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

Andrew Wakefield, the measles, and JPANDS
Thanks, Andy, for the measles.

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.

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After their COVID success, antivaxxers are going old school on MMR

COVID-19? MMR? Everything old is new again.
COVID-19? MMR? Everything old is new again.

After using old antivax tropes against COVID-19 vaccines, antivaxxers are pivoting to reuse them to attack measles vaccines again. Everything old is new again—and old again.

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When new school antivaxxer Steve Kirsch met old school antivaxxer Andrew Wakefield

Old School
New school antivaxxers are becoming more and more like old school antivaxxers.

Steve Kirsch interviewed Andrew Wakefield, demonstrating that there is no distance between “new school” and “old school” antivaxxers anymore. Also, they are antivaccine, with Wakefield saying there is no safe vaccine.

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Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, take 3: Conspiracy theories and grift

Ivermectin and fraud?

As the drip-drip-drip of negative evidence for ivermectin against COVID-19 continues to roll in, conspiracy theorists are doubling down. Why? It’s always about the grift.

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Geert Vanden Bossche is to COVID-19 vaccines as Andrew Wakefield is to MMR

Geert Vanden Bossche

Geert Vanden Bossche is a scientist who published an open letter warning of global catastrophe due to deadly variants of COVID-19 selected for by mass vaccination. His argument sounds a lot like an argument Andrew Wakefield once made for MMR. There’s even grift likely involved!