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The Brownstone Institute vs. “vaccine fanatics” in The Epoch Times

Fanatics
No, Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya weren't likening vaccine advocates to the K-pop group Fanatics. They were likening them to real fanatics, as in zealots.

Brownstone Institute flacks Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya swear they are “not antivaccine.” Why, then, are they echoing a very old antivax trope by claiming “vaccine fanatics” are making people antivaccine? In The Epoch Times, yet?!

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John Ioannidis vs. the “science Kardashian” and critics of the Great Barrington Declaration

Kim Kardashian
It's time for the Kardahsian index and John Ioannidis, round two.

John Ioannidis’ “science Kardashian” article is the bad science that keeps demonstrating why we should have no superheroes in science. Ideology can warp any of us.

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The Guardian: “Explaining” vaccine hesitancy by amplifying antivax disinformation

Why does The Guardian publish nonsense like this by Musa al-Gharbi?
Why does The Guardian publish nonsense like this by Musa al-Gharbi?

Writing in The Guardian, Musa al-Gharbi tries to explain vaccine hesitancy to “the left.” Unfortunately, he parrots antivax conspiracy theories to do it.

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Brownstone Institute embraces its inner antivaxxer

Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration
Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration.

The Brownstone Institute, a spinoff of AIER and the “spiritual child of the Great Barrington Declaration,” is now embracing its inner antivaxxer by likening vaccine mandates to “othering,” including slavery and Nazi persecution of Jews during the Holocaust.

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The Great Barrington Declaration strikes back

Great Barrington Declaration authors Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya
The Great Barrington Declaration authors in front of the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington. Yet they take umbrage when it's pointed out that the AIER was behind the declaration. (Left to right: Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattarcharya.)

A month after a BMJ article linking the Great Barrington Declaration to the right wing think tank AIER, the two are attacking the authors of the BMJ piece and denying any payment or even connection. Why?

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