, COVID denial, COVID vaccine, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 quackery, COVID-19 vaccine, Died Suddenly, Gateway Pundit, Harriet Hall, Jim Hoft, Paul Alexander, Steve Kirsch

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