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The Brownstone Institute embraces old antivax lies about measles

Post author By Orac
Post date March 20, 2024
45 Comments on The Brownstone Institute embraces old antivax lies about measles

Brownstone Institute Measles Mongers — What an...interesting...image chosen for this article. Nope, nothing threatening about this at all. Just an ominously backlit militant holding a military rifle with something burning in the background!

The Brownstone Institute long ago went full anti-COVID-19 vaccination. Now it’s embracing old antivax tropes about the measles vaccine. This was inevitable.

Tags Alan Cassels, antivaccine, Brownstone Institute, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, Great Barrington Declaration, measles, measles outbreak, measles vaccine, MMR, Pharmawatch Canada, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

Antivaccine fear mongering? What antivaccine fear mongering? I don’t see any antivaccine fear mongering.

Post author By Orac
Post date August 31, 2012
283 Comments on Antivaccine fear mongering? What antivaccine fear mongering? I don’t see any antivaccine fear mongering.

Here we go again. Every so often, criticism of the antivaccine movement builds to the point where it extends beyond the blogosphere to enter the national zeitgeist in a way in which people other than blogging geeks like myself start to take notice. It happened a few years ago, when washed up actress Jenny McCarthy […]

Tags Alan Cassels, antivaccine, Pharmawatch Canada, screening, vaccine

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